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Mobile data usage up 30% pts in 2017
Mobile broadband penetration jumped by 30 percentage points inside one year, it was revealed yesterday, with four out of every five Bahamians using the product by year-end 2017.The Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA), unveiling its
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Sports in brief
AFTER calling off its show that was to have returned to the Fish Fry at Arawak Cay, Champion Amateur Boxing Club will present “Saturday Night Live Boxing” at the Wulff Road Boxing Square 6pm Saturday November 9.
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Students honour former principal
A GROUP of Queen’s College alumni have organised an academic prize for senior students in memory of the school’s former principal, Rev Neville Stewart, who died last August at the age of 86.
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Bain and Colonials face Red Flash tonight
CHARLES Bain and the Robert Morris Colonials will have an opportunity to earn an automatic bid in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament with a win in the Northeast Conference final tonight. The Colonials will face the St Francis Red Flash at 7pm toni
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Minimum wage proposals ready for parliament ‘very soon’
IMMIGRATION and Labour Minister Keith Bell said officials anticipate that legislation for a new minimum wage will be ready to present to Parliament “very soon”.
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Hazel Isadora Russell
Funeral Service for the late Hazel Isadora Russell affectionately called “Titta” age 91 years of Nicholls Town, Andros will be held on Sunday, February 9th, 2014 at 10:00am at Nicholls Town Gospel Chapel, Andros. Officiating will be Pastor Geoffrey assisted …
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Second Baha Mar SPV asset transfer
Baha Mar’s receivers and liquidators have left “no stone unturned” in their hunt for assets, quietly transferring a second tranche to the project’s secured creditor in December 2016.
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NPBA: Shockers knock off Great Whites, High Flyers get 83-81 win over Rockets
THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular-season action on Monday night with the JD’s Seafood Shockers knocking off the BIBT Great Whites 86-66 and the Breezes High Flyers prevailed with an 83-81 triumph over the Sun Oil Rockets.
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NPBA action continues at the AF Adderley gym on Wednesday night
THE New Providence Basketball Association closed out play at the CI Gibson Gymnasium over the weekend and will resume competition at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday.
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location.href="http://tinyurl.com/nowmlb13" OK, that series may be the most historically significant of this century. Boston, 86 years removed from its last …
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Ethelyn Roker-Paul
Funeral service for Ethelyn “Dar” Roker-Paul, 86 a resident of Refuge Ct., off Cowpen Road, & formerly of Salt Pond, Long Island, will be held at Church of God of Prophecy, 2nd Street, Coconut Grove, on Saturday May 19, 2018 …
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Delisma Desjoures
Funeral Service Mr. Delisma Desjoures, 86 of Nassau, formerly of Anse-A-Foleurs, Haiti will be held on Sunday, July 30th, 2017 at Evangelical Baptist Church, Tin Shop Corner off Blue Hill Road at 2:00 p.m. Officiating will be Rev. Maleus Philippe …
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Perry Nathan Smith
Funeral Service for Perry Nathan Smith age 86 years old of Sandilands Village and formerly of Burnt Ground, Long Island will be held on Saturday, December 1st, 2012 at 10:00a.m. at Apostolic Church of Christ, Mermaid Boulevard, Golden Gates. Officiating …
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Rosalee Myrtle Roberts
Funeral Service for Rosalee Myrtle Roberts “Rosie” age 86 years, of Shirlea will be held on Saturday January 04, 2020 at 11:00a.m. at Calvary Bible Church, Collins Avenue. Officiating will be Pastor Robert Elliott. Interment will follow in Woodlawn Gardens, …
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Bless Sir Arthur
EDITOR, The Tribune.
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Teachers join VAT opposition
The BAHAMAS Union of Teachers’ (BUT) president said yesterday that its 4,000 members were adding their voices in opposition to the “regressive” Value-Added Tax (VAT), as there was still a “great deal of uncertainty” as to how the profession would be impacted.
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NPBA: Giants rout the Shockers 95-65, Regulators hold off Pros 93-90
THE Commonwealth Bank Giants, taking off from where they left before the Christmas break, was clicking on all cylinders as they routed the JD’s Seafood Shockers 95-65 at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Saturday night.
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Cybots defeat Giants 97-86 in opener
THE Mail Boat Cybots were in this same situation last year when they took an early 2-0 lead, but only to watch as the Commonwealth Bank Giants rebounded to eventually win the New Providence Basketball Association men’s title.
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Nassau ‘leads Americas’ on cruise ship port visits
Nassau Cruise Port is handling “more cruise ships than any port in the Americas”, its chief executive said yesterday, adding that “we’re well on our way to climbing out” of COVID’s devastation.
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TOUGH CALL: What Bahamians are discussing on social media
SEVERAL recent posts on my Facebook page discussed topical issues and generated some interesting responses, which I share here.
