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Cooper defends foreign teacher push, says Bahamians get priority

DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper yesterday defended the government’s push to recruit potentially hundreds of foreign teachers, insisting Bahamian educators will be given first claim on vacancies as the administration moves to confront a shortage unions have described as urgent.

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Duke Strachan smiles again as prison officials deliver puppy

VETERAN Bahamian musician Duke Errol Strachan is smiling again four months after the fatal shooting of his beloved dog ignited national outrage.

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‘I feel robbed’: Singer grieves partner killed in North Andros crash

KHREASEL Glinton is grieving not only the loss of her soulmate, Rashad Storr, but the deaths of four fellow Da Pond members she had come to regard as family after last week’s North Andros plane crash.

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Nygard convicted of assault after using Bahamas as lure

FORMER fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been convicted of sexually assaulting and forcibly confining an 18-year-old aspiring model after luring her to his Montreal penthouse with promises of advancing her career and offering her a life of luxury in The Bahamas.

Minister unsure why Flamingo Air not suspended sooner

ENERGY, Utilities and Aviation Minister JoBeth Coleby-Davis yesterday said she could not explain why Flamingo Air's Air Operator Certificate was not suspended sooner despite the airline's history of at least 14 publicly documented accidents and safety incidents over the past two decades, saying she would have to seek further information from the Civil Aviation Authority of The Bahamas (CAB).

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Family say shooting victim was bystander

THE family of 33-year-old Delano Miller believes he was an innocent bystander caught in a barrage of gunfire that tore through Bain Town on Independence Day, killing him and another man and wounding three women.

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Family of hit-and-run victim demands police check cameras

THE family of hit-and-run victim Ryan Basden demanded yesterday that police secure and review surveillance footage from the area where he was struck, insisting that cameras could identify the driver who sped away and left the 43-year-old father of six dying in the street.