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18-year-old accused of armed carjacking and possession of dangerous drugs
AN 18-year-old male was remanded in custody yesterday after being accused of an armed carjacking on Dean Street last week.
Govt says amnesty is over for delinquent real property tax
PAYMENT plans and amnesty periods for people who owe substantial amounts of real property taxes are over, acting director of the Department of Inland Revenue Shunda Strachan said yesterday as her department prepares to execute its power of sale against scores of delinquent accounts.
Man charged with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply
A MAN was granted $1,000 bail after he was accused of having drugs last weekend.
Sweeting says draft amendments aim to strengthen local government
WORKS and Family Island Affairs Minister Clay Sweeting said his ministry had drafted amendments to the Local Government Act to strengthen the effect of local government on Family Island communities.
URCA rejects Cable’s Starlink ‘level playing field’ push back
REGULATORS yesterday rejected Cable Bahamas’ renewed concerns that it is competing on an “unlevel playing field” against Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite Internet service.
Hotel workers gain ‘tens of millions’ via new deal
HOTEL workers will receive “tens of millions of dollars” in extra financial benefits following yesterday’s signing of the industry’s first industrial agreement for more than a decade.
Cable urges industry unity on URCA ‘budget travesty’
CABLE Bahamas is urging its rivals to join the battle against “this travesty in budget increases” for the sector’s regulator whose downtown Nassau headquarters it branded an “albatross”.
INSIGHT: How long until we feel govt’s spending?
THE pockets of the people have been hit with quite a toll in recent weeks. It would be nice if we could see government reining in spending to ease the pain.
Hotel Union signs ‘historic’ agreement with Atlantis
THE Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) signed a five-year industrial agreement with the Bahamas Hotel and Restaurant Employers Association (BHREA) yesterday valued at some “tens of millions” that will affect about 10,000 employees.
EDITORIAL: Questions on Sears amd NIB confusion
NATIONAL Insurance Board Minister Alfred Sears stood up in Parliament and announced a plan to save NIB that within hours his own Prime Minister’s office had disowned.
Property tax pace 20% up amid ‘over aggressive’ fear
Real property tax collections are pacing 20 percent ahead of the previous record year, the Government’s top finance official disclosed yesterday, as he predicted it will be “very close” to its full-year deficit target.
FNM: SEARS ‘MUST RESIGN OR BE FIRED’ – Call for minister to step aside if he misled Parliament
FREE National Movement (FNM) leader Michael Pintard said National Insurance Board Minister Alfred Sears should resign or be fired if he misled Parliament about increases in NIB contribution rates.
Gov’t’s $2.5m elevator cost ‘quite exceptional’
THE Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president says spending $2.5m to replace an elevator at the Government’s Cecil Wallace-Whitfield Centre is “quite exceptional”, and asked: “Is it made of gold?”
INSIGHT: Promise of Haiti election good - if it can happen
IS Haiti finally seeing some progress? The news that Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to hold general elections is either a positive sign – or a concession to pressure at both home and abroad.
STATESIDE: Biden’s bid for second term hinges on perception of his mental acuity
US president Joe Biden’s momentous State of the Union address last Thursday is stale news now in this age of the 24-hour news cycle and little if any popular memory of what happened even a week ago. Correct?
BPL rates ‘among the highest’ consumers pay in the region
Bahamians are paying “among the highest” electricity prices in the Caribbean even though the base rate is set “below cost” with tariff charges said to be double the global average.
INSIGHT: A sign of incompetent governance or is it just outright cowardice?
THE announcement of the increase in National Insurance Board contribution rates last week should have been an example of good planning and well-coordinated execution – instead it was a sign of governance by ineptitude at best, cowardice at worst.
Fostering a shared future and a better world for all women
THREE years ago today, on International Women’s Day 2021, a new chapter began for me as I left Beijing to serve as the first woman ambassador of China to The Bahamas.
ArawakX full wind-up sealed without a fight
THE Bahamas’ first-ever crowd funding platform’s fate was yesterday sealed without a fight after its former principals effectively consented to its liquidation amid claims of a near-$4m insolvency.
Contractors ‘within 30 days’ of licensing legal challenge
BAHAMIAN contractors say they are “within 30 days” of launching Judicial Review proceedings over the Government’s failure to implement the Act and licensing regime designed to regulate the industry.
