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Shipyard services 17 liners in eight months

Freeport, Grand Bahama – The Grand Bahama Shipyard is expecting to work on 17 cruise ships in an eight-month period that ends in April 2013, as it bids to become a ‘one-stop’ facility.

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Treasury admits breaching 75% wage deduction limit

The Government was yesterday urged to “curtail” civil servant salary deductions to no more than a combined 40 per cent of total income, after the Auditor-General rapped the Treasury for allowing the current 75 per cent limit to be breached.

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Travelling a downhill path

Please help me with this, where do Bahamians get 400 million dollars to gamble with in the webshops? Is this money coming from tourism? Or foreign investors? Or is this money already in the country? If it is already here, then government has already got their cut.

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Commonwealth Bank looks to rebound in game 2

COACH Wadye Watson said it’s always important to set the tune in a championship series by winning the opening game.

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What to know about parkinson's disease

MANY countries around the world, including the Bahamas, are celebrating Parkinson’s Disease Awareness Month in April.

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'One Love Getaway' brings gospel hip hop show to the Bahamas

ALTHOUGH hip hop music tends to get a bad rap, the genre was used to promote all that is good and positive during the Holy Hip Hop show held last week.

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Nassau is bloodier than New York

EDITOR, The Tribune.

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WORLD OF SHARKS HOLDS NO FEAR FOR STUDENTS

At CV Bethel High School, HO Nash, Aquinas and Thelma Gibson, a marine scientist from Stony Brook University and Marcia Musgrove, BREEF’s Outreach Manager and National Eco-Schools Coordinator - a position made possible by The Moore Charitable Foundation - opened students’ eyes to the world of sharks. The first task: diminishing their fear of the large marine predator.

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P.S.A. lawyer drafting letter to government asking for payment

THE Police Staff Association is asking the government for $16.4m in overtime pay for officers who worked the extended 12-hour shift in late 2013 and early 2014, The Tribune has learned.

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Baha Mar: Morgans is 'still part of plans'

Exuma’s February Point project is aiming to hire a further 120-140 persons when construction work ramps up within the next two months, its owners yesterday telling Tribune Business the project was “moving a little faster than we anticipated”.

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Pinewood drainage repair to cost up to $13M

A FEASIBILITY study for Pinewood Gardens’ storm water management is currently before Cabinet awaiting approval before work begins on drainage repair to the flood prone area. The repair is estimated to cost between $8 to $13 million, not the $25 million initially proposed.

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Junior basketball stars take on Panama challenge

The senior men and women national basketball teams have dominated the country’s focus recently at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships, but the best junior basketball players in the Bahamas are set to take centre stage next week against international competition.

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Delroy making a name for himself with the Knights

SINCE joining the Niagara College Knights men’s basketball team, Delroy Grandison has been making a name for himself.

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Isaac Arthur Moss

Funeral Service for Mr. Isaac Arthur Moss age 82 years a resident of Miami Street and formerly of Old Bight, Cat Island, will be held on Saturday September 12th, 2015, 2:00 p.m., Ebenezer Mission Baptist Church, Charles Vincent Street. Officiating …

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Carl Augustus Knowles

Funeral Service for Carl Augustus “C.A.” “Papa Chicken” Knowles, age 82 years, of Culbert’s Hill and Hillview Drive, will be held on Saturday May 7, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Fox Hill Road. Officiating will be …

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Eric Cooper

Funeral Service Eric Cooper, 82 of William’s Court, Oakes Field, will be held on Saturday, August 5, 2017, 10:00 a.m. at Rhodes Memorial Methodist Church, Montrose Avenue. Rev. Dr. Livingstone Malcolm, assisted by Rev. Emily Demeritte will officiate. Cremation will …

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Cecil Alexander Mills

Funeral Service for Cecil Alexander Mills, 82, of Archer’s Boulevard Dundas Town Abaco, who died at his residence April 13th, will be held on Saturday 11:00 a.m. at Friendship Tabernacle Church Central Pines Abaco. Rev. Dr. Silbert Mills assisted by …

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A new home at last

A YEAR after losing everything to Hurricane Dorian, Abaco resident Bernice Brown can now live comfortably in her new home thanks to Good Samaritans.

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BPSU needs to do better

What’s going on in BPSU with claim cheques?