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New hacks expose Registrar General

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net

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HE government is “betwixt and between” over the Registrar General’s Department’s cyber security woes after being forced to again shut down its online database following fresh hacking attempts.

Carl Bethel QC, the attorney general, told Tribune Business that the agency’s online portal was closed “last week” after the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) detected fresh “incursions” that were traced back to Internet Protocol (IP) addresses in two eastern European countries.

While Mr Bethel declined to name the states involved, this newspaper understands from separate sources that the latest efforts to penetrate the Registrar General’s Department originated from Russia and Bulgaria - both of which

• Online database ‘completely shut down’ • Police detect ‘probes’ from Russia, Bulgaria • AG blasts ‘inconceivable’ security woes

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are known as established sources of hacking and cyber crime.

He blamed the latest series of hacks on the former Christie administration’s failure to properly implement the recommended security measures when the Registrar General’s Department was hacked for the first

time, slamming the situation as “inconceivable”.

However, these claims were yesterday refuted by his predecessor as attorney general, Allyson MaynardGibson. She told Tribune Business that “every technological upgrade” required under her watch was implemented, and that the Minnis administration

Union leader to continue battle on bankruptcy

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net

A TRADE union leader yesterday said “all options are on the table” after the Court of Appeal rejected his bid and those by three fellow ex-pension fund trustees to overturn bankruptcy orders made against them.

Bernard Evans, pictured, the National Congress of Trade Unions of The Bahamas (NCTUB) president, told Tribune Business that “disappointment is an understatement” after the

three appeal court judges declined to intervene in a dispute sparked by an “unauthorised” $1.35m loan.

He pledged that himself, Colin Wright, Ray Nairn and Shawn Bowe, all former fellow trustees of the Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) Pension Plan and Trust Fund, would “do whatever we can” via legal means to get the personal bankruptcy orders overturned.

Pointing out that there were no allegations of

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No third mobile firm before 2022

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net

THE government will make no decision on whether to licence a third mobile operator until 2022 at the earliest, its newly-released electronic communications sector policy has revealed.

The 2020-2023 policy calls on the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), as sector supervisor, to provide a “feasibility and market analysis”

to support its recommendations on whether there is sufficient room for a third operator by year-end 2021.

The policy acknowledges that the government will be some two to three years late in deciding whether to introduce more competition into the mobile market, as this decision should have been taken by October 2019 - some three years after Aliv ended the Bahamas Telecommunications

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needs to start taking responsibility given that it was elected to office more than three years ago.

The latest shut down, which comes just months after the department’s database was hacked in a separate January incident, has caused further frustration for the ease and efficiency of conducting business in The Bahamas even though Mr Bethel said it will likely re-open by week’s end once “several layers” of new cyber security defences have been deployed.

The Registrar General’s Department is the hub around which much of corporate Bahamas and, in particular, the financial services industry functions. It

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‘Serious blow’ as cruise lines delay to September 15

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Downtown Nassau Partnership’s (DNP) co-chair yesterday said the cruise lines’ decision not to resume sailing until September 15 is “a very serious blow” that may mean many small businesses “will not survive”.

Charles Klonaris said cruise tourism-reliant businesses now face having to hold on for an additional two to three months with minimal to zero income after the industry’s global trade body, Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), announced on Friday that sailings from US ports have been postponed until midSeptember at earliest.

Pointing that many Bahamian firms lack “the deep pockets” required to ride out such an extended closure, Mr Klonaris said The Bahamas was likely “to see very little tourist traffic” until the end of 2020 across both the cruise and stopover (hotel-based) segments.

He predicted that a true tourism recovery may only take root over the Christmas/New Year period, and suggested landlords as well as commercial tenants in the downtown Nassau and Bay Street areas will come under increasing financial pressure over the second half of 2020 due to the slow rebound from the COVID19 pandemic.

Mr Klonaris said many firms had been hoping to re-open on July 1, which is when The Bahamas will re-open its borders to international travel, but retailers, tour operators, excursion providers, taxi drivers, restaurants, hair braiders, straw vendors and others reliant on the cruise industry for their livelihoods had now seen these hopes dashed for the time being.

“I hope that’s realistic,” he added of the cruise industry’s revised September 15 date. “Being locked down for an additional three months, that’s serious.

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BTC: URCA ‘BROKE LAW’ ON INTERNET REGULATIONS

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is accusing regulators of breaching the industry’s governing law in proposing new regulations to prevent “anti-competitive behaviour” in the broadband internet market.

The former state-owned monopoly is alleging that the Utilities Regulation and Competition and Authority’s (URCA) “unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory” consultation process did not permit itself and its main rival, BISX-listed Cable Bahamas, to respond to allegations of excessive pricing, margin squeezes and supply refusal made against them by small, niche internet service providers (ISPs).

Slamming the “onesided” process, BTC argued that URCA’s consultation process violates sections

Union leader to continue battle on bankruptcy FROM PAGE ONE corruption, and no claims the four had benefited personally from the money advanced by the pension fund, Mr Evans

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four and five of the Communications Act which mandates that the regulator can only implement new regulations in a way that is “fair, transparent and nondiscriminatory”. As a result, it is claiming that the regulator has acted illegally and breached the law underpinning all industry activity.

BTC hit out after URCA unveiled its plans to impose additional regulations upon both itself and Cable Bahamas in the wholesale broadband internet market, which is where smaller Bahamas-based ISPs buy capacity or bandwidth on the two dominant players’ networks so that they can deliver services to their clients.

Based upon the complaints from niche players such as Bahamas WiMax, Wicom Bahamas and Coakster, URCA aims to force both BTC and Cable Bahamas to make a specific wholesale dedicated internet access (DIA) product available to these niche players at prices and commercial terms that are pre-approved by the regulator.

Pushing back, BTC argued that itself and Cable Bahamas had been “denied natural justice” by the nature of URCA’s consultation process. Arguing that there was no evidence of “market

failure” under the existing wholesale broadband internet regulatory framework, BTC said itself and its BISXlisted rival had neither been presented with the niche ISP’s specific complaints nor given an opportunity to present their case.

Cable Bahamas, in its own response, branded URCA’s consultation process and findings as “exceptional and therefore well outside the international mainstream”.

