'Hurting' wedding planners allege NIB denied support
Weddings industry professionals yesterday said they are “hurting desperately” due to the COVID-19 pandemic but allege they have been denied assistance from the National Insurance Board (NIB). Cindy Coakley-Knowles, the Bahamas Bridal Association’s p
Digital economy in key rebound role
The COVID-19 pandemic’s jolt to speed-up digitisation, and the growth of online e-commerce activity, will ensure they both have a role in economic recovery, a Bahamian financial analyst believes. Brian Jones, Leno’s managing director of wealth solut
Pharmacists: No issues despite long client lines
Pharmacists say they are experiencing no problems fulfilling patient prescriptions despite the long queues and wait times following the Easter weekend lockdown. Clinton McCartney, head pharmacist at McCartney’s Pharmacy, told Tribune Business : “We
EDITORIAL: This is no time for union squabbles
WHEN Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis sounded the call for members of the medical profession to come to the front line of the battle against COVID-19, it seems he could hardly have met with a less enthusiastic response.
COVID-19: One additional death, one newly-confirmed case
At a press conference on Thursday evening, Minister of Health Dr Duane Sands confirmed that there has been one additional death due to COVID-19, bringing the total number of fatalities to nine. The latest fatality was a 51-year-old man from New Providence.
Thompson: Programmes helping to ease pain
Minister of State for Grand Bahama Kwasi Thompson said Grand Bahamians have benefitted from the national assistance programmes put in place as a result of COVID-19. “Most of the hotels are closed as a result of the shutdown including the Grand Lucay
500 free lunches for Bain and Grants Town
WHILE many Bahamians face hunger during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bain and Grants Town community will not have empty stomachs as 500 free hot lunches are being home delivered daily. Area Member of Parliament Travis Robinson said his constituents ca
Making face masks to help workers
WITH the government now ordering people to wear face masks when they leave their residence to help stop the spread of COVID-19, members of the Inner Wheel Club of East Nassau have started to make them. “When it became clear that wearing a mask, even
Aiming to slow the spread
TO help slow the spread of COVID-19 John Watling’s Distillery has switched gears to produce a hand sanitizer for The Bahamas. Globally over 600 spirit manufacturers are now making hand sanitizer to combat the pandemic. As the only super-premium spi
Linda survived Dorian only to find herself in a battle with COVID-19
HAVING barely survived Hurricane Dorian in early September, Abaco native Linda Albury did not anticipate she would soon have another battle to face - COVID-19.The 66-year-old told The Tribune yesterday her life has never been the same since the hurri
‘Family Islands lockdown could last four more weeks’
DEPUTY Chief Medical Officer Dr Delon Brennen said it could take another four weeks before the lockdown can end on Family Islands that have not yet recorded a confirmed case of COVID-19.
Detainees will not be sent home - for now
REPATRIATIONS are temporarily suspended in light of countries closing their borders and not accepting detainees, according to the officer in charge of the Carmichael Road Detention Centre.
Law firms line up layoffs
Major Bahamian law firms yesterday revealed the COVID-19 pandemic has forced them to temporarily lay-off staff, with one saying: "We haven't received a single fee in four weeks."
2,000 claims stall in system
The National Insurance Board (NIB) yesterday revealed that some 2,000 unemployment benefit claims have “stalled” because employers have failed to file the required contributions statements.
Bahamian investors: Our nation needs you
A prominent businessman is urging Bahamian investors and those with overseas capital holdings to “bring some of that back and help rebuild the local economy” in COVID-19’s wake. Sir Franklyn Wilson, the Arawak Homes and Sunshine Holdings chairman, t
Bahamas holding off debt cost pressures
The Bahamas was the only Caribbean nation in early April to escape pressure on its bond yields amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report revealed yesterday. The IDB, in its 2020 first quarter “bulletin” on the regio
Hotel union to feed the 5,500 with 'advance'
The hotel union’s president yesterday said it has “risen to the occasion” to provide COVID-19 relief to its 5,500 members via “an advance” from the industry’s Health and Welfare Fund.Darrin Woods told Tribune Business that the Bahamas Hotel, Catering
Nurses in dispute on crisis working
THE Public Hospitals Authority has changed the working shift of some nurses amid the COVID-19 crisis, it confirmed yesterday.
Single mum’s ordeal echoed by so many
LIFE changed for 22-year-old Cassandra Thompson when she was laid off as a cashier with nowhere to turn.
