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June 09, 2023
Moody's credit opinion a 'positive nod' to budget, says Edwards

Credit ratings company Moody's credit opinion on The Bahamas, released on Wednesday, is a "positive nod" to the government's 2023/2024 budget, Managing Consultant at Next Level Solutions Hubert Edwards said yesterday, explaining that Moody's is watching how the government controls debt and spending and borrows money.

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May 22, 2023
Prime Minister Davis Lauds the Strengthening of Ties between Ghana and The Bahamas

Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Hon. Philip Davis said, on May 17, 2023, that he was “truly delighted” to attend the Ghana-Bahamas Business Summit, held under the fitting and timely theme of “Building Stronger Ties”, at the University of The Bahamas.

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May 12, 2023
PRIME MINISTER OF JAMAICA APPOINTS AMBASSADORS/SPECIAL INVESTMENT ENVOYS TO DRIVE INNOVATION, INVESTMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has appointed four new Ambassadors/Special Investment Envoys who will play a pivotal role in attracting investment and driving economic growth. This strategic move underlines the Government's commitment to catalysing innovation, investment and economic growth to create sustainable opportunities for the people of Jamaica.

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April 25, 2023
PM: Accessing SDRs was in best interest of nation

Defending the manner in which government accessed the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) special drawing rights (SDR) allocation, Prime Minister Philip Davis said yesterday he was confident that the government has acted in the best interest of the Bahamian people and the fiscal health of this nation.

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April 14, 2023
Show us the Lease and what is this about Bahamian Passports?

“We knew it was locked up in an endless back and fourth, and there was conflict over the Crown Land” “In conversations with the Government, it was agreed to remove the three acres; take those out of the equation and uncomplicated the entire project”

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There is hope
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March 23, 2023
There is hope

As I pen this column, I do so in the midst of a climate of fatalism and hope. So much of the news today is bad news and the trends point in the wrong direction which leads to a sense of fatalism.

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March 14, 2023
HRH Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, Connects with Teen Girls at Willie Mae Pratt Centre, each taking away a lesson from the visit

For a moment in time likely forever etched in the minds of young Bahamian girls, a world of differences between lifestyles melted as a member of the royal family watched teens in one of the toughest areas of The Bahamas cut a banana tree, bake a pie and make soap from scratch.

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March 07, 2023
Fishing Hole Road frustrations boil over

Work started yesterday on surfacing the access road that motorists will have to use while the Fishing Hole Road Causeway is repaired, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Works Luther Smith said yesterday. 

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February 22, 2023
Man in Cuban prison pleads for Bahamian jail transfer

A BAHAMIAN man being held in a Cuban prison on drug charges is pleading for the families of the Bahamian prisoners in detention there to peacefully protest outside the Cuban Embassy in an effort to get transferred to The Bahamas to serve their sentences.

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February 06, 2023
'All I want is justice for my child' says victim's mother

THE mother of a teenage girl shot dead on Saturday has said she is left heartbroken and hoping for justice for another child.

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