Applications for property available next month
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said applications for the Prospect Ridge community for young professionals will be available online in the first week of July.
Cur-phew: PM eases back
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday relaxed a number of COVID-19 restrictions for New Providence, Grand Bahama and several Family Islands, including new curfew hours and a variety of additional benefits for fully vaccinated people.
Bid to block foreign fishermen ban fails
Top fisheries processors, boat owners and foreign workers have lost their bid to block the Fisheries Act’s implementation despite arguing it would cause the “possible collapse or bankruptcy of their businesses”.
PM hails $350m Shipyard move
The prime minister yesterday said the government is working on “a new partnership agreement” with the Grand Bahama Shipyard’s cruise line owners as he hailed their $350m investment in two new dry docks.
FOCOL ‘won’t go past’ $12m on offer’s excess
FOCOL Holdings will retain some of “the oversubscription” on its recent $10m preference share issue, its chairman telling this newspaper: “In our minds we will not go past $12m”.
PM: Borrowing was matter of our ‘survival’
The prime minister yesterday defended the government’s multi-billion dollar borrowing as a matter of “survival” for The Bahamas and the only way to protect the most vulnerable amid COVID-19’s devastation.
PM fires warning shot over procurement whistleblower
The prime minister yesterday seemingly threatened to disclose personnel file details on a former government employee who wrote an article challenging the administration’s procurement reform implementation.
Hank Johnson waves off criticism
HANK Johnson, Free National Movement’s candidate for Central and South Eleuthera, along with his constituency association chairman have dismissed calls for him to be recalled as the party’s candidate for the area, citing it as someone’s “personal beef”.
Six faced court on murders
SEVERAL men were arraigned yesterday in connection with five separate homicides.
$350m investment for Grand Bahama Shipyard
CARNIVAL and Royal Caribbean cruise lines are planning to invest some $350m in the Grand Bahama Shipyard that will allow for the rebuilding of two new and bigger docks “capable of handling and servicing the largest ships in the world,” Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis revealed in the House of Assembly yesterday.
BIRTH RIGHT: Judges uphold landmark ruling over citizenship for Bahamian men’s children
THE Court of Appeal has affirmed a landmark Supreme Court ruling allowing Bahamian men to automatically pass citizenship to their children, regardless of whether their child is born out of wedlock to non-Bahamian mothers.
Restaurants praise ‘Vax Pass’ potential
Restaurant owners yesterday said the government’s promised digital vaccination certificate may have a greater impact on their business than the one-hour curfew reduction by facilitating indoor dining.
Vaccination stipulations may hit wedding revival
Bahamian wedding professionals yesterday argued that the COVID-19 vaccination drive will not necessarily succeed in opening up their industry as “the world is 50/50” on becoming inoculated.
$4.2m to inner city
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said as of May this year, $4.2m in tax concessions have been granted to inner-city communities affected by the Economic Empowerment Zones Act.
‘Concerns’ delay campaign finance legislation, says Minnis
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis says campaign finance legislation has been drafted, but due to “concerns” about the proposal, the draft has not yet been finalised.
Two held over human smuggling
TWO Bahamian men suspected of illegal human smuggling were intercepted and apprehended, along with 13 migrants, in US waters last week.
Teens accused of rape of 47-year-old woman
TWO teens, one of which is a minor, were taken to court yesterday to face charges in connection with the rape and armed robbery of a 47-year-old woman.
Man stabbed at Eight Mile Rock fish fry
GRAND Bahama police are investigating a stabbing that occurred at the fish fry in Eight Mile Rock on Sunday.
Accused: I wasn’t angry with officer
ABLE Seaman Jevon Seymour denied being angry with Petty Officer Percival Perpall for reporting him absent without leave when he was questioned in police custody following the marine’s murder, a jury heard.
Police officer tells of injured guard at night club
A POLICE officer testified yesterday how she met an injured security guard restraining a man when she responded to an altercation in the parking lot of a night club last year.
