Bahamas

DETERMINED BAHAMAS STUDENTS GIVEN FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM REGIONAL BANK CIBC FIRSTCARIBBEAN

September 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Bridgetown, September 30, 2019 — Despite many of them losing their homes and all their possessions, about twenty final year students from the hurricane-ravaged Abacos [...]

CIBC DONATES US$150,000 TO HURRICANE DORIAN RELIEF EFFORTS

September 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Bridgetown, Toronto, September 15, 2019 – CIBC is donating US$150,000 to support humanitarian relief in areas impacted by Hurricane Dorian with a focus on the Northern [...]

Bahamas Industrial Tribunal goes digital with new e-filing system

August 15, 2019 // 0 Comments

Reproduced Courtesy Loop, TT Thursday, August 15, 2019 — For the first time, litigants, advocates and legal representatives accessing the Bahamas Industrial Tribunal will [...]

28 Haitians killed when migrant boat sinks near Bahamas

February 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

By KARMA ALLEN National police officers raise a Haitian national flag during a memorial service honoring the victims of the 2010 earthquake, at Titanyen, a mass burial [...]

Two men charged in Bahamas boat explosion tragedy

November 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

November 1, 2018 1 Clayton Smith (left) and Roderick Watson By Krystel Brown (Nassau Guardian) NASSAU, Bahamas — Exactly four months after a boat exploded in [...]

BAHAMAS AMONG 18 MEMBER STATES ELECTED BY UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO ITS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL

October 16, 2018 // 0 Comments

UNITED NATIONS, New York – The Bahamas was among the 18 Member States elected by the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, October 12, 2018 to its Human Rights [...]

St.Kitts-Nevis and Bahamas Officially removed from EU list of non-cooperative jurisdictions

May 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

On 25 May 2018, the Council removed the Bahamas and Saint Kitts and Nevis from the EU’s list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions. The [...]

Bahamian pioneer in disease elimination is named a PAHO Health Hero of the Americas

May 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

Nassau, May 2, 2018 (PAHO / WHO) — Dr. Merceline Dahl-Regis, a Bahamian public health pioneer known for her work in advancing and verifying regional disease [...]

Bahamas recommended for removal from EU tax haven blacklist

April 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

April 17, 2018 NASSAU, Bahamas — The European Union Code of Conduct Group has officially recommended The Bahamas’ removal from the list of [...]

Canada warns against Bahamas crime

January 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

January 23, 2018 By Travis Cartwright-Carroll NASSAU, Bahamas — The Canadian government has warned its citizens to exercise a high degree of caution [...]