Arawak port operator to 'save every penny'
The Nassau Container Port’s (NCP) operator is aiming “to save every penny we can” following a financial year where its predictions of a near-$3m profit decline proved spot-on.Dion Bethell, chief financial officer for BISX-listed Arawak Port Developme
BPL: ‘Long way to go’ in fighting fuel losses
Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) chief executive yesterday conceded the utility has “a long way to go” to minimise fuel theft and wastage, as he pledged to protect consumers “at all costs”.
BFSB elects new board members
The Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB) elected its board of directors for 2018-2019 at its recent 19th annual general meeting (AGM).K Peter Turnquest, deputy prime minister and minister of finance, used his keynote address to update the financia
09242018 EDITION
Monday, 24th September, 2018.
INSIGHT: Would you invest here with declarations like this?
The PM’s edict that work permits are to be reduced simply because too many have been issued is nonsense and pure economic suicide.
Union: Govt will get Lucayan money back and more
THE union representing Grand Lucayan workers believes the government will recoup all financial expenses used to purchase the resort and more.
INSIGHT: Hutchison must be laughing all the way to the bank
THERE are bad deals and then there are ones that are historically egregious – those that leave us perplexed how one could possibly agree the terms involved. The raw deal made for the Grand Lucayan definitely fits the bill as one of the worst set of negotiations ever performed by a Bahamian government.
Suspects detained after police seize drug hauls
TWO men are in police custody following the seizure of suspected marijuana valued at $15,000 in southwestern New Providence on Saturday.
UPDATED: Hit and run driver left victim to die in road
TRAFFIC police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a hit-and-run traffic fatality that occurred on the Tonique Williams-Darling highway.
Suspect shot dead ‘pointed gun at police’
A 22-year-old shot and killed by police in the Nassau Village community two years ago was not the person they were seeking to apprehend, according to police testimony on Friday.
Legal debts could force Nygard sale
ENVIRONMENTAL activists are seeking a Supreme Court order to have Nygard Cay sold to satisfy the $2.2m debt Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard owes in legal costs from illegal dredging activities.
Longline fishing ‘must not be allowed’
THE Bahamas National Trust is strongly opposed to the introduction of longline fishing within the country’s economic exclusive zone - a destructive practice it warned that could change the Bahamian way of life forever.
Man stable in hospital after shooting
A MAN is in hospital following a shooting in the Flamingo Gardens community on Saturday.According to police reports, shortly after 10pm, a man was walking through a track road off Nigeria Drive when he was approached by a man with a firearm.The gunma
Govt in the North-East
HUBERT Minnis’s Government is to be congratulated for considering bringing local government to New Providence. Though, of course, there are more pressing problems, including crime and the debt, which should take precedence, bringing local government to New Providence will deepen our democracy. I wish Senator Ranard Henfield and his National Advisory Committee well.
EDITORIAL: A pawn in Washington's game
EACH day brings a new fusillade of advocacy and commentary about Brett Kavanaugh, US President Donald Trump’s historically controversial nominee to fill the vacancy on the American Supreme Court created by the resignation this summer of Anthony Kennedy.
INSIGHT: It’s not a fantasy - live younger, longer, better
Longevity. Not your concern if you’re in your 20s right? Wrong. Living to 120 or 150 years old. Sounds absurd at best, or an obsession for the top one percent of the population, right? Wrong again. What if we thought of longevity (and preventing ageing) as living younger, longer and better?
Funeral announced for George Pyfrom
FUNERAL services for George Loran Pyfrom, IV, 67, who died suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, will be held at St Matthew’s Anglican Church on Shirley and Church Streets on Friday, September 28, at 4pm.The Rt Rev Bishop Laish Boyd, Sr, Bishop of the Dio
Bahamas earns 'Best Team Trophy' at Ocean State Judo Championships
LED by Jasmine Russell, the Bahamian national team competed this weekend at the annual Ocean State Judo Championships, held in Providence, Rhode Island, bringing home the coveted best team trophy.The Ocean State is one of the USA’s best tournaments o
