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New Bahamas price app will ‘cause more harm than good’

A Bahamian merchant yesterday warned that the Government’s newly-unveiled price transparency and competitiveness app will “cause more harm than good” for small retailers in its current format, adding that such operators should be “super worried”.

‘Price Pal’ app launches to increase transparency in the retail sector

THE government has launched a national price-comparison app that will allow Bahamians to check grocery and household prices across more than 230 stores in what officials say is an effort to increase transparency and competition in the retail sector.

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Govt unpaid bills nearly doubles

Unpaid invoices and arrears owed by the Government increased by 97.6 percent, or almost $120m, year-over-year to hit $241.898m as a year-end 2025, the mid-year Budget disclosed yesterday.

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Cross-dress "attorney" guilty of child cruelty

A DAY after being sentenced to three years for impersonating a female attorney and defrauding clients of nearly $20,000, Kimeo McIntosh returned to court yesterday, where he admitted to giving liquor to two teenage boys and offering one money to touch his genitals while acting as a teacher and headmaster.

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Date set for five in US cocaine trial

FIVE defendants in an alleged plot to import cocaine from The Bahamas to the United States are being kept apart in prison, a court heard yesterday.

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‘I would deal with a party issue before a second newspaper cycle’

FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis suggested yesterday that under his leadership, a candidate facing questions tied to a criminal investigation would not linger in the headlines, amid scrutiny around the man he once appointed Minister of National Security, Free National Movement candidate Marvin Dames.

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Cannabis industry launch stalled by missing digital platform

MORE than two years after Parliament passed the Cannabis Act, key provisions — including ticketing for small amounts of marijuana — remain inactive as the government waits on a digital regulatory system that does not yet exist.

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Former PSA head Sonny Miller sentenced to six years for $1.4m drug smuggling

A FORMER senior police officer who once led the Police Staff Association was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday for smuggling $1.4m worth of cocaine and $34,000 worth of marijuana into Acklins in 2022.