Describing the new regulatory measures as “too onerous and heavy handed”, the BISX-listed communications provider warned darkly that URCA’s plans would place its future and present network investment plans “at risk”.

“The impact of such extravagant measures is untested, and URCA itself has not even bothered to carry out an impact analysis.

Had it done so, it would have realised that its proposal comes at a potentially high cost to the Bahamian economy and, more specifically, Cable Bahamas’ investment plans,” Cable Bahamas warned.

It added that URCA had failed to properly segment the wholesale broadband Internet market into two.

The dominant sector player said there were two types of

DIAs - input DIAs for the delivery of services by other ISPs, and “simple resale DIA” which was sold on to clients.

Cable Bahamas argued that treating resale DIA in the manner proposed

by URCA is “internationally unheard of” and poses a “substantial risk factor” for its investment strategy.

“Regulating resale DIA in the proposed manner is entirely unjustifiable, and a strong push back from Cable Bahamas should be expected. It would also put Cable Bahamas’ current and future investment plans at risk,” the company reiterated.

As for BTC, it branded the allegations made by the smaller ISPs as “vague in nature and, as they stand, are untested and unsubstantiated”. It argued that they should be investigated through URCA’s formal complaints mechanism rather than used as the basis to impose new regulatory measures that will come with additional costs.

“BTC considers that URCA’s reliance on unsubstantiated and untested other licensed operator (OLO) claims and allegations, discussed in private meetings and communications, as the basis for

introducing the proposed DIA obligation is unfair, inappropriate, discriminatory and denies BTC and Cable Bahamas an opportunity to be heard and, in this case, the fundamental right to know what the details of the accusations against them are,” BTC said.

Arguing that the process “makes a mockery” of established consultation principles, BTC rejected claims of excessive pricing and said no evidence to support such allegations had been presented. It said some of the material presented had been turned down by URCA itself as “unusable and unreliable” while branding other assertions as “vague”.

One of the niche ISPs, Coakster, had alleged that BTC failed to respond to its application to obtain wholesale DIA services in a timely manner, leaving it unable to launch services “and creating uncertainty for its business planning”.

Arguing that URCA had “made a leap in its processes”, BTC added: “Without having ventilated the complaint in question whatsoever, URCA proceeded directly to issuing a one-sided preliminary determination aimed at remedying the matter.

BTC sees this as ultra vires URCA’s powers, and that the process is unfair and discriminatory against BTC and Cable Bahamas.

“At this stage, Coakster’s allegations are unsubstantiated and, as such, should not be used as supporting rationale for the proposed DIA obligation. That said, BTC believes it is familiar with the DIA service and tower sharing requests to which Coakster’s complaint relates...

“In brief, at this stage, BTC would say that at all material times it fully cooperated with Coakster to meet its requests for DIA service and tower access. Any delays in timing were not BTC’s fault, but rather due to Coakster and the impact of Hurricane Dorian.

“Coakster’s claims that BTC failed to respond to its service request in a timely manner are false. In fact, it was Coakster who failed to respond to BTC’s service proposals and, as understood by BTC, one of the reasons for Coakster’s delay was that it was attempting to play off BTC and Cable Bahamas offers to get the lowest price possible.”

rejected assertions that he and the other three trustees had breached their fiduciary duties to pensioners by failing to carry out proper due diligence on the borrower.

The former BCPOU president said they hired attorneys to investigate Kendal Williams Construction Company, the recipient of the $1.35m in two tranches, who reported back that the contractor

was “a safe investment”. He added that pensioners’ savings were never in danger “before or after” the funds were advanced, arguing that their principal was “always secure”.

Tribune Business’ research reveals that Kendal Williams Construction Company was among the first 13 delinquent Bank of The Bahamas borrowers to be transferred to Bahamas Resolve, the special purpose vehicle (SPV) created in October 2014, as part of the initial $100m bail-out of the BISX-listed bank.

Documents obtained by this newspaper back in 2015 revealed that Bank of The Bahamas extended at least $2.28m worth of credit to Kendal Williams Construction Company, secured on a variety of real estate assets in Freeport’s Lucaya Ridge and Bahamian Marina

subdivisions, plus a 13.56-acre tract at Polaris Drive. The collateral also included multiple lots in the Britannia Estates Subdivision.

Mr Evans said this showed he and his fellow BCPOU pension fund trustees were not the only ones taken in by this borrower. “We just caught in a web,” he told Tribune Business. “Pension funds always try to make investments, and this was one of the opportunities that we had.

“We hired lawyers to do due diligence, and they came back and told us it was a safe investment. One of the principals we were always mindful of was that the pensioners’ principal savings were secure prior to and after their investment. Any investment never endangered the savings of our pensioners. Their principal savings were always secured.”

However, that was not the way the trustees who succeeded Mr Evans and the other three saw it. Appeal justice Stella Crane-Scott, in a June 18 verdict, said the quartet were sued on April 27, 2012, “for the recovery of the amount of two unauthorised loans made to the Kendal Williams Construction Company totalling $1.35m”.

The new trustees alleged that Mr Evans and their other predecessors “negligently disbursed” the funds “in breach of the Trust Fund’s rules and in breach of the appellants’ fiduciary and other duties owed to the Trust Fund”.

Justice Indra Charles approved the bankruptcy order against Mr Wright, but he then filed an action seeking to prevent news of his bankruptcy being published in the Gazette. He also sought a stay of the

bankruptcy proceedings and determination of his bid to strike-out the initial judgment, but this was rejected by Justice Charles.

Mr Wright then appealed her ruling to the Court of Appeal in May 2018, just weeks before Justice Charles handed down bankruptcy orders against Mr Evans and the other two former trustees.

All four, represented by Maurice Glinton QC, appealed in a bid to overturn these orders and Justice Charles failure to recuse herself.

However, Appeal justice Scott-Crane and her fellow judges - in a unanimous verdict - said the four had allowed the initial $1.35m judgment to remain in effect for two years without challenging it. As a result, they ruled there was no longer “a serious issue” left to be tried.

