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‘Endless battle with criminals’ of the sea
Bahamian fishermen are facing “an endless battle with criminals” poaching and stealing with impunity amid fears crawfish prices have plunged by up to 50 percent compared to 2021’s “amazing” highs.
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Crowdfunded restaurant eyes $2m 2023 top-line
A Bahamian restaurant entrepreneur yesterday said he ultimately plans to return 50 percent of profits to shareholders after his successful crowdfund raise paved the way to secure a second location and production/distribution centre.
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Extra 14,500 Bahamians to benefit in $31m clinic spend
An extra 14,500 Bahamians will benefit from the Government’s decision to expand its investment in Family Island public health clinics by more than 50 percent, it has been revealed.
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Officials keep watch on weather disturbances
WEATHER officials met on Friday to discuss recently formed tropical systems and any potential impact they may have on the country in the coming days.
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A market turned upside down
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These are tough times for investors. Unwritten rules underpinning the financial markets’ behaviour do not seem to apply any more. In the old days, a hawkish Federal Reserve would be likely to trigger a sell-off of stocks. Especially when inflation remains close to four-decade highs and a recession is lurking on the horizon. In the past, such scenarios would have entailed a significant loss for indices such as the S&P 500 or the NASDAQ.
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‘Give Bahamians chance to buy low-price bonds’
OPPOSITION leader Michael Pintard has urged the government to provide Bahamians with the opportunity to purchase international bonds while they are trading low.
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DEREK SMITH: How to safeguard data from malicious criminals
To investigate computer-related issues and/ or audit incidents featuring cyber attacks, forensic analysts use scientific techniques to retrieve data from digital sources. In accordance with standard incident response steps, digital forensics procedures include preparation, identification, containment, eradication, recovery and lessons learned.
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Four-lane glass window replacement is ruled out
THE GOVERNMENT’S advisers have ruled out replacing Eleuthera’s Glass Window Bridge with a four-lane highway because the island’s projected growth will not generate sufficient traffic volumes to warrant such expansion.
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Jonquel Jones scores 12 as Sun beat Sky in Game 1 of WNBA semis
CHICAGO (AP) — DeWanna Bonner had 15 points and Jonquel Jones scored 12 points with nine rebounds to lead the Connecticut to a 68-63 win over the Chicago Sky in Game 1 of their WNBA semifinals series last night.
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Community service for woman who punched former boyfriend's lover
A 36-year-old woman who punched her former boyfriend’s lover in the face earlier this month was ordered on Friday to complete 150 hours of community service.
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DIANE PHILLIPS: A woman with a world of surprises up her sleeve
THE first time I met Eunice Rose she had a rake in her hand. She was explaining to her partner in a part-time landscape business the difference between two types of ferns. The partner was tall, strapping, packed with sinew, muscle and eagerness to work but far less knowledgeable about the greenery in front of him than was the woman next to him with the rake who never broke stride even as we spoke.
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BPL’s power plant deal, $535m funding ‘on hold’
Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) top executive last night revealed the troubled utility’s mammoth $535m refinancing and New Providence power plant deal with Shell are both “in abeyance”.
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IT’S NOT OUR FAULT, MR WATSON: Food retailers hit back after press secretary blames them for prices
Food retailers yesterday hit back over assertions that some merchants have not passed the Budget’s tariff cuts on to consumers via reduced prices, adding: “You can’t point the finger of blame at us.”
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Developer’s Abaco project in ‘high eight-figure’ sales
A Nassau-headquartered developer yesterday confirmed it is investing hundreds of millions in Abaco and the surrounding cays via two projects that are progressing “quite well”.
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Family calls for killer to be held accountable
THE uncle of a 20-year-old man who was shot and killed on Saturday in Centreville has called for the killer to be “held accountable in a way that he or they will regret”.
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Jailed for pharmacy break-in
A MAN was sentenced to one year in prison yesterday after admitting to breaking into and stealing from a pharmacy.
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School and BREEF win global contest
GRAND Bahama’s Bishop Michael Eldon School’s vertical hydroponics garden project has been named as one of five global winners of the Foundation of Environmental Education GAIA 20:30 Biodiversity Campaign Best Practice Competition.
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Bahamas suffers ‘a heartbreaking loss’
Before a jammed-packed Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium last night, the Bahamas men’s national basketball team dropped a heartbreaking 86-81 loss to Venezuela in the first game of their fourth window of the FIBA Americas World Cup Qualifier.