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DIANE PHILLIPS: Trying to take up incentives turns into a saga
A YOUNG couple, solid professionals with sound jobs and a dream for their future on the family island where they were raised, say with every day and every reply from government their dream is sliding farther away. We’ll call them Monique and Sean.
Adelaide developer: Don’t ‘drop bomb’ on our costs
A Bahamian businessman yesterday warned he and his partners might have to “shelve” a $63m New Providence project if “prohibitively expensive” changes and conditions were imposed after Wednesday’s planning consultation.
Second murder in two days
POLICE are investigating a second homicide in as many days after a man was shot dead yesterday morning off Hamster Road.
University signs agreement with union
THE signing of a new industrial agreement between the Public Managers Union and the University of The Bahamas yesterday was approved by both sides with the union calling it a “very good contract”.
54 records expunged by rehabilitation committee
THE Rehabilitation of Offenders Committee has received 112 applications from people seeking to have their records wiped clean between January and June of this year, with 54 of those applicants said to have already had their records expunged.
PM seeks to cut debt to 50% of GDP this term
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis says his goal is to reduce the country’s debt to gross domestic product ratio from 82 percent to at least 50 percent by the end of this term.
‘Sooner the better’ for end to mask mandate
A top hotelier yesterday asserted that the Government will “secure tourism’s continued upward momentum” if it eliminates the remaining COVID travel restrictions, adding: “The sooner we do it the better off we will be.”
Gov’t told: ‘Come clean’ on Grand Lucayan sale
A former Grand Lucayan chairman has urged the Davis administration to “come clean” with the Bahamian people over its efforts to sell the resort after it last week granted a third extension to the buyer’s due diligence time.
Minister and ex-PM voice concern on $63m project
A sitting Cabinet minister and former prime minister have both voiced concerns surrounding “problems, problems, problems” with the proposed $63m Adelaide Pines project in which Albany’s developer is a minority shareholder.
HUBERT EDWARDS: Governance of SOEs critical to ‘end game’
I have consistently argued that Bahamian policymakers must move urgently to implement structural reforms so as to influence the country’s economic fortunes.
Exuma cay’s deterrent to ‘frivolous’ land claims
The Chief Justice’s ruling on an Exuma cay was yesterday hailed as “a deterrent to frivolous and vexatious” land ownership claims that undermine economic growth, investment and development in The Bahamas.