• Unemployment jumps to 15.9%

  The unemployment rate has jumped from 13.7 to 15.9 percent, the highest in more than a decade, according to the Department of Statistics’ latest lab.....

• Investment talks high on agenda of visiting Haitian president

  Haitian President Michel Martelly arrived in the country last night, hours ahead of a series of meetings with government officials and business person.....

• Laing explains factors for high unemployment

  Minister of State for Finance Zhivargo Laing said yesterday the decision to conduct the labor force survey in the fall, before the start of the winter.....

• Gov’t reverses Mayaguana land deal

  Six years after the Christie administration signed an agreement with an American development company that provided for the transfer of nearly 10,000 a.....

• Man stabbed to death

  A 37-year-old man was stabbed to death on Marshall Road yesterday after he was reportedly involved in an altercation with another man, police said. A.....

• DNA to vote for a deputy leader

  Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney said his party will elect a deputy leader and announce the person next week Wednesday at.....

• Ruling on disbarred lawyer’s request to withdraw guilty plea postponed

  Disbarred attorney Ralph Jan Ward will have to wait another week before he learns whether a judge will allow him to withdraw his guilty plea to eight .....

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• Sculling is back in The Bahamas!
  
• Billfish tourney to present Choate with achievement award
  

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The role of unions in a changing economy pt. 2

What are some of the skills that workers need in the ‘new’ workplace? We don’t have readily available statistics on just how many of our Bahamian adults are structurally, functionally or marginally illiterate.  However, the national exami.....

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