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Jones posts double in Foxes’ victory
FOLLOWING a break in competition for national team play at the FIBA Eurobasket 2021 Qualifiers, Jonquel Jones and her UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes began FIBA Euroleague play this week and continued their dominance in the region.
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‘Don’t get giddy’ over beating deficit target
The Government was yesterday urged not to become “giddy” over beating its 2014-2015 fiscal deficit projections by almost 31 per cent, as the Prime Minister moved to return “the dividends from the successful Value-Added Tax (VAT) regime” to hard-pressed Bahamians.
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Airbnbs ‘choke off’ local rental market
Exuma’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday warned that the island’s soaring vacation property success was “choking off” Bahamian access to affordable rental units.
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Lathaniel Bastian and the Cardinals advance
The Trinity Valley Community College Cardinals got back into the win column and advanced to the second round of the NJCAA Division I National Championship Tournament.
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Giants rout the Mingoes 107-87
KEMSY Sylvestre scored off the opening tip for the University of the Bahamas Mingoes to put them up 2-0 on the Commonwealth Bank Giants. It was the only time the Mingoes’ led in the game against the undefeated team in the New Providence Basketball A
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Winfrey highlights story of black woman raped by white men
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Oprah Winfrey’s barnstormer of a speech at the Golden Globes highlighted the story of a black Alabama woman who was raped by six white men in 1944.Winfrey, in speaking of the victims of sexual assault whose voices might never be he
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36 new cases of COVID-19 reported on Wednesday
The Bahamas recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, 30 on New Providence and six on Grand Bahama.
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Buddy: ‘We didn’t match their physicality’
NATIONAL Basketball Association player Chavano “Buddy” Hield said he couldn’t ask for more support than they got from the Bahamian public for the men’s national team matchup against the Dominican Republic.
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Bahamian men on top college basketball teams in Canada
BAHAMIAN players are prominently featured on several of the top teams in the latest men’s basketball national rankings for the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association.
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Buddy agrees to multi-year endorsement deal with Nike
WEEKS away from the NBA Draft, Bahamian basketball superstar Buddy Hield secured his first major endorsement deal with the leader in athletic footwear.
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Patriarch Leroy Harrington Moss Sr
Funeral Service for Patriarch Leroy Harrington Moss Sr., age 88 of Beatrice Avenue, Sea Breeze Estates, will be held on Sunday September 9th, 2018 at 1:30p.m at Zion Baptist Church, East and Shirley Streets. Officiating will be Rev. T. G. …
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PAMELA LAVERNE RECKLEY
Funeral Service For PAMELA LAVERNE RECKLEY, 48 of Woodburnt Estates off Johnson Road, will be held on Saturday, December 16th, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. at Southwest Cathedral Church of God, Carmichael Road. Officiating will be Bishop Moses A. Johnson, assisted …
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Gary Ricardo Swaby
Funeral service for Gary Ricardo Swaby, 45 a resident of Jennie Street, will be held at Southland Church of God, Soldier Road, on Saturday 25th March, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Officiating will be Rev. Patricia Clarke Rolle. Interment follows in …
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Olive Miller-McKenzie
Funeral Service for the late Matriarch Olive Miller-McKenzie age 88 years of 3rd Street, The Grove and formerly of Long Island will be held on Saturday, December 3rd, 2016 at 11:00 am at Evangelistic Temple, Collins Ave., Centreville. Officiating will …
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King McKenzie
Last rites for Deacon King McKenzie aged 88 of Rolleville, Exuma will be held on Saturday at 10:00 A.M. at St. Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Rolleville Exuma. Officiating will be Rev. Fr. Ethan P. J. Ferguson assisted by …
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Stephen Wingslow Clarke
Funeral Service for Stephen Wingslow Clarke age 33 will be held Saturday December 1st2012 at 10:00am. At End Time Harvest Church in Coopers Town by Pastor Tyrone Mills assisted by Rev. Elon McIntosh and Rev. Cederic Bullard Interment will be …
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Total number of crimes down on last year
THE number of reported crimes so far this year has fallen in comparison to the same period last year. Police statistics show rape, murder, burglary and
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Jones No.45 consensus four-star recruit
BAHAMIAN prep basketball star Kai Jones has become one of the fastest rising prospects on the NCAA recruiting circuit and has now been listed as a consensus four-star recruit.Jones was one of 11 new prospects on the list for ESPN’s updated rankings f
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Road repair fines increased to $10k
WORKS Minister Desmond Bannister yesterday tabled an amendment to the Roads Act, which seeks to raise the fine for infractions from $75 to $10,000.
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MLB Top 100: Jazz Chisholm ranked 55, Robinson 72
MAJOR League Baseball released its final Top 100 Prospects list following the conclusion of the minor league season and a pair of Bahamian players made the cut among the best in the minors.