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Eleanor Lenore Cartwright
Final Rites and Burial for the late Mrs. Eleanor Lenore Cartwright Age 64yrs, a resident of Rodgers Corner, Bain Town, will be held on Saturday April 21st 2018, at 2:30 pm. at Bethel Baptist Church Meeting Street, Officiating will be …
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IVES LEONORA GARDINER
IVES LEONORA GARDINER age 84 years of Soldier Road died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Saturday, April 14th, 2018. She is survived by her Husband: Anthony Gardiner; Sons: Ricardo and Bonfill Gardiner; Daughter: Bonita Johnson; Sisters: Ernestine Adderley and …
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Butterfield names top Bahamas executive
BUTTERFIELD Trust (Bahamas) has named Craig Barley as its managing director, with overall responsibility for the management and development of its business in this jurisdiction.Originally from the UK, Mr Barley was most recently chief executive of La
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Blockchain to solve Bahamas’ ‘major workforce waste’
THE Government’s first-ever use of blockchain technology will tackle what was yesterday branded “an enormous waste of human capital”.
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Greater power to protect witnesses
THE government passed the Criminal Evidence Witness Anonymity Amendment Bill yesterday to allow for witness identities in criminal proceedings to be shielded and only revealed in screening by a magistrate, magistrate panel or judge in a bid to clamp down on acts of witness tampering.
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Nationals: Top junior golfers emerge
THE top junior golfers in the island nation emerged following the results of the Bahamas Golf Federation’s Junior Nationals.
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WORLD VIEW – The Commonwealth: what’s in it for the small states?
Writing in the British Guardian Newspaper on April 10, my colleague, professor Phillip Murphy, the director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, recalled that for those who campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union, “depicting the Commonwealth as a huge potential trading opportunity for the UK was a useful fiction”.
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Save the Bays begs: Bin Oban
SAVE the Bays Chairman Joseph Darville has made another impassioned plea to Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis for a clean break with the $5.5 billion Oban Energies project, this week insisting Grand Bahama had suffered enough from “unchecked industrial pollution.”
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Bahamian players make impact in minor league
BAHAMIAN baseball players have had an early impact on their minor league clubs as we near the end of week two in the Minor League season.
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Breezes High Flyers one game from championship
THE Division II defending champions are a game away from repeating as champions while the Division I series went in the opposite direction and is a game away from being all tied up.
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Concerns over Oban project
Please publish this open letter to the Rt. Hon. Prime Minister Hubert Minnis and copied to the Hon. Peter Turnquest, Finance Minister.
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Vincent Leon Burrows
Funeral Service for the late Mr. Vincent Leon Burrows, aged 91 years of Lower Deadman’s Cay, Long Island, who died peacefully at the Princess Margaret Hospital, Shirley Street, on Friday, 6th April, 2018, will be held on Saturday, 14th April, …
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Vera Ellawese Levarity
Funeral service for Vera Ellawese Levarity, age 80 years, of Highbury Park, will be held on Friday April 13, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Holy Cross Anglican Church, Highbury Park. Officiating will be Canon Norman Lightbourne. Interment will follow in …
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ELIZABETH CYNTHIA NIXON-CASH
Funeral Service for MATRIARCH ELIZABETH CYNTHIA NIXON-CASH age 80 years of Lower Bogue, Eleuthera who died on Sunday, April 2nd, 2018 will be held on Saturday, April 14th at 11:00am at Southwest Cathedral, Carmichael Road. Officiating will be Bishop Cedric …
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MELVIN BONABY
Funeral Service for the late MELVIN BONABY age 82 years of Port Howe, Cat Island will be held on Saturday, April 14th, 2018 at 12:45 p.m. at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church, New Bight, Cat Island. Officiating will be Deacon Andrew …
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Deaconess Cetia Darling Ferguson
Funeral service for the late Deaconess Cetia Darling Ferguson age 91 years of #85 Breadfruit Street, Pinewood Gardens and formerly of Chesters, Acklins at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 14th, 2018 at Church of God Cathedral, East Street & Lily …
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DIANE PHILLIPS: Walkabout not workout uncovers lost glories
On Tuesday, my personal trainer, a man named Robert Hamilton, and I were walking. It’s what we do when I am too lazy to work out after a gruelling 12-hour day when I could think of at least a dozen things more preferable to push-ups and crunches.
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‘Caribbean’s lowest’ from BPL Shell deal
A Cabinet Minister yesterday pledged the Bahamas will have “the most competitive energy prices in the region” through selecting Shell as Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) generation partner.
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Tourism targets Latin American expansion
THE Ministry of Tourism has brought Latin America to the Bahamas through a recent familiarisation trip for journalists.Media personalities from Colombia, Peru and Panama visited Nassau and Paradise Island to receive a taste of Bahamian culture, as th
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$5m Solar Energy Park planned for Grand Bahama
A NEW $5-million Solar Energy Park capable of generating 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually of clean, renewable energy is expected to be built in Grand Bahama in the Spring of next year.