Customs crackdown to find $15m minimum in lost funds
A Customs Department consultant has pledged to identify no less than $15m in uncollected revenue when its eight-month effort to crack down on leakages begins today. The Ministry of Finance, in a statement issued yesterday, confirmed that TTEK Inc ha
GB Power to restore island's east by May
Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) has pledged to restore electricity distribution to the island’s eastern end by May 2020 through rebuilding 35 miles of transmission lines.“We’re continuing the challenging work of clean-up of downed wires, poles and
Shipping firm 'locks' down its deliveries
A Bahamian shipping company has promised to take the “hustle and bustle” out of picking up packages outside business hours by offering “lock boxes” at no extra cost. Tomonique Butterfield, operations manager for Go Postal, told Tribune Business that
San Salvador Government Administration Building destroyed in fire
Police on San Salvador are investigating after a fire destroyed the Government Administration Building on Friday.
Romauld Ferreira: Plastics ban ‘right thing to do’
Minister of the Environment Romauld Ferreira insisted it was “the right thing to do” for the country to tackle the dependency of plastic use amid the public push back of the single-use plastic ban.
Samaritan’s Purse president Franklin Graham visits tent field hospital in Freeport
FRANKLIN Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, travelled to Grand Bahama on Friday where he visited the tent field hospital that his organisation is operating in Freeport.
Ragged Island renewable electrical grid to be completed this year
THE construction of the electrical grid set to bring renewable energy to storm-ravaged Ragged Island is set to be completed this year.
Hanna Martin calls for 'dignified' removal of hurricane victims' bodies
MP for Englerston, Glenys Hanna Martin is calling for the “dignified and respectful” removal of bodies which were stored after Hurricane Dorian.
Canadian renewable energy firms share expertise
CANADIAN High Commissioner Laurie Peters held a Reconstruction and Resilience Forum Friday to introduce local contractors to a delegation of Clean-Tech and infrastructure companies that can assist with Hurricane Dorian restoration efforts.
Ministry 'open about its challenges engaging teachers'
THE Ministry of Education has been open about its challenges engaging teachers for the public school system, according to acting Director of Education Marcellus Taylor.
Apparent suicide in Grand Bahama investigated
POLICE are investigating an apparent suicide that happened in Grand Bahama on Friday.
DIANE PHILLIPS: If your hands are full, what else can a girl do?
Here comes a group of women, all belonging to the same church. There’s something awry about their shape so you wonder if it has to do with their particular form of worship or was it what they served after Sunday School?
EDITORIAL: Pledges and politics
IT started off as an event widely hailed as a good thing.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Another timely lesson from the US on marijuana
AS our National Commission on the legalisation and decriminalisation of marijuana is now operating at a breakneck pace, to legalise and decriminalise marijuana, both medicinally and recreationally, on the heels of Prime Minister Minnis’ endorsing the legalisation and decriminalisation of marijuana in the Bahamas.
Darville adds his voice to oppose charging shoppers for plastic bags
SAVE the Bays Chairman Joseph Darville has joined the chorus of people calling on the government to abandon the 25 cents to $1 fee merchants are mandated to charge customers for single-use plastic bags. The environmentalist said while he supports th
Don't be too quick to dismiss pledges, warns Forbes-Smith
KATHERINE Smith, managing director of Disaster Reconstruction Authority, has expressed her dismay over criticisms about pledges made during the Hurricane Dorian Pledging Conference held on Monday. While speaking to reporters in Grand Bahama on Wedne
Man, 26, admits having assault rifle
A 26-year-old man was remanded in custody for seven weeks to await his sentencing for being caught with a prohibited assault rifle and 30 rounds of illegal ammunition earlier this week. Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt said Levan Cliff Bannist
Alleged child abductor to stand trial in June
ALLEGED child abductor De’Edra Gibson will stand trial in six months’ time charged with abducting four little boys, one as young as three, from various places in New Providence between February and March of last year. Justice Bernard Turner said the
