Mr Thompson, explain ing that this would facilitate greater container storage space and poten tial expansion whenever the port is rebuilt, told this newspaper that the remainder of the former Mudd site would be dedi cated to remembering the hundreds who lost their lives in Dorian as well as providing facilities and a gathering space for Abaconians.
FAMILY Island hotels can hit 90 percent of preCOVID room nights sold with a strong over 2022’s final quarter, a senior tour ism is predicting, voicing optimism the sector will “get closer” to its targets.
SEE PAGE B7 SEE PAGE B6 • NGOs and local Gov’t team on Mudd proposal • Say plan will also aid shipping port’s expansion • Be self-financing, sustaining and create 110 jobs
Chief Justice Ian Winder, in a September 15, 2022, verdict found that Ocean Point Estates has “the better documen tary title” to Polly Cay than their rival Bahamian claimant, Iva Dean (nee Strachan). And he also rejected her claim to a pos sessory title, finding there was no evidence that Ms Dean had been in posses sion of the island for 12
Abaco partners offer $4m Dorian memorial
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Family Island hotels targeting 90% pre-COVID room nights
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DOCTORS Hospital is “coming in hot” with a multi-million dollar investment in upgrading its healthcare infrastruc ture that aims to narrow The Bahamas’ bed short age compared to global benchmarks.KendraSturrup, the BISX-listed healthcare
FOREIGN inves tors, who launched a full-blooded online assault against a top Bahamian commercial law firm after their ownership of an Exuma cay was chal lenged, have triumphed in their dispute before the Supreme Court.
A FORMER Grand Lucayan chairman has urged the Davis administra tion to “come clean” with the Bahamian people over its efforts to sell the resort after it last week granted a third extension to the buy er’s due diligence time.
provider’s Grand Bahama director of finance and operations, told the Abaco Business Outlook that it was aiming to close the gap to the World Health Organisation;s (WHO) recommended five inpatient hospital beds per 1,000 persons standard.
Gov’t told: ‘Come clean’ on Grand Lucayan sale
Roscoe Thompson, head of the Marsh Harbour/ Spring City Township, told Tribune Business that body had teamed with the One Abaco Foundation and Guy Harvey Founda tion to propose “a vibrant community space” that could create more than 100 jobs where the former 23-acre Mudd community onceDisclosingstood. that the proposal was submit ted to the former Minnis
Disclosing that Nassau stands at just 1.82 hospital beds per 1,000 population, with 402 at Princess Mar garet Hospital (PMH)
Ocean Point, whose principals are Efraim Sade and Eyal Ben Zvi Sasson (also known as Eyal Waters), asserted that Graham, Thompson & Co botched the Polly Cay title search by failing to detect Ms Dean’s rival ownership claim, thus exposing them to significant potential loss on their $500,000 pur chase. And, to add insult
ABACO’S local gov ernment and non-profit groups are offering to part ner in creating a near-$4m memorial to Hurricane Dorian victims that will also give Marsh Harbour’s shipping port room for much-needed expansion.
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years or longer as required byBarringlaw. an appeal, the Chief Justice’s ruling resolves a decade-long dispute that prompted a savage attack on Ocean Point Estates’ first attor neys, Graham, Thompson & Company, via a website that still remains acces sible to this day although Tribune Business is not providing the address for legal reasons.
RENDERINGS OF THE SPRING CITY TOWNSHIP Doctors is ‘coming in hot’ on bed shortage
Michael Scott KC told Tribune Business “the boot is on the other foot” after he, the Board that he chaired and the former Minnis administration had to face “scathing criticism” from members of the now-cur rent government over both the Grand Lucayan’s Sep tember 2018 purchase and subsequent failed efforts to sell the property to the ITM Group/Royal Caribbean consortium.Speaking after the pre sent Grand Lucayan Board late on Thursday night con firmed that Electra America Hospitality Group had been
administration, and sub sequently to Cabinet ministers in the new gov ernment as well as the current Port Department board, he explained that the partners were propos ing to set aside six acres for a new administration and Customs warehouse build ing for Marsh Harbour’s commercial shipping port.
granted another seven-day due diligence period exten sion, taking both sides to a new Thursday deadline fort the buyer to pay the required $5m deposit, Mr Scott would not be drawn on whether he thought the pro posed sale was in trouble.
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However, he reiterated his belief that no potential Grand Lucayan purchaser - Electra or otherwisewould close a deal without an “ironclad, bullet-proof assurance” that the Gov ernment will redevelop Grand Bahama Interna tional Airport in accordance with the standard and timeline required to facili tate a return on hundreds of millions of dollars in investment.“TheBoard of Lucayan Renewal Holdings has been asked by the attorneys for Electra America Hospitality Group for a further sevenday extension to consider outstanding matters related
Meanwhile, the utilities upgrades are designed to benefit both Club Med and the island’s businesses and other residents. “Work that had been stopped at the airport has to be continued, and all of those will be ready for the reopening of Club Med,” Mr Davis said.
Eileen Kett, Club Med’s senior vice-president for development and general counsel, said it broke her heart to see the San Salvador resort close in September 2020 but said the group was “grateful” for the invest ments made in the clinics.
GOVERNMENT & CLUB MED HOA SIGNING CEREMONYPRIME MINISTER DAVIS ADDRESSES PRESS CONFERENCE
“The new X-ray machines, the new ambulance, the tele-health medicine that’s needed on the island, the investment in the airport, will allow Club Med to bring in weekly charter flights from Europe, Canada and the US on Bahamasair. And we expect to bring over 15,000 international clients to the island each year,”
yesterday disclosing that the resort chain has invested “north of $5m” in renovat ing the Philipproperty.Davis KC hailed the hotel’s return after a two-year COVID-enforced closure as an “historic day” for his constituents given that Club Med has tradi tionally provided the main economic engine and life blood for the island.
SAN Salvador’s Club Med resort will generate 250 jobs when it reopens on October 22, with the Prime Minister
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Speaking at the Heads of Agreement signing with the resort chain, he added that Club Med has invested “north of $100m to date” in San Salvador. “I want to indicate that just for this reo pening they have invested north of $5m for renovations and prepping for the open ing of Club Med,” the Prime Minister added.
The Government has itself invested $3.5m in upgrading San Salvador’s public health clinic, in addition to water and electricity infrastruc ture. The perceived inability of the island’s healthcare facilities to cope with an influx of COVID-19 patients was cited as a key factor in Club Med’s decision to shut ter its Columbus Isle resort at the pandemic’s height.
she said. Club Med plans to bring back 70 percent of its Bahamian workforce, Ms Kett added. “We expect more than 250 Bahami ans to be employed either directly with Club Med, or through third party suppli ers like landscape providers and security companies,” she said. Club Med’s reopen ing is timed for the “ramp up” to Thanksgiving and the Christmas holidays, with the date giving it several weeks to address any operational issues that may emerge. San Salvador businesses reacted positively to the confirmed reopening
CLUB MED REOPENING GIVES 250 JOBS BOOST
Ms Laramore expects other spin-off jobs will be created as a result. “Since Club Med was closed busi ness has been really slow. We’ve been trying to be very creative to keep the doors open. Now that there’s some activity going with the reno vations at Club Med, we see a significant increase in busi ness because of that. It’s all positive news all around,” sheAlisonadded.Mortimer, owner of Tiny’s Beauty and Drug Supply, said: “We are happy that we are bouncing back. We are super excited, espe cially for the businesses, to be able to bounce back. We hope it all goes well and there are no weather interruptions. The locals up there are doing a fantastic job of renovating the whole grounds of Club Med.
Beverleydate. Laramore, owner of Paradis Restau rant and Bar, said: “We are very excited that Club Med is reopening. They were the major employers besides the Government on the island, and it is much needed after two-and-a-half years of the pandemic. The travel econ omy has taken a downturn so this is great news.”
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“The main thing is get ting people back to work now. For the past two-anda-half years without a job, and businesses having gone down, people had to leave the island in search for better work, so this is a Godsent blessing.”
“We wanted a lender who saw our company and the project we are undertak ing as a direct benefit to the country and its citizens, and believed they could get a return on their investment. Generally speaking, we were looking for a healthy
“The key thing for us starts with the company and the individuals. We invest, provide credit to individuals and corpora tions that are run by very strong businesspeople, with strong governance and a strong reputation. Carib bean Pavement Solutions and its team fit this profile perfectly,” he said. Sygnus looked at available collat eral or loan security, and the company’s capacity to execute projects, its busi ness strategy and support.
For that undertaking, the company invested in a new $1m mobile asphalt
As for the Exuma deal, Ber isford Grey, Sygnus president and chief execu tive, said the alternative investment firm evaluated Caribbean Pavement Solu tions’ ability to pay its debts and also assessed the com pany’s corporate values.
CARIBBEAN PAVEMENT SOLUTIONS, the road paving arm of Bahamas Striping Group of Companies (BSGC), has tapped into $25m in funding from Jamaica’s Sygnus Credit Investments for a $60m Exuma road improvement project. Pictured are Bahamas Striping founders Dominic Sturrup (left) and Atario Mitchell.
BAHAMAS STRIPING GAINS $25M FOR EXUMA INFRASTRUCTURE MOVE
are still here waiting on what happens next...... You can see why the persons that are negotiating the purchase of the hotel are stalling to see exactly what will happen with the airport.”
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Texas in the summer, and it was nice. Texans and Cana dians are two wonderful groups. They are wonder ful repeat customers and they are curious about the island.” Sunwing was the tour and airline partner for Grand Bahama’s former MemoriesMeanwhile,resort.the latest seven-day extension agreed between the Government and Electra America over the latter’s Grand Lucayan purchase was branded as “understandable” by a Grand Bahama business man given the need for reassurance over the time line for Grand Bahama International Airport’s redevelopment.
to explore this funding mechanism is approach ing government, time and again, and hearing they wanted to give us the work but there was no money in the budget for it,” added MrTheSturrup.PPP framework transfers risks, as well as rewards, to private sector partners who collabo rate with the Government to design, finance and build crucial public infra structure using private capital as opposed to tax payerPPPsmonies.areseen as provid ing infrastructure financing when government funds are limited. It can pay for work, with a modest interest rate attached, over a period of time. In return, the private sector partner must deliver the project on time, within budget and adhere to a predetermined scope of works in order to see a return on investment.“Wehad to figure out how to keep the company alive, keep the company growing and keep our staff. We researched what differ ent companies did around the world in a similar situa tion. We saw that PPP was the perfect solution for our
The Exuma road improvement project marks the first time that Baha mas Striping has sought outside capital to com plete a major public sector project. “What drove us
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manufacturing plant still stationed on that Family Island.“We knew we were going into Exuma with a longterm vision. We knew that ten miles of road was just a drop in the bucket for the number of roads and capital works that must be done,” said Mr Albury. “We believed additional work or expansion of the work would be an automatic outcome. As we projected, that’s what happened.”
The Sygnus financing indicates continued and growing interest by Jamai can investment houses in Bahamas-based PPPs. Sygnus itself served as lead arranger for a PPP between the Government and PPP Investment and Construc tion Company in a deal that raised $9 million earlier this year to rebuild the Eight Mile Rock government complex in Grand Bahama.
James Rolle, Dolly Madi son’s general manager, told Tribune Business that the airport and resort go “hand in hand”. He said: “The new airport board met last week, and I haven’t heard any grand announcement from their meeting. So, we
And Proven Wealth, another Jamaica-based financier, is providing $20m to finance the Govern ment’s 365-lot Renaissance at Carmichael subdivision.
The Bahamas Strip ing Group of Companies (BSGC), in a statement, disclosed that its subsidi ary, Caribbean Pavement Solutions, had signed an agreement with Sygnus Credit Investments to fund some 42 percent of the planned public infrastruc ture improvements via a public-private partnership (PPP)
company and our country,” Mr Sturrup said.
