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‘Held hostage’: Cruise employees were stuck on a ship and forced to work without pay, lawsuit says

August 6, 2020, 5:53 am
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The Grand Celebration cruise ship sails through the Lake Worth Inlet between Palm Beach and Singer Island, Fla. (Greg Lovett/Palm Beach Post/AP)

By Teo Armus

When cruises were first told to anchor in March as the coronavirus pandemic hit, the Bahamas Paradise line presented Dragan Janicijevic and other crew members with a choice, he said: Agree to stay on their docked ship without pay, or never work for the company again.

A no-sail order for cruise ships was only supposed to last for a month, and the risk of catching the virus seemed greater onshore than on a liner with no positive cases and a good-paying job. So he took the deal.

But after the mandate was extended for another 100 days, the picture grew far more grim. Janicijevic and thousands of other foreign workers were stuck aboard for months, he said, unable to make any money but blocked from returning to their home countries. Many were ordered to keep cooking, cleaning and doing laundry in hopes of paychecks that never came.

“They kept us on the ship like captives, prisoners,” the 44-year-old native of Serbia told The Washington Post. “You work for food, your moves are restricted, and they still don’t let you leave.”  Read more >>
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Mike Tyson showcased in Grand Bahama

August 6, 2020, 5:59 am
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Mike Tyson, legendary boxer.

By Freeport News

Grand Bahama’s vast marine life and natural beauty will be on full display when Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, one of television’s most anticipated summer events, kicks off on Sunday, August 9.

This year, Shark Week will feature over 20 hours of programming, but the main event happens on Sunday night, when legendary boxer Mike Tyson takes on one of the ocean’s apex predators in our Grand Bahamian waters during the Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on the Reef special.

“That’s right, the heavyweight champ is kicking off the most wonderful week of the year by throwing his hat in the underwater ring,” Discovery Channel said in a statement.

“With famed ring announcer Michael Buffer calling the shots, these two heavyweights will square off underwater, where Mike Tyson will try to score a TKO over the massive shark. And don’t worry, no sharks were harmed (or bitten) in the making of this episode,” the statement ensured.

The one-hour program will showcase Tyson’s experience scuba diving with lemon sharks, reef sharks and tiger sharks in the waters of Shark Junction and Tiger Beach off Grand Bahama.

Tyson vs. Jaws: Rumble on the Reef airs at 9:00 p.m. on August 9 on Discovery Channel. Shark Week 2020 will continue through August 16 with incredible shark stories, survivor tales, scientific expeditions and celebrity appearances from Will Smith, Snoop Dogg and Shaquille O’Neal.  (source)
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NP COVID-19 cases surpass GB cases

August 6, 2020, 6:07 am
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751 COVID-19 cases.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The number of cases in New Providence has surpassed the number of cases in Grand Bahama as the country sees a significant second surge of coronavirus cases, which began in early July.

Health officials confirmed  30 new cases of COVID-19 in New Providence and six new infections on Grand Bahamas, taking the number of cases in the country to 751.

Of those cases, 342 are in New Providence, 336 are in Grand Bahama, 32 in Bimini, 10 in Moore’s Island, ninein Great Guana Cay, nine in the Berry Islands, six in Cat Cay, three in Cat Island, three in Exuma, and one in Abaco.

There are 644 actives cases in the country. The number of hospitalized cases now stands at 18.

The latest increases come just over a month after the country reopened its borders on July 1 – at which point the country had only recorded 104 cases.

Health officials have indicated that many cases have been linked to Bahamians traveling abroad, advising that some 4,246 Bahamians traveled internationally between July 1 and July 24. Many of those destinations were COVID-19 hotspots.  Read more >>
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Roberts writes to PM asking that Super Value be allowed to stay open until 8 p.m.

August 6, 2020, 6:13 am
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In this file photo, Rupert Roberts (left), owner of Super Value, speaks to Nassau Guardian Staff Reporter Jasper Ward at Super Value’s Nassau Street location.

By Jasper Ward

Super Value owner Rupert Roberts told The Nassau Guardian that he wrote to Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis and requested that his stores be allowed to remain open until 8 p.m. during the two week lockdown.

He noted that the 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. public shopping period on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays would likely result in “panic and chaos”.

Roberts said his stores were open for 96 hours per week before the pandemic, with heavy shopping on Thursdays and weekends.

