Bahamas

The Central Bank of The Bahamas has released its draft Recovery Planning Guidelines which will serve as a general guide for the implementation of a Supervised Financial Institution's SFI recovery plan

The country has become the first Caribbean country to launch a second-generation National Decent Work Programme, a five-year plan with three national priority areas: jobs and skills, social dialogue and governance

With projections for the tourism sector trending up for the first and second quarter of 2022, Tourism Director General suggested that the country could record one million stopover visitor arrivals for next year

The public will to be able to make requests for government information from at least seven government ministries and corporations as part of a pilot program of the Freedom of the Information Act (FOIA)

The Minister of Education and Technical Training called on all Bahamians to work to ensure that students do not fail because of their absence from virtual school; schools will reopen the second week of January 2022 with a form of hybrid education

Average prices of clothing and shoes increased by 12,7% as a result of the 42,3% increase in the price of crude oil, consequence of a steady rise of the country's inflation, as per data of The Central Bank of The Bahamas

The new Bahamas.com website has received top honours in the 2021 Travel Weekly Magellan Awards, having been deemed highly user-friendly, allowing travellers to dive deep into Bahamian culture as they plan their next holiday

The prime minister and his cabinet will discuss what to do with the Columbus statue that was damaged by a man with a sledgehammer, saying he empathises with those who want to erase memories of the colonial past, not condoning violence and destruction

388 Haitians were turned back while trying to enter the country's shores and put on three commercial flights to Cap-Haitien International Airport

The opposition Progressive Liberal Party won 32 of 39 parliamentary seats in last week's election, making Philip Brave Davis the new prime minister; the government was ousted over the severe economic crisis that led to a 16% drop in GDP

The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is currently helping The Bahamas Tourism Development Corporation (TDC) to help it regain momentum sustainably, after the recent tourism plummet the country has suffered from

The government hopes a study on the potential of industrial hemp will provide an alternative to the illegal marijuana trade in the country