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Ayton sidelined with right leg contusion – Suns centre posts second straight double double
Deandre Ayton had his second consecutive double double of the season but was also sidelined with a right leg contusion.
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Do Bahamains have a pornography addiction?
GROWING concerns over pornography addiction globally are making local health professionals take a closer look at the often taboo issue that can impact mental health.
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Fox invited to spring training with Rays
LUCIUS Fox is set to begin his 2019 season at an elevated status and continues his progression through the Tampa Bay Rays organisation.
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Lucius Fox listed as No.11 overall prospect in Tampa Bay
LUCIUS Fox became the seventh Bahamian minor league prospect to be listed among the top 30 in his organisation by Major League Baseball this offseason.
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Puerto Rico blows out Bahamas by 64 points
The Bahamas couldn’t stop the up-tempo game from host Puerto Rica and ended up getting blown out by 64 points in the FIBA U17 Centrobasket Championship for Women.
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Projected BEC loss cut in half to $22m
The Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) executive chairman has slashed its projected 2013 financial year loss by over 50 per cent to $22 million, adding that half its disconnected customers owed less than $2,000.
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Thomas, Murray named to Arizona Fall League Rosters
A PAIR of Bahamian minor league baseball players achieved another career milestone with promotions to the Arizona Fall League.
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GAIN AN EDGE – Affording BTVI: A world of options
During these economically challenging times, students pursuing technical education may have questions about affording tuition, fees, books and tools while at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI).
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Freedom Farm back in Babe Ruth’s Cal Ripken Baseball Major/70 World Series
FREEDOM Farm Baseball League is set to make its return to the Babe Ruth’s Cal Ripken Baseball Major/70 World Series and Greg Burrows Sr has been appointed to an executive role in the tournament’s organising committee.
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‘Get answer wrong you hang yourself’
A STORY of terror and brutality filled a courtroom yesterday as Chavette Strachan recounted how police officers allegedly tortured her for a criminal confession at Eleuthera’s Governor’s Harbour Police Station in January, 2018.
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‘Going to the Dominican Republic from the Bahamas has been a big transition’
HE’S one of the latest Bahamians to sign his name on the dotted line for a professional baseball contract. But Trent Deveaux said he’s looking forward to following in the footsteps of his uncle, the late Wentie Ford, in becoming one of the next Bahamian Major League players.
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CULTURE CLASH: Thank God for those unafraid to say ‘no’
The Arawaks were a peace-loving people, they say. Our history books place the Arawaks in direct opposition to Caribs who, we were taught, were violent. Some books even say they were cannibals.
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Ricara shines in college awards
THE prospect of receiving an award for being academically exceptional was never at the forefront of Ricara Skippings’ mind as she matriculated from her Bachelor of Business Administration (Accounting) programme at the College of The Bahamas (COB). She says she was simply following the sage advice of her mother.
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Kendal Isaacs Gym ‘not available for us to use’
The Bahamas Basketball Federation was faced with the dilemma of securing the necessary funding to send its men’s national team off to the FIBA AmeriCup 2022 Qualifiers from November 27 to December 1.
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NPBA: Giants, Mingoes in win column
THE Commonwealth Bank Giants and the University of the Bahamas Mingoes won the New Providence Basketball Association men’s division one double header played at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.In the opener, the Giants routed the Caro Contra
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Lowering the prostate cancer risk
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has registered that 200 Bahamian men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018, and that number is likely underestimated, as several Bahamian men seek prostate cancer screening and treatment abroad and they are often not captured in local statistics. WHO data showed that 249 men died of cancer in the Bahamas in 2018 and 80 of those men died of prostate cancer.
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Lowering the prostate cancer risk
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has registered that 200 Bahamian men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2018, and that number is likely underestimated, as several Bahamian men seek prostate cancer screening and treatment abroad and they are often not captured in local statistics. WHO data showed that 249 men died of cancer in the Bahamas in 2018 and 80 of those men died of prostate cancer.
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Gertrude Irene McKinney
Gertrude Irene McKinney, 88 a resident of Rock Sound, Eleuthera, deid at her residence on Monday 5th May, 2014. She is survived by a host of family & friends. Graveside service will be held at the Rock Sound Cemetery on …
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Caribs stop Rebels, Cleaners top Pros 74-72, in the NPBA
THE New Providence Basketball Association, preparing for its crossover interaction with the New Providence Women’s Basketball Association on Saturday night since their separation in 2003, continued its regular season at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.
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South Andros men win opener
South Andros won the opener of the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s 2014 Bunny Levarity Basketball Tournament at the AF Adderley Gymnasium last night. But Bimini gave them all they could handle.
