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Dorothy Campbell-Glicio nee Sands
Funeral Service for Dorothy “Aunt Doppy” Campbell-Glicio nee Sands, age 68 years of Eastwood Estates formerly of Rock Sound, Eleuthera, who died at Princess Margaret Hospital on Monday July 6, 2015, will be held at Faith Temple Church of God, …
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SYLVIA MARIE MUNROE
Funeral Service for the late SYLVIA MARIE MUNROE age 68 years of Andros Avenue East will be held on Saturday, January 7th, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Abundant Life Bible Church, Abundant Life Road. Officiating will be Co-Pastor Gil Maycock …
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Doris Elizabeth Poitier
Funeral service for Mother Doris Elizabeth Poitier, 97, of West & Brougham Streets, who died on 10th August, 2012, will be held at Bethel Baptist Church, Meeting Street, on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Officiating will be Pastor Timothy Stewart. Interment …
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Larry Lawrence Culmer
Larry was born to the late Lewis A. and Rita Culmer on October 19, 1957 Passed away peacefully on August 26, 2013 Larry attended Willard Patton, T.G. Glover and then C.C. Sweeting Senior High School. After the completion of school …
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Jonquel Jones and Foxes win title
Jonquel Jones and the UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes claimed their sixth FIBA EuroLeague Women’s title in club history.
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Class of 2014 inducted into National Sports Hall of Fame
THE Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s Class of 2014 was inducted into the National Sports Hall of Fame at Government House on Friday night.
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Baha Mar builder seeks Bahamian judicial assistance
Baha Mar’s main contractor has launched its own bid to secure Bahamian judicial assistance in a bid to unearth evidence that will support its counter-claims against former owner Sarkis Izmirlian.
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Sports Notes
AS the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology gets ready for the hosting of the first National High School Basketball Tournament this weekend in Grand Bahama, Ozzie ‘the Sports Insider’ Simon has released the rankings of the top teams.
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PM says affordable land and housing plans are part of manifesto
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has insisted that recently announced plans to offer concessions to young, prospective homeowners was sparked by goals in his party’s manifesto and not because an election is approaching.
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Concern over residences of Ambassadors
THE Bahamian Ambassador’s residence in London is in need of “substantial repairs,” as are the residences in New York and Washington, DC, according to Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell.
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Sports in brief
THE Silver Cay A Class Regatta, which was was postponed last week, is now scheduled to take place in Montagu Bay this weekend.
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Bimini developer targets 150,000 visitors by 2016
JAMAICA- RESORTS World Bimini’s president yesterday said the development was expecting to attract between 125,000-150,000 visitors next year, benefiting from its parent’s North American strategy to capitalise on the ‘explosion’ of Asian visitors over the next four to five years.
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Atlantis: No policy preventing hiring of Baha Mar staff
WHILE job security remains uncertain for the more than 2,000 Bahamians employed at Baha Mar, an Atlantis executive said the resort would consider hiring staff of the $3.5bn project based on its needs.
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A matter of ethics and morals
One must wonder if the chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) takes his role as a political leader seriously when he calls the method used by the Auditor General in determining losses at the Road Traffic Department (RTD) into question.
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Atlantis is targeting ‘Legend-ary’ Xmas
Atlantis is eyeing 100 per cent occupancy levels over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday period, one resort executive yesterday saying the scheduled concert by award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend was “drawing good demand”.
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Hotelier concern on ‘very much off’ January bookings
SEVERAL major hotel properties on Nassau/Paradise Island yesterday reporting 100 per cent occupancy heading into the New Year, one general manager telling Tribune Business, however, that the January booking pace was “very much off”.
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Local gains offset Erika cancellations for British Colonial
While major Nassau/Paradise Island hotel properties saw inevitable cancellations in recent days due to Tropical Storm Erika, one resort said it had gained some local business as a result.
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Garbage galore
This conflict issue and who owns what? Surely there is a simple remedy seeing that we signed-off on FACTA and we tell the Americans even our bed secrets. We amend the Company’s Act and require no more “nominee shareholders” and that all directors have to be shown on their corporate stationary.
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Chinese Titanic
The Bahamas is captivated by the drama of Baha Mar, The Pointe and other possible Chinese investments in the country.
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Cruise ship to visit Bimini after damage to Freeport
RESORTS World Bimini (RWB) and Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line (BPCL) announced yesterday that the line’s 1,800-passenger vessel, MS Grand Celebration, begins sailing to Bimini this week.
