WORLD VIEW – The US and Cuba: Caribbean chooses cooperation, not confrontation
CARIBBEAN countries are, once again, being placed in a difficult position as they try to navigate a course between the United States (US) and Cuba – two countries of great importance to them and for each of which they have great respect.
INSIGHT: We need to tread very, very carefully however appealing opening the borders may appear
IT has been, without any exaggeration, a gruelling two months of lockdowns and curfews.
INSIGHT: Emerging from the darkness of a world where the virus claimed 1,000 lives a day
Alessandro Sarno reports from Italy as the country looks to life after lockdown.
WSC chief signs two contracts worth $2m
WATER and Sewerage Corporation Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson signed two groundbreaking contracts worth more than $2m last week to further the corporation’s work in Abaco following the devastation of Hurricane Dorian. Mr Gibson said the May 22 sig
More people manage to fly back home
MORE than 100 Bahamian citizens and residents returned to the country on a repatriation flight from the United States on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. One hundred and thirty-five nationals and residents, as well as three in
DRA defends burial of 55 Dorian victims
THE Disaster Reconstruction Authority defended the government’s mass burial of 55 Hurricane Dorian victims amid criticism and protests from some in Abaco.
Govt seeking debt payment delay - and $250m IMF loan
The Government is seeking "breathing room" by deferring debt repayments coming due, it can be revealed, as it last night confirmed it has applied for a $252m "emergency" International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan.
Ex-minister fears 100% debt/GDP
A former finance minister fears The Bahamas could be “in really dangerous territory” by June 2021 with a national debt that is equal to the size of its economy. James Smith, pictured , who held the post under the first Christie administration, told
Aliv's 'triple whammy' puts revenue off 15%
Aliv’s revenues are recovering from a “15 percent-plus” fall-off in April sparked by a “triple whammy” from the COVID-19 pandemic, the mobile operator’s top executive has revealed. Damian Blackburn told Tribune Business that besides coping with a 30
'Park our pride and grow GDP'
The government is being urged to eliminate the backlog of permanent residency applications within 30 days as a means to secure “easy money” for the Public Treasury and a multi-million dollar foreign exchange boost. Jason Kinsale, the Bahamian develo
Could this be the end of globalisation?
The coronavirus has created much disruption, unbalancing the pillars that sustain our way of living. This is particularly noticeable in the effect the virus-containment measures are having on globalisation. As the disease progressed from east to west
Top soccer coach on bail over US assault
BEFORE he could officially accept his new job as the Technical Director for the Bahamas Football Association, former Queens Park Rangers (QPR) captain Marc Bircham found himself before the court of law in the United States facing a charge of aggravated battery.
American held over Green Turtle Cay shooting
AN American boat captain was detained by police on Friday after opening fire on officers during a tense stand off on Green Turtle Cay where crime is virtually unheard of.
Churches hold off drive-by services
FEW churches in New Providence held drive-up services over the weekend after Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis permitted them to worship under stringent new guidelines.
‘ABACO FAMILIES NEED ANSWERS’: MP insists inquiry required to relieve pain of bereaved
CENTRAL and South Abaco MP James Albury has called for an inquiry into the process that led to the burial of 55 Hurricane Dorian victims on Friday.
Nortmann re-signs with new club in Iceland
MEN’S senior national basketball team member Robert Nortmann re-signed in Iceland for another year with a new club.
Athletes named on Academic All-Summit League teams
Bahamian quarter-miler Bradley Dormeus, high hurdler Sasha Wells and sprinter Kayvon Stubbs were among six Oral Roberts University athletes named on the 2020 Outdoor Track and Field Academic All-Summit League Teams.
FSU head coach: Izaak Bastian ‘is a model student-athlete’
IZAAK Bastian continues to receive academic accolades for the past season, most recently by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
We must ensure we take care of the public good
According to The Tribune of May 19, 2020, a group calling itself the Organisation for Responsible Government (ORG) apparently sees it as quite responsible that a country that runs itself on revenues representing a mere 18 percent of Gross Domestic Product (among the lowest on the planet) and that derives the bulk (more than 70 percent) of these revenues from taxes that disproportionately impact the poor while exempting wealthier residents from worldwide norms of taxation on income, capital gains and property, should respond to the resulting fiscal imbalance by further downsizing the public sector.
