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STATESIDE: Biden’s bid for second term hinges on perception of his mental acuity

US president Joe Biden’s momentous State of the Union address last Thursday is stale news now in this age of the 24-hour news cycle and little if any popular memory of what happened even a week ago. Correct?

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Family and friends searching for missing Philip “Big Mama” Stubbs

Concerned family and friends are desperately searching for Philip “Big Mama” Stubbs, 80, who went missing after leaving his residence early this week.

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Harborside staff see 11% industrial deal pay boost

SOME 92 workers at the Harbourside Resort at Atlantis will enjoy an 11 percent pay rise spread over the five-year term of a newly-signed industrial agreement, it was revealed yesterday.

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GBPA has not made GB better

IT IS disheartening and downright selfish for a foreign company that has been operating in the Bahamas from about 1955, and with nothing to show how it has improve the lives of Grand Bahamians, or its economy, to still want to stay hogging up all the profits, as its monopoly has become strained over decades, leaving many Bahamians to wonder about what percentages of its revenues were being exported to Europe, and now by the minute?

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Who benefits from Ukraine proxy war

RECENT weeks have seen calls by the French President for “European troops” to directly join the conflict in Ukraine, a declaration by US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin that a Russian victory will lead to a direct Russia/NATO war and revelations that German generals have been complicit in planning terrorist attacks inside Russia.

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Restaurant chain to double staff as revenues rise 15%

A BAHAMIAN restaurant chain is aiming to double its workforce by July through the creation of 48 new jobs with revenues for the year-to-date some 15 percent ahead of 2023.

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DPM: ‘We won’t tolerate’ cruise lines deterring their passengers

THE Deputy Prime Minister has warned the cruise lines that advising their passengers not to disembark in The Bahamas is “not something we tolerate”.

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CARIFTA swimming team named

AFTER the completion of its final trials over the weekend at the King’s College School’s 25-metre pool, Bahamas Aquatics has selected a quality 36-member team on their quest to win a sixth straight CARIFTA swimming championship title.

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‘Coach Yo’ and Ole Miss Rebels fall to LSU in SEC semifinals

COACH Yolett “Coach Yo” McPhee-McCuin and the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) Rebels stepped onto the hardwood at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena riding a seven-game win streak which was snapped by the Louisiana State University Tigers 75-67 on Saturday.

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76ers are planning to work out with NBA free agent Kai Jones

GRAND Bahama native Chavano “Buddy” Hield and NBA free agent Kai Jones could potentially join forces in the future as the Philadelphia 76ers want to meet and work out with the 2021 first rounder, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.

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The wreck of the HMS Lowstoffe

GREAT Inagua and Little Inagua boast some of the oldest and most enigmatic shipwrecks in The Bahamas, as they sit across the entrance to the Windward Passage.

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Cable urges industry unity on URCA ‘budget travesty’

CABLE Bahamas is urging its rivals to join the battle against “this travesty in budget increases” for the sector’s regulator whose downtown Nassau headquarters it branded an “albatross”.

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Immigration detains 92 during shanty town demolitions

NINETY-TWO people were detained in New Providence and Abaco as authorities looked to demolish shanty towns, Immigration Minister Alfred Sears said yesterday.

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Haiti a failed state since start

EVER since, if not before, it successfully declared its independence in 1804 following her defeat of a contingent of the Napoleonic army, Haiti has been and remains to this very day, the classical case of a ‘failed state’.

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STATESIDE: A tale of several Trudeaus and one Donald Trump

THIS is a tale of several Trudeaus of different generations and Donald Trump.

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‘It is in our national security interest to have peace in Haiti’

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said Haiti’s deterioration, including the escape of thousands of criminals, shows why helping to stabilise that country is in the security interest of The Bahamas.

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Sailors show out at KPMG Winter Youth Sailing Championship

THE KPMG Winter Youth Sailing Championship was a rousing success over the weekend at the Nassau Yacht Club.

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Nation building begins with our children

I WOULD like to share my experience with you and the public about a conversation I had with one of the top inspectors at Physical Planning.

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Physical Planning not helpful

I WOULD like to share my experience with you and the public about a conversation I had with one of the top inspectors at Physical Planning.