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City Market workers eligible for NIB
City Market workers eligible for NIB
The National Insurance Board (NIB) is expecting a busy day, with more than 300 former City Market employees now eligible for unemployment benefits.
NIB Director Algernon Cargill, said he coordinated with the Ministry of Labour and Social Development to create a "one stop shop" to make the application process more efficient.
Young Bahamians earn their stripes
Young Bahamians earn their stripes
As the sun set last Friday evening, two young striping apprentices prepared for a different sort of happy hour.?
With five months of training under their belts, they were eager to get to laying the lines and arrows on a 58-bay parking lot, for the first time entirely on their own.
'Month's End' Target on City Market's Audit
'Month's End' Target on City Market's Audit
BAHAMAS Supermarkets' principal yesterday said the struggling grocery chain was seeking to bring its audited financial statements "up to date by the end of the month", after the stock market regulator refused to grant it another extension for the filing of its year-end accounts.
Delegation Urges Farmers to Diversify
Delegation Urges Farmers to Diversify
More than 15 buyers from major wholesalers, shops and supermarkets flew out to Andros last weekend, meeting the farmers that produce local food and telling them exactly what they require to boost the country's agricultural sector.
BAIC Hosts Influential Delegation to Andros
BAIC Hosts Influential Delegation to Andros
The likes of Bahamas Food Services, Super Value Food Stores and Atlantis have partnered with the "Buy Fresh, Buy Bahamian" campaign to help boost the slim agriculture sector.
Mark Finlayson Steps Down From BSL
Mark Finlayson Steps Down From BSL
After much speculation, Mark Finlayson has stepped down as the president of Bahamas Supermarkets Limited (BSL) and given way to a new siblings team - Nikki Finlayson-Boeuf and Rae Finlayson.
Coke bottler to bolster production
Coke bottler to bolster production
In keeping with its ambitious expansion, the Caribbean Bottling Company (Bahamas) will begin production of two new products as it seeks to become a dominant player in the industry, according to Walter Wells, the President and CEO. Dasani bottled water and Minute Maid Fruit Coolers is slated to begin production in early 2012. The move, Wells said, will create a production line and save the company ...
City Markets Workers Concerned About the Future
City Markets Workers Concerned About the Future
City Market employees are questioning the company's direction, following the fusion of 70 workers from recently closed stores into the system and several labor and pension issues stemming from the move. In a letter sent to The Guardian yesterday, several staff members expressed concern about their financial entitlement if they chose to leave.
City Markets mulls three stores' future
City Markets mulls three stores' future
City Markets is mulling the future of three stores, one of which has been the subject of multiple acquisition offers and two where existing leases are coming to an end, as it assesses whether to "focus on the six stronger stores".
Mark Finlayson, principal of the nine-store supermarket chain's 78 per cent majority shareholder, Trans-Island Traders, told Tribune Business that apart from the Eigh...