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Water potability 'progressing' in Grand Bahama
GRAND Bahama’s water potability is progressing, according to the GB Utility Company, which reports its customer base potable supply is at 70 percent.
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Gerald Livingston Archibold Roberts
Funeral Service for Gerald Livingston Archibold Roberts, 86 years of New York, NY and formerly of New Providence will be held on Saturday August 4th, 10:00 a.m. at Trinity Methodist Church, Frederick Street. Rev. W.R. Bill Higgs, Rev. Dr. Philip …
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Lift the roof on ventilation costs
Is winter over already? Are we prepared to beat the heat this year? On a hot summer afternoon, you probably would not consider propping open your refrigerator door to cool off your kitchen. Neither would you run your air conditioning while wearing warm jackets in January. No one would think about throwing away money like that, right? But I find that many of my fellow Bahamians do just that all summer by cranking up their AC in homes that are poorly ventilated.
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‘Sooner the better’ for end to mask mandate
A top hotelier yesterday asserted that the Government will “secure tourism’s continued upward momentum” if it eliminates the remaining COVID travel restrictions, adding: “The sooner we do it the better off we will be.”
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National baseball stadium field ‘will be world class’
AS baseball at all levels continues to take centre stage in the country, the timeline for completion of the much maligned Andre Rodgers National Baseball Stadium faces another possible delay.
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Bahamian men have higher risk of developing prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Bahamian men. Present statistics show that one in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime.
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Why Bahamian men are at high risk of prostate cancer
Obesity, alcohol and African ancestry play a role
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in Bahamian men. Present statistics show that one in six men will develop prostate cancer in their lifetime.
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STATESIDE: A spellbinding Sunday in Augusta
Among golf tournaments, the British Open and the Masters are generally regarded as the most prestigious and the most steeped in the many traditions with which golf drapes itself.
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TOUGH CALL: Is there the will to fix shanty town problem?
IN THE wake of the most recent shanty town fire (off Joe Farrington Road), we witnessed yet another impassioned outpouring of Bahamian angst – on the air waves, across social media land and around lunch tables and water coolers.
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'Go Positive Bahamas' tour hits Fox Hill Prison
FORMER National Football League player Michael Cobb, representing the American- based Sports World, made his first stop on the ‘Go Positive Bahamas’ Tour yesterday as he left a sterling message to a group of inmates in the medium security segment of Her Majesty’s Prison, Fox Hill.
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Wildcats make the most of Big Blue Tour
THE Bahamas got the first look at the 2014-15 University of Kentucky Wildcats and, according to head coach John Calipari, the team exceeded its expectations set for the Big Blue Bahamas Tour.
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Bahamas falls to Panama
THE Bahamas men's national basketball team, playing without starters Rony Cadeau and Keno Burrows because of slight injuries, suffered their second consecutive loss at the CentroBasket Championships.
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Christie Hosea Knowles Sr
Funeral Service for Christie Hosea Knowles Sr., affectionately called “Pa,” age 81 years, of Yamacraw Beach Drive, will be held on Saturday January 13, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church. Officiating will be Rev’d Fr. Oswald E. …
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Colbert Whitfield Adolphus Conliffe
Funeral Service for the Late Colbert Whitfield Adolphus Conliffe, age 81 years of Blue Hill Estates and formerly of St. Philips, Barbados, will be held on Saturday May 24th, 2014, 10:00 a.m. at The Parish Church of the Most Holy …
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Mavis Rolle McPhee
Last rites for Mavis Rolle McPhee, 81 of Rolleville Exuma will be held on Saturday 5th March, 2016 at Ebenezer Union Baptist Church, Rolleville, Exuma at 11:00am. Officiating will be Rev. Dr. Adam J. Brown and Assisted by Other Ministers …
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Roseline Sands
Funeral service for Matriarch Roseline Sands, 81 a resident of Martinique Road, Golden Gates & formerly of Savannah Sound, Eleuthera, will be held at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill Road, on Friday 27th May, 2016 at 10:45 a.m. Officiating …
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Derek Lyle Brathwaite
Funeral Service for Derek Lyle Brathwaite age 54 affectionately called “Uncle Lyle” of Rock Sound Eleuthera, who died at the Princess Margaret Hospital Monday November 6th, will be held 10:00 a.m. Saturday November 18th, 2017 at St. Luke’s Anglican Church …
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Martha Knowles-Rolle
Last rite Matriarch Martha Knowles-Rolle age 81 years, of Lowe Sound Andros will be held on Saturday, November 25th, 2017, at The Cathedral of Olive Morgan’s Bluff Drive, North Andros, Bahamas. At 11:00 am. Officiating will be Bishop Philip Campbell, …
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Vernice Louise Collie-Brown
Funeral Service for the Late Vernice Louise Collie-Brown, age 81 years of Black Point, Exuma and formerly of Betsy Bay, Mayaguana, will be held on Sunday January 26th, 2014, 2:00 p.m. at Zion Baptist Church, East & Shirley Streets (Downtown). …
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Doris Rosalyn Butler-Bowe
Funeral service for the late Doris Rosalyn Butler-Bowe aged 81 of Soldier Road and formerly of Cable Beach, who died on January 24th, 2013, will be held on Saturday, February 9th, 2013, at 12:00 Noon., at Church of God of …