Describing Sygnus as having displayed “an appetite for investments”, Bahamas Striping’s manag ing director, Allen Albury, said: “Sygnus, recognising the strength of the group and opportunity to provide flexible financing to assist with liquidity and cash flow, was pleased to play a part in helping the company to continue to grow and pro vide jobs, which will have a positive impact on people and the wider economy. “
BERISFORD Grey (left), president and chief executive of Sygnus, and Bahamas Striping Group of Companies president, Atario Mitchell, at the facility signing. Photo: Bahamas Striping Group of Companies/Precision Media
financial relationship across the board; a win for them and for us,” said Mr Sturrup.Bahamas Striping Group of Companies said it is “eager” to expand the footprint Caribbean Pave ment Solutions created in Exuma when it secured an $8m government con tract to construct ten miles of roads back in 2020.
CANADIAN tour oper ator, Sunwing, is returning to Grand Bahama this winter with air service from both Toronto and Montreal. It will resume on Decem ber 17 with non-stop weekly flights on Saturdays in partnership with the Viva Wyndham Fortuna Resort. Its return thus adds further airlift to the Grand Bahama market, which has been a key goal for the Ministry of Tourism, Investments and Aviation.Alfredo Bridgewa ter, owner/operator of Coco Nutz, said of Sun wing’s return: “They normally bring in guests from Canada. They did Canada in the winter and
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He added that the Baha mas Striping Group of Companies, through its road construction arm, Caribbean Pavement Solu tions, sought funding from local, regional and interna tional financial institutions for its Exuma project. After reviewing proposals from entities in China, the US and other Caribbean nations, it selected Sygnus.
“We want to do busi ness with companies that think about the relation ship with us as a long-term partnership. That allows us to sit together and find customised solutions. This is exactly the type of part nership we have built with Caribbean Pavement Solu tions,” Mr Grey added.
Sunwing set for winter return
structure group says it has secured $25m from a Jamaican investment house to finance the first stage of some $60m in road improvements and other upgrades on Exuma.
Keith Davies, BISX's chief executive, said: “BISX is pleased to add the Crystal Dome Fund to the roster of investment funds listed on the exchange. When we created the mutual fund list ing facility we hoped that it would evolve into the dynamic business line that it has become. We appreci ate the excellent working relationship that we have established with Winter botham, who have been a committed supporter of the exchange.”
BISX adds new fund to its
•• * • * • * * * * * •• • • * • * * * * * * • * • * • * * * * * * • * * * • * * * * * * * * * * * Embassy of the United States Vacancy Announcement The American Embassy in Nassau is accepting applications for the following position: Open to: All Interested Applicants/ All Sources Duties: Public Engagement Assistant The Public Engagement Assistant works wider the direct super ision of the Public Affairs Officer. The position has no supervisory responsibilities. Monitors press and digital media coverage of issues of importance to the U.S. Identifies and advises the Public Affairs Officer on strategies for promoting accurate, balanced press and digital media coverage of U.S. foreign policy and American interests; correcting misinformation; and countering disinfonnation. Maintains Mission flagship digital properties (social media, website content). Researches and analyzes audiences for Mission digital properties; customizes online engagement to promote Mission objectives. Builds productive relationships with working-level press and media professionals in person and online. Interested candidates are required to possess the following skills and qualifications: Education: A University degree in Journalism, Communications, International Relations, Political Science, or Economics is required Experience: A minimum of four years of progressively responsible experience in a media outlet, think tank, university, NGO, international organization, foreign embassy, government office or corporation is required, with responsibility for public relations, public affairs, journalism, communications, marketing, outreach events, press conferences, and other media interactions as significant parts of the job Must have experience managing digital properties, and content creation in multimedia and traditional formats, including photography and videography. Skills & Abilities: Thorough, detailed knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel. This may be tested. Must be available to travel throughout The Bahamas to develop professional contacts, support Mission press and online media engagement activities, and create content (photo/video of ambassador's travel, PD programs, etc.) Language: Fluent Speaking/Reading and written English ability is required. This may be tested. The complete Vacancy Announcement and Application forms are available online on the Electronic Recruitment Application (ERA) located on the following website: https://bs usembassy gov/embassy/jobs Applications will not be accepted at the Security Gate of the Embassy, by Mail, E-mail or other means of delivery. Opening Period: Monday September 19, 2022 Friday September 30, 2022. Due to the high volume of applications, unsuccessful candidates will not be contacted. Role Outline: • Unit Layouts and Quality control • Framing/Studding • Carpentry Quality Control • Tray Ceilings • Baseboard • Trims, Cabinetry, Countertops • Tiles • Vanity Heights and Installation • Organizing Workers, Managing Tasks Efficiently • Liaising with HVAC, Plumbing and Electrical • Liaising with Management and Design Team Requirements: • At Least 10 Years’ Experience • Work Monday Saturday • Background in Carpentry Ideally • Must Have Worked on Large Residential Job Sites Before • Must Have at Least 5 Years Management Experience • Must Have a Car Career Opportunity HEAD OF CONSTRUCTION email: hr@palmcay.com
A BAHAMIAN has been hired as project manager at KPM Frank lin’s engineering firm in Orlando.Dominic McFall has joined a company that pro vides civil engineering, land surveying, planning and landscape architecture ser vices to retail, single family and multi-family residential clients, healthcare, hospi tality, theme park, office, industrial/warehouse and multi-use development markets.KPMFranklin said a key factor in Mr McFall’s hiring is his knowledge of water resources.“With his utility and storm water design exper tise, we look forward to the value Dominic will bring to our clients,” the company said in welcom ing Mr McFall to a staff of more than 70 employees that includes civil engi neers, surveyors, landscape architects, planners, CAD (computer-aided design) technicians and field specialists.Agraduate of Walla Walla University, a private Sev enth-day Adventist college in Washington, Mr McFall earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering with a minor in mathematics in
contacted via LinkedIn. com, the online professional networking platform. “I’ve had talent recruiters reach out to me all the time. Most times I ignore them but my wife, Lyndell, a civil engi neer herself, urged me to listen to what they had to say,” Mr McFall explained.
year-long hiatus, during which he obtained his blackbelt in karate and assisted his father, Andrew McFall, in establishing his new manufacturing com pany, A.R.M. Bottles and Supplies.InSeptember 2016, Mr McFall returned to Walla Walla. A little over a month before completing his bach elor’s degree he landed an interview and snagged a position at Donald W. McI ntosh Associates, a Central Florida engineering, plan ning and surveying firm. In January 2019, Mr McFall relocated from Washington to Florida to take up his post as a pro ject engineer at McIntosh. There, he designed civil infrastructure, grading and drafted technical reports for master utility and drain age“Atdesigns.McIntosh I would hand my designs and reports off to the project manager who would carry it all the way through, but now I’m the lead,” he said. Once Mr McFall receives his professional engineering license (P.E.) in January, he will have the ability to take projects from start to finish without oversight.
THE BAHAMAS International Securities Exchange (BISX) says it has added another investment fund to its listings roster.
listings. The fund is incor porated as an International Business Company (IBC) domiciled in The Bahamas
THE DEPUTY prime minister (DPM) was last week elected to continue as vice chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organ isation (CTO) during its council of ministers and commissioners of tourism meetings.Chester Cooper, also minister with responsibil ity for tourism, investments and aviation, led a del egation including Latia Duncombe, acting tourism director-general, and Dr Kenneth Romer, deputy director general and acting director of aviation, to the four-day series of meet ings that were held in the Cayman Islands.
DPM TO CONTINUE AS CTO VICE-CHAIRMAN
“I am grateful and hon oured to serve in this capacity on behalf of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the entire Caribbean region,” Mr Cooper said. “It is important that we continue to forge deeper relations with our tourism coun terparts and support each other as we aim for full economic recovery. It is my hope that ongoing efforts will enhance our tourism product across the region and position the Caribbean as the most desirable desti nation year-round.”
“At the end of my third year at Walla Walla I should have been starting senior level classes, but I was still taking sophomore classes. I was starting to feel a lot of pressure. I wasn’t com municating very well with my parents. I didn’t want to talk to them about what was going on.” With one month left in his third year, he informed his mother, Phoebe McFall, he wanted to return home. Without asking any questions she agreed.MrMcFall found him self refocused after his
CIVIL engineer Dominic McFall is the latest hire at Orlando’s KPM Franklin.
Mr McFall, a 2010 gradu ate of Bahamas Academy, matriculated through the three-year Technical Cadet Corps programme while in high school. Originally, his plan was to become an architect, but his uncle, Alvan Rolle, cautioned againstAfterit.decades in the pro fession, Mr Rolle found the field over-saturated. He advised his nephew to reconsider his options and choose another profes sional path related to his love of technical drawing.
CHESTER Cooper addresses the members of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO).
With that guidance in mind, Mr McFall enrolled at then then-College of The Bahamas as a pre-engineer ing major. A year into his associate of science pro gramme, he transferred to Walla Walla University in fall 2011. Things did not go according to plan.
“I got there and got dis tracted to say the least. Being away from home for the first time and having a lot more freedom than I typically would have, I started to do my own thing. I played way too many video games and watched way too much TV, and didn’t pay any attention to my classes when I went to them,” Mr McFall recalled.
Engineer joins Orlando firm as project manager
“They put me in contact with the hiring staff at KPM Franklin. I sat down and had a really good conversa tion with them. I liked what they were saying, and I liked the vibe of the people who I met. Once they extended the offer, I really had to sit on it for a while. Ultimately, I decided to go for it. It’s been a really good fit so far.”
The exchange, in a state ment, said the Crystal Dome Fund has completed its mutual fund listing process to join multiple other such
"As the administra tor with most funds under administration in The Baha mas, our partnership with BISX has continued to be a key component of our offer ing and a key enhancer in our ability to attract funds to The Bahamas.” listing
KEITH DAVIES
tourism performance and developments.TheCTO is the Caribbean’s tourism devel opment agency, featuring 24 member countries and territories, and provides support to those members in marketing, sustainable tourism, communications and research and informa tion technology. This year’s conference focused on regional recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic and plans for the future of tourism.CTO business meetings were on hold since 2020, making this the organisa tion’s first in-person event following the onset of the pandemic.
In his role as CTO vicechairman, Mr Cooper will provide updates regard ing the Caribbean’s
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December 2018. He passed the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES) professional licensure for engineers exam in 2021, and is pursuing a master’s
in water resources from the University of Central Flor idaMr(UCF).McFall landed the job after a recruiter for the firm believed him to be a perfect fit for the company. He was
The Winterbotham Trust Company served as the BISX sponsor member that brought the fund to the exchange. The fund's invest ment decisions will be made by Roar Information Tech nology. The Winterbotham Trust Company Limited has been appointed to serve as the Crystal Dome Fund's administrator.IvanHooper, The Win terbotham Trust Company's chief executive, said: “It is a pleasure to continue work ing with the BISX team. A true partnership that has supported over 50 percent of the current fund listings. This time with the listing of Crystal Dome Fund, a fund dedicated to look at oppor tunities in the digital asset space.
and is licensed under the Investment Funds Act 2019.
the 12 months between July 2021 and end-June 2022 to the music industry. Two billion more than in the 12 months before. Accord ing to Spotify, it was worth more than $5bn in 2020.
By CHRIS ILLING Business developer ActivTrades Corp
• Energetic, dependable, mature, customer-centric, pleasant, task driven, punctual, meticulous, proficient in English language (oral and written), a self-starter/takes initiative, and is flexible.
ahead of the project’s com pletion in summer 2023.
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
Is:
In 2021, Spotify paid out more than $7bn to a wide variety of rights holders for the more than-70m songs represented on the plat form. But when it comes to figures for Apple Music and Amazon Music, how ever, the two technology giants are deliberately quiet. Music services are primarily seen as part of the overall ecosystem. As a result, they are silent about individual distributions.
