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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.

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‘Walk and chew gum’: Subsidies, debt cost $938m

The Bahamas “must walk and chew gum” on its fiscal and economic revival, a leading banker has warned, with $938.5m - one third of government spending - taken up by debt and subsidy costs.

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Wildcats to face Tigers in Battle 4 Atlantis finale

The Villanova University Wildcats snuck past the North Carolina Tar Heels in an 83-81 overtime thriller to advance to their third Battle 4 Atlantis finals yesterday at the Imperial Arena, Paradise Island.

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Travis Munnings and club win LPB title in Portugal

TRAVIS Munnings and Sporting Lisboa Benfica completed a dominant season in Portugal’s Liga Portuguesa de Basquetbol (LPB) with the 2022 championship title.

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Bidder: Mobile licence process is ‘world class’

A leading contender for the Bahamas’ second cellular licence has described the bidding process as “world class”, and among the best of 50 such exercises he has been involved in.

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Prince Albert Rolle

Death Notice for Prince Albert Rolle, 85 a resident of Dumping ground Corner, died at PMH on 22nd October, 2017. He is survived by his niece: Betty Saunders; grand niece: Maria Brown; grand nephew: Franklyn Evans & a host of …

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Lashann scores career high 30

LASHANN Higgs continues to have a breakout season for the Texas Longhorns and reached another scoring milestone for the second consecutive game.Higgs finished with a career high 30 points as her No.8 Longhorns protected home court with an 84-79 win o

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Team Bahamas named for CAC Games

THE Bahamas Olympic Committee announced its largest team, comprising of 60 athletes - 21 coaches and three team officials in a contingent of 84 from nine disciplines - for the 23rd Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia.In joi

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‘Buddy’ Hield scores 22 for Kings in loss to 76ers

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Joel Embiid got back to playing the kind of game he expects from himself and nothing like the worst game of his career two nights prior.

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Top pitchers and batting champions take the spotlight

SIGMA Wildcats’ infielder Jeanette Hilton and Sting Truckers’ outfielder Lamar Watkins are the New Providence Softball Association’s 2014 ladies and men’s batting champions respectively.

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Donations pour in to Save our South

“THE Furniture Plus warehouse was empty last night, and look at it now. It’s filled to capacity for tomorrow for thousands of pounds of supplies to be flown out to those in such dire need.”

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Sports Notes

THE most valuable players (MVP) in City Bowling League competition last night was a red hot Kevin B Williams of Genuine Knights who mowed down the pins for a 270 second high game and a gigantic 708 three game set.

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Children are our future

Thank you for your support, as it relates to building a better and stronger Bahamas, knowing that your newspaper’s letters column does play a vital role in the development of The Bahamas and the way forward. Again thank you for your space.

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Prayer walk for Baha Mar

As social ills and other challenges continue to put a strain on the country, the Trinity City of Praise and the Commonwealth and Global Prayer Grotto are aiming to keep the faith through prayer.

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Brackets are released for 2015 Battle 4 Atlantis

THE brackets have been released for the 2015 Battle 4 Atlantis, giving us insight to the first round matchups as teams prepare for the eagerly anticipated fall classic at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island November 25-27.

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Wilchcombe calls for unity in build-up to Carnival

TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe yesterday called for FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis to “know what his role is” and said the Killarney MP should “find ways to unite” and not “divide” Bahamians over Junkanoo Carnival.

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Council’s concerns on Carnival to be considered, says minister

TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe said yesterday the Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival Commission will take the Christian Council’s recent concerns regarding the upcoming festival “into consideration” but stressed that celebration will encourage “Bahamianism” and not “sins of the flesh.”

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Tropical Depression forms south west of Florida Keys

DESPITE threatening to develop last week as it crossed the Atlantic and passed to the west of The Bahamas, a tropical depression was reported by the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami to have formed finally on Sunday evening south of the lower Florida Keys as it heads into the Gulf of Mexico and turns back towards the northeastern Gulf Coast of the United States.