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A mother and her daughters take the Bahamas to the world stage
The year 2020 might have been a tumultuous one for everyone due to the global pandemic, lockdowns and financial losses, but a mother and her two daughters from Freeport, Grand Bahama made good use of the time to put the Bahamas on the world stage once again.
Govt rejects Moody’s deficit financing fears
A top Ministry of Finance official yesterday rejected an international rating agency’s concerns that the government may not be able to finance its massive borrowing needs for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.
IMF: Four-year haul on COVID recovery
THE Bahamas faces “anything but a V-shaped recovery” from COVID-19 with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday warning a four-year haul to regain economic output lost in 2020 lies ahead.
D’Aguilar hopeful of uptick in arrivals by end of year
TOURISM Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar says he is encouraged by recent spring break travel numbers, adding he is hopeful the country will experience a “substantial” uptick in visitor arrivals by the end of the year.
Property Tax giveaway
One of the giveaways that we became so accustomed with from the outgoing Government was concerning the substantial arrears of unpaid Real Property Tax — some $600m on personal properties.
EDITORIAL: Not the end of COVID-19 yet - but a landmark day
IT was a landmark day yesterday in the UK. The British government dubbed it ‘V-day’, or vaccination day, and the first person to receive the approved Pfizer vaccine against COVID-19 was a 90-year-old Northern Irish woman.
Dionisio: Health visa purchases rise
TOURISM Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said yesterday the number of people who bought travel health visas to visit The Bahamas last month was “substantially larger” than what was seen in April, saying the figures suggest the country is moving in the right direction.
Travel visa purchases ‘much higher’ for May
A Cabinet minister yesterday argued local COVID case numbers are the only obstacle to tourism’s revival as May’s health travel visa purchases were “substantially higher” than the prior month.
Governor adjusts 2022 GDP growth to 6-8%
The Central Bank’s governor yesterday adjusted 2022 economic growth projections to 6-8 percent, with The Bahamas not expected to “fully erase” COVID’s impact before 2023 “at the earliest”.
Census officers sworn in
FIFTEEN people in Grand Bahama were sworn in yesterday as listing officers for the 2021 Population and Housing Census.
Search for Mako vessel suspended
Saturday UPDATE: The US Coast Guard suspended its search for the Mako vessel on New Year's Day. The Coast Guard said that, along with partner agencies, it searched approximately 17,000 square miles, roughly double the size of Massachusetts, for about 84 hours.
‘Nothing meaningful’: Niche ISP bashes Cable, BTC offers
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) and Cable Bahamas have been accused of doing “nothing substantial or meaningful” to lower charges levied on niche providers for using their networks.
Govt procurement reform delayed beyond other Acts
The Public Procurement Act’s implementation will take place two months later than other key financial reforms to give all government ministries and agencies time to adapt, it was revealed yesterday.
Where will tourists come from?
Where will the tourists come from should be the urgent problem which your Minister of Tourism and staff should tackle if The Bahamas is to ever recover from the current economic meltdown.
The rules of entry
Your Minister of Tourism is quoted in The Tribune as saying he is “thrilled” at cruises set to return to The Bahamas.
Too hard to travel to Bahamas
Your recent story about the Bahamian stranded in Canada has once again shed light on the difficulties facing visitors and residents wanting to enter The Bahamas.
Credit access slumps to under 50% of GDP
Credit to the private sector continued its “long-term decline” during the COVID-19 pandemic to drop below a sum equivalent to 50 percent of GDP, Moody’s has revealed.
We cannot afford to find oil
With a few notable exceptions, the oil industry subsidizes failures. In the most corrupt countries, like Nigeria, it has not cured but rather exacerbated corruption and wastage. In backward tribal kingdoms (like Saudi Arabia) it has deepened and hardened a primitive conservatism that stifles dissent and militates against any substantial movement of the population up the human development scale.
25-year sentence upheld for robber of married couple
THE Court of Appeal has affirmed the 25-year sentence of a man who was convicted of robbing a married couple armed with a handgun six years ago.
Police: No reports to support claim of people being targeted after leaving banks
Police say they are aware of a voice note on social media claiming people are being targeted after visiting banks, but they have received no such reports.
