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2009 Visionary Business Leaders & Entrepreneurs Conference
Seasoned business leaders and financial experts including The Hon. Zhivargo Laing, Minister of State for Finance; Mr. Jerome Gomez, Fund Administrator of The Bahamas Entrepreneurial Venture Fund and a principal in the chartered accounting firm Baker Tilly Gomez; Mr. Dionisio D?Aguilar, Immediate Past President of The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and President of Super Wash Laundromat and Chairman o...
Furniture Plus announces first group of winners in their $40,000 Shop 2 Hop Bahamas promotion
Furniture Plus announces first group of winners in their $40,000 Shop 2 Hop Bahamas promotion
It can be very rewarding to shop here at home in the Bahamas, and Furniture Plus is proving it each month during their 20th anniversary Shop 2 Hop promotion.
Haitian Ambassador: ?More Haitians Will Continue to Come?
At a time when immigration authorities grapple to put a clamp on the heavy influx of illegal immigrants entering the country, the sad reality is that many Haitian nationals of that impoverished island will continue to risk their lives on the open seas in search of a better standard of living in the Bahamas, according to Haitian Ambassador to the Bahamas Louis Harold Joseph.
Dionisio D'Aguilar introduced as CTO's New Chairman
Dionisio D'Aguilar introduced as CTO's New Chairman
On June 8, at Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Board of Directors Meeting in New York, Executive Coordinator, Charlene Drakes pinned and officially introduced the new Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Chairman, Hon. Dionisio James D?Aguilar...
Historic National Aviation Strategic Plan Unveiled at Industry Meeting
Key leaders from across the Bahamas aviation industry gathered in their quarterly symposium on Wednesday, 28 June 2023, at Baha Mar Convention Centre to participate in the unveiling of the first ever Bahamas National Aviation Strategic Plan (NASP).
Daphne Betsy Ann Demeritte
Daphne Betsy Ann Demeritte
Funeral service for Daphne Betsy Ann Demeritte, 64 yrs., a resident of #23 Rupert Dean Lane, will be held at New Destiny Baptist Cathedral, Gladstone Road, on Saturday, March 4, 2023 at 11:00 a.m. Officiating will be Apostle Delton D. Fernander, assisted by other Ministers. Interment follows in Western Cemetery, Nassau Street.
200 Foreign Nationals Repatriated From New Providence
This week the Immigration Department effectively executed the repatriation of three (3) groups of illegal migrants from the Lynden Pindling Int’l Airport, New Providence back to their homelands.
The music festival sweet 16
The music festival sweet 16
There is something sweet about 16! And this year's edition of the acclaimed Jazz in the Gardens (JITG) music festival features some of the biggest names in R&B, neo-soul, and reggae - Jill Scott, Charlie Wilson, Ari Lennox, Sean Paul, Jodeci, Keyshia Cole, El DeBarge, Erykah Badu, Mike Phillips and a soulful Sunday with Chandler Moore, Kierra Sheard, and Pastor Mike Jr.
'Running In Love' event set for Saturday
'Running In Love' event set for Saturday
The 2023 Running In Love Fun Run/WalkPush/Roll event, supported by the Cancer Treatment Centers of America and powered by Four Seasons Race Management, is set for this Saturday at 6 a.m., starting and ending at Arawak Cay.
Bodies of helicopter crash victims brought to Nassau
Bodies of helicopter crash victims brought to Nassau
A Bahamasair jet left Grand Bahama International Airport on Friday afternoon with the bodies of billionaire Chris Cline, his 22-year-old daughter, Kameron, and five other people who were killed in a helicopter crash off Abaco...
Pintard: My escape from gang culture
Pintard: My escape from gang culture
FNM leader Michael Pintard yesterday told youngsters he had been in a neighbourhood gang as a youth, smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol, before turning his life around - and urged them to avoid getting into trouble.
Cooper concedes action to have negative impact
Cooper concedes action to have negative impact
DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper says it is likely Monday's industrial action by airport employees will have a "significant" impact on the country's economy due to the number of tourists who missed their flights.
73 Cuban migrants repatriated
Splintered labor
Splintered labor
Cloudy skies and intermittent rain on Friday did not disrupt the return of the Sir Randol Fawkes Labour Day Parade after the two-year hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. It was a splintered labor movement that marched, however.
AIRPORT TO TEST EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN FULL-SCALE AIRCRAFT CRASH DRILL ON TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022
AIRPORT TO TEST EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN FULL-SCALE AIRCRAFT CRASH DRILL ON TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2022
On Tuesday, May 31, 2022, stakeholders at Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) will conduct a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise that was previously scheduled for May 18, 2022, will have a drill scenario that will begin at 10:30a.m. Tuesday, with a call to NAD’s Operations Center from Air Traffic Services concerning an aircraft inbound to LPIA, from Rock Sound, Eleuthera with 60...
Thompson slams govt 'fiscal irresponsibility'
Thompson slams govt 'fiscal irresponsibility'
A FORMER Cabinet minister yesterday accused the Government of "the height of fiscal irresponsibility" with the Budget's projected deficit forecast to overshoot by some $149m targets set just four months ago.
