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‘Worst Christmas ever’ say straw market vendors
DESPITE heavy tourism traffic downtown before the holidays, straw vendors say they are experiencing their worst Christmas season to date, with few to no sales most days.
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Basketball standout Rhema Collins prepares for Ole Miss
AS she continues her transition to college, University of Mississippi bound Rhema Collins came home to take advantage of some training from professional player Ryan Moss and veteran women’s coach Anthony Swaby. Moss and Swaby took Collins through a series of workouts yesterday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium as the 6-foot, 2-inch forward took the break from her final season with the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.
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Towing prices up – but businesses say it stops job cuts
TOWING businesses said although the recent price rise in towing services may deter some customers, it ultimately benefits business by preventing downsizing of staff.
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Andros shipper ‘exceeds every financial projection’
An Andros shipping company, which in summer 2021 was hailed as the largest recipient of financing arranged through the Small Business Development Centre (SBDC), yesterday said it has “beaten every financial projection” since launching.
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Mom weeps as photos of Ronald Mackey were shown at coroner’s inquest
THE inquest into the 2017 police-involved shooting of Ronald Mackey began yesterday, with officers testifying that the 28-year-old fled the scene of an accident and was shot in the back of his head during a car chase.
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EXAMS: DROP IN STUDENTS RECEIVING A TO C GRADES – Minister says BGCSE results show ‘much work to do at all levels of the system’
THE number of students who achieved A, B and C grades in BGCSE exams this year dropped compared to 2022, with more students receiving D, E, F an G grades.
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Roadrunners Track & Field blaze through an epic AAU
ANOTHER track and field season has come to an end with the Roadrunners Track & Field Club blazing their way through an epic performance at the annual AAU Club Championship in Orlando, Florida.
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‘Gun only seen after police taped off area’
A WOMAN testified in the Coroner’s Court yesterday that footage capturing the aftermath of Deangelo Evans’ police-involved killing in 2018 was erased after police confiscated her phone, but that she later retrieved the video with the help of Evans’ father.
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Police chief concern over bail decisions
POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said police are looking forward to a good year working with legal officials with a view of taking individuals off the street who continue to offend and get bail.
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Nassau hotel demand jumps 27% in Florida
Connections to Nassau/Paradise Island hotels through their promotion board’s website have leapt 98 percent for 2022 to-date, the latter’s chairman revealed yesterday, predicting that business will further “ramp up” into early 2023.
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Reform pensions now - or elderly will be left with nothing
The International Monetary Fund warns that a “significant” share of the elderly would be without pensions if reform to the pension system is not dealt with immediately.
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‘We are going to have to play together’
Deandre Ayton looks ahead to game 6 against Mavericks
The Phoenix Suns have an opportunity to clinch a second consecutive berth to the Western Conference Finals but Deandre Ayton said he expects tonight’s game six matchup to be one of the toughest in the series.
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‘Coach Yo’ named to men’s national team coaching staff
YOLETT McPhee-McCuin continues to make history in the coaching ranks and achieved another milestone on her résumé when she became the first woman to join the coaching staff of a Bahamas senior men’s national basketball team.
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EDITORIAL: Twin disasters of COVID and Dorian
WE ALL knew that COVID-19 had inflicted a hammer blow to the Bahamian economy. The scale of that impact is still only now becoming clear.
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'Web shops will have a Christmas party but hate to pay their staff a decent salary'
MORE than 1,000 trade disputes were filed with the Department of Labour in 2018, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes revealed yesterday during his budget contribution in the Senate. In total, 1,207 disputes were filed. Labour Director John Pinder later told
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Shaunae's Olympic dream turns into a nightmare
LONDON, England — Just before she could get settled into her race, Shaunae Miller pulled up coming off the first curve in the heats of the Women’s 400m and her Olympic dream tearfully turned into disaster.
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YESI partners with Gambier Primary to kick off soccer programme
Youth Empowerment through Sports International (YESI) has embarked on a new initiative with a local primary school, as it continues its mandate of using the game of soccer to impact the community at large.
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'Unhappy players' to drive insurance consolidation
THE Insurance Advisory Commission's (IAC) chairman yesterday predicted that consolidation will occur among Bahamian general insurance carriers within the next two-three years, arguing that the industry's 2011 average Return on Equity (RoE) of 3.6 per cent meant "there must be some unhappy players".
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Bahamas' $1.5bn FDI tops small states
The Bahamas’ led all small island developing states (SIDS) by attracting $1.533 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in 2011, a UN body’s report has revealed, although a senior private sector official said this nation “needs a bit more” to turn its economy around.
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Project predicts 100 new jobs in 3 months
The Baker’s Bay Golf & Ocean Club project is expecting to create another 100 construction jobs within the next two-three months, its developers telling Tribune Business they expected to invest another $25-$30 million in infrastructure build-out up until 2015.