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‘Full transparency’ urged on North Andros projects

By NEIL HARTNELL and YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporters THE North Andros Chamber of Commerce’s president is calling for “full transparency” over the three investment projects targeting the area while warning residents against “rushing to judgment” over their merits.

Darin Bethell, in a statement sent to Tribune Business, said local businesses and residents lacked the necessary details to determine the feasibility of the three proposals and whether any would meet the community’s needs for sustainable jobs and development.

However, he warned Androsians against becoming so resistant to investment and development that “history represents us as the sleeping giant that never progressed”.

Pointing out that government spending alone will never be sufficient for the island to realise its potential, he added that it needed “an influx of new money” from quality Bahamian and foreign investors.

Mr Bethell said this was critical to reversing a “30plus years brain drain” that has seen the brightest Androsians leave their home island, and keep the best talents at home to benefit both the community and its economy.

He spoke out after this newspaper last week revealed that three separate, and wholly different, investment projects have set their sights on Andros. The most eye-catching is the North Andros Green Free Trade Zone being proposed by Los Angeles-based billionaire philanthropist, Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong.

Dr Soon-Shiong, who was said by Forbes to have a net worth of $6.9bn as at March 2020, would appear to be the sort of legitimate, bona fide investor that The Bahamas needs to attract to reignite its economy and employment in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A part-owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, and owner and executive chairman of the Los Angeles Times and The San Diego Union-Tribune newspapers, his initial proposal - which has yet to be formally submitted to the government and its investment agencies - aims to create 750-plus full-time jobs, and 10,000 construction jobs over the build-out.

Some $200m-$250m will be invested over the first two phases of a development targeted at the Morgan’s Bluff area in North Andros. The project is focused on “valueadded” manufacturing involving the creation of finished products from aragonite and other Bahamian natural resources, rather than

simply exporting the raw material.

Besides an airport and seaport, the project’s other components include ecotourism and medical tourism based on a medical research centre and clinic. Dr SoonShiong, who is based in Los Angeles, is heavily involved in the global healthcare sector through three foundations, visiting professorships at universities and his NantWorks network of health and technology start-ups.

It is also understood that the project has been significantly scaled-down in size compared to the 500,000 acres detailed in the initial proposal, and would require a much smaller footprint - especially since it would only be developed in stages should it receive the goahead from the government.

Yet Dr Soon-Shiong is not the only one eyeing Andros.

Tribune Business subsequently revealed that Cameron Symonette, the Symonette Group’s chief executive, was one of the principals behind a proposed aggregate mining and land reclamation project that would generate more than 100 jobs - and a total $125m investment - at full build-out.

Bahamas Materials Company Ltd, which presented its project to the North Andros District Council on June 9 as part of an extensive feedback and consultation process, is targeting a $15m-$20m first phase investment and the creation of around 35 fulltime jobs as it responds to the government’s call for diversification amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Their presentation revealed that Mr Symonette and his prospective partners plan to mine for calcium carbonate (limestone) on a 5,500 acre “brownfield” site featuring the now-unused Water & Sewerage Corporation wellfields in North Andros.

The extracted rock would then be crushed and screened at a purpose-built plant before being exported by sea to either Florida or New Providence for use by the construction industry in a variety of construction applications.

However, the presentation goes beyond mere aggregate mining to explore how the land could be reclaimed, and repurposed, for other productive use such as real estate once all the rock has been extracted. Bahamas Materials Company said its activities will provide the platform for other entrepreneurs/ investors to develop utilities, hotels and real estate, while indicating it was open to giving Bahamians ownership in a key subsidiary.

The third and final proposal is that of Bahamas Agricultural Resources

(BAR), a farming project that is seeking some 25,000 acres of crown land and Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation (BAIC) land in the Twin Lakes area.

Documents obtained by Tribune Business reveal that, in early 2019, the BAR proposal included former US ambassador to The Bahamas, Ned Siegel, along with Benjamin Simmons and his son, who have extensive farming interests across the US in states such as the Carolinas, Louisiana, Maryland and Georgia. One of their Bahamian partners was James Edgar Curling, principal of sand miner, Tycoon Management.

The chamber’s Mr Bethell, though, called on Androsians to “pump the brakes” on judging any of these projects given that other media (not The Tribune) had seemingly confused the three separate proposals and incorrectly conflated them into one.

“This is not giving Androsians a clear understanding of what it is that is actually being proposed or offered to us, and how it will affect us today and our children later and grandchildren in the future,” he said. “I’m not suggesting the project is a good one or that it’s a bad one; what I’m saying is that it is evident that we don’t have enough information as yet to make a decision.

“Those that are jumping on this are trying to preempt us from finding out what opportunities are ahead for us, and we have to ask ourselves why. Some are even suggesting this project should go to Freeport. What really needs to happen is that we, the people, should get full transparency on the proposals and maybe the investors would want to invest in both Freeport and Andros. I think we have to be careful to pass early judgment and take a side.”

Mr Bethell’s reference to Freeport alludes to comments by Fred Smith QC, the Callenders & Co attorney and partner, who last week argued that it would be “economic insanity to reinvent the wheel” by permitting the creation of a new free trade zone in North Andros instead of directing Dr SoonShiong to Freeport where much of the infrastructure he requires is already in place.

The North Andros Chamber chief, meanwhile, said he had previously “led objections” to mining in the area but had since changed his mind after reviewing the proposal and accounting for the changed economic landscape as a result of Water & Sewerage Corporation reducing its reliance on the wellfields.

“This is different and we can’t allow history to

represent us as the sleeping giant that never progressed because its people fought against all manner of investment simply out of fear of losing control of something that we never had power over, which is the land here in Andros,” Mr Bethell said.

“The government alone is unable to move our island forward we need private investments, government spending alone won’t do it; we need an influx of new money, foreign direct and domestic investment dollars.

We just need to choose the best option to support what we have outlined within the Andros development plan as what we want for this Island in the future.”

Noting that Andros had lost investments to Grand Bahama before, Mr Bethell added: “It would be a shame for us to lose on this here simply out of ignorance or fear. Those before us had the benefits of a false economy - an era where pushing investors away was easy because they benefited from an economy that allowed them to educate their children.

