Public Works/Infrastructure
Bahamas Property Fund announces new management structure
January 04, 2019
The Bahamas Property Fund Limited has announced that the real estate management, real estate advisory and leasing services for the fund have been insourced, with effect from January 1, 2019. It was noted that these services had previously been provided by Morley Realty Limited. "The
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Post office move delayed to February
January 04, 2019
The government has delayed the relocation of the General Post Office from its East Hill Street location to the Town Centre Mall to February, Minister of Transport and Local Government Renward Wells said yesterday. The move was slated to begin last Christmas, but was later...
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Road at Smith's Point will reopen after railing installed
January 03, 2019
IRAM Lewis, parliamentary secretary in the Ministry of Public Works, said that the closure of the road along the seaside in Smith's Point is for public safety and will reopen as soon as the railing is installed on the newly constructed seawall.
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PUBLIC NOTICE-Road Works
September 18, 2018
The Ministry of Public Works/Bahamix, has scheduled Milling and Paving works for Bernard Road from 9:30a.m. to 2:00p.m., Monday through Friday, beginning September 19th 2018, for 21 working days...
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Unjust and unfair: PM insists shanty towns must go - to improve lives
August 20, 2018
NOTWITHSTANDING a court injunction blocking evictions, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday said it would be "unjust and unfair" to allow shanty towns to remain and recommitted his government to the task of clearing those communities...
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Government seeks to end contract worker system
August 15, 2018
EDUCATION Minister Jeffrey Lloyd yesterday revealed the government has decided to bring an end to the contract worker system by the end of the next fiscal year.He told media at Cabinet his ministry is conducting an audit of contract workers to get a...
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Only one school late for new term
August 13, 2018
GOVERNMENT officials suspect that only one public school - the Eva Hilton Primary - may not be ready on opening day come next month.
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Committee to be set up in weeks on cannabis issue
August 13, 2018
WITHIN the next "week or two," representatives of a cannabis committee that Cabinet has established will receive their terms of references and begin exploring public opinion on the issue, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said Saturday. The committee...
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Concern grows over Lighthouse Point plans
August 13, 2018
OUTCRY has increased against a proposal for Lighthouse Point, Eleuthera to be developed into a cruise port, with two more activist groups worrying the planned project will have a detrimental effect on the country's natural resources. Lighthouse Point...
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Public takes advantage of Meet Minnis open sessions
August 09, 2018
SCORES of Bahamians have taken advantage of Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis' summer break offer to open his doors to questions direct from the public.But the schedule is already "pretty tight" for the next several weeks, said Press Secretary Anthony...
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Work programme to help build skills of youth
August 09, 2018
ADDRESSING the issue of unemployment among the nation's youth, Minister of the Public Service and National Insurance Brensil Rolle announced that the government introduced a restructured employment programme this week in which participants will receive...
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Shanty town residents joy at injunction on evictions
August 08, 2018
SHANTY town residents expressed joy yesterday at a Supreme Court injunction barring the Minnis administration from moving ahead with its August 10 deadline eviction deadline for unregulated New Providence communities.Despite the injunction, the government...
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'Injunction wrong - but so is plan'
August 08, 2018
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis says the Minnis administration’s shanty town eradication policy lacks resolution, sensitivity and coherence...
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Road Paving Carried out at Collins Avenue and Sixth Terrace
August 01, 2018
The Ministry of Public Works continued road paving at Collins Avenue and Sixth Terrace, Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Workmen from Bahamix were busy today rolling out a new layer of asphalt on the intersection.
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July 30, 2018
Leading real estate brokers and younger stars turned out by the dozens last week for a reception at Palm Cay to get in on the ground floor, literally, with involvement in the new $100 million One Marina project, 84 luxury condos overlooking the popular marina and ranging in price from $800,000 to $1.9 million for the penthouse.
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Eva Hilton Primary undergoes $4 mil renovation
July 27, 2018
Students can look forward to a new Eva Hilton Primary School (formerly Oakes Field Primary School) when classes resume in September. The school, located in Oakes Field, is presently undergoing $4 million in renovations.
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PM addresses CARICOM on disaster mitigation and management
July 06, 2018
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica - Prime Minister, Dr Hubert Minnis shared with his CARICOM colleagues, a number of initiatives being undertaken by his government in a move to improve his country's disaster mitigation plan, through the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA...
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Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources Statement on Potters Cay Dock Renovations
May 09, 2018
While the concerns of the Vendors Association at Potters Cay is very important to the ministry, there are a few points we wish to bring clarity to, as expressed to ZNS News...
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Gladstone Road to be expanded
May 09, 2018
The government will dedicate $2 million in the upcoming budget year to expand Gladstone Road in order to alleviate traffic congestion, said Minister of Public Works Desmond Bannister yesterday. The announcement follows the government's decision to close access to Munnings Road from Gladstone Road and [...]
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Foreign Affairs Minister Henfield Welcomed US and Norway's Reprasentatives at COFCOR
May 08, 2018
Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Darren Henfield, chairman of the CARICOM Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) meetings in Nassau, May 7-8, 2018 at the British Colonial Hilton...
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