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BTC profits slump 26.4%
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) suffered a 26.4 per cent profits slump for the year to end-March 2015, as its revenues and staffing levels came under pressure in the run-up to mobile liberalisation.
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Bahamas will ‘do all it can’ to avoid EU blacklisting
The Bahamian financial services industry “will do all we can” to ensure this nation does not appear on a threatened European Union (EU) ‘blacklist’, Tribune Business was told yesterday.
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NPBA: Rockets, bucket in the win column
THE Aliv Bucket and the Discount Distributors Rockets clinched the two victories in the New Providence Basketball Association double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night.
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Mildred Brown
Funeral service for Mildred Brown, 91 a resident of Strachan’s Corner & formerly of Turks & Caicos Islands, will be held at Mt. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Quakoo & East Streets, on Saturday 8th April, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Officiating …
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Winfrey highlights story of black woman raped by white men
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s barnstormer of a speech at the Golden Globes highlighted the story of a black Alabama woman who was raped by six white men in 1944.Winfrey, in speaking of the victims of sexual assault whose voices might never be he
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36 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Wednesday
The Bahamas recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, 30 on New Providence and six on Grand Bahama.
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Unfinished business: NPBA to resume postseason play at AF Adderley Thursday
WITH some unfinished business from the 2019/20 season that was interrupted because of COVID-19, the New Providence Basketball Association is scheduled to resume its postseason play starting on Thursday at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.
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NPBA: 'Biggest season to date' expected
THE New Providence Basketball Association is set to get its preseason underway next week and president Keith Smith said he expects it to be the “biggest season to date” for the country’s top basketball league.
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Raptors in the lead
The CH Reeves Raptors have taken a 130-point lead over their closest rivals, AF Adderley Fighting Tigers, at the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association’s 21st Annual Junior High School Track and Field Championships.
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Dr. Gilbert Fitzroy Davis
Funeral Service for Dr. Gilbert Fitzroy Davis, 94 of Sans Souci, New Providence will be held on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at 11:00 a.m. at St. Anselm's Roman Catholic Church, Bernard Road, Fox Hill. Father Anselm Russell will officiate, assisted …
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Yellow Jackets top Knights, 77-69
THE Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets were the first team from a Power Five Conference to participate in this year’s Summer of Thunder and head coach Brian Gregory called it a learning experience moving forward as they prepare for the upcoming season.
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'Go Positive Bahamas' tour hits Fox Hill Prison
FORMER National Football League player Michael Cobb, representing the American- based Sports World, made his first stop on the ‘Go Positive Bahamas’ Tour yesterday as he left a sterling message to a group of inmates in the medium security segment of Her Majesty’s Prison, Fox Hill.
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VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS - 'Summer of Thunder': Providence Storm get win over North Carolina
IT WAS certainly not what North Carolina Tar Heels head coach Roy Williams expected when he brought one of the most storied programmes in NCAA history to the Bahamas for a pair of exhibition games at the “Summer of Thunder.”
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PM priorities include jobs, youth and inflation
THE government’s top priorities for this year will include tackling inflation, creating more job opportunities for Bahamians and fostering youth empowerment, Prime Minister Phillip Davis said yesterday.
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Minister: No ‘sweeping lay-offs’ from minimum wage increase
A Cabinet minister yesterday voiced confidence “there won’t be sweeping lay-offs” as a result of the 24 percent minimum wage increase despite previous warnings by petroleum retailers that they ma be forced to terminate staff.
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Mackey Jr to continue pro basketball career in Europe
AFTER completing his first year with Mulhouse Basket in France, Grand Bahamian native Willis Mackey Jr is looking forward to returning to Europe in August to continue his professional basketball career.
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Ayton injured, Suns eliminated in Game 6
PHOENIX (AP) — Nikola Jokic scored 32 points in another triple-double, Jamal Murray added 26 and the Denver Nuggets advanced to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2020 by beating the short-handed Phoenix Suns 125-100 in Game 6 on Thursday night.
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Christie Hosea Knowles Sr
Funeral Service for Christie Hosea Knowles Sr., affectionately called “Pa,” age 81 years, of Yamacraw Beach Drive, will be held on Saturday January 13, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. at St. Margaret’s Anglican Church. Officiating will be Rev’d Fr. Oswald E. …
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Colbert Whitfield Adolphus Conliffe
Funeral Service for the Late Colbert Whitfield Adolphus Conliffe, age 81 years of Blue Hill Estates and formerly of St. Philips, Barbados, will be held on Saturday May 24th, 2014, 10:00 a.m. at The Parish Church of the Most Holy …
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Mavis Rolle McPhee
Last rites for Mavis Rolle McPhee, 81 of Rolleville Exuma will be held on Saturday 5th March, 2016 at Ebenezer Union Baptist Church, Rolleville, Exuma at 11:00am. Officiating will be Rev. Dr. Adam J. Brown and Assisted by Other Ministers …
