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Taylor Industries staff gain 33% of severance
Forty-one former staff of now-defunct Taylor Industries will receive just 33 percent of the total termination pay and benefits owed to them in what the company’s liquidator defended as “a relatively positive outcome”.
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Registered Male Nurse Burton Robert Smith
Funeral Service for the late Registered Male Nurse Burton Robert Smith age 84 years of #37 Halifax Road, Stapledon Gardens will be held on Saturday March 24th, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at Bahamas Faith Ministries, Myles E. Munroe Diplomat Center, …
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The patients stuck in hospital with no home to go to
THOUSANDS of dollars spent daily at Princess Margaret Hospital to lodge homeless patients exposes an historic gap in the country’s ability to adequately care for its citizens in the face of rising demands for public health care, The Tribune has learned.
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STATESIDE: Wise words well worth listening to when it comes to opening up
Even as the American congress throws hundreds of billions of dollars at the COVID-19 public crisis and debate on restarting the economy continues to rage between Republicans and Democrats and along regional lines between the coasts and the Midwest and South, the pandemic steamrolls on. American reported deaths passed the 45,000 mark the other day, among nearly 850,000 confirmed cases. Those figures give the term American exceptionalism new meaning. Just not in a good way.
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FACE TO FACE: Green shoots of political reform - but will they be allowed to grow?
Political and electoral reform has been a hot topic for years. It is one of the few things we all agree is needed in The Bahamas. Here I am referring to changes to the system of governance, elections and representation at the government level as well as within political parties.
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FACE TO FACE: Standing tall - and always together
The epitome of brotherly love is displayed between Dr Victor Horsley and his two elder brothers, Barton and Neil.
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STATESIDE: Powell led a distinguished career
THE flags outside American defense headquarters at the Pentagon were all flying at half-staff Tuesday. Right below them, the familiar black clenched-fist MIA-POW banner saluted those still unaccounted for in overseas conflicts. A stiff northwesterly breeze kept the flags fully unfurled.
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NCAA: Bahamian players tune-up in exhibition games
THE NCAA basketball season will officially tip off in just a few days, but several Bahamian players were in action last weekend in the final exhibition tune-ups before the games count in the standings.
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Bimini: Bahamas 'trades quality for quantity'
A world-renowned dive guru yesterday said the Bahamas was sacrificing “quality for quantity” with its tourism development policies for Bimini, adding that he was “heartbroken” the Court of Appeal had failed to halt Resorts World’s dredging.
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‘Right now, I think it’s more about the safety of the fans, players and coaches’
New Providence Basketball Association president James Price said they wholeheartedly agree with the Bahamas Government on suspending all local sporting activities until further notice.
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TECH TALK
• AMAZON has launched a paid streaming music service, the latest entry in an increasingly crowded field.
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Local doctor warns of the dangers of processed meat
Processed meat may be killing more Bahamians than crime, according to Dr Arlington Lightbourne, owner of the Nassau-based Wellness Clinic.
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Digicel: ‘We’ll cross union bridge when we reach it’
Digicel is unconcerned about trade union hostility towards its bid for the Bahamas’ second cellular licence, a senior executive telling Tribune Business: “We’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.”
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New marines boost Defence Force numbers
THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF), continuing its move to bolster the number of enlisted marines, commissioned two entries at the Coral Harbour base on Friday.
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Minnis open to coalition - but says Bran is arrogant
FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis said yesterday that while he is “open” to forming a coalition with the Democratic National Alliance, he is “turned off” by DNA Leader Branville McCartney’s arrogance.
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GOVT SEEKS TO KNOCK DOWN SHANTY HOMES: 555 properties to be demolished if approval is given
THE government is seeking to demolish 555 shanty town structures in New Providence and Abaco –– with the Office of the Attorney General asking the Supreme Court to approve the order.
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Adrian Gibson’s lawyer pushes for another justice
THE lawyer representing Long Island MP Adrian Gibson in his corruption trial continued to push for his case to be transferred to another justice.
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JR Cadot’s Nexxt Basketball Club holding training and development programme
AS a spinoff from his Dream Again Basketball Camp in July at the Remnant Tabernacle of Praise Center on Carmichael Road, former collegiate and professional basketball player JR Cadot is at it again with his Nexxt Basketball Club.
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Car seats for newborns
FREEPORT – Mothers with newborns have been presented with new infant car seats on their discharge from hospital as part of a ‘Safe Baby Car Seat Campaign’ that was recently launched at the Rand Memorial Hospital
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Cable Bahamas closing on 10k voice subscribers
CABLE Bahamas is approaching 10,000 subscribers for its ReVoice fixed-line voice service, its vice-president of sales and marketing said yesterday, telling Tribune Business it had achieved good market penetration.