“It is impossible for us to manage with the 36 hour week,” he said.

Roberts said the extension would give his stores an additional 16 hours in weekly shopping.  Read more >>
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Final Nail In Retail Coffin: Retail Association Warns Lockdown May Be Last Straw For Many Traders

August 6, 2020, 6:18 am
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Downtown, Bay St. - PhotoⒸDerek Catalano

By NEIL HARTNELL
Tribune Business Editor
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
and YOURI KEMP
Tribune Business Reporter
ykemp@tribunemedia.net

Bahamian retailers yesterday warned that the latest COVID-19 lockdown will be "the nail in the coffin" for multiple companies and jobs in a sector that employs more than 22,000 persons.

The Bahamas Federation of Retailers, in a statement sent to Tribune Business, said it was “disappointed” that the Government did not consider allowing stores able to provide delivery or contactless services to remain open before imposing a blanket two-week shutdown on all employers deemed "non-essential".

"After the hotel sector, which is currently non-operational due to the restraints on tourism under COVID-19, the wholesale and retail sector is the largest private sector employer in our nation employing over 22,000 persons as of December 2019," the Federation blasted.

"The second lockdown will unfortunately fair far worse than the first as companies have already drained any reserves they may have had during the first wave of lockdowns. Tragically, this will be the nail in the coffin for many Bahamian retailers and the jobs that go with them.”  Read more >>
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Wendel Stuart - "Island In the Sun"

August 6, 2020, 6:50 am
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Man Wakes From Coma to Find Out Coronavirus Killed His Entire Household

August 6, 2020, 9:55 am
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By Jade Bremner

Coronavirus survivor Scott Miller now lives alone, after the rest of his household was killed by the disease, and he warns people to continue to remain vigilant.

Miller lived with his mother and her partner in Edinburgh, Scotland. His 76-year-old mother Norma, who suffered from dementia, had fallen down in their apartment in late March and was struggling to stand after the incident. Emergency services took her to hospital where she was tested for COVID-19, and the results came back positive.

Miller visited his mother while she was in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, but he was also suffering from coronavirus symptoms and was later admitted to hospital and put on a ventilator while in a medically induced coma.

"When I was in ICU [intensive care] fighting for my life, mom was in the ward basically passing away," he said to the BBC. "People need to understand that this is a real killer, and I don't think people are really taking it seriously."  Read more >>
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Florida pastor who prayed with Trump: Anyone who takes the COVID-19 vaccine ‘will be dead within a few years’

August 6, 2020, 10:01 am
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Pastor Rodney Howard-Brown

By Sky Palma

Right-wing pastor Rodney Howard-Brown has been holding in-person services at his Tampa, Florida, church for two months, and he’s using his sermons to spread dangerous misinformation about the coronavirus, according to Right Wing Watch.

During a July 26 service, Howard-Brown claimed that the coronavirus vaccine currently being developed is part of a plot by the United Nations to force everyone to take the vaccine which he says will kill them.  Read more >>
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Straw Market Vendors Face Uncertain Future

August 6, 2020, 1:08 pm
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The closure of the Straw Market has left many workers in need of help.

By LEANDRA ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
lrolle@tribunemedia.net

WITH no income coming in due to COVID-19 restrictions, straw vendors say they fear they do not have sufficient food supplies and income to last for the duration of a two-week lockdown as provisions made by the government are not enough.

A spokeswoman for the vendors told The Tribune yesterday there are some 80 workers who are in dire need of help and are still waiting to receive unemployment assistance from the National Insurance Board.

The situation, she said, has left many already struggling workers frustrated and concerned about how they will cope during the two-week period, which began Tuesday at 10pm.

“Straw vendors are not doing good,” president of the Straw Businesspeople Society, Reverend Esther Thompson told The Tribune. “They are not getting the assistance that was promised to them. Right now, I just sent in a list to National Insurance with over 70 to 80 vendors under the new (portal) system.

“Some of them have (not) gotten anything but most of them (are) in this second lap, this second new system what they put out – they’re rejecting them. Most of the vendors have been rejected from the system.

“All vendors calling me and I’m about to blow up from the calls and complaints. It just ain’t happening. See, it’s okay for the government to lockdown. We understand that we are in a health crisis but, my God, make some provisions for the people.”  Read more >>
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An Invisible Disease

August 6, 2020, 1:22 pm
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Abaco Big Bird back in production

August 6, 2020, 1:28 pm
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Scenes of destruction at Abaco Big Bird Poultry Farm (Bahamas) on Abaco after Hurricane Dorian last year.