“We do not share that luxury and we have to consider future Androsians. We have had a brain drain in our community over the past 30-plus plus years. We must work towards creating an economy that will keep some of our brighter minds home and attract other great minds from around the country, so let’s not rush to judgment but, rather, examine the opportunities that are before us.”

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New hacks expose Registrar General FROM PAGE ONE plays a critical role in the incorporation of companies and other Bahamas-domiciled vehicles, such as International Business Companies (IBCs), all of which are key cogs in structures employed by high net worth and institutional financial services clients.

The agency handles annual company filings/returns, and the payment of associated fees and name reservations/ searches.

Patent applications and approvals; the recording of deeds and documents, such as real estate conveyances; and births, marriages, deaths and adoptions are among its other core functions, meaning the Registrar General’s Department touches every Bahamian and resident at some point in their life.

The closure of the online portal and database has thus meant that attorneys and the private sector have been forced, at least temporarily, back to a manual system for performing daily corporate functions, resulting in extra cost and time plus inefficiency. Marlon Johnson, the Ministry of Finance’s acting financial secretary, confirmed to Tribune Business that new business licence applications are among the processes impacted.

“We shut it down last week,” Mr Bethel confirmed of the Registrar General’s online portal and electronic database. “We had opened it temporarily, and noticed according to the scans conducted by the police that there were attempted incursions by two IP addresses in eastern European countries.

“I cannot name them, but they are countries in the far east of Europe not in the European Union (EU).

That’s what our information is. I shut the whole thing down. We put in a drop box service which the whole industry should know about.

We’re trying to put in several layers of defences as an interim solution, but it will take a week. By this time next [this] week we will be up and running with additional defences.”

Tribune Business sources confirmed that the two IP addresses involved were traced by the Royal Bahamas Police Force to Russia and Bulgaria, although Mr Bethel declined to comment on this.

The latest hacking attempts, following so swiftly behind the January incursion by the Distributed Denial of Secrets group, and the 2016 breach by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), threaten to spark concerns about the security and integrity

of sensitive personal and financial data held in The Bahamas.

This, in turn, could be detrimental to the country’s ability to attract fresh business and investment post-COVID-19 even though none of the incursions and attempted penetrations at the Registrar General’s Department appear to have seized anything of real value. Both the ICIJ and Distributed Denial of Secrets obtained only companies registry information, including lists and names of directors, that is publicly available for a fee.

However, with cyber security set to assume evergreater importance in the post-COVID-19 world, Mr Bethel revealed that he was seeking to split up the Registrar General’s Department’s electronic database into several separate ones based on their functions.

This, he explained, will mean that the companies registry will be separate from that of births, marriages and deaths. With these on separate servers, Mr Bethel said any hacker able to penetrate one of these databases would be unable to access all - as they can presently.

Pledging that the companies registry will have additional cyber security defences “to guarantee the complete integrity of that system”, the attorney general revealed that multiple government agencies can currently access the Registrar General’s Department’s online portal. This, he disclosed, creates extra risk and potential openings for hackers to exploit, noting that the ICIJ intrusion “came through another government agency”.

Declining to name the culprit, Mr Bethel added: “Every government agency you care to name has access to the portal. NIB, tourism, which needs to count shipboard weddings in Bahamian waters.

“We’re betwixt and between. There are two things going on. One is to try and put in some security restrictions and take steps to correct the errors left in place. The errors in 2016 we have corrected as of now, and are trying to put in layers of security to allow us to open.

“I’m also trying to find ways to differentiate the different registries,” he continued. “Tourism, which needs to keep track of weddings on cruise ships and persons coming to The Bahamas to be married, will only have access to that part of the registry. NIB, which needs access to births, marriages and adoptions, will only have access to that part of the registry.

“We need segregated databases so that if someone is able to hack one part they can only get into that.

We’re working on a number of fronts.” Mr Bethel said the government was also developing a “temporary approach” to ensure business licences and other related filings could continue.

“That will be on a restricted basis, but hopefully by Monday [today] we will have something that will allow Bahamian entities - in terms of their relationship with the Department of Inland Revenue - to have a certain amount of access.”

Mr Johnson, at the Ministry of Finance, confirmed to Tribune Business that the lost access to the Registrar General’s Department’s online portal had impacted new business licence applications as entrepreneurs were delayed in incorporating, reserving business names and ensuring they did not duplicate firms already in existence.

“It’s the incorporation and registration of names.

They have to search the registry’s system when you register a business name,” he explained. “It has impacted our business licence processes. However, the team has put together a manual work around. It has slowed us down but hasn’t stopped us. I’m told they’re to the point where it should be rectified.”

Mr Bethel, meanwhile, said the COVID-19 pandemic had also delayed the arrival of a company

that has been contracted to build a database which captures “historical” companies information going back to a certain year and marries this with current information.

He added that this project, designed to reduce the number of persons coming to the Registrar General’s Department to conduct searches, would begin once travel restrictions ease. However, Mr Bethel said the government’s new technology and digital department was “not on the same page” with regard to this project - something he intends to rectify vis a series of meetings over the coming weeks.

Blaming the weaknesses in the Registrar General’s Department’s defences on the former Christie administration, Mr Bethel said the current government had been under the impression that the weaknesses exposed by the ICIJ had been rectified until it discovered otherwise via the Distributed Denial of Secrets hack.

“None of the measures to defend against future hacks were implemented by the former administration and former registrar general,” he told Tribune Business.

“Nothing had been done to correct the errors that led to the ICIJ. We were unaware they had not taken the protective measures. None of us were given the information when we came in. We didn’t know the circumstance.

“The [Distributed Denial of Secrets] hack started in October 2019, and between then and February they got the information. The system did not have any alert contrary to what we were advised. We were entirely unaware of what was happening until the information was published. That’s how drastic it is.

“We cannot afford to make the same mistake twice, or a third time, due to ignorance on our part as to what has been recommended and not implemented. It’s inconceivable that, having gone through the embarrassment of the ICIJ hack, these measures were not implemented. Inconceivable.”

