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Buddy: ‘We didn’t match their physicality’
NATIONAL Basketball Association player Chavano “Buddy” Hield said he couldn’t ask for more support than they got from the Bahamian public for the men’s national team matchup against the Dominican Republic.
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Iva Lenora Taylor
Funeral Service for Iva Lenora Taylor, age 94 of Camperdown and formerly of Boyd Subdivision and West Moreland, Jamaica who died on Monday, April 2nd, 2018 will be held on Saturday, April 14th, 2018 at 3 p.m. at St. Joseph’s …
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Nathalie Williams-Wright
Funeral Service for the late Nathalie Williams-Wright, age 94 years of Infant View Road, will be held at 10:00 a.m. Saturday 25th April, 2015 at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Boyd Road. Officiating will be Monsignor Alfred Culmer assisted by other …
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Knights hold seven point lead
THE defending champions CR Walker Knights hold a slim seven-point lead over the CV Bethel Stingrays going into the final day of competition in the senior segment of the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association’s Track and Field Championships.
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Digital banking can’t be ‘rammed down throats’
A senior banker yesterday said the industry must adopt the “Mary Poppins with medicine” approach in encouraging more Bahamians and businesses to switch to digital transactions.
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IMF: 12% VAT rate ‘lowest in Caribbean’
The Bahamas’ soon-to-be-repealed 12 percent VAT rate was branded “the lowest in the Caribbean” by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its much-debated report to the Government.
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Sports in brief
THE New Providence Volleyball Association continued its second playoff series at the DW Davis Gymnasium on Wednesday night as the Johnson’s Cherry Bombs swept the College of the Bahamas Lady Caribs 28-26, 25-17 and 25-22 to win the series 2-0 and advance to the ladies’ championship.
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Team Bahamas wins Co-Ed Slow Pitch World Cup
THEY had some distractions before they left and they almost completed a perfect trip through the tournament. But nobody can argue that the Bahamas Government Departmental Softball Association’s 25-member team will be returning home today as the champions of the 2015 WBSC Co-Ed Slow Pitch Cup in Plant City, Florida.
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Golden Gates men take game one of BSC best-of-3 softball championships
JEFFERY Woodside cracked a three-run home run Tuesday night as Golden Gates rebounded for a 13-12 come-from-behind walk-off-the-field victory over Charles W Saunders to snatch game one of the Baptist Sports Council men’s best-of-three championship series.
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Johnson ends up No.26 overall in virtual world chess championship
WOMAN Candidate Master (WCM) Daijah Johnson concluded her historic run at the International School Sports Federation’s (ISF) Virtual World Schools Championship against a field that comprised some of the top players across the globe.
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‘Bonefish Sam’ to be honoured
ONE of The Bahamas’ bonefish tour legends is being honoured next month through the International Game Fish Association of Florida next month.
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Bermuda tops Bahamas 3-0 in 2nd leg of FIFA World Cup qualifier
DESPITE a battling performance a much-changed Bahamas exited the 2018 Fifa World Cup at the first qualifying stage yesterday when they went down 3-0 in Bermuda in the second leg of their CONCACAF preliminary round tie.
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Accused: Wife faces court for Old Fort Bay murder
THE wife of murdered Australian podiatrist Phillip Vasyli blew kisses at relatives seated in court yesterday as she was led away by police following her arraignment for his killing.
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Woman in tears as she is accused of murder
A WOMAN was led away from a courtroom in tears yesterday after she was arraigned in connection with the death of a female whose partially burned body was found with a “black cord” wrapped around her neck.
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Man behind bars after being charged with murder
A 28-year-old man is behind bars after being charged in Magistrates Court yesterday for killing a man last month.
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Man shot in drive-by dies in hospital from wounds
A 29-year-old man who was shot multiple times during a drive-by shooting on Saturday died in hospital early yesterday morning.
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Two teens accused of stabbing man to death
TWO teenagers, including a 15-year-old juvenile, were arraigned in Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a murder charge.
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They served with distinction
The police force is an institution comprised of dedicated men and women of integrity, but like in most such institutions, there will be one or two who do not meet those criteria.
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Knowles hits 2nd walkoff in a week
FOR the second time in the series against the Stockton Ports, D’Shawn Knowles delivered late-game heroics and another walk-off win for the Inland Empire 66ers.
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Bahamas targets Latin American airlift doubling
THE Bahamas should be able to double airlift from Latin America in two years, the Ministry of Tourism’s director general said yesterday, adding that visitors from the region should grow to nearly 6 per cent of total arrivals in three years.
