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World Consumer Rights Day Exhibition Opens in Pompey Square
A World Consumer Rights Day Exhibition was officially launched Monday, 13th March, at Pompey Square, downtown. World Consumer Rights Day, Wednesday, March 15, 2023 carries the theme, “Empowering consumers through clean energy transitions."
LCIS Holds 60th Anniversary Founders' Day Assembly
LCIS Holds 60th Anniversary Founders' Day Assembly
On Friday 27 January, Lyford Cay International School celebrated 60 years as an educational institution with a Founders’ Day assembly at the school’s Upper School campus off Western Road.
Significant Progress Made by Bahamas In Addressing Deficiencies in the Financial Services Sector
Significant Progress Made by Bahamas In Addressing Deficiencies in the Financial Services Sector
The Bahamas has made progressive strives in meeting compliancy targets in the financial services sector. This, according to Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, the Hon. L. Ryan Pinder, places the country in a top ranking position in the industry despite its small size and diversity of external threats.
IDB Partners with UB on Gerace Research Institute Digitization Project
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is helping to fund a digitization project that aims to centralize data collected over the last 50 years from the rich and diverse ecosystem that surrounds the Gerace Research Institute (GRI) in San Salvador. GRI is part of the University of The Bahamas (UB) system...
Simplified Lending teams up with Access Accelerator to provide Bahamian entrepreneurs with new funding opportunities
Simplified Lending teams up with Access Accelerator to provide Bahamian entrepreneurs with new funding opportunities
From children’s books to artisan ice cream to designer handbags, wine and skin care products, Access Accelerator’s Global Business Pitch competition, held last week, brought together a diverse group of Bahamian entrepreneurs full of fresh ideas and the hope of winning a $7,500 prize donated by Simplified Lending.
Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham on the National Prescription Drug Plan (audio)
Among commitments contained in the Free National Movement?s Manifesto ?07 was a commitment to act so as to shape our society to permit those with the greatest need to receive the greatest assistance.
'Pintard must lead'
'Pintard must lead'
The decision by Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Michael Pintard not to ask Long Island MP Adrian Gibson to resign his seat in Parliament so that he can focus fully on his legal troubles and divert unneeded distraction away from the party reflects poorly on Pintard's leadership, former Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner told National Review. ...
Climate Resilient Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic are Critical for Small Island Developing States
Climate Resilient Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic are Critical for Small Island Developing States
“These crises underscore the extreme vulnerability of SIDS and the need for an international response that limits global average warming in line with the Paris Agreement with transformational change that has been supported by science” – Dr. Adelle Thomas...
Potential BTC buyer: Keep free local calls
Potential BTC buyer: Keep free local calls
The likely new majority owner of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has urged industry regulators not to force the company "to further adjust downwards its tariffs", while also advocating that it continue to provide free local (intra-island) calls despite charging rival operators an interconnection fee.
Cable & Wireless, which trades as LIME, in its response to the Utilities Regulatio...
Running Sideways released this week: Inspiring story of Pauline Davis, the Bahamian double gold medalist who defied the odds and won world acclaim
If Bahamians are looking for heroes, they don’t have to look very far.
Just over-the-hill, as they call it here, to a densely populated community known as Bain Town where the strong survived and all the churches combined could hardly hold the confessions and prayers of their congregants, and where in that hardscrabble hood, to a girl with grit.