This, though, was rejected

by Mr Bethel’s predecessor, Mrs Maynard-Gibson. She said, in a statement to Tribune Business: “So far as I am aware, at all times that I had responsibility for the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) every technological upgrade was done under the recommendation of and implemented by - the outstanding Bahamian professionals at what was then called the Department of Information Technology (DIT) of the Ministry of Finance and BTC. “During the course of RGD upgrades, these Bahamian professionals discovered that a previous FNM administration had given sole access to information in the companies registries and other information at RGD to a non-Bahamian vendor. Also, a previous FNM administration had given a Bahamian vendor unimpeded access to the documents at RGD and the Supreme Court Registry.

“The Bahamian professionals at DIT and RGD were concerned about the security of this information.

The Bahamian professionals advised that the access to the non-Bahamian vendor should be removed and repatriated to DIT. This advice was accepted and implemented. Also upon their advice, action was taken to obtain the documents (digital and hard copy) from the Bahamian vendor.”

The ex-attorney general continued: “It is more than three years since the FNM became government. Its failure to implement further upgrades and act upon the recommendations of the Bahamian experts must fall squarely at its feet and nowhere else.

“Rather than blaming others, time might more productively be spent quickly implementing secure upgrades and improving The Bahamas’ ease of doing business rating. There are many Bahamian entrepreneurs that would be delighted to enter into PPPs (publicprivate partnerships) to accomplish these goals.”

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Monday, June 22, 2020, PAGE 5

Is a conflict between the USA and China inevitable?

ACTIVTRADES WEEKLY

By RICARDO EVANGELISTA www.activtrades.bs

THUCYDIDES was one of the greatest Greek historians of the classical era. He wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War, an eightvolume treaty recounting the conflict between Athens and Sparta, in the 5th Century BC. Sparta, the dominating power at the time, felt threatened by the rise of Athens, which led to growing disagreement and ended up in an all-out war which was eventually won by the Spartans.

More recently, in 2018, the author Graham T Allison published a book called Destined for War, in which he coined the expression “Thucydides Trap”, referring to the theory that when the established power is threatened by an emerging competitor, war is almost always the result. The author scanned the last 500 years and found 16 such situations, with only three not ending in war. Examples include the

CHINA VS THE USA rise of Germany during the late 19th and early 20th century, challenging the, then, supremacy of the United Kingdom and culminating in World War 1.

Interestingly, in these scenarios, armed conflict tends to be triggered by a third country (as was the case in WW1).

In our age, the United States of America are

indisputably the established power and China the upand-coming rival. The past 100 years have, in many ways, been the American century, during which the US were the main architect and guardian of the International order; the impact of China’s rise is seen by many in Washington as a threat to that supremacy.

In 1948, nine out of

No third mobile firm before 2022 FROM PAGE ONE Company’s (BTC) 16-year mobile monopoly by becoming its first competitor.

“The government will further consider the feasibility of additional and expanded entry in cellular mobile services,” the policy document says. “In the previous electronic communications sector policy, the government promoted the introduction of competition in the mobile sector, a goal realised with the launch of services in 2016 by the second mobile operator.

“In the liberalisation process, the government delayed the consideration of the third mobile operator for a period of no less than three years after the commercial launch of the second mobile operator - October 2019. The government will review this issue, in conjunction with URCA, during the life of this electronic

communications sector policy to determine an appropriate policy position moving forward.”

The policy document added that the government will both determine whether the entrance of a third mobile competitor is warranted, “and the manner and form any such liberalisation should take”.

“The government has asked URCA to provide advice and recommendations, including a feasibility and market analysis, to support any recommendations made,” it said. “The government has requested that advice to be produced by no later than December 31, 2021, following which the government will make its decision.

“In the interim, the government proposes to refrain from introducing further competition in the cellular mobile market.”

Edison Sumner, the former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation’s (BCCEC) chief executive, last night said of the end2021 deadline that “this is not the first time the timeline has been stretched or pushed back” with respect to the possibility of a third Bahamian mobile licence.

Disclosing that he no longer has any interest in the licence, Mr Sumner said the “concern” has always been whether The Bahamas with its 400,000-strong population and estimated 360,000-380,000 mobile subscribers has the critical mass to support a third mobile operator.

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every ten Chinese citizens lived in extreme poverty, it was then that, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, China started a march that brought it to where it is today.

In 2020 more than 99 percent of the country’s population live above the line marking extreme deprivation, in what is surely one of the greatest ever

achievements in governing.

However, the Asian giant’s plans for further advancement haven’t yet reached an end; by 2035 Beijing aims to be the leader in all technologies and, by 2049, to be the dominant global power, in every field, including militarily.

One can understand how to many in Washington this represents an assault on American hegemony.

The Sino-American issue is the most important challenge of our time. Will this “Thucydides Trap” end in armed conflict or, like the “cold war” between the USA and the USSR, the international order will allow for a “peaceful” coexistence?

After World War 2, a strong set of international

institutions was put in place, including the United Nations, World Bank and NATO. Today, unfortunately, many of these bodies appear tired and increasingly irrelevant. Avoiding the complete decoupling of the two economies, that could lead to the polarisation of global power and two rivals with their backs turned to each other, requires the establishment of a new world order based on co-operation and focused on solving common challenges like climate change, income inequality, migration and pandemics.

As we follow the footsteps of history, the words of George Santayana come to mind: those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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‘Serious blow’ as cruise lines delay to September 15 FROM PAGE ONE

the consequences will be, but I do believe some of them - especially the small and start-up businesses - will not survive, whether downtown or elsewhere. Location does not mean that much.

“I think it’s a very serious blow to the tourism industry, and especially to the tour operators. I think they’re going to face the brunt of this extended shutdown of the cruise industry. It’s going to be very difficult for them to continue.

“It’s going to be tough for small businesses to continue up until September. I don’t believe a lot of them will return to open shop.

The problem is a lot of local businesses don’t have deep pockets and, although

they were given a lot of generous discounts by the property owners, you still have a negative cash flow. It’s a serious problem; a serious problem for the revenues of the country.”

Mr Klonaris spoke out after the CLIA, which represents all of the major cruise lines operating in The Bahamas, such as Carnival, Royal Caribbean and Norwegian, said the industry had voluntarily decided to suspend sailing from US ports until September 15 to give itself extra time to work with the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on developing and implementing all necessary COVID-19 health protocols.

