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Downtown Act additions to boost 'living city'
THE Downtown Nassau Partnership (DNP) is talking to the Prime Minister’s Office over additions to the City of Nassau Revitalisation Act, which would boost development along Nassau’s waterfront, its managing director saying: ”We want to create a living city”.
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Advilda Jane Grant
Funeral service for Ms. Advilda Jane Grant, 82 yrs., a resident of #8B Labour Street & formerly of Hunter's, Freeport, Grand Bahama, will be held at Our Lady of the Holy Souls Catholic Church, Deveaux & Young Streets, on Saturday …
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Jonquel posts double double, Liberty top Mystics 90-75 in Game 1 of WNBA playoff series
GRAND Bahamian Jonquel Jones put up a dominant double double performance to propel the New York Liberty to a game one win over the Washington Mystics.
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FRONT PORCH: The virtue of a life-long pursuit of personal growth and wisdom
In 1941, in his early 70s, after an extraordinary career and a dozen years before his death at 84, the brilliant French artist Henri Matisse underwent surgery following a diagnosis of abdominal cancer. He was left bed- and chair-ridden. Sculpturing and painting were now too physically challenging.
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Pennant winners secure early leads
IN game one of the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association basketball championship series, each of the pennant winners took early series leads, with blowouts in girls’ play and a pair of close finishes in the boys’ divisions.
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Developer moves on 'alarming' 5% mortgage buyers
A New Providence real estate developer yesterday said a newly-launched in-house financing initiative was “getting good traction”, as it bids to solve an “alarming” situation where just 5 per cent of its buyers are obtaining mortgages.
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Gov’t urged: ‘Outsource’ property tax collection
The Government was yesterday urged to ‘outsource’ real property tax collection to the private sector, a well-known businessman suggesting it was almost ‘uncollectable’.
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Cable's $114.5m sets 'Markets milestone'
Exuma’s February Point project is aiming to hire a further 120-140 persons when construction work ramps up within the next two months, its owners yesterday telling Tribune Business the project was “moving a little faster than we anticipated”.
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Gwendolyn Gertrude Brown
Funeral service for Gwendolyn Gertrude “Ms. Thompson, Gwen” Brown, 90 a resident of #32 Flamingo Ave., will be held at St. John’s Baptist Cathedral, Meeting Street, on Saturday, December 21, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Officiating will be Bishop Carrington S. …
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Non-performing loans breach $1bn barrier
Total tourist arrivals to the Bahamas for the 2014 first half increased by 2.8 per cent to 3.3 million, with higher-yielding stopovers recovering some of 2013’s decline.
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Maynard: We’ll still have load shedding
BAHAMAS Electrical Workers Union president Paul Maynard believes load shedding at Bahamas Power and Light will still occasionally happen until an additional 90 megawatts of generation is brought on stream.
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$30m Old Fort Town Centre 90% leased
THE New Providence Development Company (NPDco) has leased out 90 per cent of the retail space in its $30 million Old Fort Bay Town Centre, Tribune Business was told yesterday, as it moves to finalise arrangements for a second anchor tenant.
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Commercial properties: 70% behind on taxes
Some 70 percent of commercial properties are in arrears on their real property tax payments, it was revealed yesterday, although a “high proportion” of Bahamian homeowners are compliant.
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Potential tropical storm development heading west in central Caribbean
THUNDERSTORM activity associated with a strong tropical wave over the central Caribbean Sea about 350 miles east-southeast of Kingston, Jamaica, is threatening to develop into a tropical storm later on Monday or overnight according to the National Hurricane Centre in Miami.
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A great loss for us all
Tragedy is something we are never prepared for. The shock of murder is unexplainable, unfathomable.
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Man fights for life after stabbing
A 24-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital after being repeatedly stabbed.
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Bethsheba Seymour
Funeral service for Bethsheba Seymour, 95 a resident of Cowpen Road & formerly of Smith Bay, Cat Island, will be held at Church of God of Prophecy, East Street, on Saturday, November 25, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Officiating will be …
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Fined $200 for cocaine possession
A 26-year-old man who was caught with three grams of cocaine was fined $200 in Magistrates Court yesterday.
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Pompey Square hosts National Testing Day
"Get Tested Bey" is the message to the public as part of the 12th annual National Testing Day - held in Pompey Square on Friday.