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Tube Music and You Tube Premium subscribers who pay 11.99 euros per month for music and advertise ment-free videos.
A whopping $16.9bn, out of the $25.9bn in total rev enue in the global recorded music market alone (not counting the publish ing business), came from streaming in 2021. All ser vices pay around two-thirds of their total revenue to the music industry.
and 90 at Doctors Hospital, with an even lower ratio of 1.49 in Grand Bahama at present, she said: “We have begun to look at ways to correct that on both islands.” There is some way to go, though, with New Providence needing to increase its hospital beds by 18.9 per 1,000 persons to hit the WHO target.
• Drafts requests in respect of travel for the Director General;
• Follow written and oral rules, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions;
• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with those encountered in the course of work;
Spotify distributed more than $7bn to rights hold ers in the music industry in 2021. You Tube, which is owned by Google, now has
The BISX-listed health care provider was also talking to Bahamian-owned
Bachelor’s degree in business administration or human resources and proficiency in Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook) and four (4) years of experience in a similar position.
more than $6bn and should soon trump Spotify.
Career Opportunity
THE BAHAMAS Taxi
But, on Grand Bahama, Doctors Hospital’s $23.5m investment in its new 30-bed hospital at Free port’s First Commercial Centre will help ease the intensive care unit (ICU) bed shortage in The Baha mas which Ms Sturrup said was exposed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic.
DOCTORS HOSPITAL
• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal relations, confidentiality, integrity, maturity, consistency, professionalism, attention to detail, even-temperament, team player skills.
drivers, and we have many of them just waiting, so we shouldn’t have a problem with getting people to buyin. Taxi drivers were a safe venue because we already had the requisite insurance. It can’t work in a private car because a private car doesn’t have the capacity
of income “twin engine growth engines”. Around 30 percent of the $6bn came from user-generated con tent on YouTube. There are voices in the music industry who are calling for a higher share of the video plat form’s huge advertising pie. In 2021, advertising rev enue was $28.8bn, up from $19.8bn in
• Operate a computer and other standard office equipment;
Only candidates meeting the criteria will be contacted.
• Assists in the preparation of reports as needed;
Wesley Ferguson told Tribune Business that the UniRide app will enable persons to use credit or
to take passengers for hire. The insurance is not going to pay. So it was a nobrainer to use taxis because we come equipped with insurance coverage.”
Mr Ferguson, mean while, said hotels have stopped handing out taxi rate cards to their custom ers. “They were lame to begin with. The taxi driv ers never adopted those fares because the rate cards were not done properly," he added.
coming in hot. We’re not slowing down. We have begun and completed our demolition. We wrapped it up just at the end of August.” She added that drawings and plans for the new hospital were set to be submitted imminently to the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) for review and approval.
Circle, which is where the old Shalimar Hotel was located. And it has also acquired a 26-unit apart ment building to house both its associates and patients who have to be brought to Grand Bahama from other islands such as Abaco and Bimini.Those patients will be exposed to a “concierge” service where they did not have to worry about accommodation and trans portation expenses, and will be picked up and ferried between the airport and hospital/clinic.
• Multi-task;
debit cards to call-up taxis throughout The Bahamas.
Doctors is ‘coming in hot’ on bed shortage
• Work without supervision;
Minimum Requirements
new app. But if you check it now, it’s live, and soon we will be testing it with live money," the union chief added. "We have to wait on the developer to provide the funding. That was part of the "Ourcontract.endof the deal was just to provide the taxi
• Demonstrate excellent oral and written communication skills;
Last Tuesday afternoon, Google’s music director, Lyor Cohen, wrote in a blog post that the company dis tributed more than $6bn in
Ability to:
In addition to the subscrip tion model, there is also the video portal You Tube itself, which users can use free of charge with adver tising breaks. The company calls the two streams
contractors on the construc tion work, in a bid to keep as much money circulating in the Grand Bahama and wider economy as possible
According2020.to a Goldman Sachs study, global reve nue is expected to climb to $142bn by 2030. The growth will be driven primarily by the streaming market, which is expected to reach around 1.2bn customers in another eight years.
Cab Union's president says the country’s first-ever ride sharing app is ready to launch its testing phase.
Despite the focus on the new Grand Bahama hospi tal and Doctors Hospital’s new Eight Mile Rock clinic, which treated 117 patients after opening in mid-July and another 252 for the full month of August, Ms Sturrup said: “There’s still yet more to come. We are focused on the north, and so we want to ensure we have sufficient infrastruc ture in the north to scale up.”She confirmed that Doc tors Hospital has acquired a 17-acre site on Mall Drive, just up from Ranfurly
The UniRide app is avail able in the Apple Store and Google Store right for users to see the display. The union president indicated it will help taxi drivers boost local fare income - some thing that he said is vital given that the market has become over-saturated due to the issuance of up to 600 new taxi plates.
New Tunes
A progressive company invites applications from suitably qualified individuals for the position of Administrative Officer
• Reports directly to the Director General;
• Supervise/Plan/Organize;
“The developer was also the financier for the app, and he is trying to gather some finances for the adver tisement of it because it’s ready. We also need funding for the financial infrastruc ture that will go into the
In September 2021, the Google subsidiary, You Tube, announced it had more than 50m paying You
• Meet tight deadlines/work under pressure;
THE Music industry has been in a state of transfor mation since the Internet’s launch in Around1999.$24bn worth of CDs, LPs, videos and tapes were sold in 1999 compared to just $5bn in 2021. And the global market for music recordings and viewings was shrinking until 2014. Due to the improvement of Internet services and bandwidth, new media such as streaming and down loads have helped to grow the market again.
“This is not a moderate level of investment,” Ms Sturrup said. “We have to come in bold. We have to come in hot, and we have to come in appropriately at the right size. We saw the need with the WHO [ratio], we saw the need in COVID. We saw the short age of “Thisbeds.isnot an idea. This is happening, and happen ing very quickly.... We’re
Interested, qualified candidates should submit their Curriculum Vitae and all relevant supporting documents to the attention of The Manager Human Resources, at PeopleFirstHRBahamas@gmail.com on or before Thursday, September 22, 2022.
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• Coordinates the scheduling of appointments/meetings;
The latest subscriber num bers for Apple Music are from June 2019 (more than 60m). At the beginning of 2020, Amazon declared it had around 55m users.
Ride sharing app set for test phase
You Tube aims to over take the Swedish service by 2025 as the largest single source of revenue for the music industry. On its way to the stated goal, You Tube has an advantage over Spotify that makes a direct comparison difficult.
Of that investment, some $3.5m will be spent on upgrading the building; with a further $1.5m allo cated for renovations and repairs; $6.5m for medical equipment; and more than half or $12m getting Doc tors Hospital’s operations to a scale where it can meet future healthcare demand and expansion needs.
• Track tasks
The Administrative Officer ensures the efficient day-to-day operation of the Director General.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the Director General Office;
• Work closely with all Department/Section Heads, and ensures follow-up of outstanding matters as per assignments/actions provided them by the Director General;
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Mr Hutton could not be reached for comment yes terday, but Mr Thompson said he was “very disap pointed” that only one Port Department official had replied to the proposal todate. Prior to the meeting on the new port, no repre sentative from that agency or the Ministry of Transport and Housing who was pre sent said they had seen it.
“It is estimated the prop erty will directly employ up to ten persons, and indi rectly up to 100 through rented vendor stalls. All revenues generated by use and tenants would be used to maintain the prop erty, with any excess being donated to local Abaco causes as directed by the park board of directors. The board composition and members will be decided by the initial forming committee.”Mrs Coleby-Davis, addressing last week’s Abaco Business Outlook conference, agreed that “very little action” has been taken to rebuild Marsh Har bour’s commercial shipping port - the main freight gate way into the island - in the three years since the facility was destroyed by Hurricane Dorian. However, she said “more information will be shared with Abaconians in short order” on plans to develop a replacement via a public-private partnership (PPP).“Iwish to advise efforts to rebuild an efficient and secure port system are underway,” she prom ised. “A PPP was sought to create the performance dynamics of a modern port and develop quality infra structure for every dollar invested.”
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HARRY B. SANDS, LOBOSKY MANAGEMENT CO. LTD. Registered Agent for the above-named Company
Creditors having debts or claims against the above-named Company are required to send particulars thereof to the undersigned c/o P.O. Box N-624, Nassau, Bahamas on or before 13th day of October A.D., 2022. In default thereof they will be excluded from the benefit of any distribution made by the Liquidator.
IQ EQ Corporate Services (Bahamas) Limited
Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 138 (8) of the International Business Companies Act 2000 notice is hereby given that the abovenamed Company has been dissolved and struck off the Register pursuant to a Certificate of Dissolution issued by the Registrar General on the 9th day of September 2022.
“They had not even heard of the project when I stood up in the meeting and advocated for it,” he added. “I said I would have a chat with the NGOs and other persons involved to see if they are still interested in moving forward. That’s when I reached out to Ken Hutton, and he said that for himself and them, it’s still a go-ahead.” Clay Sweet ing, minister responsible for Family Island affairs, and Antoinette Thompson, permanent secretary in the transport ministry, were also said to have received copies.The Memorial Garden and Community Park pro posal, which has been seen by Tribune Business, pegs the total construction cost at $3.685m. The most expensive items would be the $900,000 amphitheatre; $850,000 for landscaping; and $800,000 associated with the cost of materi als and construction for 20 vendor stalls.
“A portion of the area has been set aside for likely use by the Marsh Harbour port department as the most likely location for a
22777 Springwoods Village Parkway Spring, Texas 77389 U.S.A.
Dated the 16th day of September, A.D., 2022.
“Both entities are required to maintain fully transparent and account able accounts for regulatory purposes by their respec tive governments,” the project proposal said. “It is envisioned that a local com mittee will be formed to decide on a design and plan for the site. The committee would include community leaders along with appro priate local and national government representa tives, where necessary.
horror and tragedy that took place on September 1, 2019,” the proposal said.
(c) The Liquidator of the said Company is Daniel A. Bates, of 22777 Springwoods Village Parkway, Spring, Texas 77389, U.S.A.2
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new port administration building and Customs ware house. This area comprises approximately six acres directly facing the Marsh Harbour port.
“It would allow more area for containers on the waterfront side. You would
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This, he added, was despite it being sent to James Albury, former cen tral and south Abaco MP, and ex-parliamentary secre tary in the Prime Minister’s Office under the Minnis administration. Mr Thomp son said it was subsequently sent to his successor as MP, John Pinder, on Octo ber 20, 2021, and also sent to JoBeth Coleby-Davis, minister of transport and housing, on August 31.
EXXONMOBIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION TOGO LIMITED
(a) EXXONMOBIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION TOGO LIMITED is in dissolution under the provisions of the International Business Companies Act 2000.
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“But all construction and funding would go through the NGOs, not the Gov ernment. The Government should not be the one responsible. Moving the port administration build ing there would allow [free up] the whole right side of the port, enable the parking lot to be fenced in, and they could expand the port. It would make the port larger on the water side,” Mr Thompson continued.
Dated the 16th day of September, A.D., 2022
Besides a memorial garden, the partners have also proposed constructing a basketball court and small amphitheatre at the site, the latter of which would be used to host homecomings, regattas, gospel concerts and other community-based events. Walking paths, a children’s playground and vendor stalls, where foods, Bahamian dishes and art can be sold, are also incor porated into the partners’ plans.Revealing that the pro posal would 100 percent financed, built and main tained by the private sector and the hetownshipforcebeingCommerceformercialtoweeksbourtheafterbeingmentbyitThompsonorganisationsnon-governmental(NGOs),Mrsaidthatto-datehadbeenacknowledgedjustonePortDepartexecutivedespitee-mailedtothemthemeetingheldbyagencyinMarshHarjusttwotothreeagotodiscussplansrebuildAbaco’scommershippingport.CreditingKenHutton,AbacoChamberofpresident,fortheprimarydrivingwithwhomheandthehavepartnered,toldTribuneBusiness:
“For the last 22 months the area formerly known as The Mudd in central Marsh Harbour has remained a fenced-in, overgrown and unmaintained plot of land unused and unusable by the community, unmarked and unremembered for the
EXXONMOBIL EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION TOGO LIMITED
“It is envisioned that the property of the project will be either granted to the Bahamian non-profit to keep in perpetuity as a community space, or be leased to the Bahamian non-profit for a 100-year term at $1 per year in order to maintain the space for the benefit of the Marsh Harbour community,” the proposal continued.
