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Claims that unemployment payments not sent to bank accounts
BAHAMIANS outside the National Insurance Board on Friday complained about problems with the service's online portal. They said their unemployment payments had not been sent to their bank accounts.
30,000 apply for unemployment assistance
30,000 apply for unemployment assistance
Brensil Rolle.As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, nearly 30,000 people have applied for unemployment assistance, Minister of Public Service and National Insurance Brensil Rolle said yesterday. Many business operators in the country have been forced to lay off thousands of employees as social distancing orders, a [...]
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More than 9,000 to receive unemployment benefit this week
More than 9,000 unemployment benefit claims valued at $4.5 million will be paid out this week through special arrangements the National Insurance Board (NIB) has made with companies, Minister of National Insurance and Public Service Brensil Rolle said...
50 unemployment on Grand Bahama
50 unemployment on Grand Bahama
Multiple homes and businesses were destroyed in Grand Bahama during the passage of Hurricane Dorian. This photo shows the destruction at Grand Bahama International Airport. FILENearly 50 percent of people on Grand Bahama are unemployed after Hurricane Dorian, a Department of Social Services assessment on Grand Bahama revealed. In May, the island's unemployment rate was 10.9 percent, according to d...
Government renews 52-week National Job Creation and Skills Enhancement Programme
Hundreds of participants of the Government’s National Job Creation and Skills Enhancement Programme have been re-engaged for the second year of the employment initiative, beginning Monday 8 July, said Minister of Public Service and National Insurance, the Hon. Brensil Rolle...
BNSI: Quarterly economic growth trend in 2023 highlighted by near 10 percent first quarter increase
BNSI: Quarterly economic growth trend in 2023 highlighted by near 10 percent first quarter increase
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Bahamian economy registered year-over-year increases in its quarterly economic growth in all but one quarter in 2023, marked by a nearly 10 percent first-quarter increase. The Bahamas National Statistical Institute, in its advanced estimates for the quarterly gross domestic product in 2023, noted that quarterly trends indicated that the Bahamian economy [...]
National Youth Month 2019 Launched
National Youth Month 2019 Launched
A scavenger hunt, march and rally, Jesus in the Park event, medal presentation ceremony and youth band encounter are among the events planned to observe National Youth Month 2019 in The Bahamas...
Gibson 39endangering my life and my family39s39
Gibson 39endangering my life and my family39s39
BAHAMAS Utilities Services and Allied Workers Union President Dwayne Woods has accused Adrian Gibson of endangering his life after the Water and Sewerage executive chairman made public a confidential term of the union chief's employment.
Statement by Labour Minister on Layoffs in Grand Bahama
The Government of the Bahamas has been apprised of the seventy-one employees who were recently terminated from Hutchinson Ports Bahamas in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
To assist these individuals, various government agencies, inclusive of the Department of Labour, the Department of Social Services and the National Insurance Board will offer similar services as has been done in the past with other disp...
Minister Dames Congratulates Department of Correctional Services Graduates of BTVI Programme
Minister Dames Congratulates Department of Correctional Services Graduates of BTVI Programme
Minister of National Security the Hon. Marvin Dames lauded the 100 Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDOCS) graduates, on December 6, 2018, and congratulated them on successfully completing...