The Ministry of Finance will be strengthening its team to ensure that when the Fiscal Responsibility Act (FRA) is ratified, the government will be able to meet its fiscal obligations under the act, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest told Guardian Business
Urgent policy issues have traditionally taken precedence over and absorbed funding from policy that would have earmarked resources for disaster management, Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis told the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB) at a conference on building
Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands confirmed yesterday that there is a new case of H1N1 influenza, otherwise known as swine flu, in The Bahamas. He said there are now three confirmed cases, one of which involves a child. Sands said that officials expect that this flu season
A withdrawal of services will happen in short order as senior physicians have officially walked away from negotiations with the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA), according to Consultant Physicians Staff Association (CPSA) President Dr. Locksley Munroe. “At this moment, unless they come back with something that is more
Former Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman Darron Cash yesterday defended Pineridge MP Frederick McAlpine after he came under criticism by FNM Chairman Carl Culmer for his participation in an anti-government protest. “I don’t think it’s right for them to try to prevent Mr. McAlpine from using his voice
A man who murdered his 74-year-old grandmother by stabbing her 27 times has been jailed for 37 years and 11 months. Jonathan Bethel, 27, killed Vivian Johnson, the woman who raised him from infancy, before going on a joy ride in her car. Acting Justice Andrew Forbes
Exumas and Ragged Island MP Chester Cooper said yesterday that he is baffled that Ragged Island remains without essential government services more than a year after it was devastated by Hurricane Irma. Cooper said the situation is tragic. “There is still no school, still no police station, still no
TIJUANA, Mexico (AP) — U.S. border agents fired tear gas on hundreds of migrants protesting near the border with Mexico on Sunday after some of them attempted to get through the fencing and wire separating the two countries, and American authorities shut down the nation's
HONG KONG (AP) — More than 100 scientists have signed a petition calling for greater oversight on gene editing experiments after a researcher in China claimed he altered the DNA of twin girls born earlier this month. He Jiankui of Southern University of Science and Technology
I have had the opportunity to work with so many professionals who believe the phrase in the title, and they are right. Our work should speak for itself, and in a utopia it would; but in the real world only you can speak for you. Yes,
