Perry Newton elected president of COTECC
IN just about six years, Perry Newton has been elevated from public relations to president of the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association and now to president of Confederation of Tennis of Central American and The Caribbean (COTECC) Subregion 3 Countries.
Bar owner: Let us open in morning
A pub owner yesterday suggested that he and other bar operators should be allowed to open at 9am in the morning to compensate for the hours lost to the night-time curfew.
IAN FERGUSON: Beware peril of unfair employee dismissals
When you terminate an employee’s contract without a fair reason, it is an unfair or unlawful dismissal. Sometimes these issues are dealt with at Industrial Tribunals but, quite often, there are many terminations that go unaddressed.
Downtown business raises cruise concern
A downtown Nassau business yesterday challenged whether the cruise lines are giving their passengers correct information as just 20 percent are currently disembarking the vessel while in port.
Sands gets new coaching job
After spending the past two years as an assistant coach at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Colorado, Bahamian national triple jump record holder Leevan ‘Superman’ Sands is closer to home as an assistant coach with the Florida State University Seminoles track and field programme.
Dr Minnis' full concession speech
In a concession speech released by the FNM, outgoing Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has thanked Bahamians for the last four years:
FRONT PORCH: A More Authentic Understanding of Hope
During the general election season and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the virtue and value of “hope” has often been bandied about as a sort of magical thinking or a bottled elixir than can be employed as an easy fix for difficult problems, whether personally or nationally.
STATESIDE: Early sign Democrats may be safe in the mid-terms
There was a lot of political news in the US on Tuesday. Pundits and commentators from both the left and the right had plenty to talk about. The big question is whether any of the news was really significant. It might be.
PM defends decision to call early election
AFTER voting in the Killarney constituency, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis responded to criticism that the early election was ill-timed as the country continues to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
ELECTION DAY – As it happened
Voting in the General Election is underway – we'll keep you up-to-date throughout the day as The Bahamas goes to the polls.
Secret austerity deal denied
A senior Ministry of Finance official yesterday branded as “absolutely incorrect” assertions that the Government cut a secret austerity deal with its lenders in return for last year’s $825m foreign currency bonds.
Honeymoon cancelled
The Bahamas’ next administration will not have the luxury of a “honeymoon” upon taking office, a prominent banker warning yesterday: “It’s going to be right about the business because there’s a lot we must right.”
Minister: We stopped developer ‘free for all’
A Cabinet minister says the Minnis administration stopped a development “free for all” by introducing new laws and regulations similar to what foreign investors must comply with in their home nations.
‘Pent-up’ demand to invest post-election
Significant “pent-up demand” should fuel an increase in Bahamian capital market investment activity heading into 2022 with over $400m in transactions at various stages of readiness, a top banker said yesterday.
EDITORIAL: Election Day has come, and it’s time to choose
THE time has come, Bahamas. Today, we make a choice. It is a difficult choice, but it is one which will guide the years ahead in our country.
Row as Dames accuses PLP supporters of campaigning at polling site
A heated argument erupted at Government High School on Thursday morning after Mount Moriah incumbent Marvin Dames accused Progressive Liberal Party supporters of campaigning at the polling site on Election Day.
DNA announces platform on election eve
THE Democratic National Alliance released its election platform yesterday, with energy reform a major plank of its plan for governance.
Vaccine is the way to beat this
How many more indeed. Lovely article. Lovely poem by Dr Bartlett. Grateful for his survival and his new message.