“Due to the ongoing situation within the US related to COVID-19, CLIA member

cruise lines have decided to voluntarily extend the period of suspended passenger operations,” the CLIA said.

“The current ‘No Sail’ order issued by the CDC will expire on 24 July, and although we had hoped that cruise activity could resume as soon as possible after that date, it is increasingly clear that more time will be needed to resolve barriers to resumption in the US. “Although we are confident that future cruises will be healthy and safe, and will fully reflect the latest protective measures, we also feel that it is appropriate to err on the side of caution to help ensure the best interests of our passengers and crew members. We have therefore decided to further extend our suspension of operations from US ports until 15 September. The additional time will also allow us to consult with the CDC on measures that will be appropriate for the eventual resumption of

cruise operations.

“This voluntary suspension applies to all CLIA members to which the ‘No Sail’ order applied (vessels with capacity to carry 250 persons or more). CLIA member cruise lines will continually evaluate the evolving situation and make a determination as to whether a further extension is necessary.”

Given that all cruise ships sailing in Bahamian waters depart from US ports, this means at least a minimum of three months without any cruise business. Travel industry publications suggest Royal Caribbean is currently planning to resume sailing to The Bahamas from the US on September 18, while Carnival, Norwegian and Disney have all pushed their restarts into early October 2020.

The cruise industry’s moves came just days after Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation, warned during his contribution to the budget debate

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that its planned restart dates were “very fluffy” and “very vague”. He added: “On Monday, I had a one-in-one conversation with Arnold Donald, the president and chief executive of the Carnival Corporation......my second such one-on-one with him.

“He indicated that the cruise industry has not yet set a date for its reopening as it is still in negotiations with the CDC in the United States.

They are all trying to work out the necessary health protocols that must be in place before during and after a cruise.

“The dates that seem to have some traction for an opening of the cruise industry are, at the earliest, sometime in late August or early September and, at the latest, late November, early December.

Very fluffy, Mr Speaker, very vague but we have to wait until the cruise companies and the CDC work it out....... which, of course, is not good news for all those businesses,

especially in the downtown area, that rely on the cruise industry for their bread and butter.”

The CLIA announcement also indicates that Nassau Cruise Port Ltd, operator of Prince George Wharf, is likely to be correct in its prediction that The Bahamas will not see a resumption of cruise industry traffic until September 2020 at the earliest.

It is projecting passenger numbers will fall by 61.4 percent in 2020, dropping by 2.34m year-over-year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic - falling from 3.81 in 2019 to 1.47m.

That near-two-thirds decline includes the 835,000 passengers who arrived in Nassau between New Year’s Day and the start of the economic lockdown on March 16, meaning that some 635,000 cruise arrivals are forecast to come during a final quarter that includes the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.

2019 CLE/QUI/263

NOTICE

THE QUIETING TITLES ACT1959 Chapter 393 The Petition of Patronella Ericka Bain of the Eastern District of the Island of New Providence one of the Islands of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in respect of: ALL THAT piece parcel or lot of land comprising 11,233 square feet situated on the Southern side of Reeves Street and running thereon One Hundred and fourteen and Fifty Hundredths (114.50) feet and to the EAST by land privately owned and running thereon One Hundred and One and Eighty-seven Hundredths (101.87) feet and to the SOUTH by land said to be the property of Theophilius Moss and running thereon One Hundred and Two and Forty-five Hundredths (102.45) feet and to the WEST by property belonging to Harry Burnside and running thereon One Hundred and Five and Ninety-seven Hundredths (105.97) feet.

The Petitioner, Patronella Ericka Bain claims to be the owner in possession of the fee simple estate of the said land and has made application to the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas under section 3 of the Quieting Titles Act, 1959 to have her title to the said land investigated and the nature and the extent thereof determined and declared in a Certificate of Title to be granted by the Court in accordance with the provisions of the said Act. The Petition and filed Plan of the said land may be inspected during normal office hours at:1. The Registry of the Supreme Court British American Building, Ground Floor, Marlborough Street, Nassau, Bahamas.

2. The Chambers of Monique V. A. Gomez & Co., The Oschloe Building, #73 East Street & Cordeaux Ave, Nassau, Bahamas.

NOTICE is hereby given that any person having Dower or right to Dower or any Adverse Claim or claim not recognized in the Petition shall within Thirty (30) days after the appearance of the Notice herein filed in the Registry of the Supreme Court and serve on the Petitioner on the undersigned or Statement of such Claim in the prescribed form verified by an Affidavit to be filed therewith. Failure of any such person to file and serve his/ her Statement on or before the said thirty (30) days herein will operate as a ban to such claim.

Monique V. A. Gomez & Co. Chamber The Oschloe Building #73 East St. & Cordeaux Ave. Nassau, Bahamas Attorneys for the Petitioner

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ALL SHARE INDEX: CLOSE: 2,137.71 | CHG: 0.37 | %CHG: 0.02 | YTD: -93.89 | YTD%: -4.21 BISX LISTED & TRADED SECURITIES

NOTICE NOTICE is hereby given that MICHO VENSON JUSTILIEN, Kemp Road, Lyond Road Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas is applying to the Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for Registration Naturalization as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any person who knows any reason why registration/naturalization should not be granted, should send a written and signed statement of the facts within twenty-eight days from the 22nd day of June 2020 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas.