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Daniel A. LiquidatorBates
“There’s so much that could be done. We don’t want to turn it into a business dis trict. Thousands of people died there, even though the Government won’t admit it. I think it would honour a lot of “Thepeople.majority of it should be used as a memo rial garden with green space. The Government would control the first four to seven acres, and the back would be opened up as a garden. We’re trying to get something where the Gov ernment will partner with the NGOs, and give the guidelines and restrictions as to what needs to be done on the port side with regard to security, fencing and the administration building.
“A group has come together to propose to rectify this situation by cre ating a vibrant community space where our people can gather in comfort and safety while remembering those who were taken from us by an historic hurricane named“TheDorian.park would be maintained by a non-profit organisation through pri vate donations and funds raised from hosting events and renting vendor stalls. Any excess revenue would be channelled back into the community via the non-profit.... All funding for the project would be provided through private sector donors and sponsors. No government funding is required.”Donated funds would be managed by USincorporated One Abaco Foundation and its Baha mian registered, certified affiliate, Abaco Resurrect Association. One Abaco was said to have formed a five-year partnership with the Guy Harvey Founda tion that will see charitable events held locally to raise monies for ocean protec tion and other causes.
be able to come out to the road and fence it off. Where the port building used to be, it can now be used for the storage of more containers. They really have nowhere to expand the port cur rently, but could if the right side, where the port build ing used to be, becomes more space for Tropical Shipping or whoever brings in freight. It makes sense.”
(b) The dissolution of the said Company commenced on the 14th day of September, 2022 when its Articles of Dissolution were submitted to and registered by the Registrar General.
Abaco partners offer $4m Dorian memorial
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the law “dictates that the title recorded first in time should prima facie be the accepted title” even though Ms Dean’s conveyance was dated“Withearlier.the allegations of fraud no longer alive it cannot be doubted that
Ocean has the better title, as the validity of their docu mentary title has essentially gone unchallenged,” Chief Justice Winder said, accept ing that Polly Cay had been conveyed to Jerome Wash ington Knowles almost a century ago.
Law firm-bashing investors win Cay
Ms Dean, who was repre sented before the Supreme Court by Damian Gomez KC, former minister of state for legal affairs, had claimed documentary title to Polly Cay after it was purportedly conveyed to her on July 8, 1988, by her uncle, Allan Strachan.
Mr Wells, in a reply the following day, reassured: “As far as I am concerned, and as far as I am aware, there is no basis for this person’s claim. It is not uncommon someone will make an unvalidated claim, but in any event we are responsible to deal with any title issues that may arise that affects the title that we did not tell you about.”
ChieflatethetitlenotingingonNovemberitclient’sActRegistrationPointtheHowever,cross-examination.NadiaWright,attorneyforOceanEstates,arguedtheofRecordsgives“priority”toherconveyancebecausewasrecordedfirston16,2009.MsDean’swasrecordedFebruary4,2011.Backthisposition,andthatbothPollyCayclaimsderivefromsameroot,namelytheAlfredStrachan,theJusticeagreedthat
“Upon her purchase from Allan [Strachan], Dean did not proceed to have her conveyance recorded in the Registry of Records until February 4, 2011,” Chief Justice Winder noted. “Dean says that in 2012 she discovered that Polly Cay was listed for sale online. It was shortly after viewing the online listing that she found out that Polly Cay had allegedly been con veyed to Ocean.”
And she also claimed possessory title to the 7.33 acre island, which is located 600 yards from mainland Exuma in the protective lagoon formed by Blue Island, by virtue of the Stra chan family occupying it for more than 200 years and using it for purposes that included livestock farming.
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& Company law firm, which detected Ms Dean’s com peting ownership claim now that her conveyance had been filed with the Registry of Records in 2011. Central to Ms Dean’s case was the allegation that the September 9, 1928, convey ance in which a late relative sold Polly Cay to Jerome Washington Knowles - a transaction at the heart of Ocean Point’s title claim - was fraudulent because the ‘X’ used by her illiter ate ancestor in place of a signature “does not match that on other documents” heHowever,signed. in an accurate assessment of what was to come in the Chief Justice’s eventual ruling more than seven years later, Sharlyn Smith, an attorney with Sharon Wilson & Co, told Mr Ben Zvi that Ocean Point Estates has “a good prospect” of defeating Ms Dean’sAssertingclaims.that the fraud allegation will be “a dif ficult one to substantiate” given the evidence Ms Dean would have to pro duce, she added that the possessory title claim was also not a strong one given that a “squatter” would have to show “continuous, undisturbed possession” of the land for 12 years or more.Itappears that Sharon Wilson & Co’s findings triggered the Polly Cay website’s creation, and its assault not only on Graham, Thompson & Company but Bahamian attorneys and real estate transactions gen erally. Ocean Point Estates’ principals and their US attorney also embarked on a campaign to lobby the US embassy to stiffen its warn ings to American investors about difficulties involv ing real estate deals in this nation.Atthe trial before Chief Justice Winder, Ms Dean dropped the fraud claim and instead focused on her possession of Polly Cay. Meanwhile Mr Sade, a 50 percent owner of Ocean Point Estates, alleged that Ms Dean’s rival ownership claim had “caused great hardship and loss of busi ness” for the company, although the judgment did not give any details.
Finding that Ocean Point Estates was a “bona fide purchaser for value”, he also dismissed Ms Dean’s claim to possessory title.
It is unclear what Ocean Point Estates’ plans were for the island upon their 2009 acquisition, although they are likely to have been tourist and/or real estate related. The Polly Cay website refers to building permits for two homes. Mr Sade asserted that he “first visited Polly Cay in 2004, and the property was over grown with bushes and had no sign of visible occupa tion by “Duringanyone.the time I was visiting Polly Cay in the early part of 2000, my busi ness partner, Eyal Bern Zvi, and I became seri ous about purchasing the cay due to the fact it was undisturbed and pristine,” Mr Sade added. He said he visited Polly Cay up to four times before Ocean Point Estates’ closed the pur chase in October 2009 and there was no sign of anyone else being present.
It is understood that Graham, Thompson & Company and its princi pals were furious when they became aware of the Polly Cay-related website’s existence some years ago, and attempt to smear the company’s reputation and integrity. Sources familiar with the situation said the law firm had planned to ini tiate legal action, although it is unclear if this hap pened. It now remains to be seen if the website will be taken down following the Supreme Court ruling.
“Dean’s conveyance would not have come to the attention of Ocean based on the available records when a title search would have been conducted for Ocean by its attorneys,” Chief Justice Winder ruled.
However, the Chief Jus tice’s ruling effectively both vindicates Graham, Thompson & Company and the title search it conducted on Ocean Point Estates’ behalf. He points out that it would have been impos sible for the firm to have known about Ms Dean’s rival claim because her competing conveyance for Polly Cay was only lodged in the Registry of Records in 2011 - some two years after their own search was completed in 2009.
to injury, they alleged the law firm and its attorneys sought to charge them a $100,000 fee to defend their ownership interest before the Supreme Court.
Ms Dean, though, initi ated Supreme Court legal action in 2014, demand ing both damages and that she recover possession of Polly Cay. Mr Ben Zvi then sought a second title opin ion from the Sharon Wilson
“Dean’s own evidence was that she lives in New Provi dence, and had not visited the cay since 2004,” the
Mr Ben Zvi was alarmed to learn of Ms Dean’s rival Polly Cay ownership claim in June 2012, when she claimed in an e-mail to the website offering the island for sale that she was “the rightful owner and do have claim to this property” and threatened legal action accordingly.InaJune 27, 2012, e-mail to Andrew Wells, attorney and partner at Graham, Thompson & Company, he wrote: “I got numerous disturbing e-mails from this person and I really do hope that it will turn out to be a claim with no base. In the past I did receive similar e-mails from other people.”
Chief Justice said. “Dean conceded that there are no physical structures placed on the cay by her or anyone, and that any farm ing and livestock harvesting had long since ceased on Polly Cay.”
Mr Gomez attacked alleged inconsistencies in Mr Sade’s evidence, namely that in his witness state ment he said his first visit to Polly Cay was in 2000, only then to give the date as 2004 under
off-course earlier in the year by the emergence of COV ID’s Omicron variant and were still trying to catch up.
Lucayan Renewal Holdings media statement indicates that the doubts lie on the buyer’s side.
willing, if we don’t have any major storms or hurricanes.
“It comes down to a single economic proposi tion: Who is going to stick a quarter-of-a-billion dollars into any property anywhere on Grand Bahama without assurances that in a reasona ble period of time there will be a purpose built, state-ofthe-art, 21st century airport that is fully functioning.....
visitor perceptions of The Bahamas. “While Abaco and Grand Bahama took the brunt, we were all hit by Dorian,” he explained. “The hurricane hangover did not just impact Abaco and Grand Bahama, but for a few months the entire Bahamas.“The consumer, when they think of our market, they think of it as one island. We suffered a Dorian hangover for September, October and November 2019. I share that to say that while we would be fortu nate to hit our goals set in December 2021, we antici pate gains from September to December this year, God
“The position is even more telling. They need to come clean with the Baha mian people who are no doubt anxious and wait ing on a full explanation. At the end of the day, they are going to have to face
“In short, the deputy prime minister needs to deliver urgently on his long overdue promises of sell ing the Grand Lucayan and redeveloping the Grand Bahama International Air port,” the Opposition’s leader said, while calling for more information on the latter deal’s progress.
“In terms of room rev enues, we’re almost at our goal. Our goal was 86 per cent. By the end of this year we will definitely hit our room revenue goal, but may fall behind slightly in terms of room nights sold.”
the music and pay the piper. Because they were so aggressive and venomous in the way they attacked us coming out of the pandemic, there’s no honeymoon on this one, I’m sorry.”
Gov’t told: ‘Come clean’ on Grand Lucayan sale
executive director, told Tribune Business he was confident that member properties can further narrow the gap to pre-pan demic records and this year’s goals as they ready for the peak winter season that begins with the Thanks giving and Christmas/New YearRevealingholidays. that hotels were close to their 85 per cent of pre-COVID room revenues target for 2022, he explained that room nights sold had been thrown
Given that the purchase was unveiled during May’s second week, the originallyannounced 60-day due diligence period was due to expire in mid-July. That was extended to early August, and then another 45-day extension was announced until September 15. Last week’s was the third granted to Electra, as both sides seek to turn their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) into a binding sales agree ment with a $5m deposit paid.Several sources said the short seven-day nature of the latest extension indicates Electra’s Grand Lucayan has reached the crunch stage, or decision time, where both sides have to determine if they can reach an agreement and the sale will proceed or if they will walk away. The
difficult “to deliver on the occupancy levels that it has projected”.“Weare now on the third extension of that closing,” he added of the Grand Lucayan, and the entire nation is worried that deputy prime minister Cooper will not deliver as promised,” Mr Pintard added. Call ing on Mr Cooper to “say the course”, he reiterated that the former Minnis administration acquired the resort to prevent it becom ing another Royal Oasis through its abandonment by Hutchison Whampoa’s real estate arm.
“That’s why we left our goals the way they were for room nights sold and room revenue because we think we can get closer to it. That, in a nutshell, is how we’re performing. Looking at the rest of the year, realistically I hope we get to higher than 80-85 percent. I hope we get to maybe about 90 percent. That’s room nights sold,” Mr Fountain continued.
