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Red Alert: SAC teams feature in all four division championships
The Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools completed their sudden death semi-finals yesterday at the Anatol Rodgers Gymnasium and the championship matchups are set for next week’s final. The best-of-three championship series in all div
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Junior Comets dominate
Freedom Farm Baseball Park turned into “Comet Country” as the Queen’s College Comets dominated the junior division last night, sending two teams soaring into the finals.
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SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: Remembering King Carl, an everlasting MLB great
TOMORROW is May 27, 2015, and who knows if an historic moment in sports will occur when professional teams take to the diamond, hardwood and rink respectively?
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Gov’t increases its spending by $285m
The Government was yesterday accused of “spending on testosterone” after it increased 2016-2017 recurrent expenditure estimates by $232.708 million in the mid-year Budget.
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Flying to a solution
The Minister recently announced that the biggest drag on Bahamasir’s profit was the high and increasing price of fuel, which he cited as approaching $85 per barrel. Even allowing for a jet fuel premium, can management be so dim as to buy fuel at such a huge margin over the present West Texas Crude quote of about $54, in a flat or even declining trend? That price has come nowhere near $85 since briefly in 2017.
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Rodney Brown
Memorial Service for Rodney Brown, age 43 years, of Market Street South, will be held at Prayer and Praise Assemble Church , Ragged Island Street at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday December 13th , 2014. Officiating will be Pastor McKenzie. Left …
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UN speaker at Hilton event
ROTARY International’s chief representative at the United Nations in New York will be the guest speaker at an event at the British Colonial Hilton on February 21 under the patronage of Governor General Sir Arthur Foulkes.
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Sands: Poor sacrificed ‘on tax efficiency altar’
The FNM’s chairman yesterday accused the Government of driving more Bahamian families into poverty, and sacrificing them “on the altar of tax efficiency”, by refusing to eliminate VAT on medicines and breadbasket foods.
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Bimini starts to rebuild after terror of storm
BIMINI residents were relieved yesterday to start the laborious, but bittersweet process of restoration with no casualties or injuries after hundreds were unable to evacuate before the devastation from the passage of Hurricane Irma.
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Turnquest: Only fair for web shops to pay 'their fair share'
FINANCE Minister K Peter Turnquest defended the government’s decision to increase taxes on gaming house operators on Thursday, saying it is only fair web shops pay “their fair share” for its impact on vulnerable communities.
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Wilma Coralee Armbrister
Funeral Service for the late Wilma Coralee Armbrister aged 81 years, of Sandilands Village will be held on Saturday February 8th, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. at The New Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Blue Hill Road South. Officiating will be Rev. …
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Sports Notes
THE Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools began its 2015/16 basketball season at various playing sites yesterday.
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Witlene Gilbert
Funeral service for Witlene Gilbert, 82 yrs., a resident of Zion Blvd. & formerly of Grand Bahama, will be held t St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Hill Street, on Friday, December 14, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Officiating will be Fr. …
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No Property Fund dividend until 80% occupancy rate hit
The BISX-listed Bahamas Property Fund will not pay shareholder dividends until its overall occupancy rate improves into the 80 per cent range, its administrator has told Tribune Business.
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Nassau/PI resorts enjoy ‘best quarter’ for 7 years
The Nassau/Paradise Island hotel industry has enjoyed its “best quarter performance for seven years” during the first three months of 2015, with occupancies ahead of year-before comparisons through April.
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Devynne, Carmiesha sign letters of intent to attend Purdue
PURDUE University, here comes hurdler/sprinter Devynne Charlton and sprinter Carmiesha Cox.
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INSIGHT: Things CAN get better if only we pull together in the same direction
LAST week saw the return of students to face-to-face learning, and while there remain concerns about whether that will lead to greater spread of COVID-19, it was heartwarming to see children getting back to some form of normality.
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MAKING HISTORY: 80-member team named for the CARIFTA Games
The Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) announced an historic 80 member 2023 CARIFTA team Tuesday at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium.