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Viola Pinder Wilson
Viola Pinder Wilson age 87 years #37 Sisal Road and formerly of Port Howe, Cat Island died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019. She is survived by her Sons: Wayde Rolle (Cathrine), Princey Pinder (Bishop Julieann) …
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Thomas Ralph Cooper
Thomas Ralph Cooper, 87 yrs., a resident of Hill Street, Seven Hills, died at PMH on Saturday, December 7, 2019. He is survived by his 2 sons: Randy & Bradley Cooper; 1 daughter: Martha Taylor; 2 brothers: Salathial & Nehemiah …
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Minerva Joy Miller
Funeral service for Minerva Joy Miller, 84 a resident of Jubilee Gardens & formerly of Yellow Elder Gardens & True Blue, Crooked Island, will be held at First Born Church of the Living God, Crooked Island Street, on Saturday, December …
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Rosalie Butler
Funeral service for Rosalie Butler, 84 a resident of Vendal Drive, Sunset Park & formerly of Green Castle, Eleuthera, will be held at Christ the King Parish Church, Ridgeland Park, West, on Saturday, December 14, 2019 at 10:00 a.m. Officiating …
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STATESIDE: Does Trump magic still work for the ‘lost’ Democrats?
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Sands confirms imported child measles case
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Atlantis: 'Responsible wage increase' please
Atlantis wants “responsible wage increases” to be the outcome of the hotel sector’s industrial agreement negotiations, its top executive told thousands of staff yesterday. Audrey Oswell, the Paradise Island-based resort’s president and managing dire
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Suns eager to have No.1 pick Ayton back on court
Deandre Ayton is set to return to the court in five days and the Phoenix Suns are eager to have the former No.1 overall pick back in the lineup. Ayton will complete his 25-game suspension following the Suns’ December 16 contest against the Portland
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Alex Cooper named to Cougar's All-Decade Offensive Team
ALEX Cooper was recognised as one of the top players in the Houston Cougars football programme over the past 10 years as it continued to rise to national prominence. Cooper was named to The Cougar’s All-Decade Offensive Team featuring the top perfor
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Victim dies at scene of knife fight
POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a stabbing incident that left a man dead Wednesday morning.
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NPBA: Specialists, Giants in win column
THE Uptown Cuts Specialists and TMT Giants both won their second games of the New Providence Basketball Association’s 2019/20 season at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.In the men’s Division One feature contest, the Specialists pulled off a
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ALFRED M SEARS, QC: We need to build a safe and prosperous future for The Bahamas
Hurricane Dorian’s $3.4 billion loss has decimated 27 percent of the GDP of The Bahamas making it impossible for the country to make its budgeted $340 million debt servicing on the $8.4 billion outstanding national debt.
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Senate passes rate reduction bond bill
THE Electricity Rate Reduction Bond Act 2019 was passed in the Senate yesterday. The act, which will replace a similar piece of legislation passed previously by the former Christie administration, allows for Bahamas Power and Light to adjust its rat
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PETER YOUNG: Why one act of evil should not destroy all hope
SUCH is the US mainstream media’s concentration on domestic issues that the serious terrorist attack which took place at the end of last month on London Bridge in the heart of Britain’s capital may even have escaped some people’s notice altogether.
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Giants rout the Mingoes 107-87
KEMSY Sylvestre scored off the opening tip for the University of the Bahamas Mingoes to put them up 2-0 on the Commonwealth Bank Giants. It was the only time the Mingoes’ led in the game against the undefeated team in the New Providence Basketball A
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Expert advice at Family Talks
IN KEEPING with its mission to educate parents on their children’s health, local store Sandbox continued with its Family Talks series.
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INSIGHT: Watch the pendulum swing as promises aren’t kept
HARKENING back to the election campaign which decimated the former Progressive Liberal Party government, a major talking point on the campaign trail was corruption.
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Henfield shocked to be on loan list
SENATOR Ranard Henfield has been included on a list of people with outstanding delinquent loans to the Education Loan Authority. His name was included alongside 98 others in a notice published in a local newspaper yesterday. “We have not been able
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DIANE PHILLIPS: It all starts with a simple idea
Who among us hasn’t at one moment or another thought, “If only I were younger” or “If only I had more financial backing, I could do such-and-such” or “Why doesn’t someone create a business to do (xyz)?”
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Too much information missing for my liking
The vast improvement in media (press and electronic) coverage in our Bahamas is commendable. As an avid reader and listener I am concerned about the absence of information on certain matters, in particular those documented herein.