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Team Bahamas all set for Slow Pitch World Cup
THE Bahamas Government Departmental Softball Association will represent the Bahamas with a 25-member team - made up of a mixture of youth and experienced players - at the 2015 WBSC Co-Ed Slow Pitch World Cup in Plant City, Florida, this weekend.
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Macedonia Baptist teams beat neighbourhood rivals
MACEDONIA Baptist Church co-ed and men’s teams both won their games over their neighbourhood rivals, St Paul’s Baptist, as the Baptist Sports Council continued its 2014 Softball Classic in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex last night.
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Bahamas youth flag football season begins on August 26
THE Bahamas Youth Flag Football League (BYFFL) season is scheduled to begin next week Saturday.
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Bahamas Baseball Federation marks 10th anniversary
THE Bahamas Baseball Federation continues the celebration of its 10th anniversary with the highlighting of a decade of successful accomplishments. The Federation continued its series of little
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Activist presents documentary to House speaker
FORMER Member of Parliament and cultural activist Edmund Moxey presented his documentary "The Price of Being a Man: The Ed Moxey Story" - which tells the story of the creation Jumbey Village and the quiet revolution that followed - to Speaker of the House Alvin Smith at the House of Assembly yesterday.
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Eddie Ford: ‘We lived like brothers’
AS they began their trek towards playing professional baseball in the United States in 1967, Eddie Ford recalled how he spent a lot of time with the late Edison Armbrister.
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Giants and Regulators in battle for John Archer pennant
THE Commonwealth Bank Giants and Mr Ship It Freight Regulators, battling it out for the John Archer Divisional pennant, pulled off victories on Monday as the New Providence Basketball Association played a double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.
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Sports notes
THE Baptist Sports Council has announced that their 2015 Softball Classic will get underway on Tuesday, November 17, at the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
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Tourism standards must ‘runneth over’
The Bahamas must improve its customer services and ‘value for money’ standards if the tourism industry is to remain competitive, an Atlantis executive said yesterday.
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SPORTS NOTES
THE Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools is scheduled to complete its regular season for softball starting at 4pm today and on Tuesday at the various schools that have to play make-up games,
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Barbara Mae Woodside
Funeral Service for the late Barbara Mae Woodside age 57 years of Sarah Street, Robinson Road will be held on Saturday, November 23rd, 2013 at 10:00am at Trinity “City of Praise”, Tonique Williams Darling Highway.Officiating will be Apostle Ed & …
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Dianne Evans
Funeral Service for Dianne Evans, age 57 of Pride Estates who died on December 7th 2013 will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. at Trinity Assembly, City of Praise, Tonique Williams Darling Highway. Officiating will be Apostle Ed Watson …
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Temporary closure of cabbage beach access for stairway repairs
OFFICIALS at Atlantis yesterday confirmed the “temporary closure” of the main public access path to Cabbage Beach, as the resort looks to repair a collapsed stairway.Senior vice president of public affairs Ed Fields said the resort thought it best to
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Union leaders pay their respects to Paul Adderley
AS THE country continues to mourn the passing of former Attorney General Paul Adderley, union heads praised his contribution to the Bahamas.
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Munnings was ‘catalyst’ in Portugal preseason debut
TRAVIS Munnings made his preseason debut in Portugal with Oliveirense Basquetebol. The team is 4-1 in their preseason games, and Munnings has been a catalyst of the offence. Munnings finished with 16 points, seven rebounds and four assists in the exhibition opener, an 84-76 win over AD Ovarense. He followed with 10 points and four rebounds in another win over AD Ovarense, 77-71.
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Environmentalists 'not only oil drilling voices'
A Cabinet minister yesterday said environmentalists are “not the only voice in the room” when it comes to determining whether The Bahamas should permit oil exploration in its waters.Romauld Ferreira, minister of the environment and housing, said the
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Basketball Federation round robin nationals all set for DW Davis
THE top basketball teams in the country will meet this weekend to decide the overall title of national champions.
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Jones and Foxes advance to semis in the Russian Premier League
JONQUEL Jones and her UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes continue to steamroll the competition in the Russian Premier League and advanced to the semifinals after they opened the playoffs with a pair of dominant wins.
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Heartbreaking loss for Buddy and No.1 Sooners
On the day that they earned their No.1 ranking, Buddy Hield and the Oklahoma Sooners suffered a big defeat at the James H Hilton Coliseum in Ames, Iowa, on Monday night.
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'The Promise' prevails
A matchup between two of the top big men in all of NCAA Division I basketball - Arizona’s DeAndre Ayton and UNLV’s Brand McCoy produced in an overtime thriller.In the end, Ayton and the Wildcats scored a 91-88 win over the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels Saturda