Lender partners over free marketing access
A Bahamian credit provider has teamed with the MobileAssist app to offer business borrowers free access to marketing.
IAN FERGUSON: Using COVID for productivity reset
COVID-19 has provided businesses with the perfect opportunity to reset. Streamlining product offerings, trimming the proverbial operational expenses "fat", and downsizing staff numbers or positions may all prove necessary in these difficult times. Perhaps the lowest hanging fruit in resetting business operations is enhancing service levels, and assisting employees to become more efficient and effective.
Man held over gun
A FREEPORT man has been arrested in connection with the recovery of a high-powered assault weapon that was found in bushes, near a public school earlier this week.
Ministry: No consuls owed money
THE Ministry of Foreign Affairs says there are no Bahamian honorary consuls who are currently owed money in response to messages circulating on social media about the termination of some of these officials in various countries.
Cloud provider in a Caribbean first
A Bahamas-based cloud services provider says it has been named as the only LogRhythm authorised managed security services provider partner for the Caribbean and Latin America.
CIBC wins Bahamas award for tenth time
CIBC FirstCaribbean said it has won Bank of the Year for The Bahamas for the tenth time as part of the awards issued by the finance magazine, The Banker.
Haitian woman fined for overstay
A HAITIAN woman who overstayed her time in The Bahamas and gave immigration officers a fake name when she was questioned was fined $1,500 yesterday.
Congratulations to Joe Biden
I AM glad that Joe Biden was elected to be president of the USA and effectively beat Trump who had repeatedly said Africa was a shit hole.
Is Bahamas becoming a dictatorship?
WITH the November 24 declaration of a third state of emergency by Governor General Sir Cornelius Smith, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis now has constitutional authority to impose additional restrictive measures for another six months.
Jones posts double in Foxes’ victory
FOLLOWING a break in competition for national team play at the FIBA Eurobasket 2021 Qualifiers, Jonquel Jones and her UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes began FIBA Euroleague play this week and continued their dominance in the region.
Chavez Young and Cavalry two weeks from opening day
CHAVEZ Young and his Canberra Cavalry are two weeks away from opening day and will have a busy two months of gameplay after the Australian Baseball League released its revised schedule.
St Fort signs with 3rd team this season in Japan B-League
MARK St Fort is on the move once again in the Japanese B-League and signed with his third team this season.
‘Mr Consistent’ Maycock a national golf champion
As consistent as he was from day one, Greg Maycock maintained his lead and held on to win the Bahamas Professional Golfers Association’s Leroy ‘Roy’ Bowe Founder BPGA 2020 National Championship title.
Man shot by police after high speed chase
A high-speed chase ended with one suspect in hospital last night after being shot by police.
Family want justice after man shot dead off Kemp Road
THE family of a man who was shot dead off Kemp Road on Thursday afternoon say they want justice for their loved one’s killing.
EDITORIAL: A long road back from the brink
IF there was any doubt about the economic mountain we have to climb to recover from COVID-19, the International Monetary Fund ought to have put paid to it yesterday.
FRONT PORCH: COVID-19, lifeboat ethics and conspiracies
THERE is a well-known episode from the 1912 sinking of RMS Titanic involving the wealthy Scottish landowner Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon (1862-1931).
STATESIDE: Hey Mr Trump, where's all this money going to end up?
It shouldn’t have really surprised anyone. But it did.
New operating theatre for Rand
A new fully-equipped modular operating theatre donated to the Rand Memorial Hospital by Direct Relief (DR) was officially turned over to the Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