Suggesting that uncer tainty over Grand Bahama International’s Airport redevelopment “is in some way hampering the closure of the sale of the Grand Lucayan”, he added that any new owner will find it
FAMILY ISLAND HOTELS TARGETING 90% PRE-COVID ROOM NIGHTS
“Those were our goals set in back in December last year, but we didn’t know at
Mr Scott told Tribune Business: “I think as I told you before that there’s going to be a series of unremitting delays until they are able to give any impending devel oper an ironclad assurance on the “Quiteairport.frankly, having regard to the criticism that was levelled at my side during the emergency period and following the pandemic; the scathing criticism levied at my side by the now current deputy prime minister and minister of tourism, investments and aviation, they should be run ning to the public with an explanation as to why they require a third extension.
Pointing out that many Family Island hotels typi cally close during the late August through to Sep tember/October period, which coincides with peak hurricane season and the low point in the tourism season, often using the time to renovate and refresh, Mr Fountain told this news paper: “I can tell you that, generally speaking, we are still holding our own.
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“We’re not yet at 2019 room nights sold, stopo vers and room revenues, but we’re probably at 80-85 percent of what we did in 2019. That was the best year on record in terms of room nights sold and room rev enue. Before the end of last year, and before we were hit by the Omicron storm, we were predicting 96 per cent of room nights sold in 2019, and about 86 percent of room revenues compared to 2019, for 2022.
“Who’s going to do it? Money never sleeps. A book I’m reading says the price of time is interest or
to the sale. The Board has granted that extension,” it was announced last week, as the US-headquartered buyer received its third due diligence extension.
had briefly encountered Electra America executives on Grand Bahama last week and said the latest due dili gence extension could be a positive sign. “At least we know they are still inter ested and haven’t walked away from it,” he said. “I am sure there is a valid reason for
“We have had a lot of deals in Freeport and a lot of ground breaking ceremo nies over the past 20 years, and many of us are cynical and are taking the approach that we will believe it when we see it. There’s an element of that. Now we are living in a world that changes every day. The pandemic is behind us, but there are a lot of var iables we don’t know. The only thing that is certain is the uncertainty.”
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Michael Pintard, the Opposition’s leader, yester day said the latest Grand Lucayan sale extension was “both troubling and dis heartening to the residents of Grand Bahama” given that the deal remains critical to hopes of turning around and reviving the island’s long-moribund economy.
“Ifit. they are asking for this extension it means they are doing due diligence indepth and are still keen on doing it. They are still on the ground and obviously inter ested in it. After six years since Hurricane Matthew [and Memories’ pull out], one more week or a couple more weeks is not going to make a big difference.
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Asked whether he believed the Electra Amer ica sale was in difficulties, Mr Scott replied: “If there’s a fourth extension then I’ll answer that question. If you are really cynical, as I tend to be, what you’ll think is that by giving minimal extensions, one week here, two weeks there, it is to keep it under the radar.
that time there would be this thing called the Omi cron variant of COVID-19. While we have not hit our goals, 80-85 percent is still respectable.” Mr Fountain, though, said that rather than adjust the collective 2022 targets for member prop erties they had been left unchanged in the hope the industry would catch up. This, he explained, will be aided by the fact the Bahamian tourism and hotel sector is up against weaker late-year 2019 comparisons due to Hur ricane Dorian’s impact on
Magnus Alnebeck, Peli can Bay’s general manager, told Tribune Business he
investment income. How do you generate that in this case, especially with the circumstances you have at this particular point in time without a fully functioning airport that has the capacity to generate the throughput of tourists in any reason able number to generate a return on investment? It’s not going to happen. You don’t have to be the head of the Federal Reserve or RBC to work that out.”
The broader market is coming off of its worst week in three months following a surprisingly hot report on inflation and big companies, including FedEx, warning about worsening trends in theWalleconomy.Street has been wor ried that the Fed’s plan to cool the hottest inflation in four decades could be too aggressive and throw the economy into a recession by pumping the brakes on growth too hard. The higher rates also tend to weigh on stocks, especially the pricier technology sector.
THE NEW York Stock Exchange on June 29, 2022, in New York. Stocks are opening lower on Wall Street on Monday, Sept. 19, as investors brace for another big interest rate increase this week from the Federal Reserve.
“This decision is a huge win for aviation safety and for the flying public,” said
evade, undermine, weaken, or repeal first officer quali fication, experience, and training requirements.”
The yield on the 2-year Treasury, which tends to
higher. Trading volume was lower than usual, a sign most traders were not eager to make big changes ahead of the Fed eral Reserve’s interest rate policy announcement Wednesday afternoon, said Scott Ladner, chief invest ment officer at Horizon Investments.“Noonereally wants to position ahead of it,” he said. “It’s been such a slip pery market on both the upside and the downside.”
By DAVID KOENIG AP Airlines Writer
Investors will get another update on the housing sector on Wednesday when the National Association of Realtors releases August figures for sales of previ ously occupied homes.
said that Republic’s cur riculum and training is not comparable to that of the military.Republic CEO Bryan Bedford said he was disap pointed but not surprised by the FAA’s decision. He said the agency didn’t give the airline’s request the review that it deserved.
By DAMIAN J. TROISE AND ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers
“Despite the rhetoric to the contrary, our proposal would enhance safety by providing students a highly structured, mission-specific training approach,” Bed ford said in a statement. He said Republic’s approach would increase the number of pilots and help coun ter shrinking air service in small and mid-sized communities.Republic and other regional carriers argue that the FAA must con sider new standards for licensing pilots — beyond counting up their flying hours — because of the difficulty and expense of accumulating 1,500 hours in the air. Republic esti mated the cost of flight training and tuition leading to a degree at a public uni versity at about $171,000, compared with $75,000 at itsHowever,academy. the FAA said it is “overly simplis tic” to think that granting Republic’s request would address “a perceived pilot shortage.”Thenation’s largest pilots’ union disputes the notion that there is a shortage, saying there are enough qualified pilots if airlines did a better job of retaining pilots, and if regional airlines boost pay and ease grueling work schedules. The union
The S&P 500 rose 26.56 points to 3,899.89, while the Dow added 197.26 points to 31,019.68. The Nasdaq rose 86.62 points to 11,535.02 and the Russell 2000 added 14.65 points to 1,812.84.
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Technology stocks, retail ers, banks and industrial companies helped lift the market. Apple rose 2.5%, Home Depot gained 1.6%, Bank of America rose 1.7% and United Airlines closed 3.3%Healthhigher.care and real estate stocks fell, tempering
follow expectations for Fed action, rose to 3.94% from 3.87% late Friday. The 10-year yield, which
The FAA received nearly 100 comments on Republic’s request, divided between supporting it and opposing it.
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benchmark rate, which influences interest rates throughout the economy, another three-quarters of a percentage point.
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Smaller company stocks also gained ground. The Russell 2000 closed 0.8%
US stocks rise ahead of expected interest rate hike by Fed
influences mortgage rates, rose to 3.49% from 3.45%.
Wall Street remains focused on inflation and the Federal Reserve’s attempt to lower prices by aggres sively raising interest rates. On Wednesday, the cen tral bank will announce its latest decision on rates. It is expected to raise its
A CHOPPY day of trad ing on Wall Street ended with stocks closing higher Monday as investors brace for another big interest rate increase this week from the Federal Reserve.
gains elsewhere in the market. Pfizer fell 1.3% and Welltower slid 2.2%.
The indexes swayed between modest gains and losses for much of the day before a burst of buying in the final hour of trad ing. The S&P 500 rose 0.7%, climbing back from a 0.9% slide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.6% and the Nasdaq com posite climbed 0.8%.
Joe DePete, president of the Air Line Pilots Asso ciation. He vowed that the union would oppose “any other efforts that seek to
praised the FAA’s rejection of the Republic request.
FAA REJECTS AIRLINE REQUEST TO HIRE LESS-EXPERIENCED PILOTS
FEDERAL officials have rejected a request by a regional airline facing a pilot shortage to hire copilots with half the usual minimum amount of flying experience, saying it would reduceRepublicsafety.Airways asked for permission to hire pilots with at least 750 hours of flying time if they complete the airline’s training pro gram. However, the Federal Aviation Administration said that it was in the public interest to maintain current standards, which generally require 1,500 flight hours for a Smallerco-pilot.carriers called regional airlines were once allowed to hire co-pilots, who are called first officers, with as few as 250 hours of flying experience. But the minimum was increased after a 2009 Colgan Air plane flying for Continental Airlines crashed near Buf falo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one on the Whileground.the minimum is 1,500 hours, pilots with military experience or a degree from an approved university program can qualify with less experi ence. Republic argued that its program, run by a wholly owned subsidiary, would be comparable to military flight“Aftertraining.full consideration of Republic’s petition for exemption and the public comments, the FAA has determined that the relief requested is not in the public interest and would adversely affect safety,” the FAA said. The FAA also
NOTICE is hereby given that CHASWORTH AUSBURN CLOUD of Twynam Heights, New Providence, 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 13th day of September, 2022 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, Bahamas.
NOTICE is hereby given that SANDRA MARLENE WRIGHT of #50 Thunderhead Circle, South Bahamia, Freeport, Grand Bahama, 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 13th day of September, 2022 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, Bahamas.
Justice Samuel Alito wrote in May that is not clear how the high court’s past First Amendment cases, many of which pre date the internet age, apply to Facebook, Twitter, TikTok and other digital platforms.TheFlorida law, as enacted, would give Flor ida’s attorney general authority to sue companies under the state’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act. It would also allow individual residents to sue social media companies for up to $100,000 if they feel they have been treated unfairly.The Texas law only applies to the largest social media platforms that have more than 50,000 active users.
But the decision by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans is unlikely to be the last word in a legal battle that has stakes beyond Texas, and could impact how some of the world’s biggest tech companies regulate content by their users.
NOTICE is hereby given that DWAYNEIKA JONES of Sapodilla Road, Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama, 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 13th day of September, 2022 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, Bahamas.
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NOTICE is hereby given that SHAKIRA SHERLY PIERRE-LOUIS of Family Street, Soldier Road, New Providence, 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 13th day of September, 2022 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, Bahamas.
By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press
The Texas law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott last year, has been challenged by tech trade groups that warn that it would prevent platforms from removing extremism and hate speech. A simi lar law was also passed in Florida and ruled uncon stitutional by a separate appeal court.
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in a statement that pointed out the ruling was the oppo site of the decision made in the lawsuit over the Florida law.“We remain con vinced that when the U.S. Supreme Court hears one of our cases, it will uphold the First Amendment rights of websites, platforms, and apps,” said Carl Szabo, NetChoice’s vice president and general Republicancounsel.elected offi cials in several states have backed laws like those enacted in Florida and Texas that sought to portray social media companies as generally liberal in outlook and hostile to ideas outside of that viewpoint, especially from the political right.
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COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF TEXAS LAW ON SOCIAL MEDIA REGULATION
A FEDERAL appeals court Friday ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media com panies like Facebook and Twitter in a victory for Republicans who accuse the platforms of censoring conservative speech.
