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Margaret Louise Eldon
Margaret Louise Eldon, age 82 of Johnson Road Estates passed peacefully at her home on November 9, 2019. Funeral services for Mrs. Eldon will be held on Friday, November 15, 2019 at 3:00pa.m. at Ebenezer Methodist Church, East Shirley St. …
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Alfred Clindal Darling
Graveside Service for Alfred Clindal Darling age 82 of Podoleo Street and formerly of Matthew Town, Inagua who died on November 10, 2019 will be held on Wednesday November 20, 2019 at 11:00 am at Lakeview Memorial Gardens, John F. …
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Epsilena Rolle
Funeral Service for Epsilena “Epsi” Rolle, 80 of Bahama Sound, Exuma will be held on Saturday Saturday 16th November, 2019At 11:00 A.M. at Service held at Church of God of Prophecy, Steventon, Exuma, Bahamas. Officiating will be Pastor Reckley Armbrister, …
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Teline Jean-Pierre
Funeral Service for Teline Jean-Pierre, age 82 of Lyon Road off Shirley Street and formerly of Port-De-Paix, Haiti who died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Monday, November 4th, 2019 will be held on Saturday, November 16th 2019 at 10 …
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Daniel Ezzas Saunders
Funeral service for Daniel Ezzas Saunders, 84 a resident of Marshall Road, South Beach, will be held at Breath of Life Seventh-day Adventist Church, Marshall Road, South Beach, on Sunday, November 17, 2019 at 1:00 p.m. Officiating will be Pastor …
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Long Island undergoes infrastructure overhaul
A Cabinet minister yesterday updated Long Island residents on multiple infrastructure investments designed to improve the island’s capital stock, economy and resilience against climate change. Desmond Bannister, minister for works, told the Long Isl
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Bahamas' 6.4% bookings drop-off 'pretty remarkable'
A Cabinet minister last night said it was “pretty bloody remarkable” that The Bahamas’ forward bookings for November to January 2020 were only off 6.4 percent given Hurricane Dorian’s impact. Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation, tol
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Baker's Bay alone a $1bn Dorian loss
Dorian-related insurance losses are “heavily skewed” towards Abaco with one resort development potentially accounting for $800m to $1bn worth of claims by itself. Charles Johnson, a Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA) council member, told the annual
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100 Haitians found hiding in bushes
NEARLY 100 Haitian migrants were apprehended on Tuesday after they were found in bushes along the coastline on Inagua, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force said yesterday. Shortly after 9pm on Tuesday, an Operations Turks and Caicos (OPBAT) helicopter, w
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Lewis: Farm Road residents are posing us a challenge
THE Farm Road shanty town in Abaco remains occupied, hindering clean-up efforts in that area, according to Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction Iram Lewis. He made the statement when updating reporters outside C
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80% of Dorian-hit assets uninsured
Up to 80 percent of private homes and businesses devastated by Hurricane Dorian were uninsured, the deputy prime minister revealed yesterday, creating an unsustainable burden for the state.K Peter Turnquest, opening the annual Accountants Week confer
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LIFE LINES: Achieving genuine happiness
From time to time we are asked if we are happy and I wonder how many of us can genuinely state that we are authentically happy?Society, corporations and the media send us messages and myths about to how to achieve this state, assuring us that if we b
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The link between prostate and breast cancer
What does prostate cancer have in common with breast cancer?The answer is the BRCA 1 and 2 gene mutations. The BRCA 1 and 2 genes were first discovered in 1994.BRCA stands for Breast Cancer associated gene. Women with the inherited BRCA 1 or BRCA 2 g
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Professors 'lose faith' in Smith
UNIVERSITY of The Bahamas professors have moved to petition the institution’s board over its expired industrial agreement, having “lost faith” in the university president’s “ability” to conclude negotiations.The University of Tertiary Educators (UTEB
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Angry hotel unions raise strike threat
Hotel workers were yesterday warned it would be “absolute madness” to further damage a tourism industry already “reeling” from Hurricane Dorian with industrial action during the peak winter season.
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Colombian CIBC sale goes ahead
The deputy prime minister has voiced optimism that CIBC’s sale of majority control in its Bahamian and regional affiliate will be “positive” given the buyer’s reputation for innovation.
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Waltiea Rolle takes time out to meet 'Mother' Pratt
AS she gets prepared to be honoured by the Bahamas Hoopfest, the Bahamas’ first player to participate in the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) Waltiea Rolle took the time out to meet Cynthia ‘Mother’ Pratt, the first female to serve as a
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Insurers: Dorian losses increase to $1.5bn-$2bn
Estimates for Hurricane Dorian’s total insured losses were yesterday said to have increased to between $1.5bn to $2bn as the entire Bahamian industry was removed from international “review”. Anton Saunders, RoyalStar Assurance’s managing director, t
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WE WON’T PAY: University rejects lecturers’ 11th hour $3,500 wage claim
THE Union of Tertiary Educators of The Bahamas is demanding a lump sum payout of $3,500 and a salary increase of seven percent for all of its faculty members - a new proposal the University of The Bahamas said yesterday it was not prepared to fulfil.
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Calsey's excellence
Calsey Johnson, journalist par excellent dies at 82 years old.
