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Almost 1m referrals to Nassau/PI hotels
A senior Bahamian tourism executive yesterday said Nassau/Paradise Island has recovered to 97 percent of pre-COVID business volumes by March 2023 with airlift capacity up by double digits for the year-to-date.
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CB Giants tie series, YES Giants go up 2-0 in NPBA Championship
THE New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) division one and two championships are in full swing and action is already starting to heat up.
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Fredrick King and Bluejays sweep Summer of Thunder
Bahamian Fredrick King and his Creighton Bluejays men’s basketball team have completed their mission here with a three-game sweep of their matches played this week in the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s Summer of Thunder.
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Where did govt shares in GBPA go?
The recent brouhaha between the government and the Grand Bahama Port Authority that has found its way onto the front pages of your newspaper reminded us of another controversial subject involving these two protagonists.
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Brookfield exploring $2.5bn Atlantis sale
Brookfield Asset Management is looking to offload the Atlantis Paradise Island Resort - with a price tag of $2.5bn attached.
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Union: ‘Everything on table’ over BPL woes
The Bahamas Electrical Workers Union’s (BEWU) president says “everything is on the table” in resolving its members’ grievances with Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) after all requirements for taking strike action were met.
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Junior golfers return home from 35th CAJGC with 5th place finish
THE Bahamas’ 14-member team returned home from the 35th Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships (CAJGC) in the Cayman Islands with a fifth place, but it was an experience that manager Gina Gonzalez-Rolle feels they will never forget.
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‘Coach Yo’ and Ole Miss Lady Rebels two conference wins away from making history
GRAND Bahama native coach Yolett McPhee- McCuin and the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) Rebels are just two wins away from earning the most Southeastern Conference victories in the programme’s history.
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Rating agencies set ‘true north’ on Bahamas reform
International credit rating agencies have set “almost a true north” for The Bahamas to reach when it comes to key economic and fiscal reforms, a governance reformer argued yesterday.
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FTX Bahamas demanding $9.15bn from US affiliates
FTX’s Bahamian liquidators are seeking to recover a total $9.15bn from the crypto exchange’s US entities with some 84 percent of this sum involving assets that were “misappropriated” prior to its late 2022 collapse.
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EDITORIAL: How long to wait for a right?
AT THE start of May, a major ruling was handed down by the Privy Council on citizenship.
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GBPA has not made GB better
IT IS disheartening and downright selfish for a foreign company that has been operating in the Bahamas from about 1955, and with nothing to show how it has improve the lives of Grand Bahamians, or its economy, to still want to stay hogging up all the profits, as its monopoly has become strained over decades, leaving many Bahamians to wonder about what percentages of its revenues were being exported to Europe, and now by the minute?
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‘Hunger should not be a barrier to learning’
HUNGER should not prevent any child from attending school, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said as the government’s new free breakfast programme was launched on Monday.
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Bahamas ‘tops’ 5m visitors to end-June
The Ministry of Tourism's top official yesterday disclosed that visitor arrivals breached the five million mark for the 2023 half-year although higher-yielding stopovers and air arrivals remained slightly down on 2019's "banner year".
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Moody’s backs trimmed 3% Bahamas growth projection
Moody’s yesterday backed forecasts of lower 3 percent economic growth for The Bahamas in 2023 as it noted the Government’s multi-billion refinancing plan almost totally depends on loans and guarantees from multilateral lenders.
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Goodman’s Bay hostilities erupt on 14-storey project
Hostilities erupted between Goodman’s Bay neighbours over allegations voiced at a public hearing regarding the motives for opposing the Wynn Group’s 14-storey penthouse project.
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Bahamas Youth Flag Football League ‘in-season training’
THE Bahamas Youth Flag Football League (BYFFL) season returned this past weekend at the Thomas A Robinson national stadium.
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MVP jones’ double double leads Liberty to win
BEHIND the Most Valuable Player (MVP) performance of Grand Bahamian Jonquel Jones, the New York Liberty upset the Las Vegas Aces to win the Commissioner’s Cup.
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Grand Lucaya sees rise in occupancy numbers over long Easter weekend
SOME hotel properties experienced occupancy levels of between 30 and 40 percent over the Easter holiday, particularly in the Lucaya area.
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STATESIDE: Biden seeking to avoid gaffes
US President Joe Biden is known for avoiding live press conferences. In sharp contrast to his predecessor, Biden appears to believe that such largely unrehearsed sessions would expose him to more of the gaffes and errors that have occurred many times throughout his long public career – albeit without the crippling effect of some of his contemporaries’ mistakes and misstatements.
