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Bahamian connection, Knights capture the Tip-Off Challenge
THE Niagara Knights men’s basketball programme got off to a successful start in exhibition play to set the tone for a promising 2017-18 campaign.With several Bahamian players on its roster for another season, the Knights captured the Dave Stewart Tip
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Baha Mar creditors: Over 90 per cent to be paid
Baha Mar’s secured creditor agreed to fund the $3.5 billion project’s completion because potential purchasers have told it they will not buy an unfinished mega resort, with more than 90 per cent of local creditors set to be paid.
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Tyler Pinder to spend post grad season with Miami Prep Tornadoes
TYLER Pinder reclassified to the class of 2022 and will spend his post grad season with a new programme, the Miami Prep Tornadoes.
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Gov’t ‘playing with fire’ over $200m spend rise
The Government was yesterday warned it is “playing with fire” through the $200 million year-over-year increase in recurrent spending, with a businessman suggesting this threatens to squander the ‘benefits’ from Value-Added Tax (VAT).
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D'Aguilar blasts Hanna Martin for her defence of 2017 Western Air rental agreement
TOURISM and Aviation Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar yesterday blasted Englerston MP Glenys Hanna Martin for her defence of rental agreement she signed with Western Air back in 2017, accusing his predecessor of trying to shirk “a very bad deal”.
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Women finish strongin CBC
DESPITE the disappointment of not qualifying for the medal round at the Caribbean Basketball Confederation Championships, the Bahamas women’s national team regrouped to finish strong at the tournament.
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Economic crisis in Freeport: a call to action
THE premise for this article is that given the economic crisis now affecting Freeport and Grand Bahama, an Action Task Force Committee be formed under the direction and auspices of Government, the GBPA and Licensees to determine and effect both a Short Term Solution and a Long Term Solution, which will include the formation, for the long term, of a professional marketing organization to be formed and paid for by the GBPA/GBDevco in accordance with their covenants made to Government and the people of The Bahamas in the Hawksbill Creek Agreements of 1955 and of 1960 and in the Freeport, Grand Bahama Act, 1993 to promote Freeport and Grand Bahama for the benefit of the Country.
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Halkitis denies missing targets
STATE Minister for Finance Michael Halkitis yesterday refuted media reports that the government has already blown past its forecasted deficit targets for 2015-2016.
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Mitchell ‘pleased with support’ for new immigration policies
IMMIGRATION Minister Fred Mitchell has been pleased with the support from Bahamians for the new immigration policies implemented a year ago.
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El Faro was on Coast Guard list of at-risk vessels
THE El Faro sank just before it was to be added to a US Coast Guard list of vessels identified as having the most “potential for risk”, a designation that would have triggered more safety inspections.
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Tropical storm Danny strengthens in Atlantic - could become first hurricane of the season
TROPICAL Storm Danny - the fourth named storm of the season - is strengthening far out in the Atlantic Ocean and could become a hurricane on Thursday, the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) in Miami said on Wednesday morning.
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Soil and fertilizers
Confident gardeners will have some seeds in the ground already for the new vegetable growing season. Sweet peppers benefit from an early start and tomatoes set fruit at the end of October, so a plant started now will be flowering by then.
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Airline enjoys 70% Out Island load factors
WITH larger carriers in the Florida market "pulling back", Silver Airlines chief executive, Darrell Richardson, yesterday said the carrier was looking to "pick up the slack", telling Tribune Business it was recording just over 70 per cent load factors on its Family Islands service.
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Unions fearing ‘chilling effect’ if orders extend
Trade union leaders yesterday warned that any extension of the COVID-19 Emergency Orders will have “a chilling effect” on the Bahamian workforce with 60 percent of hotel union members still furloughed.
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EDITORIAL: Money is tight - but straight answers are priceless
PROMISES, promises. They don’t get you very far.
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Bahamas ‘supertanker’ won’t change overnight
The Bahamas will not achieve “the radical change” it needs overnight, a governance reform campaigner likening the required effort to the time it takes to “turn a supertanker”
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‘Mechanisms are in place’ for 72 hour antigen tests
HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville said mechanisms are in place to ensure people take a rapid antigen test 72 hours after travelling from abroad or from New Providence or Grand Bahama as required by new rules.
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Kentwan Smith signs with top level basketball team in Slovakia
BAHAMIAN pro basketball player Kentwan Smith is on the move again as he signed with a new club in a new country to continue his career.Smith agreed to terms with BK Levicki Patrioti of the Slovak Extraliga (SBL) - the top level of basketball in Slova
