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Palm Cay marina targets 50% slip rental growth
The manager of New Providence’s newest full-service marina yesterday said he is expecting a “solid season” that could see a 50 per cent improvement in boat slip rentals, and an even greater increase in fuel and other services sales.
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President Obama's immigration address
The issue of immigration has been making front page news recently both here in the Bahamas and in the United States. Last Thursday, President Barack Obama took the debate to a new level, when he introduced controversial new policies for the US. Here is his address in full:
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Near $200m energy saving from natural gas switch
The Bahamas would realise between $172-$186 million per annum in “net savings benefits” if it switched to natural gas as its main energy generation source, with this nation’s electricity system costs the highest in the Caribbean.
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Reality show aims to attract Chinese Visitors
A Bahamian tourism promotion firm is using film to attract Chinese visitor attention to the Bahamas and convert it into travel.
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Eagles fall to Kings 46-13 in the state chamionship
By RENALDO DORSETT
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Tributes paid to Levarity at funeral
PRIME Minister Perry Christie was one of several persons to pay his last respects yesterday to former Cabinet Minister and parliamentarian Warren J Levarity, who died last week.
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DNA protests BEC prices - and Miller says he wants to join the protest too!
BEC Executive Chairman Leslie Miller said yesterday that despite the steep drop in global oil prices, Bahamians should not expect to see decreases in electricity bills until “at least January”.
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Franklyn Whitfield Pickstock
Franklyn Whitfield Pickstock age 80 years of Nicholls Town, Andros died at his residence on Saturday, November 15th, 2014. He is survived by his wife: Olive Pickstock; sons: Edward, Wilton, Franklyn Jr. and dale Pickstock; daughters: Martha Picstock, Christina Woods, …
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Jerome Devon Butterfield
Final Rites and Burial for the late Mr. Jerome Devon Butterfield Age 34 yrs, Formally of Hatchet Bay Eleuthera and a resident of Yamacraw Estates, will be held at, Mount Tabor Full Gospel Church, Pinewood Gardens, on Saturday November 22nd, …
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William Henry Lightbourne
Funeral Service for the Late William Henry Lightbourne, 91 years of #4 Sydney Street, Boyd Subdivision and formerly of Lil Harbour, Berry Islands, will be held on Saturday November 22nd, 2014, 11:00 a.m. at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill …
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DNA to hold protest against BEC costs
THE Democratic National Alliance will hold a demonstration at 9am today in front of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s main office, in protest of the country’s “extremely high light bills,” Chairman Andrew Wilson said yesterday.
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NCAA: Bahamian players take spotlight early in season
BAHAMIAN players are making their presence felt across the NCAA division I landscape as teams continue their non-conference schedules early in the season.
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Oil drilling in the Bahamas
EDITOR, The Tribune
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GB entrepreneurs hold VAT bootcamp
Two Grand Bahama entrepreneurs attracted 80 business persons to a VAT Bootcamp seminar held earlier this month.
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Arianna earns third gold at CAC Games
Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace is having a big splash inside the Leyes de Reforma Aquatic Center at the XXII Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico.
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Former PM Ingraham pays tribute to Warren Levarity
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham yesterday saluted ex-Cabinet minister and Grand Bahama MP Warren Levarity, 82, who died on Sunday after a lengthy illness, as a patriot and someone who devoted his life to improving the Bahamas.
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Cybots rout Cleaners 104-71, Wreckers clip Rockets 87-86
WHILE the Mail Boat Cybots pulled off a rout, the Y-Care Wreckers had to go right down to the wire before they prevailed in the New Providence Basketball Association’s double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.
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BISX listee's main owner 'fears' for $4-5m stake
Liquidators for a collapsed $471 million fund structure yesterday said they were “very concerned” about continued losses that are undermining the value of a $4-$5 million equity stake in a BISX-listed company, which they are attempting to “monetise”.
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INSIGHT: Today's youth, tomorrow's leaders
Can the Bahamas, a society where seniority is prized, really afford to disregard the voice of youth? Rashad Rolle hears why the world is waking up to the need to shift from adultism and why the country is in danger of being left behind.
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Haitian group rejects boycott
THE United Association of Haitians and Bahamians has publicly denounced the “vicious and unfair” comments of a Florida politician and a Haitian-Bahamian activist whom they said were “misinformed” and could not speak for those at the centre of the government’s new immigration policies.