By Chester Robards

Almost a year after Hurricane Dorian, Abaco Big Bird Poultry Farm made its first delivery of chicken to Maxwell’s food store on Abaco yesterday.

The company’s operations manager, Lance Pinder, told Guardian Business yesterday that this was accomplished even while operating at only six percent of its pre-Dorian capacity,.

Pinder said delays in the manufacturing of the company’s new chicken houses due to COVID-19 has put them three months behind where they wanted to be at this time.

However, he said that by the end of the year, four of the houses will be complete, and the farm will be back to a more stable supply of chicken.

“No matter what we did nothing would have happened any faster,” said Pinder.

He said people have been waiting for Abaco Big Bird to get back to production.

Pinder said it’s because the company produces the best chicken.  Read more >>
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There’s a weird new coronavirus symptom you might accidentally ignore

August 6, 2020, 3:33 pm
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There are a number of weird and unusual coronavirus symptoms to be aware of, including the fact that some people are reporting a loss of smell. Itchiness is another possible symptom of the virus. Image source: AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee

By Andy Meek

There are so many strange and unusual realities associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus that continue to perplex health experts, such as the mysteriously broad spectrum of the virus’s severity. COVID-19 leaves some people completely unaware they have been infected, for example, and utterly symptom-free, while the virus goes on to viciously attack other people to the point of them needing to be put on ventilators (and ultimately dying from the virus, as has happened to more than 707,000 people around the world since the coronavirus pandemic began).

Coronavirus symptoms are another oddity associated with the virus because many of them are truly strange — and easy to miss. One of the newest symptoms associated with the virus? Itchiness.  Read more >>
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The verdict on hydroxychloroquine is in

August 6, 2020, 3:39 pm
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Evidence was shaky at first, but as evidence from clinical trials has come in, the data are pretty clear on how effective the drug really is. 

Hydroxychloroquine had promise for a while, but studies have now shown that it's ineffective and potentially unsafe.Pixabay

By Sara Chodosh and Claire Maldarelli

Hydroxychloroquine has had a bit of a notorious reputation since the drug was first proposed as a treatment for COVID-19. Without much experience to go on, researchers and doctors initially jumped into trials in the hopes that the malaria medicine would be able to combat the novel coronavirus, and politicians, including President Trump, publicly touted its potential benefits.

But as trials have progressed and data has come in, the verdict on hydroxychloroquine has become increasingly evident: it’s not only ineffective, but also potentially risky.  Read more >>
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100 days without COVID-19: how New Zealand got rid of a virus that keeps spreading across the world

August 6, 2020, 3:49 pm
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On Sunday, New Zealand will mark 100 days without community transmission of COVID-19.
From the first known case imported into New Zealand on February 26 to the last case of community transmission detected on May 1, elimination took 65 days.
New Zealand relied on three types of measures to get rid of the virus:
  1. Ongoing border controls to stop COVID-19 from entering the country
  2. A lockdown and physical distancing to stop community transmission
  3. Case-based controls using testing, contact tracing and quarantine.

Collectively, these measures have achieved low case numbers and deaths compared with high-income countries in Europe and North America that pursued a suppression strategy.  Read more >>
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Influential Coronavirus Model Predicts 86% Increase In U.S. Death Toll By December

August 6, 2020, 3:55 pm
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A reflection of the United States Capitol is seen on Thursday in Washington, DC. Photo by Stefani Reynolds/Getty Images 

By Lisette Voytko, Forbes

The University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation now predicts almost 300,000 Americans will die from the disease by Dec. 1, an 86% increase from the current death toll, and a 260% increase from the institute’s launch of its coronavirus model in March, showing how much the outbreak in the U.S. has worsened.  Read more >>
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In the latest sign of Covid-19-related racism, Muslims are being blamed for England's coronavirus outbreaks

August 7, 2020, 5:23 am
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By Zamira Rahim, CNN

London (CNN - Coronavirus conspiracy theorists have spread baseless rumors online -- frequently targeting minorities -- since the beginning of the pandemic. In England the latest wave of vitriol criticizes Muslims, blaming them for spreading Covid-19.

