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Members of the COVID-19 Taskforce
(Top, left to right) – Mr. Peter Roker, Businessman; Mr. Daniel Ferguson,
Procurement Officer, Ministry of Finance; Dr. Rodney D. Smith, University of The Bahamas President
(Center, left to right) – Mrs. Tameka Lundy, Associate Vice President, University Relations, UB; Dr. Lorraine Bastian Jones, Taskforce Chair & Director, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning, UB; Mr. Rudyard Burton, Assistant Director, Office of Information Technology, UB
(Bottom, left to right) – Attorney Mavis Johnson Collie, Manager, Utilities Regulation & Competition Authority (URCA); Mr. Dino Hernandez, Vice President, Division of Institutional Advancement and Alumni Affairs, UB; Mrs. Keyshan Bastian, Assistant Director, Ministry of Education
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Gas station operators yesterday said in-store retail sales are down by up to 75 percent compared to pre-COVID levels due to weak consumer spending amid the pandemic s economic fall-out.
Vasco Bastian, owner/operator of the Esso station at the East Street/Soldier Road junction, told Tribune Business: “Nothing has changed because people are still not working. It was 80,000 persons unemployed the last time I checked. There is no money circulating, so there is no disposable income for persons to spend to come to the gas stations. So either they come for the fuel or they come inside briefly, and then they leave. In store sales are down by 75 percent.