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Let's be both sensible and sensitive
Stranger things have happened, but yesterday in the House of Assembly a strange thing happened - it came the turn for the member for St Anne’s to speak ..... he prefixed his comment, all of maybe three-minutes by saying there will be an announcement concerning Immigration and sat back down giving way for PM Hubert Minnis to make his statement, far from the usual summing up that the closing MP, usually the PM will do then the bombshell.
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Illegal migrants
STRANGER things have happened but yesterday in The House of Assembly a strange thing happened - it came the turn for the member for St Anne’s to speak ..... he prefixed his comment, all of maybe three minutes by saying there will be an announcement concerning Immigration and sat back down giving away for PM Hubert Minnis to make his statement, far from the usual summing up that the closing MP, usually the PM will do then the bombshell.
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The Mud in flames – again
MORE than 80 people have been left homeless and their houses destroyed after another blaze ripped through The Mud in Abaco in the early hours yesterday.
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UPDATED: If we carry on like this, we will not cope
THE number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has risen to 33, with four new cases diagnosed in New Providence.
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Environment legislation
Thank you for giving me space to express my concerns about a situation that is unfolding that is deeply disturbing. I have heard numerous rumours since the new administration has taken over that the 2019 Environmental Planning and Protection Act and the 2020 Biological Resources and Traditional Knowledge Protection and Sustainable Use Act will be repealed.
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$4.8m seawall close to completion at Smith’s Point
THE $4.8m seawall and road repaving project at Smith’s Point in Grand Bahama is just about finished and residents are eager for the community to be reopened to the public.
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Debt gobbles up 27% of Budget
MORE than 27 per cent of the Government’s total recurrent spending in the 2017-2018 Budget is going towards repaying principal or interest on the Bahamas’ $7 billion-plus debt mountain.
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Go-ahead for 82% of Abaco small firm loans
Some 82 percent of $4.5m in loan and grant applications from Abaco entrepreneurs is in the pipeline for distribution, the Small Business Development Centre's (SBDC) executive director said yesterday.
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French Leave developers eye 'quiet opening' in November
DEVELOPERS behind Eleuthera’s French Leave Resort and Marina say that they hope to have a “quiet opening” this November with the launch of four cottages and several amenities, adding that investment in the project to-date was approaching $8m.
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Collie: It’s time to ring the bell
FREE National Movement Chairman Sidney Collie yesterday urged Prime Minister Perry Christie to “ring the bell,” insisting that voter registration numbers now indicate that the electorate is “ready and prepared to make their choice.”
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DORIS CYNTHIA BROWN
DORIS CYNTHIA BROWN age 96 years of Yamacraw and formerly of Delectable Bay, Acklins died at her residence on Wednesday, June 8th, 2016. She is survived by her SONS: Euthal and James Brown; DAUGHTERS: Doreen and Yvonne Brown and Miriam …
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Knicks rally to beat Buddy Hield and Pacers for 7th straight victory
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Jalen Brunson scored 30 points, Julius Randle made six free throws in the final minute and the New York Knicks beat the Indiana Pacers 109-106 yesterday for their NBA-best seventh consecutive victory. The 19th and final lead change came in the final minute, when Randle made two foul shots with 45.6 seconds remaining for a 105-104 lead. After the teams exchanged turnovers, Randle hit four more free throws in the final two possessions. The Pacers missed a shot from just inside half-court at the buzzer. Buddy Hield and Aaron Nesmith each had 23 points for Indiana. Tyrese Haliburton and Bennedict Haliburton each added 15.
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JOSEPH ELANDER BAIN
JOSEPH ELANDER BAIN, 88 a resident of Upper Bogue, Eleuthera, Bahamas, died at his residence Sunday, August 25th, 2019. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to THE NEW COMMONWEALTH FUNERAL HOME, and will be announced later.
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Breezes High Flyers top Aliv 95-86
THE New Providence Basketball Association got its best-of-five semi-final playoffs started at the AF Adderley Gymnasium over the weekend and there were no surprises in the outcome of the games played.
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BEC preferred bidder to Gov't 'within week'
The Government should “within the next week” receive recommendations as to who the preferred Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) bidder(s) should be, Tribune Business was told yesterday.
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Moody’s warn COVID impact will remain beyond 2024
Bahamian economic output will not recover to pre-COVID-19 levels "until after 2024", Moody's has warned, in a stark illustration of the economic devastation unleashed by the pandemic.
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‘Taxes will increase to cover debt’
A leading Bahamian banker has warned that taxes will "increase significantly" to pay for the Government's COVID-19 spending, leaving individuals and businesses left with less money "for quite a while".
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No ‘great panic’ on deficit run-up
The government’s first-half fiscal deficit is no cause for “great panic” despite being equal to 73.4 percent of the full-year target, a top accountant argued yesterday.
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Reformer says 'it's not a one pill cure'
The Bahamas will take “at least a decade” to escape its fiscal crisis, a governance reformer warning: “It’s not a one pill cure”.
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Bahamas selects 'most fraught' model for BEC
By NEIL HARTNELL