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Grand Bahama Power Company Hurricane Update Safety Message
Freeport, Grand Bahama - Grand Bahama Power Company wishes to advise our customers that
we are in a state of readiness as we continue to monitor the storm approaching
Grand Bahama.
Grand Bahama Power
Company wishes to inform that we will
not
be performing a planned shutdown of our systems. We will continue to provide
power to our customers as long as wind speeds and safe operations allow. Howeve...
Bahamas Speed Week Signs 3-Year Contract with Local Company for Infrastructure
A local company is 'sitting pretty' after Bahamas Speed Week organizers signed a three-year contract for thousands of bleacher seats.
The company -- C3 Seating -- will also provide massive tent structures for the VIP Paddock Club pavilion and covering, keeping millions of dollars worth of exotic and classic race cars participating in Bahamas Speed Week November 26-December 2 safe from the elem...
Won The Lottery Think Twice
Won The Lottery Think Twice
The Internet makes it easier to accomplish many things - banking, research, travel and shopping are all at our virtual fingertips.
Minister Ryan Pinder Personally Striping At Thelma Gibson Primary School
Young children will get to see a Minister?s private donation in action when he keeps a company employed and improves their school.
Member of Parliament and Minister for Financial Services, The Hon. Ryan Pinder, will join children at Thelma Gibson Primary School to see Bahamas Striping finish the car park striping that he gave to the school.
Caribbean governments killing the hotel sector 'golden goose'
Each of the Caribbean hotel investment conferences held in April and May this year included sessions to encourage closer cooperation between the public and private sector but, immediately prior to the Caribbean Tourism Summit in mid-June, the governments of Jamaica and of Antigua and Barbuda announced significant new airport arrival taxes, with a new hotel occupancy tax also added in Jamaica. The...
Miller: BEC targets 10 dip in power bill
Miller: BEC targets 10 dip in power bill
Newly appointed Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) Chairman Leslie Miller is anticipating a tangible decrease on consumer's electricity bills by the end of the year.
Miller confirmed to Guardian Business that BEC's consumers no longer pay a fuel surcharge and some decreases in electricity prices are expected between now and the end of the year.
"Our goal is a minimum of a five percent decreas...
What is URCA's role in BTC's system upgrades
What is URCA's role in BTC's system upgrades
Dear Editor,
The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) came into existence on September 1, 2009. URCA replaced the Public Utilities Commission and the Television Regulatory Authority. URCA is supposed to act as an independent body and its main purpose is to regulate the telecommunications industry.
On its website, when clicking on the consumer section, there are five main points...
Airport Gateway Sparks Island-wide Blackout
Airport Gateway Sparks Island-wide Blackout
The Bahamas Electricity Corporation is distancing itself from the first island-wide blackout on New Providence in almost three years. Yesterday morning, the lights went out at every home in the capital. According to BEC, the outage was "the fault of a private party working on the gateway project".
Bahamas and US join in fight against WMD
Bahamas and US join in fight against WMD
The Bahamas and United States Governments signed a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Agreement, aimed at prohibiting the creation and trafficking of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) across their respective borders.
Cooper defends action on GBIA
Cooper defends action on GBIA
Revealing that modular offices for displaced Grand Bahama International Airport (GBIA) workers have arrived in the country and will be installed in short order, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments and Aviation Chester Cooper has defended the Davis administration's efforts to improve the facility.