Muslims were caught off guard last week, when the UK government suddenly announced local lockdowns in a slew of areas in northern England where cases have spiked. The announcement came just hours before Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest festivals in Islam.

The affected areas included Greater Manchester, Burnley, Blackburn with Darwen, Bradford and Leicester -- all places with a significant Islamic population according to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB).

The restrictions -- published late last Thursday evening -- banned people in the named areas from mixing with other households.

Local politicians and Muslim leaders criticized the timing of the announcement.  Read more >>
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At least 6 Republican operatives, some tied to Trump camp, working to get Kanye West on the 2020 ballot

August 7, 2020, 5:30 am
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It raises questions about their motives to put West’s name on the ballot.

Kanye West qualifies for presidential ballot in Colorado.

 By Beatrice Peterson,Terrance Smith, Soo Rin Kim, andJeffrey Cook

At least six operatives who have been prominently involved in the Republican political world have been linked to Kanye West's captivating 11th-hour independent 2020 presidential bid.

As the rivalry between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden intensifies with less than three months to go until the election, the involvement of the operatives in West's campaign, some of whom have ties to Trump's camp, raises questions about the motives of those helping to put his name on the ballot.

Shortly after announcing his presidential aspirations earlier this summer, West disavowed his support for Trump during an interview with Forbes, saying, "I'm taking the red hat off, with this interview." He also said he would run as a Republican "if Trump wasn't there. I will run as an independent if Trump is there."  Read more>> 
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Facebook Fired An Employee Who Collected Evidence Of Right-Wing Pages Getting Preferential Treatment

August 7, 2020, 5:35 am
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Facebook employees collected evidence showing the company is giving right-wing pages preferential treatment when it comes to misinformation. And they’re worried about how the company will handle the president’s falsehoods in an election year.

 BuzzFeed News; Jim Watson / AFP; Win McNamee / Getty Images

By Craig Silerman, Ryan Mac

After months of debate and disagreement over the handling of inflammatory or misleading posts from Donald Trump, Facebook employees want CEO Mark Zuckerberg to explain what the company would do if the leader of the free world uses the social network to undermine the results of the 2020 US presidential election.

“I do think we’re headed for a problematic scenario where Facebook is going to be used to aggressively undermine the legitimacy of the US elections, in a way that has never been possible in history,” one Facebook employee wrote in a group on Workplace, the company’s internal communication platform, earlier this week.

For the past week, this scenario has been a topic of heated discussion inside Facebook and was a top question for its leader. Some 2,900 employees asked Zuckerberg to address it publicly during a company-wide meeting on Thursday, which he partly did, calling it "an unprecedented position."  Read more >>
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Grieving Minnesota family overwhelmed after funeral leads to COVID-19 outbreak

August 7, 2020, 5:55 am
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By John Reinan , Star Tribune

They gathered on a summer weekend in the small northwestern Minnesota town of Lake Park to pay their respects to 78-year-old Francis Perreault and share their grief and memories of the good times.

They hugged. They cried. They held hands and prayed and honored a man who was described by his daughter as “wonderful.”

Yet despite wearing masks and taking precautions, 30 family members became infected with COVID-19 within weeks of the mid-July services at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, and five became so sick they were hospitalized.

“We tried to do everything right, but of course when you’re grieving, you let your guard down,” said Stephanie Schindler, Perreault’s daughter. “One of my friends that got sick was wearing a mask the whole time. But of course when you’re crying, you’re going to be rubbing your face.”  Read more >>
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Innovative Industrial Properties (IIPR) Stock Gains 4% on Strong Earnings Report

August 7, 2020, 6:01 am
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This cannabis company continues to profitably grow at a rapid pace, despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Beth McKenna

Innovative Industrial Properties (NYSE:IIPR), a cannabis industry-focused real estate investment trust (REIT), reported strong second-quarter 2020 results after the market close on Wednesday. Investors were pleased with the results, driving shares to a closing gain of 3.9% on Thursday.

Revenue growth continues to be driven primarily by the acquisition of new properties, with contractual rental increases at certain properties also contributing.

The company ended the period with $50.2 million in cash and cash equivalents and $323.3 million in short-term investments, totaling $373.5 million.

For context, in the first quarter, revenue surged 210% year over year to $21.1 million and adjusted FFO per share jumped 107% to $1.12.  Read more >>
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