EDITORIAL: The Trump enigma - has he found the way to handle dictators?
Less than a week ago, a coalition of the US, Britain and France was poised to launch airstrikes on Syria in response to the deployment of chemical weapons. Their joint assessment was that it was highly likely the Assad regime, with the connivance of Russia, had used these weapons against its own people and that this was part of a pattern of behaviour. Days later, targeted and effective bombing attacks took place on chemical weapons sites and facilities in order to alleviate humanitarian suffering by degrading the regime’s capability to manufacture and deploy such weapons and to deter it from doing so in the future. But there was no question of seeking to secure regime change or of involvement in Syria’s civil war.
Oft attire!
FIRSTLY, I’m not professing to be an authority on proper attire and when, but, my Hospitality training over the last 50 years still holds firm today, and having been told on many occasions with the numerous number of seminars, courses, I have attended throughout the United States, becoming a Certified Hospitality Trainer from the American Hotel Motel Association, I believe I’m qualified to speak on proper attire. etiquette, table manners, and proper grooming, and standards that never change!
Nurse shifts
Re: your article the patient must come first. In The Tribune, dated April 12, 2018.
Press secretary
OPM Press Secretary continues to amaze me that he makes statements which are challenged, I wish the journalists would challenge him, are inaccurate and shows that he has not read public documents such as the Heads of Agreement of OBAN Energies.
‘Twin towers’ set for Shanghai Diamond League
THE Bahamian track and field twin towers of Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Steven Gardiner are tentatively set to continue their impressive seasons at the 2018 Shanghai Diamond League next month.
Cuckoos to chase their 3rd straight Heineken Cup title
THE Bahamas Rugby Football Union’s season will culminate with a matchup to decide the 2018 Heineken Bahamas Cup.
BFFL’s female All Stars Team all set for Tournament of Champions invitational
THIS weekend, the Bahamas Flag Football League’s female All-Stars Team will participate in the Women’s Tournament of Champions Flag Football Tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada. This tournament is by invitation only and the BFFL’s Female All-Stars are one of only two international teams to be invited.
THE FINISH LINE: XXI Commonwealth Games ‘should have taught us some valuable lessons’
THE recent staging of the XXI Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia, should have taught us some valuable lessons.
Golden Knights to be honoured with Grand Bahama mural
The Golden Knights will be honoured in Grand Bahama during a pre-celebration event on Sunday and will be part of a grand motorcade that will climax with the unveiling of a mural as a tribute to them for their Olympic Gold win six years ago.
Corporate taxation dumped in EU bill
The Government has stripped corporate taxation from its anti-blacklisting response, as a top attorney yesterday warned: “Time is not our friend.”Michael Paton, who co-heads the financial sector working group dealing with the European Union (EU) conce
Central Bank eyes digital B$ by 2021
THE Central Bank is aiming to roll-out a ‘test’ digital Bahamian currency by 2021, the Deputy Prime Minister disclosed yesterday, while slamming the banks for “forcing” electronic banking.K P Turnquest, in an address to the ComplianceAid Caribbean An
FINCO suffers 67% profits slump in Q1
ROYAL Bank of Canada’s (RBC) mortgage lending arm yesterday unveiled a 67 per cent year-over-year slump in 2018 first quarter profits as ‘bad credit’ woes continued to bite.Robert Johnston, Finance Corporation of the Bahamas (FINCO) chairman, told sh
Bahamas 'above average risk' over financial crime
THE Deputy Prime Minister yesterday hit out at “historical bias” against the Caribbean as it was revealed that the Bahamas presents an ‘above average’ risk for financial crime abuse.K P Turnquest, addressing the ComplianceAid Caribbean Anti-Money Lau
BPL: Shell bid process ‘transparent and fair’
BAHAMAS Power & Light’s (BPL) top executive yesterday defended Shell’s selection as its preferred generation partner as “transparent and fair”, revealing 50 per cent of bids offered long-term solutions.
04192018 EDITION
Thursday, 19th April, 2018.
IAN FERGUSON: Inspiring our men in the workplace
THE number of productive, engaged male employees in the Bahamian workforce has been declining rapidly for some years. Somehow, in the span of two generations, women have replaced men in most professional fields of endeavour. From medicine to educatio
Funeral homes: We're not Government fee 'enforcers'
FUNERAL directors yesterday expressed opposition to having to pay act as “enforcers” in collecting morgue fees, telling Tribune Business: “The Government should collect itself.”Several funeral directors, speaking with Tribune Business, said they had
BPL: Near 90 renewable applications approved
JUST under 90 small scale renewable generation (SSRG) applications have been approved to-date, Bahamas Power and Light’s (BPL) chief executive said yesterday.Whitney Heastie added that the utility’s options outside New Providence were “wide open”, wh
Butterfield names top Bahamas executive
BUTTERFIELD Trust (Bahamas) has named Craig Barley as its managing director, with overall responsibility for the management and development of its business in this jurisdiction.Originally from the UK, Mr Barley was most recently chief executive of La
Bahamasair to launch Bimini fights on May 3
BAHAMASAIR will launch four weekly flights between Miami and Bimini on May 3, in a bid to generate extra airlift that will expand the tourism industry.The flight will take half an hour and use a 50-seater aircraft, the ATR 42. The service will leave