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The final say is likely to come from the U.S. Supreme Court, which ear lier this year blocked the Texas law while the lawsuit played“Todayout.we reject the idea that corporations have a freewheeling First Amend ment right to censor what people say,” U.S. Cir cuit Court Judge Andrew OldhamNetChoice,wrote. one of the groups challenging the law, expressed disappointment
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Diversity and access are very important to this sup port group, which is geared towards educating children affected by these diseases with healthy lifestyles choices and the importance
SUPPORTING THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILDHOOD CANCER
CHILDHOOD cancer awareness is being put in spotlight with an upcom ing fundraising initiative that will support ongoing research.Kappa Delta Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamm Rho is partnering with the Cancer Society of the Baha mas and will be holding the St Jude 2022 Run and Walk event on Saturday, Sep tember 24, at Goodman’s Bay. Registration begins at 5.30am and the walk starts promptly at Members,6am.affiliates and friends from across the country are invited to join the sorority in the fight against paediatric cancer and sickle cell disease by raising money through the initiative.Partproceeds of this walk will assist the St Jude Research Hospital and Freedom Kids Support Group, a youth arm of the Cancer Society of the Baha mas as Athenawell.Russell, chairper son of Kappa Delta Sigma Chapter of Sigma Gamma Rho, said they are enthu siastic about the event and hope that in partnering for this cause they can help change the lives of many children.
Doctors Hospital and its Rehab Department is pre paring to host its very first Rehab Fair and open house this coming Saturday, Sep tember 24.
As for Freedom Kids, here at home,” said Ms Russell.Freedom Kids is the youth arm of the Cancer Society’s Freedom Sur vivors Support Group. It was established to cater to the younger children diagnosed with cancer and sickle cell diseases.Freedom Survivors targeted adolescents and young adults, while Freedom Kids caters to children ranging in age from 2-17 years of age.
“We have qualified ther apists that specialize in lymphedema management, women’s health, men’s health, wound care, post rehab fitness, cardiac rehab, senior fitness, neurological, stroke rehab, work condi tion, cognitive rehab and so many others. We are the only one stop shop for all rehab services in the Baha mas that’s JCI accredited,” saidJCIEddi.(Joint Commission
Doctors Hospital highlights the importance of rehab with a fair and open house
As a leading international nonprofit community ser vice organisation, theSigma Gamma Rho Sorority con tinues to grow through sisterhood, scholarship and service. Founded in 1922 on the campus of Butler University in Indi ana, the sorority’s mission is to enhance the quality of life within the community.
REHAB Awareness Week is an internationally recognised event cel ebrating, and highlighting various disciplines within the realm of rehabilitation.
“We have a week of activities planned but it all culminates on the 24th of September. We’ve planned a day of activities and education for attend ees because what we’ve found is that most people are practically unaware of what the disciplines within the realm of rehabilitation are until they actually need rehab or a specific rehab service,” said Eddi Russell, Doctors Hospital Rehab Department’s Rehab Mar keting Liaison.
On Saturday, Eddi said, organisers of the event will be showing their best with various booths, giveaways, music and fun for all.
International) is an inter national accreditation award to health care institu tions that hold the highest standard of health care provision and best industry practices within the area of healthcare.“RehabAwareness Week began in September of 1976 to honour rehabilitation therapists and therapists’ assistants who work to make a difference in the lives of their patients. Since then, it has grown and has become an anticipated time of the year for reha bilitation therapists and assistants because it allows us to celebrate ourselves along with our colleagues around the world,” said Eddi.“Rehab therapists and assistants are some of the most sensitive and caring health professionals par ticularly because our job is to motivate and advo cate for our patients from a holistic standpoint. We don’t just treat the part of them that’s affected, we treat the whole person considering their mental, emotional, spiritual and all other areas that may affect theirHewellness.”believes Bahamians should attend this week end’s event because it’s designed for their benefit. Eddi said they often take a lot of calls from con cerned parents, caretakers and patients themselves who call to inquire about a pain that’s worsened over the years, a child that may not be hitting their devel opmental milestones or injuries that have prevented them from enjoying their lives.“Again, we want to inform the public of our services and answer any questions they may have to see if rehab may be the best way to solve these prob lems. In Europe, America and Australia rehab thera pists are naturally a part of their lives and we want
For the remainder of the year, the team will be continuing on a quest to educate the public of the various services offered.
Support Group provides ongoing and prac tical hands-on support that allows children to come together quarterly on a Sat urday for fun, games and quarter, Freedom Kids hosts one social event: Easter Egg Hunt, Summer Bash, Back-to-School, and ending the year with the annual Christmas party.
for those that are not aware, rehabilitation consists of physiotherapy, occupa tional therapy and speech and language pathology. Rehabilitation generally helps patients to relearn and maintain and regain the functional abilities which they may have lost due to ailments, disease, dysfunc tion and disorder.
“Since 1992, Sigma Gamma Rho has partnered
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has touched so many lives within the country and with patients abroad. Our team is young, vibrant and skilled to tackle every population from the cradle to the elderly, offering a client centred approach to each treatment session. We have team members who were trained in the UK, Australia, Jamaica and the US and we’re constantly upgrading our qualifica tions through the various in services and interna tional certifications,” said Eddi.He said the rehab centre at Doctors Hospital wants to be known for the wide range of services offered.
This is not the first time the organsiaon has joined forces with the Cancer Soci ety. Every year, its Rhoer programme (Jr/Sr high school) along with Sigma Chi (university sorors) sell ribbons during the month of October and donate all proceeds to the Cancer Society.“Once Erin Storr (Cancer Society administrator) informed me of Freedom Kids, which is an arm of the Cancer Society that sup ports children with cancer and their families, I imme diately wanted to bring more awareness to what they are doing. We plan to donate part of the proceeds to this local organisation this year and hopefully in the near future,” Ms Rus sell told Tribune Health.
He said the team’s job as rehabilitation therapists and assistants is to advocate for patients because they only want the best for them.
“Rehab is for everyone, from children with intel lectual and speech deficits, middle aged adults with pain or injuries they need help with, to our seasoned population who simply need a consistent exercise programme to maintain strength and function. We’re inviting the public to come in and speak to our rehab team and see what our vendors have to offer. Rehab can also be preven tative so we want the public to be aware of our services so when they need them, they know where to go to get the best rehab service,” saidHeEddi.told Tribune Health
“In a nutshell, the
HeEddi.said the entire rehab community would like for Bahamians to know that the Doctors Hospital Rehab Centre exists, and inform them of the many ben efits that rehab has to offer them. Eddi said sometimes an ailment may be resolved with a series of exercises or a particular programme that’s targeted to a specific issue.“We want Bahamians to pay attention to their bodies and adopt healthier lifestyles in all the areas of wellness. Rehab isn’t just to solve a one-time issue, but more so it’s a lifestyle. We also want students graduating and unsure of a career path to consider the field of rehabilitation as an extremely viable career path, one that is so needed in this community with an ever-increasing elderly pop ulation,” he said.
the Bahamas to get to the point where they see rehab specialists as part of their lives as well. There is a wealth of knowledge and treatments that can help prevent, restore and main tain function for patients with ailments, disease, or disorders that many within the Bahamian community are faced with. Our rehab fair and open house is where they can glean the information they need to make informed decisions about their health and the health of their loved ones,” said
“We’re nearing the end of the year but we want to finish strong because we truly believe in the impor tance of our work. So, stay tuned. Follow us on Ins tagram and Facebook at dh_rehab, and Doctors Hospital Rehab Depart ment, to keep updated on our services and initia tives,” said Eddi.
By JEFFARAH GIBSON Tribune Features Writer jgibson@tribunemedia.net
of physical activity, par ticipation of the parents about medical management and how to cope with a child that have a long-term illness.The Freedom Kids
Kappa Delta Sigma Chap ter celebrated 16 years in Nassau, Bahamas on Sep tember 2 this year.
disciplines within rehab help to get you doing, improving and moving again. Rehab practitioners are known as movement specialists and this week we’re celebrating that. What we would like to be known for is our innova tion and passion for rehab. We have a team of highly trained and skilled rehab specialists whose work
with St Jude Children’s Research Hospital to sup port its life saving mission of finding cures for child hood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Together, we won’t stop until no child dies from cancer. In partnering with St. Jude, we are able to assist in providing sup port to help ensure that families never receive a bill from St Jude for treat ment, travel, housing, or food, because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Reporter acadet@tribunemedia.net
True and false. Most aneurysms are silent.
PSA screening particularly effective for black men
A published scientific article in the New England Journal of Medicine Evidence from this May examined the effectiveness of the prostate specific antigen (PSA) blood test in all races. Three dec ades of records for all races of men 50 to 84 years old were used in the study up to the year 2016. The PSA test was found to be more effective than previously thought
The study is one of very few scientific studies to investigate specifically, men of African ances try, genes related to calcium absorption, diet and prostate cancer risk.
However, aneurysms that become very large may press on brain struc tures, causing stroke-like symptoms: loss of bal ance, speech problems and double vision. When
4. If brain aneurysms
6. Aneurysms are too rare to strike more than once in a family False. Some aneurysms
You can lower your risk of aneurysm formation and rupture and stroke with these lifestyle changes: Stop smoking. Smoking is the greatest risk factor of all in aneurysm rupture and is a key risk factor for stroke. Control high blood pres sure. Persistently high blood pressure (hyperten sion) stresses the artery walls.Avoid drug abuse. Cocaine is the worst offender, narrowing blood vessels and increasing blood pressure and heart rate. Avoid alcohol abuse. Moderate to high alco hol consumption — binge drinking in particular — is associated with brain haemorrhage.
African American men have a 36 percent higher risk for developing prostate cancer than non-Hispanic white men. It has been proposed that the higher calcium absorp tion by black men plays a role in their higher prostate cancer risk; amongst many other contributing factors.AJournal of Bone and Mineral Research published joint study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medi cal Center, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California (USC) and the Cancer Prevention Institute of California studied 783 African American men and the effects of calcium intake, genetics and diet-gene interactions. Research ers targeted a genetic allele that is more common in men of Afri can ancestry. This genetic allele targeted in the study is linked to regulating calcium absorption.
Guess which statements are true and which are false:
• Dr Greggory Pinto is a boardcertified Bahamian urologist and laparoscopic surgeon. He can be contacted at OakTree Medi cal Center #2 Fifth Terrace and Mount Royal Avenue, Nassau, Bahamas; Telephone – (242) 322-1145-7; email: urologycarebahamas.comwelcome@orvisitthewebsite:www.urologycarebahamas.com.
Black men are known to genetically be better absorbers of calcium than men of other races.
The PSA blood test however prevented one death for every eight to 12 black men diagnosed with prostate cancer and one death for every five to nine black men treated for prostate cancer.
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AN ANEURYSM — a ballooning or bulging out of an artery where the wall is weak — can wreak havoc if it bursts. When aneurysms rupture in the brain, the resulting hemorrhage can cause stroke, coma, death, brain damage and other problems.Fortypercent of ruptured brain aneurysms are fatal, and 66 percent of survivors suffer permanent brain damage.Abetter understand ing of brain aneurysms, how they are treated, and whether or not you are at risk can help you safeguard your health. Start by testing your knowledge with this quiz, created with the help of Peter Rasmussen, MD, Professor of Neurological Surgery, Cleveland Clinic.
PROSTATE cancer continues to be an almost neglected pan demic in our small nation. Over 100 Bahamian men die of prostate cancer every year and over 200 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer every year. The Bahamas has the 14th highest per capita incidence of prostate cancer in the world.The prostate cancer specific sur vival is nearly 100 percent at five years and 98 percent at ten years for early organ confined prostate cancer. The key to cure for pros tate cancer is early detection and treatment.Theprostate is a walnut-sized gland that lies underneath the bladder in men and it plays an important role in providing nutri ents for sperm and optimising the environment for sperm trying to reach and fertilise the female’s ovum. The only role that the pros tate gland has is in male fertility.
men of other racial backgrounds. African ancestry men also have a much higher incidence of prostate cancer.Inthe United Kingdom, one in four black men will develop pros tate cancer in their lifetime. One in eight Caucasian men in the United Kingdom will get prostate cancer.One in five African American men will be afflicted with prostate cancer.Black men also tend to get prostate cancer three to six years earlier than other racial counterparts.
