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Taken aback by how FTX met its demise
Greetings and thank you yet again for the opportunity to address these several points of national importance, I appreciate it.
Is this a parking zone?
West Bay opposite OPM the Wynn property the centre green median – is this a parking zone? The past few weeks obviously construction workers are using this green no parking zone for a convenient parking area – one, it obstructs the view for oncoming traffic, secondly, if there was an accident certainly potential for fire in a number of vehicles.
DEADLIEST YEAR FOR NATION SINCE 2017: Body found dumped on Cowpen Road in latest murder
THE Bahamas reached a grim milestone yesterday morning after another murder was recorded, surpassing last year’s murder count.
Phones and drugs seized in prison
SOME 400 cell phones have been confiscated by officers at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services for the year as officials enhance their efforts to crack down on contraband smuggling.
Miller-Brice ‘stands with women’ on gender violence
LESLIA Miller-Brice, the Bahamas High Commissioner to CARICOM, vowed yesterday to “stand with any female” that is facing gender-based violence in The Bahamas.
Plans made to build new high-medium security correctional facility
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe revealed yesterday that officials are hoping to break ground in the coming weeks on the construction of a new high-medium security correctional facility at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
Deltec tight-lipped over 17 accounts tied to FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried
A Bahamian bank and trust company was yesterday tight-lipped over court documents showing that FTX and entities controlled by its besieged founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, held no fewer than 17 accounts with it.
‘Stellar 2023’: Crowdfunding platform targets $26m raises
A Bahamian crowdfunding platform yesterday predicted 2023 “will be a stellar year” for capital raises with investors seeking a collective $26m set to approach the market between now and end-March.
Cable to appeal URCA fines over TV ‘quality’
Cable Bahamas is pledging to appeal the adverse findings and fines levied against it following a probe into the “quality of service” provided to its pay-TV customers during the 2021 calendar year.
FTX customers
I have seen a pie chart from, https://twitter.com/whalechart/status/ 1595384133827854336?s=21 – about the global distribution of FTX customers as of “The Petition Date”.
Charlotte St roadworks
People have said much about what the former Prime Minister Hubert Alexander Ingraham did, and what he did not do...attempting to penalise him for not being a Saviour to many of them, etc?
Christmas is back
The Bahamas has been on a rough economic, mental and societal roller coaster over the past several years. First we had assorted storms and hurricanes, Dorian being the most destructive in many years.
FACE TO FACE: The first in line to change The Bahamas
ON November 26, 1962, women in The Bahamas voted for the very first time. It was an occasion that will forever be etched in the annals of Bahamian history.
Three-year agreement signed between BCPOU and Bridge Authority
THE Bridge Authority and the Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union signed a three-year industrial agreement yesterday that includes increased increments and salary scales.
PETER YOUNG: Back after a tumble - and with a thank you to Doctors Hospital
TO MY great regret, for the first time in some four years I have failed to produce this column for three successive weeks. This is because I have been laid up in hospital with a broken hip. I should like to write about it today in order to draw attention to the excellent treatment I received at Doctor’s Hospital here in Nassau.
Minister contradicts press secretary on Village Road completion
DAYS after press secretary Clint Watson announced that work on Village Road should be completed by December 12, Works and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears said paving of the road is actually expected to last through the end of next month, but should be “substantially” completed before the start of the new year.
Sears apologises for Eleuthera water problems
WORKS and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears yesterday apologised to residents in Eleuthera for the continued disruption of water supply on the island, saying the matter is one of “deep concern” that officials are aggressively addressing.
Former AG: Will exists to change sex offences laws
FORMER Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson believes that public officials have the political will to actually make changes to sexual offences legislation.
Residents await decision over extension of SERZ orders
RESIDENTS in Grand Bahama and Abaco are anxiously awaiting government’s decision on the extension of the SERZ order, or a new exigency order since the recent passage of Hurricane Nicole, Kwasi Thompson, member of Parliament for East Grand Bahama, said.
Xmas ‘financial cushion’ vital for Bahamian retail
The “make or break” Christmas shopping season will this year be vital for Bahamian merchants to “build a financial cushion” against forecast economic headwinds in 2023, a well-known retailer warned yesterday.