120 overseas workers coming in to install tri-fuel engines at BPL
THE government has given Finnish technology company Wartsila Oyj Abp permission to bring 120 workers to the country to install tri-fuel, high efficiency engines at Bahamas Power & Light’s Clifton Pier plant.
Woman facing firearm charge given bail
A WOMAN charged in connection with the discovery of unlicensed firearms, ammunition and dangerous drugs at a home where three men were shot and killed by police last Friday, was granted bail in the Supreme Court yesterday.
Seven foreign nationals fined for overstaying
SEVEN foreign nationals - four Brazilians, two Jamaicans and one Haitian - were convicted and fined for overstaying in three separate cases yesterday.
Woods presents new agreement to WSC
WORKERS at the Water and Sewerage Corporation presented their new industrial agreement to executive management yesterday.This follows months of standoff, strike threats and a war of words with executive chairman Adrian Gibson.
NIB workers demonstrate after reaching an 'impasse'
DOZENS of National Insurance Board employees demonstrated yesterday outside the entity’s Baillou Hill Road headquarters, after President of the Union of Public Officers Marvin Duncombe said the group had reached an “impasse” in negotiations with management.
Dames: We followed law on vacation leave
NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames said the government has followed the law when applying vacation leave policies in law enforcement agencies, though he did not elaborate.
Brother of slain marine has the right to criticise, says minister
“PEOPLE have a right to criticise,” National Security Minister Marvin Dames said yesterday in response to the scathing rebuke the brother of slain Royal Bahamas Defence Force Petty Officer Percival Philip Perpall delivered against the RBDF at Perpall’s funeral last Thursday.
Former Tribune man helps tell sinister murder story
ONE of Nassau’s most sinister murder plots is to feature in a Sky TV documentary later this year.
How Ardastra is putting a kestrel back in the sky
IT takes roughly five minutes and some prompting for the American kestrel – a small, colourful falcon –to realise it’s free. Discovered around two weeks ago flapping on the ground, a do-gooder brought the young bird to Ardastra Gardens, Zoo & Conservation Centre believing it to be lacking the flight and survival skills that it would have been taught by its parents had it not fallen from its nest.
Conference highlights key Bahamas products
The recent Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Caribbean conference allowed The Bahamas to spotlight the products that “set us apart from other financial centres”.
'Police did what they had to do'
ROYAL Bahamas Police Force officers “did what they had to do” when they killed three men at a Blair home on Friday, National Security Minister Marvin Dames has said, while insisting that, regardless of what allegations are made, the facts will eventually be made known.
'Sue govt if citizenship applications drag on'
PEOPLE waiting more than five years for an answer to their application for citizenship have a right to sue the government, according to retired Justice Rubie Nottage.
Africans seeking asylum
THE 12 Africans taken into custody by Department of Immigration officials in Grand Bahama last week are seeking asylum, fearing they would be killed if they are returned to their homeland of Nigeria.
'War of words between China and US not our business'
ARGUMENTS raised in an ongoing war of words between United States and Chinese officials are “not our business”, Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield said yesterday.
Nothing loosens the purse strings like an election
READERS will be forgiven if the announcement by Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis of major road projects last night sounds familiar.
Pay up or feel the wrath
So some of the Web Shops are not compliant (have not paid) the required licence fees/taxes…big deal Minister…simply issue a judicial warrant on the offending businesses and seize their assets and, of course, immediately close them down not to open til every dime is paid…
US needs to back $ with gold
The petrodollar is a system where oil is sold in United States dollars exclusively.
It's a question of tenders
All procurement tenders or RFP’s are controlled by the Financial Secretary - whoever holds that position sits as Chair of the Tenders Board. Tenders Board overseas all tenders of Government.
Colour can't be that hard
Colour of vehicle licence plates - so it needs a Cabinet decision to change these and probably an amendment to the Road Traffic Act?
