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Questions over Heineken sale
May 20, 2010
Questions over Heineken sale
Minority shareholders in Associated Bahamian Distillers and Brewers (ABDAB) were yesterday questioning whether they would benefit from Heineken's purchase of the company's stakes in Commonwealth Brewery and Burns House, telling Tribune Business they had received zero information on the deal - an assertion seemingly at odds with representations to the Securities Commission.
Lawyers say church sent accused monk to The Bahamas
May 28, 2010
Lawyers say church sent accused monk to The Bahamas
St. John?s Abbey publications and newspaper articles from the 1990s on
June 07, 2010
2010/2011 Budget Debate Contribution - MP Branville McCartney
Mr. Speaker, I am thankful to the fine people ofBamboo Town for the confidence that they have shown in me by electing me to this place.
Mr. Speaker, it is during times like these thatone is even more humbled to be among the few Bahamians to occupy this honourable place because one need not go far to hear Bahamians vocalize their expectation that somehow we in this place can and will find a way ...
New Director of Public Works Appointed
June 18, 2010
New Director of Public Works Appointed
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has announced the appointment of John Canton as Director of Public Works.
Caribbean Under Fire for Pro-Whaling Stance
June 21, 2010
Caribbean Under Fire for Pro-Whaling Stance
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - The votes of six Caribbean countries could help decide whether or not the International Whaling Commission (IWC) will ease the 1986 global ban on commercial whaling and allow hunting in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary around Antarctica.
Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada, all members of the Organ...
40% group fall problem for hotels
June 21, 2010
40% group fall problem for hotels
The "big bugaboo" for the Bahamian hotel industry's turnaround is the depressed group market, a leading Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) executive has said, that category - which accounts for 25-30 per cent of business at many resorts - having dropped by around 40 per cent during 2009.
Frank Comito, the BHA's executive vice-president, told Tribune Business that while the hotel industry had seen ...
MPs' use of $8.2m in public funds is revealed
July 01, 2010
MPs' use of $8.2m in public funds is revealed
Today, for the first time, The Tribune can reveal how MPs chose to use $8.2 million in public funds within their constituencies.
This article, based on official Treasury records from the Ministry of Finance, follows several other articles in January of this year based on a verbal accounting of these expenditures from 16 MPs.
Teens tackle boredom via 'Odd Jobs'
July 01, 2010
Teens tackle boredom via 'Odd Jobs'
Summer is here, and for many young people summer vacation means fun. But fun can turn to boredom if you happen to be young, jobless, and short on cash. That's where the Odd Job Squad (OJS) comes in - an advertising service for young people offering odd jobs services in their communities.
While it cannot offer the security of a regular summer job, the OJ Exchange helps young people earn money, g...
Bahamas fashion show wants 1,000+ attendees
July 20, 2010
Bahamas fashion show wants 1,000+ attendees
A Bahamas-based and organized fashion show is hoping to "go to the next level" by breaching the 1,000 attendee mark at its three-day Nassau showing this November, due largely to a changed format focusing on Haiti's re-birth plus a designer competition that will be broadcast on TV in this nation's key US tourist market.
Owen Bethel, Bahamian banker and president of Modes Iles, organizer of the I...
Why your next power bill will be higher
July 22, 2010
Why your next power bill will be higher
Bahamas consumers already facing the higher electricity bills of summer can expect a higher bill in August as the corporation will start enforcing an increase in the base tariff rate paid by all Bahamas this month.
The government has made it known for some time that it was considering implementing an increase in the base tariff rate paid for electricity, reversing a 2003 rate reduction under th...
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