The main risks factors for get ting prostate cancer are advancing age, obesity, genetic changes, first degree relatives being previously diagnosed with prostate cancer and being of African ancestry.
versus benefits for each patient. The location, size and shape of the aneurysm matter. So do the patient’s personal and family health history. Some small brain aneurysms can simply be monitored.
study participants who reported low calcium intake. African American men in the study who were found to have a genotype associated with poor calcium absorption were 59 percent less likely to be diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer then men who genetically were very efficient absorbers of calcium.
The study found that African American men who had high cal cium intake were twice as likely to have localised and advanced pros tate cancer when compared to
3. Treatment for brain aneurysms means major surgery
Men of African ancestry unfor tunately collectively face a higher risk of developing a more aggres sive form of prostate cancer than
False. Depending on the patient’s health and other factors, minimally invasive techniques may prevent rupture. Specially trained
recur, you just have to live with them
Prior to this study being pub lished, it was estimated that the PSA blood test prevented one death for every 23 men of all races diagnosed with prostate cancer.
are related to genetics. Up to 20 percent of those experiencing ruptured aneurysms have a strong family history — in other words, two or more blood relatives who also suffered ruptured aneurysms. If you have a strong family history, it’s important to consult a stroke or brain aneurysm specialist to see if you are at increased risk of aneurysm development and rupture.
an aneurysm ruptures, the hallmark is a sudden, debili tating headache — often described as the worst of one’s life — along with nausea, vomiting, a stiff neck, loss of consciousness or double vision. This is a medical emergency and requires an urgent call to 911/919.
5. Men and women are equally at risk for brain aneurysms
neurovascular surgeons can guide a catheter contain ing coils or stents into the intracranial (brain) artery. Coils can be placed within the aneurysm to stimu late scarring that prevents blood from entering. Stents (expandable scaffolds) can also be placed at the base of the aneurysm. As they scar over, they seal off the aneu rysm from the circulation. Most brain aneurysms can be treated this way.
False. Even the most challenging aneurysms can be treated using new tech nology. Giant aneurysms and aneurysms with a broad base often recur after initial treatment with coils and stents. Flow diversion is a technology showing prom ise for these aneurysms. An extra-long, flexible, stent-like device is guided through a catheter and placed along the base of the aneurysm and on either side. As healing occurs, the device scars over and forms a new channel through which blood can flow, bypassing the aneurysm.
1. Brain aneurysms pro duce symptoms similar to stroke
False. The risk of develop ing an aneurysm is slightly greater in women than in men, and roughly 60 to 65 percent of ruptured aneu rysms occur in women. Ruptured aneurysms usually occur between the ages of 30 and 60. Brain aneurysms are rare in children but can occur.
2. All brain aneurysms need to be treated False. Every decision to treat a brain aneurysm involves weighing the risks
African Ancestry men are at high risk
in detecting prostate cancer and preventing prostate cancer related death, but it was determined to be even more effective for black men than for other races. The number of patients needing to be diag nosed with prostate cancer and the number of patients needing to be treated for prostate cancer, were determined in respect to being able to save one life.
The PSA blood test prevented one death for every 11 to 14 of all races of men diagnosed with pros tate cancer and it prevented one death for every 7 to 11 men of all races treated for prostate cancer.
Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the Bahamas, even eclipsing the high local incidence of breast cancer.The Bahamas has the 14th highest per capita incidence of prostate cancer in the world. Prostate cancer represented 22.9 percent of all cancers diagnosed in both sexes for all ages in the Bahamas in 2020. Prostate cancer represented 46.6 percent of all cancers diagnosed in men in the Bahamas in 2020.
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“There couldn’t be a more important time for a movie about female courage, about sisterhood, about the complexity of the female experience, not to mention the physicality of our bodies,” Schulman says.But the producers and Davis, who was attached early on, found it difficult to convince executives and financiers to bankroll “The Woman King” at a budget large enough to provide it the scale it deserved.“‘Braveheart,’ ‘Gladiator,’ ‘Last of the Mohicans.’ I love those movies,” says Prince-Bythewood. “Now, here was our chance to tell our story in this genre.”
There were fanny-pack baguettes, and sometimes double baguettes — two sizes stacked together. Pockets were reimagined as baguettes. There were tiny baguettes in satin fashioned onto tube socks — a per fect place to put little gadgets — or if you wanted them closer to your head, attached to a satin baseball cap. The vibe was a mix of fancy and casual, of sequins and sweatshirts.
I was always afraid the loans and the bills would catch up with us after I found out he had missed a few mortgage payments. I called him out on it and we ended up fighting more and more until we finally gave up. I was left with bad credit as a souvenir.”
Money, money, money and the trouble it causes in marriages
By CARA HUNT cbrennen@tribunemedia.net
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FAMED ‘BAGUETTE’
In the front row sat Kim Kardashian, in blonde locks and a figure-hugging sheer
Jenna Thomas said that
But why New York, when Fendi usually shows in Italy? The bag had early success and pop-culture resonance in New York, most memorably immortalized in a 2000 episode of “Sex and the City,” when a mugger had the temerity to try to take one from Carrie Bradshaw when he apparently didn’t know what it was called.
“In our case, I pay the bills, this is just because I have a salary that comes in the same time every month. My husband owns his own construction business and the money doesn’t always come in the same time. It is just easier for me to go ahead and pay everything on payday and them we rec oncile when he gets paid. I know some people may be iffy about a woman paying the bills but it works for us.”
“I will forever be grate ful that our priest devoted a whole marriage counsel ling session to finances. It truly helped us. We had
NOT JUST A BAG: FENDI FETES
NEW YORK (AP) — You’d have thought it was a movie premiere, with the hoopla converging outside midtown Manhattan’s Hammerstein Ballroom. But inside, despite the celebrity presence, the real star was a handbag.
“Fighting for actors. Fighting for the director. You have to fight for the writer,” Davis, also a producer, said in an inter view at the Toronto International Film Festival. “Years and years and years go by and you’re still fighting. You’re fight ing for the budget. You’re fighting for even the commercial aspects of the story. You’re fighting for your hair. Fight. Fight.
‘WOMAN KING,’ VIOLA DAVIS AND THE CULMINATION OF A STRUGGLE
feel like women definitely need to have their own bank accounts and access to their own money. That is why women can’t make decisions for their own future. You can’t leave a bad marriage if your hus band controls the funds and dictates what you can and can’t do. My mom always told me when I was dating to have money on me to get home and when I got married she told me always have enough saved to pay first and last on an apart ment in case things went reallyLesliebad.”says that she and
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high balcony seating — to celebrate the bag and its many iterations over the years. The evening marked a three-way collabo ration. Fendi women’s designer Kim Jones had brought in his friend and onetime boss, Marc Jacobs — the quintessential New York designer — to lend his distinctive romantic streetwear vibe to a series of 10 or so ensembles starring, of course, the baguette. (“I am never one to shy away from an iconic bag,” Jacobs was quoted as saying in a theater-style pro gram.) And jeweler Tiffany & Co. presented its own baguettes in signature robin’s-egg blue.
“The Woman King,” directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood (“The Old Guard, “Love & Basketball”), began as an idea seven years ago, after a trip to Africa by Maria Bello, the producer and actor. Enamored by the history of the Agojie, she brought the concept to producer
“The Woman King,” a rousing emo tional wallop that seamlessly fuses interior drama with action spectacle, was met with universal acclaim at its Toronto premiere as a crowd-pleaser of another kind. But the Hollywood calculus for what might appeal to a broad audience has traditionally really meant “Will white people watch it?”
“We would not have been able to do
Lynch, visibly moved by her experi ence making “Woman King,” for the first time witnessed an Africa-set action drama staged outside of the white male gaze.“‘The Woman King’ will be its own blueprint that I hope filmmakers and heads of studios can take as an example,” Lynch
Hannah-Jones wrote on Twitter that “it will be interesting to see how a movie that seems to glorify the all-female mili tary unit of the Dahomey deals with the fact that this kingdom derived its wealth from capturing Africans for the transAtlantic slave trade.”
Fight.”“Whenever you’re doing anything new, it requires the warrior spirit,” says Davis. “What I feel now is: It was worth it.”
Schulman knew the film could be a potent portrait of female strength, but she didn’t anticipate that, following the over turning of Roe v Wade, it might serve as a rallying cry at a time when many consider women’s rights under siege.
“I feel that the film is eventised,” says Schulman. “My anticipation is that we’re ready for this film. We just don’t know how ready we truly are.”
finances did play a major role in the end of her threeyear“Wemarriage.could never agree on money even from when we were dating. I wanted us to save money so we could buy a house, but he was a baller and always wanted to go out on the weekends and foot the bill. After our wedding, the spending got out of control, we managed to purchase our home, but then he had to buy all the expensive electronics and the man cave, we were tapped out and there was nothing for a rainy day.
“Gimme your bag,” the thug in the alley demanded. “It’s a baguette!” Carrie admonished him as he made off with her shiny purple version.
wall dropped to the ground to reveal a giant mirror, suddenly allowing the entire room, balconies and all, to see itself. The models snaked along the floor, but when they were done, the mirror suddenly disap peared and the models were standing in a huge display case, as if at a store.
Somesays.have been skeptical of how “The Woman King” tackles history. Last month, the 1619 Project author Nikole
“This movie affirms that it’s possible,” says Davis. “That there are no limitations to my dreams. That, actually, I was right.”
Not just any handbag, but the “Baguette” — the ubiquitous Fendi bag created 25 years ago and named for the long French loaf of bread and the way it, too, is carried under the arm of the discerning buyer. The Fendi show on Friday night was a big birth day party for the bag and its long-lasting claim to pop-culture fame.
FROM left, the upcoming Tiffany baguette, the famous monogram baguette, and the baguette with chain.
It’s safe to say everyone knew their bags from their baguettes on Friday night, when about 600 people packed into the ballroom — some on the main floor and others in
As the show began, a huge drape on the
Cathy Schulman, the producer of the Oscar-winning “Crash” and the former head of Women in Film.
‘Woman King’ without ‘Black Panther,’ Davis says. “I’m eternally grateful to ‘Black Panther.’”
The Agojie were indeed a brutal and bloodthirsty army that participated in slave raids. “The Woman King,” like most historical epics, takes some artistic license. But the slave trade is a central component to its narrative. Schulman says the 1820s were chosen from the 1600-1904 history of the Dahomey king dom specifically for the backdrop of conflict with the mightier Oyo empire, along with mounting pressure from European colonisers for captives.
Kia said that she also realised how important it is to have the conversation about spending before you plan the wedding.
her husband have found it easier to let one partner pay all of the bills, while the other does the extra.
Linda Evangelista, in a huge Tiffany blue cape and gown, came out with the design ers for a final bow. They applauded her, in what was a very public moment for the ’90s supermodel, now 57, after her recent ordeal with what she has described as a dis astrous body-sculpting procedure that left her disfigured. ITS
By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer
to make a budget and figure out who pays what ahead of marriage. Know ing what we both expected help us create a financial plan and I am happy to say that we have been mar ried for nine years and we rarely have the fights i know other couples have about money. I know what he has to and vice versa, so there is no way some one can not pull their weight.”Larissa says that the key to a good financial marriage is separation.“Everyone has to have their own bank account, I
WHEN Viola Davis, sculpted and hardened from months of training, first stood in the full garb of the Agojie war rior women, with her bare feet in the African sand, it was the culmination of not just the years-long push to make “The Woman King,” but of a lifelong battle.“Itwas sort of metaphoric to not just everything I had done to prepare for this role but everything that I had done as a Black woman to prepare for this moment,” Davis says. “Which is to be a warrior.”“TheWoman King,” which opened in theatres last Friday, is a $50m action epic, set in 1820s West Africa, about the all-female army of the Kingdom of Dahomey. Made largely by women and featuring an almost completely Black cast, it’s powerfully unlike anything Hol lywood has ever produced. And just as much as “The Woman King” dramatises the fierce fighting of the Agojie, the film represents its own struggle.
