Stories
Triumvirate
EDITOR, The Tribune. Now that Irma has passed through the country, we who are alive and above ground have much to be thankful for. Material damage can be corrected. Lives lost cannot be replaced. The Minnis Administration along with the Official Opp
Financial services 'challenged' to grow
Global pressures continue to impact the Bahamian financial services industry, the Deputy Prime Minister saying it remains” challenged to maintain and grow market share”.K P Turnquest told a Securities Commission industry briefing that while wealth co
Franceo Smith
EDITOR, The Tribune. GOOD morning Bahamas. I am a fellow Bahamian and small time contractor sitting right now in my truck on the dump site beginning to write this letter. I came out about an hour earlier and just completed clearing trash off my trai
Clarifying capital markets
EDITOR, The Tribune . The article in the Tribune Business Section of last Friday, September 15, about BISX may have given the impression that I was critical of its management for not making BISX more successful by persuading more companies to list.
Nassau and the storm
EDITOR, The Tribune.MANY will argue and emphatically state: It was prayer and the will of God that spared Nassau and the majority of the central, eastern and northern Bahamas but quite honestly if you had been tracking the storm on GF5 and the reliab
Nassau/PI resorts in booking rebound
Bahamian resorts say they have already begun to see bookings rebound post Hurricane Irma, with one executive predicting an even bigger boost as travellers re-book.Ed Fields, Atlantis’s senior vice-president of public relations, told Tribune Business:
Irma deals 'big blow' to crawfish season
Hurricane Irma has dealt a “big blow” to the crawfish season, the Bahamas Commercial Fishers Alliance’s (BCFA) president warning of a “very tough Christmas” if the industry cannot recover.“Hurricane Irma dealt a bit of a blow to us,” said Adrian LaRo
The IMF and taxation
EDITOR, The Tribune . The IMF is bemoaning the fact that commercial banks in The Bahamas are reluctant to lend, they no doubt are concerned about increasing their significant number of nonperforming loans, the Bank of Bahamas recently requiring a
Teenager shot dead in Fox Hill
Police are searching for two suspects after a 17-year-old boy was shot dead in Fox Hill on Saturday
