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‘Only acceptable resolution is giving staff back their jobs’

TRADE Union Congress President Obie Ferguson said the only resolution he is willing to accept in the ongoing Sandals labour dispute is the reinstatement of all the former employees made redundant earlier this month.

Miller: Unions preventing quality utility supplies

TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller yesterday said union demands have “priced the government out of the business” of supplying quality utility services throughout The Bahamas.

BCP suspends election bid to re-evaluate

A fringe political party has announced the “indefinite” suspension of its national campaign, with its leader citing the party’s need to “evaluate” its “viability in the campaign for the governance of the nation” in the lead-up to the next general election.

Trial over 2010 killing is delayed once more

THE start of the trial of three men accused of a murder that occurred six years ago has been delayed by an ongoing case.

Freeport worker faces court over $2m drug haul

A Freeport Container Port employee was flown to New Providence and arraigned in connection with a drug seizure of $2m worth of cocaine discovered at the Container Port about two weeks ago in Grand Bahama.

Praise to police for protecting waters from poachers

INCREASED protection of Bahamian waters from poachers by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) has “played an instrumental role” in helping to make what many fishermen are saying is the best lobster season for 20 years.

Mitchell warns Fox Hill residents over Zika virus

AFTER public health officials indicated that one of the four confirmed cases of the Zika virus is a patient who is a resident of the Fox Hill area, MP Fred Mitchell urged residents to take the necessary precautions to prevent mosquito bites.

Anger at CCA appointee to committee

SARKIS Izmirlian’s company BMD Holdings has criticised the appointment of China Construction America (CCA) executive Tiger Wu to a committee that will oversee payments to Baha Mar creditors.

‘Much less’ spent on Carnival this year - but no word on date for report release

TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe confirmed yesterday that the government spent “much less” on this year’s Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival but declined to reveal whether the second instalment of the annual festival managed to ‘break even’.

Answers are promised over letter of intent scandal

FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis has said the FNM will “very soon” answer everyone’s questions regarding the controversial Stellar Waste to Energy letter of intent, which led to Bamboo Town MP Renward Well’s departure from the governing Progressive Liberal Party.

Miller: People fixated on concessions

TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller said yesterday he finds it “incredible” that people have become fixated on the concessions contained in the new deal to complete and open the shuttered $3.5bn Baha Mar resort, as he defended the government and castigated Bahamians for “complaining” too much.

Government hopes Baha Mar workers will be paid by end of September

THE government yesterday expressed “hope” that the claims of former Bahamian workers at Baha Mar will be settled by the end of next month, with all other claims to be dealt with by year-end.

Tropical Depression forms south west of Florida Keys

DESPITE threatening to develop last week as it crossed the Atlantic and passed to the west of The Bahamas, a tropical depression was reported by the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami to have formed finally on Sunday evening south of the lower Florida Keys as it heads into the Gulf of Mexico and turns back towards the northeastern Gulf Coast of the United States.

Reggaeton star among those left uninjured in Eleuthera plane crash

NINE people, including Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin, walked away unharmed after the small private Learjet 55 aircraft they were in crashed in bushes a short distance from the end of the North Eleuthera International Airport runway on Friday afternoon.

‘Minnis can go to court for Baha Mar details’

HITTING out at critics of the secrecy surrounding the Baha Mar deal, Progressive Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts challenged Opposition Leader Dr Hubert Minnis to petition to the Supreme Court to have the documents unsealed if he “gave a damn” about the details.

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