AML details efforts to stamp down food prices

As Abaco Markets Limited (AML) prepares to open its new Solomon's downtown Freeport location, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President Gavin Watchorn said the company started months ago to try to combat higher food prices.  Locking in contracts, sourcing products from various international suppliers, and purchasing private store label brands are just a few of ...
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Bahamas Postal Service Issues Commemorative Postage Stamp

The Bahamas Postal Service on February 11 issued a commemorative postage stamp to highlight the 50th anniversary of the Victor Sassoon Heart Foundation.

The stamp is being issued in denominations of 15 cents; 50 cents; 65 cents and 70 cents. The Sir Victor Sassoon (Bahamas) Heart Foundation has helped thousands of children in The Bahamas who suffer from heart disease.

It has provided clini...

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Woman who was caught using forged food stamps fined

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Realtors differ over 250k-plus property Stamp Tax increase

By ALISON LOWE
Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Two prominent realtors yesterday concurred with the Government's projection that there will be no pick up in revenue from real estate transactions in the lower price point categories this Budget year, although diverging on forecasts that it will generate more Stamp Duty from properties valued at over $250,000.

Peter Dupuch, president of ER...

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General Post Office releases Tokyo Olympic stamps

TOKYO, Japan - In celebration of Bahamian athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games, The Bahamas' General Post Office has released special commemorative Olympic stamps that are already in circulation.

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Money's tight - so more using stamps

FALLOUT from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused people to tighten their purse strings, Super Value President Rupert Roberts has said, while noting "more and more" shoppers have been relying on the store's food stamps to shop.

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Man 'paid 150 for fake stamp' to stay in country

A JAMAICAN man who paid another man $150 for a fake immigration stamp he tried to use to extend his stay in the country was yesterday sentenced to six months behind bars.

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Bahamas Postal Service releases Caribbean Flamingo stamp issue

NASSAU, Bahamas - the Bahamas Postal Service in association with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) has produced the Caribbean stamp issue. The issue, which has recently been released, illustrates the National Bird of The Bahamas.
The flamingo is a protected species and is watched over by the Society for the Protection of the Flamingo in The Bahamas through the Bahamas National trust, a statutory b...

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Man charged with buying groceries with used food stamps

Police charged a 48-year-old man with getting groceries by fraud...

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11-Day Curfew: Pm Puts Nation In Lockdown To Stamp Out Virus

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced that a national curfew will take effect today, mandating people remain in their homes until March 31 between 9pm and 5am and that business operations, with few exceptions, be suspended...

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