Longstanding Marathon Bahamas Supporters Meet with Sunshine Insurance Officials
Bahamas Waste Managing Director, Francisco de Cardenas poses in front of the Big Pink Truck with Sunshine Insurance VP of Development...
Visionary Conference Termed A Smashing Success
Visionary Conference Termed A Smashing Success
Business owners, entrepreneurs and managers attending this year?s 2010 Visionary Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs Awards Conference turned out in large numbers on Monday at The British Colonial Hilton to hear dynamic presentations by some of the country?s leading businesspersons as well as financial experts. And when it was all over participants left motivated to take their businesses to the nex...
Emergency exercise for airport
Emergency exercise for airport
ON Wednesday at Lynden Pindling International Airport stakeholders will conduct a full-scale emergency exercise.
AIRPORT TO TEST EMERGENCY RESPONSE IN FULL-SCALE AIRCRAFT CRASH DRILL ON May 18
On Wednesday May 18, 2022, stakeholders at Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) will conduct a full-scale emergency exercise. The drill scenario will begin at 10:30a.m. with a call to NAD’s Operations Center from Air Traffic Services concerning an aircraft inbound to LPIA, from Rock Sound, Eleuthera with 60 persons including crew onboard. The aircraft will be reported as having engine tr...
BTC welcomes Government appointed Directors
BTC welcomes Government appointed Directors
BTC officially welcomed its newly appointed government directors who will serve on the company’s Board of Directors. Valentine Grimes has been appointed Deputy Chairman. Daphne Simmons, Peter Cartwright and Parkco Deal have been appointed to serve as Directors on the nine-member board.
Davis: We're headed away from the fiscal cliff
Davis: We're headed away from the fiscal cliff
DESPITE nearly $1bn in liabilities and unfunded obligations left behind by the previous Minnis administration, Prime Minister Philip "Brave" Davis said the government is headed in the right direction away from a "fiscal cliff".
KEVIN EVANS FLIES TO NEW YORK FASHION WEEK WITH BTVI BACKING
The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) recently celebrated its New York City-bound alumnus Kevin Evans in grand style. In the lead up to his participation in New York Fashion Week (NYFW), the institute presented Evans with a replica of the first ever BTVI Fashion digital badge and a $2,000 donation during a reception held in his honour.
Inagua Man considers himself a ‘walking miracle,’ thanks to Cleveland Clinic Florida, a hospital that saved his life once and his quality of life later
Ask Jeffrey Arnett who he is and the first thing he says is athlete. From martial arts as a child to basketball as a teen, to running and brisk walking when he could no longer run, the incredibly fit Arnett nearly had to pack it all in with debilitating deterioration until surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida gave him his life back. At age 57, the man who only a few years ago could not even sit or ...
Police officer accused of beating wife testifies
Police officer accused of beating wife testifies
A policeman testified that his wife's alleged lover placed him in a cell after a domestic dispute over her reported affair. Prosecutors say Sergeant Omar Nottage, 51, punched and choked the woman at her father's house in Matthew Town, Inagua, on April 14, 2021. The encounter reportedly left Mrs. Nottage with bruises on the neck ...
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New squash players bring the heat at Four Walls’ first-ever Beginner’s Tournament
Twenty-two year old college student Shawn Knowles won the inaugural Beginner’s Squash Tournament Four Walls Squash & Social Club on Sunday, during a buzzing day of competition and camaraderie at the newly renovated Village Road facility. Four Walls has been reviving the indoor racket sport as a wellness alternative for adults who enjoy exercising outside of the gym. Twelve players, with an avera...
Nearly 1/3 of all Lyford Cay Foundations 2021 scholarships go to technical training
The desire to possess job-ready technical skills may have hit a new high with nearly one third of this year’s Lyford Cay Foundation scholarship winners opting to earn a technical degree. The Foundations awarded 26 new scholarships this term to students pursuing a diverse range of studies in Canada and the United States. This year, eight recipients are pursuing technical degrees with more than ha...
Police follow ?significant leads? into government offices break-ins
POLICE say they are following ?significant leads? into the series of break-ins at government offices over the past few weeks.
So far, the Immigration Department on Hawkins Hill, the Passport Office on Thompson Boulevard, a Supreme Court office and a Magistrate?s Court have all been raided by night-time intruders.
?We are still asking members of the public to share any information with respec...
PM, Tourism Officials, Businesses Celebrate Royal Caribbean’s Historic Homeporting, 1st Cruise Sailing from Port of Nassau
With bands playing, national anthems ringing out and the pulsations of Junkanoo, Bahamian leaders, businesses and stakeholders celebrated a long-awaited historic milestone June 12 as more than 1,000 passengers boarded Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas ready to set sail from its embarkation port of Nassau for the first time in the cruise line’s history and a first for The Bahamas.
$636,000 budget for Royal visit
$636,000 budget for Royal visit
THE government earmarked $636,194 to honour all expenses associated with their Royal Highnesses' visit to The Bahamas in March.
However, as of Monday, May 16, approximately 96 percent or $625,186 of the money has been paid out.