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Bobcats rout Lady Truckers 85-35
The Montana State University Bobcats made game two of their Bahamas Basketball Federation Summer of Thunder exhibition game look so easy against the Johnson’s Lady Truckers.
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Bahamas must target 70% cruise visitor ratio
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Lashann Higgs scores season high 16 in Longhorns’ 85-79 win over Bears
LASHANN Higgs has established an important role in the rotation for the Texas Longhorns women’s basketball programme and it has helped the team’s current win streak, highlighted by an upset over an interstate rival and second ranked team in the country.
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'Time to come home to Acklins,' administrator tells island evacuees
JEFFREY Forbes, one of his island’s oldest living residents, has a message for Hurricane Irma’s Acklins evacuees: Come home and clean up your yard.In the wake of Hurricane Irma, the island’s largest problem is neither flooding nor destroyed homes as
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AID: 'Still best time' for $8.2m projects
A major Bahamian retailer yesterday said it believes this is “still the best time to go ahead” with its $8.2m investment in new stores despite the latest national COVID-19 lockdown. Jason Watson, Automotive Industrial Distributors (AID) president, t
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Man accused of robbing at gunpoint to snatch $6,000
A 20-year-old man was charged yesterday with robbing four persons, including an officer, at gunpoint of more than $6,000 worth of cash and merchandise over a two-day period, then attempting to kill someone else just five days later.
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Governor: Economy must 'grow faster' than 2.5%
Although Hurricane Sandy’s impact will not harm the Bahamas’ chances of achieving 2.5 per cent GDP growth for 2012, the Central Bank’s governor yesterday warned that the economy needed to grow at a faster rate to reduce the 14.7 per cent unemployment rate.
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Dealer 'wiped out' by auto duty changes
A former leading used car importer said his business had been “wiped out” by the previous ‘engine size’ duty structure, telling Tribune Business he had shifted focus to his steakhouse restaurant venture.
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DIANE PHILLIPS: Can someone please explain why this is allowed to happen?
A real-life Hatfield-McCoys is playing out on a narrow, paved path off Village Road in Nassau. That’s where a few residents on the southern side and in a neatly fenced in area at the cul de sac on the western end have been fighting a seemingly endless battle with an unlicensed hotel that occupies the northern side.
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Comets soar to repeat as champions
If you thought last year’s victory was a fluke, the Queen’s College Comets left nothing to chance in 2016 and fortified their claim as the top athletics programme among private schools.
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Police criticised for failing to investigate attack on elderly man
THE family of an elderly man that was reportedly severely beaten “within an inch of his life” five days ago claimed that police have yet to take a statement from the victim or process the crime scene.
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Buddy Hield scores new career high for 3rd time this season
FOR the third time this season, Buddy Hield set a new scoring career high and continues his stellar senior season as his draft stock continues to rise.
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Defending champs Cobras stay atop GSSSA standings
WHAT looked like a blowout win early turned to a dogfight down the stretch as the defending GSSSA champions stayed atop the league standings.
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Lashann rubs shoulders with elite in Jordan Brand Classic
ONE of the top high school basketball recruits in America, Bahamian guard Lashann Higgs spent the past month playing amongst her elite group of peers and receiving postseason national honours.
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Local govt week to be held
THE Ministry of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs along with the Department of Local Government will host Local Government Week from May 22 to May 27.
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Munnings advances to league final, Knowles returns after ruling
TRAVIS Munnings and his Portuguese club advanced to the league final while Zane Knowles and his Bulgarian club received a favourable ruling in arbitration to keep their playoff hopes alive.
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Man City wins first Premier League title in 44 years
By STUART CONDIE AP Sports Writer LONDON (AP) -- Manchester City came out on top on the most dramatic final day in Premier League history, scoring twice in injury time to win its first English league title in 44 years. City knew that victory over Queens P
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Glandina Elizabeth Pratt
Funeral Service for Glandina Elizabeth Pratt, age 89 of Burnt Ground, Long Island will be held on Saturday 29th September, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Mary’s Magdalene Anglican Church, Clintons, Long Island. Officiating will be Rev. Father Lynden Douglas. …
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Claudette Yvonne Courtney-White
Funeral Service for Mrs. Claudette Yvonne Courtney-White, age 65 years, a resident of #7 Foster Street, Chippingham, and formerly of St. Georges, Grenada, will be held on Sunday, July 15th, 2018, 10:00 a.m., at Hillview Seventh Day Adventist Church, Tonique …
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Gladys Gertrude Sears
Funeral service for Gladys Gertrude Sears, 89 yrs., a resident of Fowler Street South & formerly of West End, Grand Bahama, will be held at Transfiguration Baptist Church, Market & Vesey Streets, on Friday 12th September, 2014, at 11:00 a.m. …
