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NPBA Playoffs: Stingers, High Flyers take 2-1 leads
THE PJ Stingers and the Breezes High Flyers are both now one game away from returning to the New Providence Basketball Association’s championship series.
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Miller re-elected president of BAAC in landslide victory
SHAUN Miller has been re-elected as president of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Coaches in a landslide victory over past president Curtis Pride with all of his slate of officers voted in.
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Munroe, Isaacs Jr latest call-ups for spring training
WITH the latest call-ups, a total of seven Bahamian minor league prospects have now participated in spring training with their respective Major League Baseball organisations.
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Jaron Cornish and the Seawolves eliminated
A STORIED collegiate basketball career for Abaco native Jaron Cornish came to an end when his Stony Brook Seawolves were eliminated from the Roman College Basketball Invitational in heartbreaking fashion.
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Marjorie DeGregory-Foreman
Funeral Service for Marjorie DeGregory-Foreman, age 82 of Falcon Cresant, Eastern Estates who on Saturday, March 9th 2019 will be held on Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 at Ebenezer Methodist Church, East Shirley Street. Officiating will be Reverend Franklin Knowles assisted …
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Winifred Adderley
Funeral Service for the late Winifred Adderley, 80 years of Glensiton Gardens, who died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Sunday, 3rd March, 2019, will be held at Church of Christ, Highbury Park, on Saturday, 23rd March, 2019 at 1:30 …
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Mercia Lorraine Saunders
Funeral service for the late Mercia Lorraine Saunders age 55 years of Falcon Crest, Eastern Estates will be held on Saturday, March 23rd, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. at The Anglican Church of Epiphany, Prince Charles Drive. Officiating will be Rev’d …
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Alva Loretta Hudson
Final Rites and Burial for the late Mrs. Alva Loretta Hudson Age 80yrs, a resident of Stafford Creek Andros, will be held on Saturday March 23rd 2019, at 10:00 am. at Church of God , Stafford Creek Andros, Officiating will …
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Edris Inez Sweeting
Final Rites and Burial for the late Mrs. Edris Inez Sweeting Age 80yrs, a resident of Rock Sound Eleuthera, will be held on Saturday March 23rd 2019, at 11:00 am. at Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Theodore Lane, Harold Road, Nassau, …
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Patricia Theresa Alcock-Murphy
Final Rites and Burial for the late Mrs. Patricia Theresa Alcock-Murphy Age 51yrs, a resident of #3 Prince Court, Yellow Elder, will be held on Saturday March 23rd 2019, at 1:00 pm. at St Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Street North, …
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Disney’s deal with all the trimmings
DISNEY Island Development Ltd, the company set to construct a multi-million-dollar cruise facility in South Eleuthera, will receive hefty exemptions to carry out the project that would otherwise result in millions added to the public purse.
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‘Night and day’ - if Disney’s $32m effect stays on island
Disney’s cruise port will have “a night and day” effect on South Eleuthera provided most of its forecast $32.2m annual impact remains in the community, a business leader said yesterday.
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EDITORIAL: The question's there - is the prize enough?
THE tabling of the Heads of Agreement for the Disney deal in South Eleuthera gives us all the chance to see the devil in the detail.
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Electricity theft ‘fraud victims’ face big bills
Multiple Grand Bahama businesses and residents could be “victims of a fraud” that may have cost the island’s sole electricity provider millions of dollars, it was revealed yesterday.
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NHI: ‘We’re going where no man has gone before’
The Chamber of Commerce’s top executive yesterday said it was “critical” to get National Health Insurance (NHI) right first time, adding: “We’re going where no man’s gone before.”
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NPBA PLAYOFFS: Commonwealth Bank Giants teams take 2-0 lead
THE Commonwealth Bank Giants continued their undefeated season with another win over the University of the Bahamas Mingoes and their junior team, Your Essential Store Giants, also won over the Triple K Stampers.
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LIFE LINES: Harnessing our thoughts
Why should we try to harness our thoughts, understand them or rein them in when we are frequently told to “think things through”. Certainly we need to “think things through” objectively and in a realistic way before taking certain actions which could be either physically dangerous, risky economically or emotionally hazardous. In other words, exercising some common sense in everyday situations.
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Transaction costs ‘slowing’ electronic payments switch
The costs associated with settling electronic transactions are “slowing the pace of change” in the Bahamian payments system, the Central Bank’s governor said yesterday.
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NHI chief: ‘We have work to’ justify model
National Health Insurance’s (NHI) top executive yesterday admitted “we have work to do” to convince the government its “financing model” will not result in multi-million dollar shortfalls.
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WORLD VIEW: Cooperation, coercion and capitulation
ON March 12, the Council of the 28-nations European Union (EU) placed 15 small territories on a list of what it calls “non-cooperative jurisdictions”. What the EC considers these territories to be “non-cooperative” about reveals the raw exercise of power by the strong over the weak.
