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‘WE’RE COMING FOR OUR MONEY’: $100m student loan debt forces hiring of collection agency

The Education Loan Authority's (ELA) delinquency recovery rate needs to increase seven-fold, a Cabinet Minister admitted yesterday, with Bahamian taxpayers "on the hook for $100m".

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Atlantis near sell-out for holiday weekend

ATLANTIS’S occupancy for the Thanksgiving weekend is ‘over 90 percent’, according to a senior executive at the resort with the annual ‘Battle for Atlantis’ tournament a ‘significant contributor’ to its boost in business for the period.

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Ophelia Smith

Ophelia ‘Cassie’ Smith aged 94 of Alexander Exuma will be held on Saturday at 10:00 A.M. at Cedar of Lebanon Baptist Church, Buttonwood Ave, Pinewood Gardens. Officiating will be Rev. Franklin Mckenzie and Rev. Charles Rolle. Interment in Woodlawn Gardens, …

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ON YOUR MARKS: 28th High School Track & Field Nationals

The 28th National High School Track and Field Championships, which promises to be one filled with record-breaking performances, kicked off yesterday at Thomas A Robinson National Stadium.

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Adriel Hutcheson

Retired Chief Police Inspector Cardinal Adriel Hutcheson age 85 years of #82 Ashley Road, Ridgeland Park East and formerly of Alice Town, Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Sunday, February 9th, 2014. He is survived by …

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Giants at the double

The New Providence Basketball Association championship series continued in both Division I and Division II.

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Fair to be held for Canadian schools

REPRESENTATIVES from 13 top Canadian boarding schools will be holding a school fair on Thursday at the Sandyport Beach Resort from 5-9pm.

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Bahamas ‘off to great start’ at Slow Pitch World Cup

THE Bahamas national team showed that they know how to win by a blowout and the slightest of margins as they pulled off their double header at the WBSC Co-Ed Softball World Cup in Plant City, Florida, yesterday.

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60th Annual Cat Island Regatta In Honour of Godfrey Kelly

THE 60th Cat Island Regatta was held in honour of Co-founder Godfrey Kelly in New Bight from Friday, July 29th to Sunday, July 31st.

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BSC softball playoff picture all set after tonight's game

lT will come down to one game tonight in the Bankers’ Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex to complete the entire playoff picture for the Baptist Sports Council’s 2013 Coca-Cola Softball Classic.

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‘THERE’S NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT’: Medical staff lead the way and urge others to follow

MORE than 60 healthcare workers and senior executives from the Public Hospitals Authority received their first shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine at Princess Margaret Hospital yesterday, marking the official rollout of the country’s vaccination campaign against the deadly coronavirus.

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Pacers trump Aces, 45-43

ELVIS Johnson hit the biggest shot of the game and his backcourt mate Keanu Rolle added the final dagger as the CR Walker Knights escaped with a 60-58 overtime victory over the St Anne’s Bluewaves.

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Team Bahamas affected by FIBA tournament’s cancellation

THE Bahamas’ bid toward FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Qualification will now follow a new path after the international governing body made adjustments to its tournament structure.

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Condo hotel targets September opening

A Goodman’s Bay-based condo hotel is “aiming” for a September opening with over 85 percent of the units already sold, the project’s developer said yesterday.

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Export ban will not ‘collapse’ 1.6m Ilb sector

A BAN on conch exports will not “collapse” the fishing industry, the Bahamas Commercial Fishers Alliance (BCFA) president said yesterday, adding that the organisation backed efforts to preserve a population that generated 1.6 million pounds in recorded landings last year.

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Suspect denies first set of charges in $30,000 fraud case

A MAN pleaded not guilty when asked to answer to more than half the 70 fraud allegation he faces.

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Sir Jack’s ashes to be spread in both Britain and the Bahamas

THE ashes of Sir Jack Hayward will be spread throughout various parts of Britain and the Bahamas – the final and fitting farewell to the British philanthropist who gave so much to so many in his home country, and his country away from home.

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FNM deputy can’t back cable rise

THE FNM’s deputy leader yesterday said he could not support Cable Bahamas’ bid for a 27 per cent increase in the price of its basic pay-TV package, suggesting it delay this for “another year or so”.

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A Bahamian abroad shines at MTSU

WHEN he graduated from Highbury High School (now R M Bailey Senior High) in Nassau in 1973, Sidney McPhee had a deep love for music and his career goal at the time was to be a high school band instructor.