52WK HI 4.43 22.65 7.00 6.75 2.58 2.00 5.47 12.77 6.16 4.50 10.30 3.64 5.10 10.88 8.44 16.99 9.40 4.25 15.21

52WK LOW 3.23 20.91 5.50 5.39 1.78 0.67 2.00 11.05 5.60 3.62 5.41 2.53 1.85 8.00 7.10 13.04 6.98 3.20 13.90

SECURITY AML Foods Limited APD Limited Bahamas Property Fund Bahamas Waste Bank of Bahamas Benchmark Cable Bahamas CIBC FirstCaribbean Bank Colina Holdings Commonwealth Bank Commonwealth Brewery Consolidated Water BDRs Doctor's Hospital Emera Incorporated Famguard Fidelity Bank Finco Focol J. S. Johnson

SYMBOL AML APD BPF BWL BOB BBL CAB CIB CHL CBL CBB CWCB DHS EMAB FAM FBB FIN FCL JSJ

1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00

1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00

Cable Bahamas Series 6 Cable Bahamas Series 8 Cable Bahamas Series 9 Cable Bahamas Series 10 Colina Holdings Class A Fidelity Bank Class A Focol Class B

CAB6 CAB8 CAB9 CAB10 CHLA FBBA FCLB

PREFERENCE SHARES

1.00 10.00 1.00

1.00 10.00 0.90

CORPORATE DEBT - (percentage pricing) 52WK HI 100.00

52WK LOW 100.00

115.92 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

104.79 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

SECURITY Fidelity Bank Note 22 (Series B) +

SYMBOL FBB22

Bahamas Note 6.95 (2029) BGS: 2015-1-3Y BGS: 2014-12-5Y BGS: 2015-1-5Y BGS: 2014-12-7Y BGS: 2015-1-7Y BGS: 2014-12-30Y BGS: 2015-1-30Y BGS: 2015-6-3Y BGS: 2015-6-5Y BGS: 2015-6-7Y BGS: 2015-6-30Y BGS: 2015-10-3Y BGS: 2015-10-5Y BGS: 2015-10-7Y

BAH29 BG0203 BG0105 BG0205 BG0107 BG0207 BG0130 BG0230 BG0303 BG0305 BG0307 BG0330 BG0403 BG0405 BG0407

BAHAMAS GOVERNMENT STOCK - (percentage pricing)

LAST CLOSE 3.23 17.43 6.00 6.75 1.78 1.62 3.00 11.26 6.10 4.00 6.01 2.91 5.10 9.86 8.44 14.50 8.97 4.00 15.20

CLOSE 3.23 17.43 6.00 6.75 1.78 1.62 3.00 11.26 6.16 4.00 6.01 2.89 5.10 9.52 8.44 14.50 8.97 4.00 15.20

CHANGE 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.06 0.00 0.00 -0.02 0.00 -0.34 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1.00 10.00 0.90

1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1000.00 1.00 10.00 0.90

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

CLOSE 100.00

CHANGE 0.00

107.31 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

LAST SALE 100.00 107.31 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00

VOLUME 3,100

1,902

VOLUME

EPS$ 0.239 0.932 1.760 0.369 0.070 0.000 -0.438 0.722 0.449 0.184 0.140 0.102 0.467 0.646 0.728 0.816 0.939 0.203 0.631

DIV$ 0.170 1.260 0.000 0.260 0.000 0.020 0.000 0.720 0.220 0.120 0.000 0.434 0.060 0.328 0.240 0.540 0.200 0.120 0.610

P/E 13.5 18.7 N/M 18.3 N/M N/M -6.8 15.6 13.7 21.7 42.9 28.3 10.9 14.7 11.6 17.8 9.6 19.7 24.1

0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000

0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000

0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

YIELD 5.26% 7.23% 0.00% 3.85% 0.00% 1.23% 0.00% 6.39% 3.57% 3.00% 0.00% 15.02% 1.18% 3.45% 2.84% 3.72% 2.23% 3.00% 4.01% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 0.00% 6.25% 7.00% 6.50%

INTEREST Prime + 1.75%

MATURITY 19-Oct-2022

6.95% 4.00% 4.25% 4.25% 4.50% 4.50% 6.25% 6.25% 4.00% 4.25% 4.50% 6.25% 3.50% 3.88% 4.25%

20-Nov-2029 30-Jul-2018 16-Dec-2019 30-Jul-2020 15-Dec-2021 30-Jul-2022 15-Dec-2044 30-Jul-2045 26-Jun-2018 26-Jun-2020 26-Jun-2022 26-Jun-2045 15-Oct-2018 15-Oct-2020 15-Oct-2022

YTD% 12 MTH% 1.04% 3.87% 0.61% 2.93% 0.50% 2.50% -1.34% 2.23% -12.71% -5.79% 0.94% 3.72% -3.46% 2.09% -0.11% 3.43% -3.33% 1.53% -0.45% 8.36% -3.20% 11.46% 2.10% 5.15% -6.17% 3.54% 2.92% 5.55% -4.66% -3.81% N/A N/A -10.90% -4.30% -18.80% -12.00%

NAV Date 31-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 27-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 31-Mar-2020 31-May-2020 31-May-2020 31-May-2020 31-May-2020 31-May-2020 31-May-2020

MUTUAL FUNDS 52WK HI 2.31 4.40 2.10 198.39 168.29 1.67 1.85 1.76 1.24 8.34 10.26 7.08 12.15 12.71 10.81 10.00 8.98 11.79

52WK LOW 1.67 3.30 1.68 164.74 116.70 1.61 1.75 1.70 1.14 6.41 7.62 5.66 8.65 10.54 9.57 9.88 8.45 11.20

FUND CFAL Bond Fund CFAL Balanced Fund CFAL Money Market Fund CFAL Global Bond Fund CFAL Global Equity Fund Leno Preferred Income Fund Leno Growth Fund Leno Diversified Fund Leno Global USD Bond Fund Royal Fidelity Bahamas Opportunities Fund - Secured Balanced Fund Royal Fidelity Bahamas Opportunities Fund - Targeted Equity Fund Royal Fidelity Bahamas Opportunities Fund - Prime Income Fund Royal Fidelity Int'l Fund - Equities Sub Fund Royal Fidelity Int'l Fund - High Yield Fund Royal Fidelity Int'l Fund - Alternative Strategies Fund Colonial Bahamas Fund Class D Colonial Bahamas Fund Class E Colonial Bahamas Fund Class F

NAV 2.31 4.39 2.10 192.52 145.55 1.67 1.79 1.75 1.16 8.30 9.90 7.08 11.27 12.71 10.23 N/A 8.31 10.01

MARKET TERMS

BISX ALL SHARE INDEX - 19 Dec 02 = 1,000.00 52wk-Hi - Highest closing price in last 52 weeks 52wk-Low - Lowest closing price in last 52 weeks Previous Close - Previous day's weighted price for daily volume Today's Close - Current day's weighted price for daily volume Change - Change in closing price from day to day Daily Vol. - Number of total shares traded today DIV $ - Dividends per share paid in the last 12 months P/E - Closing price divided by the last 12 month earnings

YIELD - last 12 month dividends divided by closing price Bid $ - Buying price of Colina and Fidelity Ask $ - Selling price of Colina and fidelity Last Price - Last traded over-the-counter price Weekly Vol. - Trading volume of the prior week EPS $ - A company's reported earnings per share for the last 12 mths NAV - Net Asset Value N/M - Not Meaningful

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THE TRIBUNE

THE WEATHER REPORT

5-Day Forecast

TODAY

ORLANDO

High: 94° F/34° C Low: 75° F/24° C

TAMPA

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Periods of sun, a t‑storm in spots

Some clouds with a t‑storm late

Partly sunny

Cloudy with a thun‑ derstorm in spots

Sun and some clouds

Partly sunny, a shower in the p.m.

