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Baha Mar shrugs off $10m dip with $300m expansion

Baha Mar yesterday shrugged off a “temporary” Hurricane Dorian-related $10m revenue decline by unveiling a $300m water park expansion that will increase its workforce by ten percent.

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MAR-VELLOUS: Resort unveils $300m expansion with water park

BAHA MAR is set to launch a $300m phase of development that will provide jobs for up to 500 people and involve a major water park and entertainment amenity known as Baha Mar Bay.

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Row ends with man shot dead

POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a shooting that left a man dead on Monday night.

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RoyalFidelity: $1bn goal as 'Caribbean's premier'

RoyalFidelity is now focused on becoming “the premier Caribbean investment bank and wealth manager” after its management-led buyout closed last Wednesday, its president has revealed.Michael Anderson, pictured, confirming that all necessary regulatory

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Govt finances face 3-year Dorian blow

Hurricane Dorian will likely throw the government’s finances off-track for the next three years, the deputy prime minister has revealed, although its fiscal “fundamentals” have not altered.K Peter Turnquest told Tribune Business that a “three-year ru

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112 Haitians deported

MORE than 100 Haitians were deported to Port-au-Prince yesterday. The Department of Immigration said a Bahamasair flight departed Lynden Pindling International Airport at 8.07am to Haiti with 112 Haitians, escorted by a team of law enforcement offic

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Classes resume at University of the Bahamas campus in Freeport

THE University of The Bahamas North has reopened and resumed classes at its downtown centre in Freeport, a month after Hurricane Dorian destroyed the northern campus in East Grand Bahama. Dr Ian Strachan, vice president of UB North, said university

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Blanche Forbes

Ms. Blanche Forbes age 77 yrs Will be held on Thursday October 10th 2019 7:30pm at International Revival Fellowship Ministries, Montel Heights, Nassau, Bahamas. Final Rites and Burial for the late Mrs. Blanch Eva Forbes Age 77 yrs, a resident …

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Rev. Oral Roosevelt Pinder

Rev. Oral Roosevelt Pinder age 84 a resident of Deep Creek Eleuthera, died at his residence Monday October 7th, 2019. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to THE NEW COMMONWEALTH FUNERAL HOME and, will be announced later.

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Sheila Maria Saunders Lightbourne

Funeral Service for the late Sheila Maria Saunders Lightbourne “Sugar-Sugar” aged 82 years, of Pinewood Gardens and formerly of Bluff, Eleuthera, will be held on Saturday October 12th 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at New Dimension Ministries Church of God, Joe …

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Nurse Jean Marie Hood-Davies

Funeral service for Nurse Jean Marie Hood-Davies, 84 yrs., a resident of Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, will be held at St. Patrick’s Anglican Church, Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, on Saturday, October 12, 2019 at 10:30 a.m. Officiating will be Father Ivan Eldon. …

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Jones and the Connecticut Sun miss out on championship

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Mystics won their first WNBA championship, getting 22 points from Emma Meesseman and 21 from banged-up league MVP Elena Delle Donne to beat Jonquel Jones and the Connecticut Sun 89-78 in Game 5 of the Finals on Thursday night

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Killings go on as another man dies

POLICE are investigating another shooting incident that left a man dead yesterday afternoon, the fourth killing since Tuesday.

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PETER YOUNG: Enforce the law but show good will

LAST week’s controversial exchanges about the treatment of displaced migrants following the destruction by Hurricane Dorian of the shanty towns in Abaco should have come as no surprise. As everyone knows by now, the potentially explosive issue of Haitian immigration to The Bahamas goes back a long way.

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‘My category five house survived’

WHEN Mary Thaysen built her “Category Five” house in East End, everyone “teased” her about it.

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Victim, 22, shot dead outside his home

POLICE are investigating the country’s latest homicide after a man was shot in broad daylight sitting near his Wilson Track home yesterday afternoon.

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Call for Dames to resign over Abaco: FNM branch chairman hits out over island’s ‘weak security’

THE chairman of the Free National Movement’s Central and South Abaco constituency branch wants National Security Minister Marvin Dames to resign over the “weak security” on the island.

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Insurer 'praying' Abaco 90% paid in six months

A top Bahamian insurer was yesterday “praying” that 90 percent of Abaco’s Dorian-related claims will be paid out within the next six months given the scale of the island’s devastation. Anton Saunders, RoyalStar Assurance’s managing director, told Tr

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Lucayan chairman backs govt GB airport control

The Grand Lucayan’s chairman yesterday backed calls for the government to take over ownership of Grand Bahama International Airport from Hutchison Whampoa and the Port Authority.Emphasising that it was his personal opinion, and not government policy,

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Sylvan Augustine Ramsay

Funeral Service for the late Sylvan Augustine Ramsay, aged 55 years, of Foster Street, Boyd Subdivision, will be held on Saturday October 5th 2019 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Boyd Road. Officiating will be Monsignor Alfred C. …