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Wins for Caribs and Stingers as regular season returns
AFTER an exciting All-Star weekend, the New Providence Basketball Association returned to its regular season action on Monday night at the AF Adderley Gymnasium as the College of the Bahamas Caribs and the PJ Stingers picked up victories.
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GB Power raises reduced light bill estimate to 95%
Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) yesterday said it was “confident” that the number of residential customers set to experience reduced electricity bills in 2016 had increased to 95 per cent, with some in line for “close to 7 per cent” decreases.
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BISX-listed Fund ‘stabilises’ with commitments for $8m
The BISX-listed Bahamas Property Fund has “stabilised” occupancies and rental rates at its flagship property “for the first time” in almost a decade amid expectations its current $8m capital raise will be fully subscribed.
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Food stores given weekend choices
Super Value's president last night said the Prime Minister wants "to maintain a certain level of control" over his COVID ease as he revealed food stores were given the choice of which weekend day to open.
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Music star Lou Adams dies, aged 94
LOU ADAMS, a legendary figure whose contributions to Bahamian music and cultural development are indelible, has died aged 94.
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BEC targets GB expansion
THE Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) executive chairman yesterday revealed it was exploring the possibility of servicing East End in Grand Bahama, adding that there was “excess” generating capacity in Abaco to do so.
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POLITICOLE: There’s a hole in the bucket, Dear Christie
I was born in the 70s, and I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Life in The Bahamas was so much simpler then. Everything appeared cleaner, easier, purer. It was long before we knew what a storm our leaders were brewing for us, though we would soon find out. And the Pandora’s Box has been spilling over since then.
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PM pays tribute to Edmund Moxey
THE late Edmund Moxey espoused ideas and introduced projects that historians will come to view as being way ahead of their time, Prime Minister Perry Christie said during the state funeral for one of the Bahamas cultural icons at the Parish Church of the Most Holy Trinity on Stapleton Gardens yesterday.
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Bahamas tops Caribbean for LA, Houston tourists
The Bahamas is the most sought-after Caribbean destination among US west coast and central markets for a leading travel website’s clients, with this nation urged to “tell the story” of its individual islands and create an ‘urgency’ to visit.
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Water Corp’s $159m subsidy driven from 2/3 ‘cost recovery’
The Water & Sewerage Corporation’s revenues cover just two-thirds of its operating expenses because its prices have not been increased for 18 years, costing Bahamian taxpayers $159 million over a five-year period.
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‘Uncle Lou’ Adderley set to be inducted October 14
THE late Deacon Leviticus ‘Uncle Lou’ Adderley will be among 10 individuals and one team to be inducted into Saint John’s University’s J-Club Hall of Honour on Saturday, October 14, as part of Homecoming festivities.
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Remilda Gertrude Williamson
Remilda Gertrude Williamson age 94 years of Domingo Heights and formerly of Pine Field, Acklins died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Saturday, June 25th, 2016. She is survived by her SONS: Harrison, Neville Sr., Aldon and Fred Williamson; DAUGHTERS: …
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Pintard: Convenient for AG that crime isn’t a political issue now
FREE National Movement Chairman Michael Pintard said it is “convenient” that Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson would now admit that crime is not a political issue, now that the country has recorded the “highest number of murders” in history under her watch.
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Martin: Sandals move ‘a slap in the face’
Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) Nicole Martin has urged the government to make legislative changes to protect workers and their tenure of employment describing the recent move by Sandals to abruptly make some 600 workers at Royal Bahamian resort redundant “disgraceful” and a “slap in the face” to workers across the country.
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Davis: GBPA ‘needs a management and governance change’
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said he believes new management is needed at the Grand Bahama Port Authority to facilitate Freeport’s growth because the “status quo” is not working.
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$20m maritime academy set for January '14 start
THE first phase of a $20 million maritime institute, which will be established at Silver Cay, is expected to be open no later than January 2014, said the head of the company spearheading the initiative.
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Sands: Mortgage Corp will need $40-$50 million injection
THE Bahamas Mortgage Corporation (BMC) will need an injection of $40-$50 million ‘in the near future’ to maintain its financial viability according to former Mortgage Corporation Chairman Dr Duane Sands.
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Miller: Ex-Robin Hood store 'must open' before Christmas
MARIO’S Bowling and Entertainment Palace chief, Leslie Miller, said that despite earlier setbacks he expects to have the former Robin Hood store open by Christmas, telling Tribune Business: “We have to catch Christmas season.”
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Kenneth Dayward Kemp
Funeral service for Kenneth Dayward Kemp, age 80 years, of Cable Beach, will be held on Friday June 22, 2018 at 10:00 a.m., at The Church of the Most Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Trinity Way, Stapledon Gardens. Officiating will be …