EDITORIAL: Vaccine is coming - but delay is disappointing
DID good news ever sound so disappointing?
WORLD VIEW: Small states diplomacy pays dividends on ‘de-risking’
IT was an odd law into which to place it, but new and welcome directives on “de-risking” - which has plagued Caribbean countries - has become law in the United States.
INSIGHT: Delays and frustrations but the end of the tunnel is in sight
THERE was a sense of relief among Bahamians on social media when it was announced the first vaccines would arrive in the country today. When this news was followed by an update that the vaccines would be delayed until Wednesday because of “logistical issues with the airline overseas”, that relief shifted to weary cynicism.
INSIGHT: A million dollars for a smart new complex - now tear it down
AN estimated $1m of taxpayer dollars has been wasted in the part construction of a new building on the campus of Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute which is now “just sitting there out back waiting to be demolished”, Insight can reveal.
New radar equipment installed at former U.S. missile tracking station
BAHAMAS meteorological office staff were in Mayaguana this weekend with Bahamas Aviation, Climate and Severe Weather Network alongside for the installation of new radar tracking equipment at the island’s former US missile tracking station.
Body found near Arawak Cay parking lot
A MAN’S body was found yesterday near a parking lot at Arawak Cay.
Infrastructure Fund’s public offering plan
Bahamian investors will be given the opportunity to own a portion of the proposed National Infrastructure Fund via an initial public offering (IPO), a Cabinet minister confirmed yesterday.
BOB: ‘Break even excellent’ for 2021
Bank of The Bahamas’ top executive says it will “be excellent” if its closes its 2021 financial year in a “break even” position after incurring $20m in loan loss provisions over the past two years.
‘Blind’ driving attorney loses sanctions fight
A Supreme Court judge has refused to give an attorney “a second bite at the cherry” and appeal sanctions related to his management of a $30m estate on the basis he is “legally blind”.
Sir Franklyn: Is data protection up to challenge?
A prominent businessman is questioning whether the government and private sector are doing enough to protect Bahamians’ personal financial data from employee theft in a growing digital economy.
THE GREEN AUTOMOBILE REVOLUTION
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Sea search goes on for five Cubans
A SEARCH is ongoing for five Cubans who are presumed missing after 19 others were picked up, including a deceased male, during a joint law enforcement operation in the southern Bahamas last week.
One dead, five injured in Friday shootings
A MAN was shot dead on Friday, not long after two other shooting incidents left five others, four of whom were women, injured.
PLP aiming to lower VAT and raise minimum wage
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leaders said if successful in the next general election they will reduce value added tax to ten percent for one year as part of an economic plan that involves supporting a minimum wage increase, significantly expanding social assistance in the country and reducing the cost of energy by 30 percent.
ROLLOUT WILL TAKE MONTHS: First vaccines arrive this Wednesday but all doses not here till end of May
THE government’s roll out of its COVID-19 vaccination programme will not proceed as rapidly as previously announced, with only 20,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine expected in the country this Wednesday.
A poem to Duke Smith
PLEASE publish this birthday poem that I wrote for my oldest brother, Duke Bradley Smith.
President of UB should have pension
THE revelation that the prestigious and highly responsible post of Presi- dent of the university is not pensionable is at once amazingly surprising and utterly astounding!
Running the race to full compliance
As I ran along the Cable Beach strip contemplating why I decided on a vigorous “speed repeat routine”, as I embarked on my second week of a year-long journey towards running my first full marathon, I was stopped by Bahamian-born, now-Washington DC domiciled, Reuters business writer Katanga Johnson.
