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‘Actions on Family Islands must stop’

ATTORNEY Fred Smith yesterday warned the government that it was treading on the “thin ice of contempt” for pressing ahead with efforts to eradicate shanty towns in the Family Islands despite the pending judicial review.

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Una Bowe Curtis

Last rites for Una Bowe Curtis aged 62 of Fifth Street and Robinson Road, Coconut Grove and formerly of Harts, Great Exuma will be held on Saturday at 10:00 A.M. at Christ The King Parish church, Ridgeland Park, West. Officiating …

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Robinson leads Team Bahamas golfers in Dominican Republic

The 2017 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships continued at The Links Casa de Campo Resort in the Dominican Republic and several Bahamian golfers fell behind the pace they established on day one.

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Nesbitt and team force 5th and deciding game

NATIONAL team member David Nesbitt and his Regates de Flamengo Basketball Club forced a fifth and deciding game in Brazil’s Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB) Finals.

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$80k a year to prevent Freeport drainage flooding

GRAND Bahama Port Authority is investing $80,000 annually to ensure Freeport’s drainage system is “storm ready” to prevent flooding.

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Kobe-less Lakers hold off Mavs in OT 112-108

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Andrew Bynum had 23 points and 16 rebounds, Pau Gasol made back-to-back three-pointers in overtime, and the Los Angeles Lakers won their fourth straight game without Kobe Bryant, 112-108 over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. Ramon Sessio

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Cecil Williams

Cecil Williams age 88 a resident of Bannerman Town Eleuthera, died at the Princess Margaret Hospital Tuesday April 17th, 2018. A Memorial Service will be held 11:00 a.m. Thursday May 3rd, 2018, at the Progressive Liberal Party Headquarters Farrington Road. …

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U Sports Basketball: Bahamian men reach Final Eight

THE U Sports Men’s Basketball Final Eight featured several Bahamian players, however, each fell short in their bid for a National Championship.

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'Buddy' Hield: 'I know what I'm worth'

NEGOTIATIONS continue between Buddy Hield and the Sacramento Kings with just days remaining for the parties to reach an agreement on a contract extension. According to Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, the two sides remain $20 million apart after the Ki

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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.

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NFL Draft: The Colts select Mike Strachan

Mike Strachan’s lifelong pro football dreams became a reality when he heard his name called on night three of the 2021 National Football League Draft.

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Tourism chief: ‘Step up our game’ over vaccination roll-out

A senior Ministry of Tourism executive yesterday urged the Bahamas to “step up its game” on the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out over fears its Caribbean rivals are outpacing it.

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5th ‘Best of the Best Regatta’ winners are Susan Chase V, Running Tide, Captain Peg, Sassie Sue

THE fifth Best of the Best Regatta returned to Montagu for the first time in two years featuring the top sloop sailors in the island nation.

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Philip Michael Bethel Jr.

Memorial Service for the Late Philip Michael Bethel Jr., 39, of Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera, will be held on Friday August 10th, 7:30p.m. at the People’s Restoration Baptist Church, Queen’s Highway, Palmetto Point, Eleuthera. The Rev’d Patrick V. Smith along with …

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Cecil Alphonso Williams

A Memorial Service for Cecil Alphonso Williams age 88 a resident of Bannerman Town Eleuthera, who died at the Princess Margaret Hospital Tuesday April 17th, will be held 11:00 a.m. Thursday May 5th, 2018 at The Progressive Liberal Party Headquarters …

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Yesterday’s referendum became a pawn to politics

NEW YORK Times’ op-ed columnist Frank Bruni, writing an appreciation of Cassandra Butts, President Barack Obama’s appointee as US Ambassador to the Bahamas, noted that she had been waiting for more than 820 days for confirmation in her post and was still waiting when she unexpectedly died on May 25.

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Honouring the passing of Sir Lynden

YESTERDAY, we, the PLP New Providence Women’s Branch of the Progressive Liberal Party, honour ed the legacy of the late Sir Lynden Pindling, marking the 12th anniversary of his passing.

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Eleven to be inducted in National Sports Hall of Fame

THE Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture is expected to induct 11 more persons into the National Hall of Fame next week, bringing the total to 163 since the inception of the highest honour for outstanding athletes, coaches and officials in 1989.

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Malik Joseph posting major numbers

Bahamian junior national basketball team standout Malik Joseph is posting major numbers in his senior season and is garnering more attention on the recruiting circuit.

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‘Sailing Barber’ Johnson: It was the biggest event I ever had

DESPITE watching his Campari Lady in Red, Lady Nathalie get caught by two boats during the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, Eleazor ‘the Sailing Barber’ Johnson still left Montagu Bay over the weekend smiling from ear to ear.