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Upscale community for young professionals: you don’t have to be a lawyer or doctor to qualify
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said the definition of young professionals who will be eligible to buy lots in a proposed upscale community in western New Providence is broad enough to include barbers, plumbers, farmers and many others—not just lawyers or doctors.
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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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PM: Housing initiative not ‘one-off’ exercise
The prime minister yesterday pledged that the government’s efforts to make home ownership more affordable for Bahamians will not be a “one-off endeavour” that lacks a coherent strategy.
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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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Miller makes CARIFTA Games standard in 200m
JUST before anchoring Swift Athletics to an impressive come-from-behind victory in the under-20 boys’ 4 x 400 metre relay, Wendell Miller powered his way past the qualifying standard in the 200m for the CARIFTA Games.
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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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Senate to debate home ownership resolution
WHEN the Senate next meets it will debate a resolution recently tabled in the House of Assembly which is designed to bring home ownership to young Bahamians.
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Real estate expert brands govt lot offer ‘exciting’
A REAL estate expert supports the government’s plans to develop the Western portion of New Providence as an affordable upscale subdivision for young Bahamians.
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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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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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FACE TO FACE: Holding hands with old friends from Harlem
In celebration of Women’s History Month, I had the privilege of being invited to speak at a special forum hosted by the Bahamian American Association.
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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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Resorts ‘pleasantly surprised’ over Easter booking numbers
A senior Atlantis executive yesterday said he is “encouraged” by Easter bookings despite tourism not yet recovering to 2019 levels.
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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.
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Radshad Davis to pursue professional basketball
RADSHAD Davis chose to forego his option of a final year of his NCAA and will pursue professional basketball.
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Family’s desperate hope for plane still missing
A RELATIVE of missing passenger Stephen Sawyer says the family will continue to search for him as they “believe wholly and solely” that he’s alive, more than three weeks after the plane he was on crashed in waters near Salina Point.
