Cruise home porting to give $50m boost
A Cabinet minister yesterday predicted that 35,000 home porting cruise passengers will spend a collective $50m across The Bahamas during their seven-night voyages around the island chain this summer.
Food stores confirm price rise pressures
Food stores yesterday said food prices have risen by at least ten percent since last year amid forecasts that increases could last well into 2022.
Prices regulator seeking more power as costs rise
The Price Control Commission’s chairman yesterday said recommendations have been presented to the Minnis Cabinet calling for it to be given greater powers over non-price controlled items.
Men’s American Zone III Davis Cup tie: Bahamas will be ready
WITH a little more than two weeks left before they head to Panama City, Panama, for the men’s American Zone III Davis Cup tie, veteran player/captain Marvin Rolle said he’s making sure that all of the players will be ready.
COVID-19 death toll rises to 239
THE COVID-19 death count has risen to 239 after two more deaths were recorded.
Closing arguments in Supreme Court shanty town hearing
ATTORNEY Fred Smith said the Supreme Court must now decide whether the government can lawfully target and destroy all communities of Haitian ethnic origins in the country.
US businessman denies having pistol and ammunition
AN American businessman who denied having a .9mm pistol and a large quantity of ammunition was yesterday granted bail ahead of his trial.
Police corporal found Petty Officer ‘motionless’ with bullet wounds
A POLICE corporal testified yesterday that he found Petty Officer Percival Perpall “motionless” and slumped over on a couch with bullet wounds to his upper body when he responded to a shooting incident at Government House in 2019.
Law and order established
For two hundred years the settlement of Hope Town on Elbow Cay, Abaco, was a sleepy little fishing village with very little crime. In the 1990’s when the internet put the island on the map, the economic growth that followed, led to more and more crime. A tipping point came in 2018 when Hope Town experienced its first armed robbery http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/may/22/holiday-weekend-blighted-by-series-of-armed/robberies.
Nightclub noise
Club Waterloo’s principal should not be permitted to operate a nightclub at its current venue, even if COVID restrictions are lifted.
Practice makes perfect for Billie Jean King Cup team
Team Bahamas all set for Panama City
Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association president Perry Newton was relieved to see the members of the women’s team for the Billie Jean King Cup arrive in town prior to their departure for Panama City, Panama, on Saturday.
EDITORIAL: Watchout, your food bill is going up
IF there’s anything that COVID-19 has taught us, it is how global events can cause local effects.
FACE TO FACE: An independent voice on a different path within Christianity
RELIGION in The Bahamas has been dominated by Christian denominations; in fact, about 90 percent of the population ascribes to some form of Christianity. About 30 percent are Baptist, 23 percent are Pentecostal, 14 percent Catholic, 10 percent Anglican, five percent Seventh-Day Adventist, and four percent Methodist. The remainder includes various Christian and non-Christian religions like Greek Orthodox, Rastafari, Baha’i, Jehovah Witness, Muslim, Obeah and Hinduism.
PETER YOUNG: Outdated - by no means as the G7 has a vital role still to play tackling global issues
FOR a few days last week it could reasonably have been claimed the centre of international affairs and diplomacy was in England’s southwestern county of Cornwall. Under the annual rotating presidency system of the G7 – the world’s largest advanced economies and wealthiest liberal democracies – the UK had organised the group’s first face-to-face meeting since the beginning of the pandemic 18 months ago.
Four new magistrates sworn in by Chief Justice
FOUR stipendiary and circuit magistrates were sworn in before Chief Justice Sir Brian Moree yesterday, bringing the total number of magistrates for the district of New Providence to 13.
Moree: Be careful about criticism of the judiciary
DAYS after Deputy Prime Minister Desmond Bannister criticised a Supreme Court ruling, Chief Justice Sir Brian Moree said officials must be careful about denigrating judges to avoid eroding public trust in the judicial system.
Humes: No offers, and I won’t go independent
FORT Charlotte MP Mark Humes said he has not accepted any election offers from a political party and will not run as an independent candidate.
The billion dollar industry of importing food
THE Bahamas imports about $1bn worth of food products, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard told the House of Assembly yesterday.
Firefighters tackle scrap yard blaze
FIREFIGHTERS struggled to contain a sizeable blaze that erupted near the New Providence Ecology Park last night.
Govt mulling $1m investment floor for permanent residency
The government is eyeing a $1m minimum for investors to qualify for economic permanent residency by making non-real estate investments in The Bahamas, a Cabinet minister revealed last night.