“Black people did not have to love ‘Thelma & Louise’ for ‘Thelma & Louise’ to get made,” says Davis. “White people have to love ‘The Woman King’ for ‘The Woman King’ to get made — according to AHollywood.”pivotalmoment came when “Black Panther” was released. Ryan Coogler’s film featured a fictionalization of the Agojie, the Dora Milaje, and its massive worldwide box-office ($1.3 billion) was a wake-up call to the industry.
“The Woman King,” penned by Dana Stevens, shot by Polly Morgan and edited by Terilyn Shropshir, was crewed by Prince-Bythewood with women and people of color in most department-head positions.“Itbreathes such a more pleasant set,” says Schulman. “Lack of drama. More attitude of the work first. Less hierarchy. I just haven’t seen any job a woman can’t do. That was all a fallacy.”
“I find it hard to believe that that was really me,” says Lynch. “It really taught me a lot about just what women come with. We have so much to be able to push through pain and birth children and push against the world’s pressures.”
“The Woman King” is hoping to make history of its own by blazing a new path for the film industry. The Sony Pictures release will hope to enliven movie theat ers after a prolonged late-summer lull at the box office.
Davis, for her part, feels like she’s been ready all her life. She has taken to call ing “The Woman King” her “magnum opus” because her production company produced it, because she fought so hard for
and sequined dress, but the baguettes were the focus on the runway. There were big baguettes, small baguettes, nanosized baguettes. Shiny baguettes, fluffy baguettes, sparkly and smooth baguettes.
IT has been said that money is the root of all evil, but many married couples would say that it is also the root of many marital discords.Worrying over finances can add a lot of pressure to a marriage, especially when the couples have not estab lish the ground rules of who pays for what have not cre ated a financial plan or have unrealistic expectations of their financial roles.
THIS image released by Sony Pictures shows Viola Davis in “The Woman King”.
“Thisit. was a hard-won battle,” says Davis. “And I won it. I feel like I won the battle.”It’san accomplishment that sends Davis back to her initial dreams of show business as a young girl growing up poor in Rhode Island. Before encountering the reality of the film industry, her movie dreams were limitless.
To ready for the shoot in South Africa, Davis and fellow cast members Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch and Sheila Atim underwent a gruelling months-long regi men of weight lifting and fight training. The actors later performed their own stunts in the film. Davis, who at 57 refers to herself as “the OG warrior” among her younger castmates, says she never felt prouder of her body. “Not just for the way that it looked but for the way it ser vicedLynch,me.”the British actor of “No Time to Die,” would later be astonished watch ing herself in the film.
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Another noted: “Aries Spears was begging men (in 2020) on the internet to help him lose weight. His comments on Lizzo were obviously rooted in selfhate but this confirms it. This man hates himself and can’t stand that a fat Black woman loves herself and isn’t apolo getic for her existence.”
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Boatswain Hill, creates cloth ing for all occasions, but it is for funerals in particular she has seen an uptick in demand. Instead of only sewing attire for the deceased, families are now wanting to be either uniformly dressed in colour or style. To achieve this, they seek out the services of the
and then the other family wore similarColourcolours.”selections are not the only shift the veteran seamstress has seen. She said women are opting more and more for pant suits over skirts and dresses.
LOVING THE SKIN YOU’RE IN
“A funeral that I had to sew for last week everyone was wearing pantsuit, even the older ladies in the family. Normally, younger people are the ones wearing pants and the older ladies would wear skirts. But this
“I did a funeral last week that was in Eleuthera….it was a young person. The mom and the deceased wore the same colour
the deceased is colour coordi nated with the family,” she said.
and confidence and you decent look ing – I think I’m at least handsome. But a woman that is built like a plate of mashed potatoes, is in trouble. She’s dope. Her music hard, her body ain’t. You know what kills me about women, is the hypocrisy and the contradiction: ‘Yes, queen, slay queen. Yeah, girl your confidence’.”BeforeLizzo could even say a word, her supporters, including celebrities, came to her defence.
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One person wrote: “The way the world hates fat women is astounding. Fat women are literally just living their lives and someone will publicly claim disgust. Aries Spears is fat himself yet has the b*lls to act like he’s disgusted by a fat woman simply because she’s fat. Lizzo bothers no one.”
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seamstress.“WhenIamdoingafuneralit’slikeIamdoingaweddingparty.EvenwhenIsewforthedeceased,thedressesaresoextravagant.Someoccasions,
It was while accepting an MTV Video Music Award for her single “About Damn Time” a few weeks ago that Lizzo said: “To the b*tches that got something to say about me in the press. I’m not gonna say nothing. They be like, ‘Lizzo, why don’t you clap back, why don’t you clap back?, Because b*tch, I’m winning.”
Lizzo later explained the statement in a tweet, writing: “Lemme make one thing very clear. I wasn’t addressing anybody in my speech last night. I was addressing everybody.”
Bahamians increasingly opting for bright colours and new fashions for
funeral everyone was wearing pants, even the kids,” Shernette said.Most times, fitted pants are worn with peplum tops, she added.While this evolution of sorts has a lot to do with people wanting personalise a funeral to reflect the life and legacy of the deceased, Shernette also believes people come to her with the aim of making big fashion statements.
“I think many of them want to outdo the other in the family. A lot of the times when they come to me, they say, ‘I don’t want my sister or cousin to see what I am wearing.’ Everyone tries to look the best, so they want extravagant fascinators to pair with their looks. Some families want to all be dressed in one style and then others want to be completely different. Sometimes it’s like a competi tion,” she said. funerals did not want it to 4:13 p.m. 4:21 a.m. 2.3 10:25 a.m. 1.3 4:54 p.m. 2.9 11:26 p.m. 1.3 5:15 a.m. 2.5 11:20 a.m. 1.1 5:43 p.m. 3.0 6:03 a.m. 2.6 12:11 a.m. 1.2 6:27 p.m. 3.1 12:09 p.m. 1.0 6:46 a.m. 2.8 12:51 a.m. 1.0 7:07 p.m. 3.2 12:54 p.m. 0.8 7:26 a.m. 3.0 1:28 a.m. 0.8 7:45 p.m. 3.3 1:36 p.m. 0.7 8:05 a.m. 3.2 2:03 a.m. 0.6 8:22 p.m. 3.3 2:17 p.m. 0.6 8:43 a.m. 3.3 2:37 a.m. 0.5 9:00 p.m. 3.3 2:59 p.m. 0.5
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do pink for funerals, royal blue, burgundy, which I never even knew people wore to a funeral,” said Shernette.“Thisweek I am sewing a tan and brown attire for a funeral. Next week, a family has chosen the col ours of grey and pink.”
the occasion of laying a loved one to rest as personalised as Thepossible.way they often accomplish this, she said, is by using “Peoplecolour.were way simpler 20 years ago and they would wear the basic colours like
Over the course of her career, Grammy Award-winning singer Lizzo has promoted the concept of body positivity for herself as well as her fans. In the hit song “About Damn Time”, she sings: “It’s bad b*tch o’clock, yeah, it’s thick-thirty
Bahamians increasingly opting for bright colours and new fashions for funerals
There are also other rea sons why families select specific“Withcolours.alot of people dying from cancer, they try to choose
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“It’s a movement that promotes accept ance of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities. Proponents focus less on physical appear ance and more on the overall health of the human body. Still, there remain misconcep tions about what body positivity means and its true Bodyimpact.”positivity is a social movement focused on the acceptance of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities, while challenging pre sent-day beauty standards as an undesirable social construct. It aims to to help people understand how the media contributes to the relationship we have with their bodies, including how we feel about food, exercise, clothing, health, identity, and self-care. By better understanding the effect that such influences have, the hope is that people can develop a healthier and more realistic rela tionship with their bodies.
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“I almost got into a big fight at the graveyard,” she said. “I had on black and white and took a red ribbon and put it around my waist. When they noticed I had on red they said to me I am trying to insult the dead. I said to them, ‘How could I insult the dead when the dead done dead?’… Chile, I walk out of that andfollowingarethatcanintionshenesswhoShernetteagain.”goGod,further.tionbeforekayplaceexchangeme.”approachedTwochurchyard.IeyingTheygraveyard.beenmefromwasintheofthemAheatedtookandAnnastormedoffthesituaescalatedeven“Isaid,‘Oh,myIwouldnevertoafuneralLocalseamstressTaylor,hasbeeninbusifor22years,saidisseeinganevoluoffuneralfashiontheBahamas.Sheattesttothefactfamiliesnowadayslessinterestedintraditionswouldrathermake
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GONE are the days when strictly black, grey and maybe navy blue were seen as acceptable col ours to wear to a funeral. Times are changing and many Bahamian families are veering away from tra dition to make their own rules when it comes to the attire they wear to pay their final respects to a deceased lovedTraditionone. has it that red is an inappropriate colour choice to wear to a funeral, as are any other bright tones. These colours, it is believed, are not sufficiently reflective of the somberness of the Interestinglyoccasion. enough, black has not always been the colour of mourning in the Western world. In medi eval Europe, white was often seen as the appropri ate colour to express sorrow and show respect at some one’s passing, and in many East Asia countries it is still the preferred colour to this day because it’s believed to signify purity and rebirth. Here in the Bahamas, a beauty stylist decided to go against the all-black tradi tion. Annakay Scully wore an all-red tailored pantsuit to attend the funeral of her late partner and child’s father. For her it was impor tant to not only mourn her lover but also to celebrate the vibrant and full life her dearly departed had lived.
I’ve been through a lot but I’m still flirty (okay)Iseverybody back up in the buildin’? It’s been a minute, tell me how you’re healin’ ‘Cause I’m about to get into my feelings
I was a fat Black girl in Houston and I didn’t see myself in magazines. I was like, ‘You know what, b-tch? I want to be a sex“Isymbol.saidthat to myself when I was like 22, 23. And I really started to embrace the sexiness about me, not just the cuteness or the beauty. I started to work on it more and more, and I realized the vulnerability that I show when I’m naked is my great estLizzostrength.”said she always has the best come back for internet “trolls”, to put them in their place. But sometimes she is concerned that by responding she is giving the negative comments the attention the posters seek. This was definitely the case recently, as the “Truth Hurts” singer chose to ignore comedian Aries Spears after he failed in his attempt to make fun of Lizzo’s physical appearance. In an interview with The Art of Dialogue, Aries described the singer as a “very
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to never attend another funeral in the Bahamas, unless it was that of a family member.
wanted it to be happy. They felt their dad lived his life and was the best dad they had,” said Shernette.
the colour that represents the condition,” she said.
How you feelin’? How you feel right now?”Inan interview with Us Weekly, the plus-sized singer noted: “I wasn’t really given the opportunities or the privileges to feel like a sex symbol when I was growing up.
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girl,tiful a very pretty face…but she keeps showing her body off like, come on, man. Come on, yo.”
Aries further said: “I’m sorry. Listen, I ain’t the most in-shape n***a in the world but, when you funny and you got swagger
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FORBES writer Jennifer “Jay” Palumbo said it best in her article about “body positiv ity”. Often quoted, it said:
Shernette, whose seamstress shop Sherdes Fashions is located off
Some family mem bers decide on colours that were the deceased’s favourite or reflected their personality.“Inonefamily they were very close and they got basi cally the same style because they were really in mourn ing. They did colours but they wanted bright colours. They did not want it to be a sad occasion. They
ANNAKAY Scully wore red to pay her respects to her son’s father. It was the couple’scolour.favourite
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LIZZO accepts the video for good award for “About Damn Time” at the MTV Video Music Awards at the Prudential Center on August 28, 2022.
“Red was his favour ite colour and it was also mine,” she told Tribune Woman.Thiswas not the first time she wore red to a funeral. Having moved to the Bahamas from Jamaica many years ago, she was not accustomed to the local cul ture, so one day she showed up to a local funeral wear ing a red accessory. The response she received was enough to make her swear
