News for Friday, September 29, 2017

Bahamas' GDP grows 27.6% to $10.7bn

THE level of Gross Domestic Product in the Bahamas increased by 27.6 per cent from 2012 to now, the National Accounts Section of the Department of Statistics announced Friday.

Ernst & Young performing forensic audit

AT least two senior officials at the Water & Sewage Corporation have been placed on administrative leave while Ernst & Young performs a forensic audit of the organization.

'Communities are turning into cemeteries'

TWO white teddy bears now hang from the tree that Dennis Moss used for his car wash business.

PLP casual hires cost extra $10m

BRENSIL Rolle, Minister of State for the Public Service and National Insurance, said between December 2016 and May 2017, the public purse ballooned by $16,532,738 because of the Christie administration’s hiring of new public service workers during that period.

Watch the film - every agonising, wrenching, awful second. Then give up Eugene's killer

THE hugs and comforting words of Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis and his wife Patricia Minnis couldn’t answer the questions that consumed Kendera Woodside yesterday as she grieved for her son, eight-year-old Eugene, who was killed four days ago.

McAlpine denies prejudice in Dominica comments

WHILE insisting he is neither xenophobic nor racist, Pineridge MP Rev Fredrick McAlpine said he has no regrets about comments he made criticising his own party’s plan to accommodate Dominicans following the destruction Hurricane Maria caused in Domin

Bran grounded by aviation red tape

The Democratic National Alliance’s (DNA) leader yesterday revealed that his family’s aviation investment had been grounded by the year-long failure to obtain the necessary permits.

RBC: Loan activity fall drives fee rises

A Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) executive yesterday said competition and demand have driven it to a digital banking platform, with 23,000 clients in the Bahamas already using its banking app.

AG: Bahamas ‘in danger’ over money launder flaws

The Attorney General yesterday slammed deficiencies in this nation’s anti-money laundering regime as “entirely unacceptable”, warning they had put the Bahamas “in great danger”.

Govt targets $90m cruise passenger spending boost

The Government is targeting a near-28 per cent increase in cruise passenger spending yields to generate an extra $90 million in annual tourism revenue, a Cabinet Minister said yesterday.

AG blasts Christie Govt for Save the Bays ‘overreach’

The Attorney General yesterday accused the former Christie administration of “overreach” by appearing to target Save the Bays with new non-profit organisation regulations.

Paradise Plates serves up a treat

HANDS for Hunger is putting the finishing touches on preparations for this year’s Paradise Plates, the organisation’s signature annual fundraiser that has quickly become known as one of the island’s most anticipated charity events. Scheduled for thi

'PM should have consulted before Dominica offer'

OFFICIAL Opposition Leader Philip “Brave” Davis said before the government decided to allow Dominicans into the country, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis should have engaged in discussions on the move and offered Bahamians the concrete details. In an

Shipyard chief talks of opportunities in Grand Bahama

OF the $50m spent by the Grand Bahama Shipyard in its first eight months this year, only $18m or 36 per cent of that stayed in The Bahamas, according to the company’s CEO Dave Skentelbery. Many persons packed the Delphine Room of the Pelican Bay Res

Wells: Minnis doing the right thing

WHILE he empathised with the economic depression faced by Grand Bahamians, former Cabinet minister Tennyson Wells yesterday disagreed with Pineridge MP Fredrick McAlpine’s position against the government’s decision to accommodate storm-displaced Domi

Ramsey back in court over payments on bribery fine

FREDDIE Solomon Ramsey is due to re-appear before a Supreme Court judge in a week’s time in connection with the judge’s orders last year for him to repay more than $200,000 to the Bahamas Electricity Corporation stemming from the Alstom SA/BEC briber

Second World War veteran McPhee dies

THE family of John McPhee wants Bahamians to know that “a hero has passed.” The 85-year-old veteran participated in the Second World War. His death over two weeks ago means only 13 members of the British Legion Bahamas Branch are still alive. Mr Mc

23-year-old man killed in car crash on Queen's Highway

A 23-year-old man of West Grand Bahama was fatally injured in a traffic accident on Queen’s Highway in the Bootle Bay area on Wednesday night. This latest incident brings the traffic fatality count on the island to six for 2017. According to police

Exigency order to help fishermen

AN exigency order will be issued “as soon as possible” to assist Bahamian fishermen negatively affected by Hurricane Irma, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said Wednesday. The order will allow for the purchase of traps and fishing materials, and equ

Handgun and AK-47 seized

POLICE made two gun seizures on Wednesday. In the first incident, around 5pm, officers from the Firearm Tracing and Gang Investigations Unit were conducting an operation at Dorsett Street in Fox Hill, when they saw a man who aroused their suspicion.

A COMIC'S VIEW: Dominica and the tears of Minnis

ON Sunday, while intransit to the US, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, paid a visit to PM Dr Hubert Minnis here in Nassau. After the meeting, and hearing first hand of Dominica’s obliterated infrastructure, and despite not having an offi

Three accused of teacher's murder

TWO men and a teenager accused of the controversial 2015 murder of former Queen’s College elementary teacher Joyelle McIntosh will return before a Supreme Court judge in about three weeks for a trial date fixture. Armando Sargeant, Johnny Mackey and

EDITORIAL: Renewed focus on future of Europe

THE resumption of Parliament at Westminster following the long summer break, together with another round of Brexit negotiations in Brussels, has ensured that the issue of Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union is once again at the forefront of the nation’s political and economic agenda.

Mayaguana

IF you ask Bahamians to state something they know about Mayaguana, most will respond by asking, what or where is Mayaguana? This southern island is often treated as the stepchild of The Bahamas. Due to the constant neglect by successive Governments, the island’s development has been a slow and painful process throughout the years causing its residents to gradually abandon their home one by one. (Pop. About 160)

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