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Retailers: COVID vaccine not mandatory for workers
Bahamian retailers yesterday said they will not make it mandatory for employees to become vaccinated against COVID-19 as some voiced scepticism over the merits of becoming inoculated.
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New Providence Cycling Association back in full gear
AFTER a year of inactivity because of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the New Providence Cycling Association is finally back in full gear.
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Briland: Cruise tourism ‘disaster waiting to happen’
More than 99.4 percent of existing and potential Harbour Island visitors have made it “crystal clear cruise tourism is a disaster waiting to happen” for the destination, a hotelier warned yesterday.
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Agency seeking ‘outstanding’ PI Royal Caribbean lease approval
A Bahamian entrepreneur yesterday “challenged Royal Caribbean to produce” its western Paradise Island crown land lease after a government agency voiced concern approvals are “still outstanding”.
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Lathaniel and Cardinals get at-large bid to NJCAA Division I Nationals
LATHANIEL Bastian and his Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals had their nearly season long win streak come to an end, but still received an at-large bid to the NJCAA Division I National Championship Tournament.
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Bahamian student athletes are standouts in NAIA baseball
SEVERAL Bahamain student athletes delivered noteworthy performances for their respective programmes over the weekend in National Association of Intercollegiate Athletic (NAIA) baseball play.
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‘Jazz’ hits his first home run of season
JASRADO “Jazz” Chisholm Jr faced two-time Cy Young award winner Jacob deGrom and took the Mets’ ace 100mph fastball for a deep shot to right field for his first home run of the 2021 season.
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A COMIC'S VIEW: Big Apple gives marijuana green light
IT HAS long been said about New York, that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
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Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, dies aged 99
LONDON (AP) — Buckingham Palace officials say Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died. He was 99.
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FRONT PORCH: US Republicans are facing an existential threat
Lights, camera and an admixture of antebellum and Jim Crow action as Georgia Governor Brian Kemp signed into law sweeping voting restrictions designed to suppress minority voters in the state after it voted last November for Joe Biden as President and both a black and a Jewish man as federal senators.
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Bastian and Cardinals top overall seed in NJCAA regionals
LATHANIEL Bastian and his Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals concluded the regular season with the longest winning streak in the NJCAA and head into the regional tournament as the top overall seed.
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Isaacs Jr returns to pro baseball
TODD Isaacs Jr will return to professional baseball this season with the New Jersey Jackals of the Canadian-American Division of the Frontier League.
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RBDF Commodore awaiting test result
ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force Commodore Raymond King is still experiencing mild symptoms after being exposed to COVID-19, however test results have not yet come back to determine if he has the disease.
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The fragility of the monster
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BORN in 1460 in Sines, a small town on Portugal’s West coast, Vasco da Gama is one of the greatest explorers of all time. His journey by sea, from Western Europe to India via South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope, was an incredible feat of courage and seamanship. Sailing through seas never before navigated, Da Gama eventually reached the Indian port of Calicut on 20 May 1498, almost a year after setting off from Lisbon.
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Concern mounts on possible third wave
THE nation recorded 92 new COVID-19 infections over the holiday weekend — bringing the total number of cases to 9,263.
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Eugene Stuart helps lead team to playoff berth
EUGENE Stuart has had an immediate impact on Arca Galati of Romania’s Divizia A1 and helped lead the team to a standout regular season and playoff berth.
