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ART OF GRAPHIX: Getting better returns from video marketing
In the past, research showed the average person spent 84 minutes or more per day watching online videos, and this is only expected to increase in 2021. Facebook Live videos have become incredibly popular, especially gardening and cooking videos, with 88 percent of marketers reporting they offered a positive return on investment. Many businesses were using video as a marketing tool in 2020, and 92 percent of those marketers credited this medium as an important part of their marketing strategy.
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Bahamas to know if 'oil rich' within 6 weeks, says BPC
Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) yesterday hailed a Supreme Court verdict that likely removes all obstacles to completion of its first exploratory oil well within the scheduled 45-60 day timeframe.
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Town Planning urged: 'Grab oil exploration by the horns'
A prominent QC yesterday urged the Town Planning Committee "to grab oil drilling by the horns" after it became embroiled in the escalating legal battle over exploration in Bahamian waters.
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Judge: Oil opponents make 'arguable case'
A Supreme Court judge yesterday gave the go-ahead for a legal challenge aiming to halt oil drilling in Bahamian waters after finding activists had made out an "arguable case".
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PETER YOUNG: It’s vital we get our vaccine programme right and learn how others have fared
IN a free society it is axiomatic that authority should be held to account. Criticism of mistakes and failures should be encouraged, if only to prevent them in the future. So, on the thesis that it is the role of the Fourth Estate to scrutinise official policies and actions and to ask the tough questions, I return this week to the vexed issue of the coronavirus vaccine.
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Five-month loan wait dampening realtor's outlook
A Bahamian realtor yesterday voiced concern that renewed market "optimism" could founder over tightened bank lending policies that are taking up to five months to issue mortgage approvals.
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Man dies after shooting in Montell Heights
ANOTHER man is dead after a shooting in Montell Heights last night, making him the sixth person killed in five days.
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INSIGHT: Bring on the vaccines as it’s our only realistic route back to a life of normalcy
IF I had only a dime for how many times I’ve heard 2020 called “the worst year ever” or “a year to forget”. Indeed, 2020 inflicted what seemed to be an unending loop of trauma on people all over the world. It wasn’t until the end of the year that we were all ready to remove our hands from our eyes to see the possibility of change in the near future as a result of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines.
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20 feared lost after search is abandoned
THE US Coast Guard has suspended its search for a boat that left The Bahamas last week with 20 people on board, but failed to arrive at its planned destination in South Florida a day later.
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Kai Jones and no.8 Texas top no.3 KU 84-59
NCAA Division I basketball opened conference play for most programmes and several Bahamian student athletes were back on the court with standout performances, highlighted by Kai Jones and an historic win for his Texas Longhorns.
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Ayton scores 24 in loss to Clippers
PHOENIX (AP) — Paul George scored 39 points and the Los Angeles Clippers held on to beat the Phoenix Suns 112-107 last night after nearly blowing a 31-point lead in a matchup of two of the Western Conference’s top early season teams.
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Search for Mako vessel suspended
Saturday UPDATE: The US Coast Guard suspended its search for the Mako vessel on New Year's Day. The Coast Guard said that, along with partner agencies, it searched approximately 17,000 square miles, roughly double the size of Massachusetts, for about 84 hours.
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Activists: 'Unarguable' BPC needed new EA
Oil exploration opponents yesterday alleged previous statements by Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) show it is "unarguable" that new environmental permits were needed for the change in drill ship.
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Ayton posts double double, Suns blow out Pelicans
PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Paul played OK. Devin Booker had one of his least productive games in recent memory. The Suns’ best two players didn’t really do much in an intriguing matchup between two of the league’s rising teams.
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Romad Dean The Tribune’s Junior Male Athlete of Year
ROMAD Dean’s finish to his debut season with the Crestwood Prep Lions in Ontario, Canada, saw his continued ascension in the prep basketball recruiting rankings to earn The Tribune’s 2020 Junior Male Athlete of the Year.
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Hotels warn over 'vaccine paralysis'
A Family Island hotelier yesterday said Christmas business volumes were “off 50 percent” at his property as he voiced fears that "vaccination paralysation” will hit the travel market in early 2021.
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Megan Moss The Tribune’s Junior Female Athlete of Year
IT was day one of the Ministry of Sports’ National High School Track and Field Championships on Thursday, March 12 at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium when all sporting activities were halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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One death and 35 cases over holiday
COVID-19 cases have continued to steadily trickle in each day with Ministry of Health officials recording 315 new cases this month.
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Oil opponents: BPC EIA 'contradicts' drilling halt
Oil exploration opponents are arguing Bahamas Petroleum Company's (BPC) assertion that a mid-drilling halt will cause "unnecessary safety" risks is contradicted by its own environmental studies.
