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Preston Joseph Thompson
Funeral Service for Preston Joseph “Sir P” Thompson age 72 years and a resident of Fox Town, Abaco will be held on Saturday 23rd, 2014 at 11:00 a.m. at Zion Baptist Church in Fox Town, Abaco. Officiating will be Pastor …
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Hector Smith
Funeral service for the late Captain Hector Smith age 54 years of Armbrister Street, Fox Hill will be held on Friday, February 13th, 2015 at 11:00am at St. Anne’s Anglican Church, Fox Hill Road. Officiating will be Father Hugh Bartlett …
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Tazzio Bethell
Memorial Service for Tazzio Bethell aged 31 of High Point Estates will be held on Saturday at 10:00 A.M. at Trinity City of Praise, Tonique Williams Darling Highway. Officiating will be Apostle Edward and Prophetess Merilee Watson assisted by Pastor …
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sports inbrief
TENNIS 2012 BRAJAXBA WINTER CLASSIC 11 Here's a look at the winners in the 2012 Brajaxba Winter Classic Tournament held at the National Tennis Centre over the weekend: MINI-TENNIS A GROUP CHAMPION - Dentry Mortimer RUNNER-UP - Nia Richardson MIN
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Edward Lightbourn
Memorial Service for Edward Lightbourn age 64 affectionately called “Ed” a resident of Augusta Street Bain Town and formerly of Freeport Grand Bahama, who died at his residence Friday February 22nd, 2019 will be held 10:00 a.m. Friday March 8th, …
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Beach access may reopen 'within two weeks'
THE collapsed stairway which forced the “temporary closure” of a public access path to Cabbage Beach could reopen within the next two weeks, according to officials at Atlantis who yesterday said repairs are now 75 percent completed. In an update on
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CARTOON THAT SENT A SIGNAL
THIS cartoon was taken from a pre-majority rule edition of The Herald, a newspaper that would become a mouthpiece for the governing PLP. This cartoon was part of the party’s strategy to encourage the black electorate to vote out the white oligarchs of the UBP.
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$45,000 presented to Governor General’s Youth Awards
NINETY-two players took part in the 14th Annual Duke of Edinburgh Semi-Finals Charity Golf Tournament at Ocean Club Golf Course on Sunday morning in support of the Governor General’s Youth Awards programme.
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Two more GSSSA champions crowned
COACH Kevin ‘KJ’ Johnson and his CI Gibson Rattlers celebrated another Government Secondary Schools Sports Association championship feat, this time in the senior girls’ division.
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Swift Swimming claims the National Championship for 6th straight year
FOR an unprecedented sixth consecutive year, Swift Swimming has claimed the Bahamas Swimming Federation’s National Championship, presented by RBC.
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$250m cruise port: ‘We’ll help Long Island flourish’
The proposed $250m Long Island cruise port will handle up to 12,000 persons daily at full build-out, one of its principals revealed yesterday, adding: “Our goal is to help Long Island flourish.”
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Sports Notes
THE Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools began its 2015/16 basketball season at various playing sites yesterday.
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This is no time to be intimidated
Using my deductive reasoning skills after years of reading The Nassau Guardian columnist who goes by the nom de plume Front Porch, I have concluded that the main writer is an educated feminist who is possibly a lesbian.
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Renewable energy backlash on BPL utility-scale ‘no go’
Renewable energy professionals yesterday rejected PowerSecure’s dismissal of utility-scale solar for New Providence, describing its model costs as “extraordinarily high”.
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Boat thefts decline 24% year-on-year
Boat thefts in the Bahamas dropped nearly 24 per cent year-over-year in 2016, according to police statistics, with the Association of Bahamas Marinas being credited for putting a “big dent” in the crime.
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GB residents given nine-day response to new power rates
Grand Bahama residents have been given just nine days to respond to a complex proposal that aims to set electricity rates for the next three years, including an 8.5 per cent reduction in the ‘base rate’ for large industrial companies.
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Sports in brief
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Water Corp violated industrial agreement
The Water & Sewerage Corporation breached the industrial agreement with its management union by failing to give members ‘first shot’ at the contracts for three Family Island reverse osmosis plants.
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FTX Bahamas charges US broke 'every single' pledge
FTX's Bahamian liquidators have accused their US adversaries of "breaching every single" co-operation pledge in just four short months as they urged the Supreme Court to "sort it out" with Delaware.
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Gov't gets 'F' for VAT implementation
The Government is losing the public relations battle over Value-Added Tax (VAT) through its “cloak and dagger” tactics, a leading businessman warning yesterday he had to believe the Nassau Institute study’s conclusions in the absence of other evidence.
