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September 10, 2010
Downtown Nassau Partnership: Shipping move will usher in new era for historic Nassau
The long-awaited transformation of historic Nassau moved a step closer to reality this week with a single newspaper ad: a job opening for a managing director for the Arawak Port Development Company.
14m project is 70 leased
September 12, 2010
14m project is 70 leased
The $14 million revival of a key downtown Nassau shopping plaza is set for a November 2010 opening, Tribune Business was told yesterday, with 70 per cent of its 12 retail and three restaurant spaces now fully leased.
Charles Klonaris, co-chair of the Downtown Nassau Partnership (DNP), who together with his two brothers has financed the redevelopment of the Moses
Letter: No mystery why country is headed south
September 11, 2010
Letter: No mystery why country is headed south
EDITOR, The Tribune.
THE BAHAMAS is probably the only country in the world where it pays to commit a crime.
Your face will be plastered on the cover of all the newspapers, you will be a celebrity and you will be smiling all the way to freedom.
It is not a mystery why our country is headed south.
The work of the Royal Bahamas Police Force appears to go in vain.
The courts are in disarray, ille...
Sharks need protection in Bahamian waters
September 15, 2010
Sharks need protection in Bahamian waters
Melissa Maura, an ardent protector of all God's helpless creatures -- from birds to sharks - horrified that sharks in our waters will soon be targeted for shark fin soup, has launched an e-mail petition to ban their killing. She is also against the harvesting of the sea cucumber and sea urchin "as this will really damage our heritage and ecosystem."
So if anyone wants to have a say in preventin...
September 13, 2010
Letter: Park in paper is Zion Blvd Park - not Fairview Heights Park
EDITOR, The Tribune.
It is with great disappointment that I am responding to your article in today's paper with regard to the park in Bamboo Town.
I am a resident of Bamboo Town and I live on Zion Blvd down the street from the park that was photographed. I would like to point out that the park in the newspaper today is NOT Fairview Heights Park. The park photographed is actually Zion Blvd Park, ...
Dart's 'bulls eye' for Downtown
September 14, 2010
Dart's 'bulls eye' for Downtown
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
Downtown Nassau's redevelopment is in line to receive a major boost from a multi-billion dollar Cayman Islands-based group, which Tribune Business can reveal has signed an agreement to purchase properties at the corner of Bay and Parliament Street - a potential first step towards much wider involvement in Bay Street's rebirth.
Multiple sources confirmed ...
September 19, 2010
Speculation that Chinese criminals may work on Baha Mar 'baseless'
By MEGAN REYNOLDS
Tribune Staff Reporter
mreynolds@tribunemedia.net
SPECULATION that thousands of Chinese criminals will be brought in to build Baha Mar have been called baseless allegations by the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Nassau.
Concerns raised in the local press suggested the Chinese government has chosen convicts from its overcrowded prisons to work on foreign projects ...
Straw Market profits 'at
September 20, 2010
Straw Market profits 'at
By ALISON LOWE
Tribune Staff Reporter
alowe@tribunemedia.net
STRAW vendors were rattled by news that nine of their own were arrested in the US after allegedly trying to bring "knock-off" handbags back to The Bahamas, saying the situation could lead to a serious loss of profits for the market and the country.
Their reactions came as reports reaching this newspaper are that seven of the nine vend...
Haitian worker 'beaten by Immigration officers'
September 22, 2010
Haitian worker 'beaten by Immigration officers'
A Haitian worker whose employer says he has the documents to work legally in the country claimed he was beaten by Immigration officers on North Eleuthera during an illegal immigrant round-up last week.
When told of the claims yesterday, Deputy Director in the Department of Immigration Donald Michael Clarke said he was not aware of any scheduled round ups last week, nor had he heard reports of a...
Mergers 'catapult' Bahamas forward
September 20, 2010
Mergers 'catapult' Bahamas forward
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
The impending Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) privatisation, together with the Cable Bahamas/IndiGo Networks merger, should "catapult this nation forward" in terms of enhanced communications technology, a leading industry executive told Tribune Business yesterday, adding that this activity had the potential to "be a real economic driver".
Paul H...
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