High: 88°

Low: 80°

High: 88° Low: 80°

High: 89° Low: 79°

High: 88° Low: 78°

High: 88° Low: 78°

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99° F

85° F

100°-84° F

100°-86° F

100°-85° F

100°-85° F

High: 93° F/34° C Low: 77° F/25° C

The exclusive AccuWeather RealFeel Temperature® is an index that combines the effects of temperature, wind, humidity, sunshine intensity, cloudiness, precipitation, pressure and elevation on the human body—everything that affects how warm or cold a person feels. Temperatures reflect the high and the low for the day.

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High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

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S

High: 89° F/32° C Low: 78° F/26° C

6‑12 knots

FT. LAUDERDALE

FREEPORT

High: 90° F/32° C Low: 80° F/27° C

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WEST PALM BEACH

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TONIGHT

High: 87° F/31° C Low: 77° F/25° C

MIAMI

High: 90° F/32° C Low: 79° F/26° C

4‑8 knots

KEY WEST

High: 89° F/32° C Low: 83° F/28° C

ELEUTHERA

NASSAU

High: 88° F/31° C Low: 80° F/25° C

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High: 85° F/29° C Low: 80° F/27° C

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tiDes For nassau High

Ht.(ft.)

Low

Ht.(ft.)

Today

9:17 a.m.

9:43 p.m.

2.4 3.2

3:31 a.m. 0.1 3:17 p.m. ‑0.1

Tuesday

10:02 a.m.

10:27 p.m.

2.4 3.2

4:15 a.m.

4:03 p.m.

0.0 0.0

Wednesday 10:50 a.m.

11:14 p.m.

2.5 3.2

4:59 a.m.

4:51 p.m.

0.0 0.0

Thursday

11:41 a.m. ‑‑‑‑‑

2.5 ‑‑‑‑‑

5:46 a.m.

5:44 p.m.

0.0 0.1

Friday

12:03 a.m.

12:36 p.m.

3.1 2.6

6:35 a.m.

6:41 p.m.

0.0 0.3

Saturday

12:56 a.m.

1:35 p.m.

3.0 2.7

7:26 a.m.

7:44 p.m.

0.0 0.4

Sunday

1:52 a.m.

2:37 p.m.

2.9 2.8

8:20 a.m.

8:51 p.m.

0.0 0.4

sun anD moon Sunrise Sunset

6:21 a.m.

8:03 p.m.

Moonrise Moonset

7:29 a.m.

9:35 p.m.

First

Full

Last

New

Jun. 28

Jul. 5

Jul. 12

Jul. 20

CAT ISLAND

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High: 86° F/30° C Low: 81° F/27° C

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S

8‑16 knots Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.

Statistics are for Nassau through 2 p.m. yesterday Temperature High ................................................... 88° F/31° C Low .................................................... 78° F/26° C Normal high ....................................... 87° F/31° C Normal low ........................................ 74° F/23° C Last year’s high ................................. 92° F/34° C Last year’s low ................................... 78° F/26° C Precipitation As of 2 p.m. yesterday ................................. 0.20” Year to date ............................................... 23.88” Normal year to date ................................... 12.10”

The higher the AccuWeather UV IndexTM number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.

ANDROS

SAN SALVADOR

GREAT EXUMA

High: 86° F/30° C Low: 81° F/27° C

High: 86° F/30° C Low: 82° F/28° C

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High: 88° F/31° C Low: 81° F/27° C

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W S

LONG ISLAND

tracking map

High: 86° F/30° C Low: 81° F/27° C

7‑14 knots

MAYAGUANA High: 88° F/31° C Low: 82° F/28° C

Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and

CROOKED ISLAND / ACKLINS

tonight’s lows.

RAGGED ISLAND High: 86° F/30° C Low: 82° F/28° C

GREAT INAGUA High: 89° F/32° C Low: 83° F/28° C

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W

N E

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marine Forecast ABACO ANDROS CAT ISLAND CROOKED ISLAND ELEUTHERA FREEPORT GREAT EXUMA GREAT INAGUA LONG ISLAND MAYAGUANA NASSAU RAGGED ISLAND SAN SALVADOR

Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday: Today: Tuesday:

WINDS SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots ESE at 6‑12 Knots E at 7‑14 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots ESE at 10‑20 Knots ESE at 10‑20 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots SSE at 6‑12 Knots SSE at 6‑12 Knots SE at 8‑16 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 10‑20 Knots ESE at 10‑20 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots ESE at 10‑20 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots ESE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 8‑16 Knots ESE at 8‑16 Knots SE at 7‑14 Knots SE at 6‑12 Knots

WAVES 2‑4 Feet 2‑4 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 2‑4 Feet 2‑4 Feet 3‑5 Feet 3‑5 Feet 2‑4 Feet 2‑4 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 3‑5 Feet 3‑5 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑3 Feet 3‑6 Feet 3‑6 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑2 Feet 1‑3 Feet 2‑4 Feet 1‑3 Feet 1‑2 Feet

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WATER TEMPS. 82° F 83° F 86° F 87° F 84° F 84° F 84° F 85° F 83° F 83° F 85° F 86° F 85° F 86° F 85° F 85° F 85° F 84° F 83° F 83° F 83° F 84° F 85° F 85° F 84° F 83° F