Hotel staff want mask mandate to be extended

BAHAMAS Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union President Darrin Woods said with the country now receiving increased visitor arrivals, union officials would have liked to have the mandatory mask mandate for hotels remain for several more weeks.

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Darville defends new mask mandate for hotels

Minister of Health Dr. Michael Darville yesterday defended the government's decision to relax the COVID-19 mask mandate for hotels while keeping the mandate in place for other businesses in The Bahamas. "We don't think it's discriminatory," Darville said. "Our EOC (emergency operations committee) made a decision based on the vaccination rate of visitors in our ...
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Masks indoors - but not for hotels in new rule changes

THE Ministry of Health and Wellness announced further relaxations to COVID-19 restrictions over the weekend, loosening mask requirements for those in hotels or outdoors and adjusting protocols for social gatherings, allowing larger events to take place.

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Hilton, CCA terminate the management agreement for British Colonial hotel

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Hotel workers 'helped tremendously' by govt's free COVID test pilot

BAHAMAS Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union President Darrin Woods says hotel workers have been helped tremendously by government's free COVID-19 test pilot.

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Slight increase in hotel occupancy

Hotels in the Nassau and Paradise Island market saw a slight improvement in occupancy levels in 2010 by nearly 2 percent — even as they charged more for those room nights than in 2009.

The information — cataloguing the data of 14 hotels — was revealed in preliminary statistics provided by The Bahamas Hotel Association and The Ministry of Tourism. Those properties saw a 62.6 per...

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Record hotel occupancy levels over Thanksgiving

TOURISM Director General Joy Jibrilu said hotels are seeing record occupancy levels for the Thanksgiving period and a target of one million stopover visitors by year-end is within reach.

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Govt 'relief' for laid off hotel workers

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Tribune Freeport Reporter

dmaycock@tribunemedia.net

FREEPORT - Minister of Labour and Social Development Dion Foulkes announced that the government has put in place several initiatives that will bring "tremendous relief" to hundreds of laid off workers at Our Lucaya Resort.

It was also revealed that some 60 jobs at two hotels in Exuma and Bimini have been made available for t...

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(Video) MEET HAPPY at the Canal House at the Pelican Bay Hotel

Freeport, Bahamas - Pelican Bay at Lucaya is one of the happiest meeting venues anywhere, staffed by planners and servers that have one objective: to make you happy.

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Hotel Union says injunction's extension just a stalling tactic

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