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WILLIAM TYPHUS COLLIE SR
Funeral Service for the late WILLIAM TYPHUS COLLIE SR. age 91 years of Strachan’s Alley will be held on Saturday, January 9th, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. at St. James Native Baptist Church, St. James Road. Officiating will be Reverend Daniel …
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Mary Clarke
Funeral service for Mary Clarke, 91 yrs., a resident of Sea Breeze Lane &B formerly of Forrest, Exuma, will be held at St. Anne's Anglican Church, Fox Hill, on Saturday 23rd January, 2016 at 10:00 a.m. Officiating will be Fr. …
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Rev. Stephen William Armbrister
Funeral Service for the late Rev. Stephen William Armbrister age 91 years of Duncan Town, Ragged Island will be held on Saturday, September 26th, 2015 at 12:00 pm at New Covenant Baptist Church, East Wes Highway. Officiating will be Pastor …
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Franklyn Hillgrove Ellis
Mr. Franklyn Hillgrove “Count Bernadino” Ellis, Esp. M.B.E. age 91 years a resident of Armstrong and Dowdeswell Street and formerly of Norman's Castle, Abaco died at Doctor’s Hospital on Thursday 23rd, July, 2015. Franklyn is survived by his loving wife …
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Marissa Cooper
Funeral Service for the late Marissa Cooper age 40 years of Dunmore Ave will be held on Saturday November 23 2013 at St. Joseph Catholic Church, at 10:00.m. Officiating will be Father Msgr. Alfred Culmer, assited by other ministers of …
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Winifred Eloise Elliot McKenzie
Funeral service for Winifred Eloise Elliot McKenzie, 91 yrs., a resident of Burial Ground Corner, will be held at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill Road, on Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Officiating will be Venerable Archdeacon I. Ranfurly Brown, assisted …
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Stanley Samuel Fox
Funeral Service for the late Elder Stanley Samuel Fox age 91 of #20 Lincoln Blvd. will be held on Saturday September 28th, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at Faith Temple Ministries Intl. Church, 901 Prince Charles Drive. Officiating will be Bishop …
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Knighthood awarded to Godfrey Kelly
Godfrey Kenneth Kelly was knighted in a ceremony at Government House yesterday.
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Securities sales
The performance of The Central Bank sale of Securities recently is exceptionally significant not because the securities were over-subscribed but only 25% of a $34m offer caught interest of those who purchase.
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More than 100 Haitians face court
MORE than 100 Haitians were charged in court yesterday with illegally entering the country over the weekend.
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Law firm stages its ninth legal clinic
The Halsbury Chambers law firm will host its ninth annual free Legal Clinic, under the theme ‘Information You Need for the Life You Want’, this coming Saturday at its law office on Village Road from 9am to 3pm.
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Baha Mar’s main contractor ‘thwarted us at every turn’
Baha Mar’s contractor allegedly “thwarted, stonewalled and misled at every turn” a US-based demolition company’s efforts to collect an outstanding $754,704 balance for work on the $3.5 billion project.
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UPDATED: Four confirmed Zika cases in New Providence
THE number of confirmed Zika cases in New Providence has increased to four, officials announced yesterday during a press conference at the Ministry of Health.
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Bahamian players shine in NCAA D1 Basketball
STEPHEN F Austin’s Nathan Bain was featured ESPN Sportscenter’s Top 10 while Sammy Hunter and Valerie Nesbitt had their best games thus far with their respective Ole Miss programmes to highlight the weekend of play for Bahamians at the NCAA Division
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Long Island relief effort helps 95% of students get back to school
NINETY-five per cent of students of Long Island will be back in school by Wednesday largely due to an outpouring of support from its own communities and concerned individuals in Nassau, a senior education official told The Tribune yesterday.
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Move! Get out of your own way!
THE first step of any effective life strategy must be to move. Moving, in my view, is the undercurrent of all of life itself. Nothing stays the same. Everything moves.
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Philanthropist who helped The Bahamas dies, aged 75
JOHN M Templeton Jr, one of the world’s leading philanthropists whose work benefitted The Bahamas, has died of cancer at his Pennsylvania home in the United States. The president and chairman of the John Templeton Foundation passed away on Saturday. He was 75.
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Minister seeks engineer scholarships
DUE to the shortage of professional engineers in the country, Minister for Grand Bahama Dr Michael Darville has called for “engineering opportunities” to be made available through scholarship programmes to bright Bahamian students.
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Hinduism encroaching Bahamian life
The Bahamas is considered a Caribbean country, although it is really located in the Atlantic Ocean. The Caribbean is a religious and cultural melting pot, according to sociologists from the United States.
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Taxi union chief wants 'hustlers at dock' end
The taxi union's president says the industry is seeking to shed its "hustlers at the dock" image after several drivers protested over the Nassau Cruise Port's new call-up system and police efforts to enforce it.
