EDITORIAL: Prime Minister says it’s up to us
THERE was a lot of anticipation ahead of Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ national address last night – but did he deliver?
STATESIDE: Problems for the pollsters - they just can’t get it right
Public opinion polling here in The Bahamas is neither high art nor exact science. In fact, if we weren’t bombarded with references on American television stations to the latest “breaking news” from some poll or another in the US, we might not pay any attention at all to this often influential, lucrative but decreasingly reliable method of determining public attitudes on social, political and economic issues.
FRONT PORCH: A season of sadness, dying and regret
“Infodemic: An excessive amount of information about a problem that is typically unreliable, spreads rapidly, and makes a solution more difficult to achieve.”
Social Services staff protest
SCORES of Social Services employees demonstrated across the country in a show of frustration yesterday, citing unfair practices, poor working conditions and unresolved workplace grievances.
Nurses’ anger at delay in honorarium payment
BAHAMAS Nurses Union president Amancha Williams yesterday voiced her anger at the delay of honorarium payments to COVID healthcare workers, calling it “deceptive and wicked”.
Judge issues plea for Schooner Bay peace
A Supreme Court judge has made an impassioned plea for peace to prevail in an Abaco community that has been beset by a long-running dispute between its developer and several homeowners.
DPM pledges 80% slash over building permit turnaround
The deputy prime minister yesterday pledged to slash building permit turnaround times by up to 80 percent with the implementation of Building Control’s long-awaited digital approval system.
Digital building permits hailed as ‘long overdue’
The Bahamas Society of Engineers (BSE) president yesterday hailed as “long overdue” plans to slash building permit turnaround times by going digital, branding the 60-80 percent reduction target as “achievable”.
Sand Dollar targets ‘further milestones’
The Bahamian digital currency’s roll-out will hit “further milestones” next month, the Central Bank’s governor says, with consumers gaining the ability to switch funds between their bank accounts and mobile wallets.
Davis: We’re on brink of catastrophe
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Phillip “Brave” Davis says the country is on the brink of a public health catastrophe.
BPL workers call in sick
A SIGNIFICANT number of Bahamas Power and Light employees called in sick yesterday, prompting executives to assure customers that supply would continue uninterrupted.
CAC Bodybuilding: Federation selects 7-member team Bahamas
THE Bahamas Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation has selected five males to their seven-member team for the Central American and Caribbean Championships next month in San Salvador, El Salvador, with two others pending.
Bahamas Golf Federation team hopes to bring home Hank James trophy
THE Bahamas Golf Federation will send its junior national team to the Dominican Republic from Thursday, July 29th through August 4th to compete in the Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships with hopes of bringing home the overall Hank James trophy.
DANIEL FERGUSON: Procurement e-portal not being maximised
I wish to now elaborate more on the electronic portal that is the Bahamian government’s e-procurement supplier registry.
Ministry aiming to go digital
THE Ministry of Works has launched its Electronic Plan Review and Inspection System designed to digitise the current paper-based permitting and inspection process.
Kai Jones: ‘I think I fit all the qualities of the new age big’
Kai Jones’ lifelong NBA dream will come to fruition in mere hours and the 20-year-old highly touted prospect said his approach will remain the same, irrespective of which organisation calls his name to welcome him into their franchise.
Olympic dispute over Team Bahamas’ list of entrants for women’s 200 reaches ‘a tipping point’
THE dispute surrounding Team Bahamas’ list of entrants for the women’s 200m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has reached a tipping point just days before the athletics competition gets underway in Tokyo.
Digitisation of little use if poverty gaps remain
The Bahamas needs to address its social gaps before full digitisation of the economy can take place, an information and communications technology (ITC) executive warned yesterday.
