By NATARIO McKENZIE

Tribune Business Reporter

nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net

THE ARAWAK Port Development Company's (APD) chief financial officer, Dion Bethel, said yesterday it was forwarding its application for listing on the Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) this week, and expected to be a publicly traded company before the end of March 2012.

Mr Bethel told Tribune Business yesterday: "We had a Board of Directors meeting on Monday, and we got the approval to proceed with the application for listing on BISX. That application will be sent to them the latter part of today or tomorrow.

"Once they receive the application I am sure they will process it to make sure it ...

Beverly Hills, CA - A new compilation of music centered around
Academy Award®-winning composer Hans Zimmer's theme for this year's
Oscar® telecast is now available on the iTunes Store. Titled "The 84th
Academy Awards - Celebrate the Music," the collection includes the
show's musical theme plus six unique, inventive interpretations of the
theme by other artists, and the "In Memoriam" choral rendition of "What

a Wonderful World."

In addition to both of the 84th Academy Awards music
directors - Zimmer and musician/producer/composer Pharrell Williams (of
The Neptunes) - the extraordinary group of international artists who
contributed their talents includes: percussionist/drummer/composer

Sheila E.; Grammy®-winning double bass player/singer Esperanza
Spalding; guitarist/composer Stephane Wrembel...

By LARRY SMITH

Here's to the bootleggers of the Bahamas,

Who sit on rye kegs, resting feet on beer kegs,

Singing 'yes, we want no bananas'.

- bootlegger's toast

Ever heard of the Bahama Queen?

Not a mailboat, but a flesh and blood woman who, for a few years during the "Roaring Twenties", became an international celebrity as a bootlegger in Nassau.

Gertrude Lythgoe was the only woman to hold a wholesale liquor license here - at a time when women were to be seen and not heard.

Her autobiography has just been republished - along with the memoirs of several other rum-runners - by Flat Hammock Press, which says its mission is to is "to salvage many of th ...

THE FNM hit out the PLP yesterday, branding it a party that does nothing but "criticise what they can't do."

The governing party was responding to comments made by the opposition in relation to the opening of the Thomas A Robinson Stadium. A statement from the FNM said the new stadium is a source of pride for all Bahamians.

"While PLP opposition politicians like to sit on the sidelines, denigrate every project they were incapable of producing and engage in divisive politicking, this FNM government has completed and delivered a state-of-the-art sports facility that also creates job opportunities for Bahamians.

"Our youth and athletes have now access to superior conditions to ...