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Are you ready
Are you ready
By Allison Miller
THE SAD event of last Tuesday- the plane crash that killed nine passengers in Lake Killarney- struck our little town extremely hard. I didn't know any of the men personally but it felt as if my father, my brother, my uncle, cousin, my friend, my school mate, and my boy were on that flight. Reading the newspaper reports broke my heart. The student who wept for her father was just...
'Taking business to the next level'
'Taking business to the next level'
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
THE Bahamas Chamber of Commerce is gearing up for "a very busy six months", Tribune Business was told yesterday, as it prepares to play key roles in two Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) financed projects designed to improve the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises, plus establish a mechanism to handicraft producers' creations to mark...
Arawak Homes prepared for court challenge
Arawak Homes prepared for court challenge
By JUAN McCARTNEY
Guardian Senior Reporter
juan@nasguard.com
Arawak Homes says it's prepared for the legal battle attorney Wayne Munroe is threatening on behalf of his client whose home the company demolished last month.
"Arawak Homes Ltd. assures the public... it will vigorously defend any action brought against it as foreshadowed in the newspaper report,"said the company in response toThe Nassa...
Huge 'land fraud' threatens homes
Huge 'land fraud' threatens homes
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
"BLATANT fraud and dishonesty" have left scores of Bahamians without good title to their homes on a 150-acre tract of land near Pinewood Gardens, The Tribune can reveal, the perpetrators going so far as to falsify a Supreme Court judge's order in a desperate bid to cover their tracks.
Two Supreme Court judgments obtained by this...
Insurer's 5m issue is 'oversubscribed'
Insurer's 5m issue is 'oversubscribed'
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
RoyalStar Assurance yesterday confirmed to Tribune Business that its $5 million preference share issue was oversubscribed over a week before the offering was due to close, its managing director yesterday describing this as "a vote of confidence" in the general insurer's track record and future prospects.
Steve Watson told this newspaper that he had recei...
'Far reaching' casino reforms to government
'Far reaching' casino reforms to government
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
The Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) has "resubmitted far-reaching reform" proposals to the Government for the revamp of this nation's gaming laws, its president telling Tribune Business that the country had been unable to translate its proximity to the US into success in this industry.
Speaking as Jamaica becomes the latest Caribbean nation to enter the ...
Fashion Show on target for over 1,000 attendance
Fashion Show on target for over 1,000 attendance
By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
The Bahamian organiser of a fashion show to be held in Nassau next month yesterday told Tribune Business he was confident the event would meet its 1,000-plus attendance target, but said Bahamian designer participation "can be better", with this nation just scratching the surface of the industry's economic potential.
Owen Bethel, Bahamian banker and presi...
Police welcome move to block inmates' cell phone calls
Police have welcomed a move by prison officials to eliminate the ability of inmates to communicate with the outside world by cell phone. Glenn Miller, the assistant commissioner of police with responsibility for crime, said police have seen cases where inmates have used this technology to intimidate witnesses and continue criminal activity.
However, that could change soon. With prison officials...
Floods, landslides in Rio de Janeiro kill scores
Floods, landslides in Rio de Janeiro kill scores
RIO DE JANEIRO - The heaviest rains in Rio de Janeiro's history triggered landslides Tuesday that killed at least 95 people as rising water turned roads into rivers and paralyzed Brazil's second-largest city.
The ground gave way in steep hillside slums, cutting red-brown paths of destruction through shantytowns. Concrete and wooden homes were crushed and hurtled downhill, only to bury other str...
Bahamas Dengue fever case confirmed
Bahamas Dengue fever case confirmed
Minister of Health Dr. Hubert Minnis confirmed yesterday that one reported case of dengue fever was discovered in New Providence two weeks ago.
The last time a case of the virus was reported was in October 2003, when two cases were reported.