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Bahamasair raises fares on $100k weekly fuel cost rise

Bahamasair has increased ticket prices on all domestic and international routes with effect from early April after its fuel costs soared by an “extra $100,000 per week”, its managing director revealed yesterday.

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STANCIL RUSSELL, Sr

FUNERAL SERVICE FOR THE LATE STANCIL “Uncle Stans” RUSSELL, Sr., 84 years A resident of Red Bays, Andros, The Bahamas will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday May 5th, 2018 at The New Salem Baptist Church, Red Bays, North …

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Kent George Capron

Funeral Service for Kent George Capron, 51 of Pinewood Garden will be held on Saturday, July 21st, 2018 at The Luthern Church, J. F. Kennedy Drive, Nassau Bahamas at 11:00a.m. Officiating will be Pastor. Samuel Boodle. Interment will follow in …

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Ceaserinia Hepburn

Funeral Service for the Late Ceaserinia “Sister Hepburn” Hepburn, age 84 years of Malcolm Road West and formerly of Knowles, Cat Island, will be held on Saturday February 1st, 2014, 10:30 a.m. at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill Road. …

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Sarah Louise Hepburn Horton

Funeral service for Sarah Louise "Aunt Sabbie" Hepburn Horton, 84 yrs., a resident of #113B Collins Avenue, & formerly of Simms, Long Island, will be held at The Church of God of Prophecy, East Street Tabernacle, on Saturday at 10:00 …

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Gov’t ‘betting on ability’ to prove the IMF wrong

The Government is “betting on our ability” to hit its fiscal targets, a Cabinet minister asserted yesterday, predicting that the Opposition and other critics will “be wrong again”.

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Cougars hold off Mingoes for victory

The University of the Bahamas Mingoes gave the visiting Spring Arbor University Cougars all they could handle, but it wasn’t enough in the first of their two matches played on Monday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium. The Cougars, who surged from No.20

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Andrew puts dent in obesity

LIKE many teens and kids who were under stay at home orders since March due to the pandemic, 14-year-old Andrew Woodside Jr found himself overindulging on fast food and rarely getting involved in any physical activity.

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Water Corp ‘pursues’ first price increase in 20 years

The Water & Sewerage Corporation (WSC) is “pursuing” its first price hike in nearly 20 years in a bid to narrow a profitability gap where it covers barely two-thirds of its operating costs.

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Sherman Ferguson claims men’s title

SHERMAN Ferguson, the quiet slugger for the BTC Elite Warriors, has been named the New Providence Softball Association men’s batting champion.

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Out Island resorts 10% above Christmas 2019

Family Island resorts are “expecting” business for the November-December period to be 10 percent above 2019 levels, an industry executive saying: “The needle is moving in the right direction.”

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Family member tells of horror of shooting

FREEPORT – The Dart family had planned to spend the Easter holidays together in Grand Bahama, but that all turned into a “nightmare,” one of the seven relatives held hostage by armed intruders on Tuesday, told the London Daily Mail.

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Brewery's concern on VAT 'price disruption'

Commonwealth Brewery has pledged to avoid “severe price disruption” to its Bahamian manufacturing and import operations from Value-Added TAX (VAT), its managing director warning that the reform needed “careful management”.

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Marc-Richard Culmer making an impression as Golden Bear

REMEMBER the name Marc-Richard Culmer. The five-foot, eight-inch, 175-pound right fielder is making an impression as a member of the West Virginia University Golden Bears baseball team.

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FTX real estate sell-off can’t cover $256m debt

The sell-off of FTX’s high-end properties “will not be sufficient” to fully repay the $256.3m debt owed to the crypto exchange’s Bahamian subsidiary, it has been asserted.

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Gov't housing re-launch vital to 80% of contractors

THE BAHAMIAN Contractors Association’s (BCA) president yesterday said many smaller operators were anxiously awaiting a revival of the Government’s housing programme, telling Tribune Business this group makes up 70-80 per cent of construction teams in the country .

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Port Lucaya: '95% won't survive further 2 months'

Tenants in Freeport’s Port Lucaya Marketplace are planning a march to highlight their plight, one operator saying yesterday: “I can’t see 95 per cent of us surviving another two months.”Troy Cartwright, who is leading efforts to organise the march, t

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Community service order for beating man at gas station

A 26-year-old man who assaulted another man at a local gas station was yesterday ordered to perform 80 hours of community service.

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BTC celebrates small business in October

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is again celebrating October as Small Business Month in recognition of over 80 percent of its corporate client base.The company kicked-off its month-long series of events on Friday, September 28, during th

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Catherine Ferguson

Funeral service for the late Catherine Ferguson affectionately “Sister K” age 98 years of #42 Taylor Street, Nassau Village and formerly of Forest Town, Exuma will be held on Saturday, December 21st, 2019 at 10:00 A.M Holy Cross Anglican Church, …