Excitement is building for 50th Carifta Games 2023 in Bahamas
THE excitement is building for the upcoming launch of the 50th CARIFTA Games 2023, to be held here in the Bahamas from April 7-10, 2023.
Sports notes
THE Bahamas Scholastic Athletic Association completed its best-of-three volleyball championships on Tuesday at the Tom “The Bird” Grant in Yellow Elder.
Ole Miss Rebels lose by two points in Pink Flamingo Championship
IN what turned out to be a dramatic finish to a great Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championships last night at Baha Mar, the number 17-ranked Utah Utes held off the University of Mississippi Rebels 69-67 on a three-point play with just six seconds left on the clock.
Rosamunde Carey and 21st Century Athletic team introduced to the public
WHILE the others did it through social media, Rosamunde Carey and her 21st Century Athletic team had an official launch on Friday to introduce their slate of officers to the public for the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ general elections.
Ellis, USC beat BYU
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Boogie Ellis scored 21 of his 27 points after the break to help Southern California beat BYU 82-76 in yesterday’s first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.
Tennessee beats Butler
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Santiago Vescovi scored all 13 of his points after halftime and sparked the clinching run that helped No. 22 Tennessee beat Butler 71-45 on Wednesday night in the first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.
DEIDRE BASTIAN: Beware the pitfalls of worker termination
Have you ever been terminated? Have you ever had to terminate anyone?
Bahamas payment app signs up 1,500 visitors
A digital payments provider says more than 1,500 visitors who will arrive in The Bahamas for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays have signed up to use its “tourism app”.
Treasure Cay ‘can’t afford’ $3bn legal battle’s fall-out
TREASURE Cay homeowners yesterday warned they “can’t afford” for the development to be “tied up for years” by a $3bn claim against the Government.
Partnership to give $400k boost for ‘blue economy’
THE Small Business Development Centre yesterday sealed a $400,000 tie up with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) via a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for technical assistance.
ALICIA WALLACE: Another year - another govt failure to advance women
WE ARE rapidly coming to the end of another year that our government has not made the necessary changes to legislation toward gender equality or for the advancement of women.
US donation to help in disasters
THE United States government is committed to helping The Bahamas prepare for future disasters.
S&P: ‘No material effect’ for Bahamas from FTX
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) yesterday gave The Bahamas “breathing room” by maintaining its existing sovereign credit rating while predicting that FTX’s implosion will have “no material adverse impact” for the country.
S&P slashes Bahamas ‘23 growth to just 1.1%
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) yesterday slashed its 2023 economic growth forecast for The Bahamas to just 1.1 percent despite giving the country a break on repeated annual creditworthiness downgrades.
‘Meeting of minds’ needed on distressed housing drag
The Government and commercial banking industry must have “a meeting of the minds” so the latter can “clean up” its backlog of distressed properties and resume aggressive mortgage lending again, a senior banker urged yesterday.
Bahamas faces high risk economic ‘roller coaster’
The Bahamas will be on an economic “roller coaster for a significant period of time” as the US Federal Reserve and other central banks take swift action to combat inflation, a local banker warned yesterday.
PM tours GoldWynn site
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and other government officials toured the construction site of the multi-million-dollar GoldWynn hotel and residences project on Cable Beach last week to view the development’s progress.
Food costs driving prices up for Thanksgiving meals
SOME local restaurant owners say inflation and the high cost of food in grocery stores have led them to increase prices of their Thanksgiving meals.
Groups in countdown to Junkanoo
WITH practices for the upcoming Boxing Day and New Year’s Day Junkanoo parades underway, two group representatives are already claiming victory of the parades.
