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SAN FRANCISCO--( )--Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) announced today that it is donating $250,000 to fund wildfire relief efforts in California. The funds will help support disaster relief operations for people impacted by the Camp Fire in Northern California, and the Woolsey and Hill Fires in Southern California.
“The negativity must stop and the voices of Eleutherans need to be heard” Sands decries “more concern about stopping Disney than focusing on the growth and development” of South Eleuthera NASSAU, BAHAMAS — A prominent Eleuthera businessman yesterday pushed back against opponents of Disney’s Lighthouse Point project, urging the “non-Eleutheran lobby” to redirect their efforts to other opportunities on the island. Thomas Sands, a South Eleuthera businessman and real estate developer who also serves as the island’s Chamber of Commerce president, in a statement expressing his pe...
nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A Bahamian resort community yesterday said it would use the proceeds of a newly-launched preference share offering to "regain momentum" lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sir Franklyn Wilson, chairman of Jack’s Bay Developers, told Tribune Business there was no set closing date or target amount that the Eleuthera-based project was seeking to raise from investors via an offering priced at 6.25 percent and with a minimum $50,000 investment. "We're doing whatever we can to accelerate the pace of development," he told this newspaper. "We're in a position where today, as s...
Many roads are now rivers near the mighty mississippi river. this is historic flooding happening right now. take a look at the picture that we are getting from you, the i-reporters in memphis, tennessee, and the river is at the highest level since 1937 when flooding killed some 500 people there, and thousands of homeowners are affected by this flooding in memphis alone 300 to 400 are sitting in shelters today, and after that horrible 1937 flood, engineers built this whole system of levees designed to withstand that level of flooding in the future, and soer farer, it is holding up. here is what...
Confident? >> well, you know, we have had high water on the mississippi before. certainly not at this levels. these are record flows. and every time you have a high water, you certainly have to go through a process of monitoring the levee systems. there's always some seepage to be expected generally in the earth and levee systems and you manage the process by inspecting the levees and inspecting the seepage wherever you find it to control pi control it. and so that the confidence of the levee system is borne in the fact that it has performed so reliably in the past. >> and it has not been test...