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September 18, 2019 The Skanner Portland & Seattle Page 7 Bids & Classified To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com or go to www.TheSkanner.com and click on the “Ads” menu. Bahamas cont’d from pg 6 hama island that has been closed since being badly damaged by the storm. “It’s going to be bad because a lot of busi- nesses were destroyed.” As the northwestern Bahamas struggles to re- cover from Dorian, res- idents braced for newly formed Tropical Storm Humberto, which was ex- pected to hit two islands over the weekend that were already battered by Dorian. The U.S. National Hur- ricane Center said the storm was passing just east of Great Abaco is- land early Saturday and would bring heavy rains to the northwestern Ba- hamas. In the months prior to the hurricane, the unemployment rate of the tourism-dependent Bahamas had decreased slightly, but stood at 10% Apple cont’d from pg 5 did not have much new to say about the TV service beyond its pricing and debut date, although he did show a trailer for a new Jason Momoa-led se- ries called “See.” Netflix declined to comment. In the past, Netflix CEO Reed Hast- ings has depicted the in- creased competition as a positive for everyone, al- lowing consumers to cre- ate their own entertain- ment bundles instead of accepting bundles put together at higher prices by cable and satellite TV services. Like Netflix and simi- lar services from Ama- zon and Hulu, Apple has been spending billions of dollars for original programs. The most an- ticipated so far seems to be “The Morning Show,” a comedy starring Jenni- fer Aniston, Reese With- erspoon and Steve Carell. The service will launch with nine original shows on the archipelago of some 395,000 inhabi- tants. On Grand Bahama it was 11% and had in- creased to 9% on nearby Abaco before Dorian slammed both islands, with people now trying to find any type of work after thousands lost their jobs. Carl Swann, an IT technician from Abaco, recently typed up his resume on his cellphone after hearing about sev- eral job leads in the cap- ital, Nassau: assistant engineer, security guard and electronic salesman. However, he hasn’t se- cured any interviews yet and worries about his finances because he has nowhere to go and has been staying at a hotel for two weeks. “I’m wasting my mon- ey,” he said. It’s unclear how many Bahamians affected by the hurricane have sought and obtained un- employment benefits, but the government has and films, with more ex- pected each month. It will only carry Apple’s original programming and will be available in 100 countries at launch. Since it began focus- ing on exclusive shows and movies six years ago, Netflix has built a huge library of original programming and now spends upward of $10 billion annually on its lineup. Apple also announced a new videogame sub- scription service that will cost $5 a month when it rolls out Sept. 19. Called Apple Arcade, the service will allow subscribers to play more than 100 games selected by Apple that are exclu- sive to the service. Disney, one of the most hallowed brands in entertainment, is also muscling its way into the market with a stream- ing service featuring its treasured vault of films and original program- ming. That means both Apple and Disney will be un- dercutting the industry pledged to make it easi- er for evacuees to access those benefits. “That will be a big re- lief,” Labor Minister Dion Foulkes recently told reporters. “We’d like to stabilize as many fami- lies as we can as quick as possible.” He also said the gov- ernment would soon an- nounce new measures to help the nearly 5,000 people who were evacu- ated to New Providence, the most populous is- land in the Bahamas, from Grand Bahama and the Abaco islands after Dorian. U.N. Secretary-Gen- eral Antonio Guterres said ahead of a weekend visit to the Bahamas that more than three-quar- ters of all buildings were destroyed by the hurricane. “Hospitals are ei- ther in ruins, or over- whelmed. Schools turned into rubble,” Guterres said in a state- ment. “Thousands of leaders. Besides Netflix, there is Amazon at $9 per month and Hulu at $6 per month. The price war is un- folding as Netflix tries to bounce back from a rough spring in which it suffered its first quarterly drop in U.S. subscribers since 2011. Apple’s pricing tactics caught investors’ atten- tion. Netflix’s stock fell 2% on Tuesday. Each new entry into the crowded video subscription market stretches the limits of just how many monthly plans viewers are will- ing to pay for. The Apple streaming service will, at least for now, offer fewer viewing options than Netflix or Disney but also at a sig- nificantly lower price. Apple’s pricing shows it is serious, and the com- pany will probably take a loss “as it plays catch-up,” said Colin Gillis, director of research at Chatham Road Partners. Read the rest of this story at TheSkanner.com people will continue to need help with food, wa- ter and shelter. Many more facing of course the uncertainties future after losing everything.” The storm, however, has helped a handful of Bahamians. 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