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Fourteen Clubs Golf Academy ends the year on a high note

THE Fourteen Clubs Golf Academy closed out the year on a high note with a drive, chip and putt end-of-year celebration at the Bahamas Golf Federation’s practice facility on Saturday.

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Event planners enjoy uptick for Christmas

Event planners yesterday said they are “really busy” for the upcoming Christmas season due to corporate clients sponsoring multiple activities.

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Poor utilities spark bad tourist reviews

A Family Island hotelier says poor utility services have resulted in negative guest reviews of their Bahamian vacation experience.

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PETER YOUNG: UK COVID inquiry - useful or pointless?

THE British government’s public inquiry in to the COVID-19 pandemic is now under way. Local reaction so far has been mixed. Critics are calling it a total waste of time and money that will end up as an “appalling establishment sham”. But others believe it is essential to conduct a comprehensive examination of what happened in order to identify and take account of policy failures.

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EDITORIAL: Exciting news for GB, as long as locals benefit from it

IN XANADU did Royal Caribbean a stately pleasure dome decree.

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Correctional officers with pending promotions will be back paid, says Munroe

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said correctional service officers with pending promotions would receive back pay dating to 2020.

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‘The whole of the inside of my home is wrecked’ – Homeowner complains over unfinished roof repairs provided by Urban Renewal programme

A BENEFICIARY of the Urban Renewal Small Homes Repair programme claimed a contractor failed to complete repairs to his house, which now has a collapsing, leaking roof.

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Bahamas suffers 3,000 gap over trademark applications

Bahamians made 3,000 more trademark protection applications abroad than at home during the five years to 2022, it has been been revealed, with government income from the sector "stagnant" for a decade.

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Compliance chief loses bid to block grilling by ex-boss

A broker/dealer's former compliance chief has failed in his bid to prevent attorneys acting for his ex-boss from cross-examining him over his answers to 74 questions posed by US federal regulators.

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Gov't patent earnings down 44% in decade

The Government's earnings from trademark and patent applications nosedived by 44 percent over past decade as The Bahamas' "loss of competitiveness" on intellectual property safeguards intensified.

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LPIA operator leaves its COVID debt woe behind

The Bahamas' major airport continues to leave its COVID debt woes behind it with the coverage ratio stipulated by its lenders now healthier than it has even been since the pandemic started.

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Munroe criticises UN Working Group report on Detention Centre

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe criticised a United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s report about the country’s detention systems, saying the experts did not provide proof of many of their accusations about the country’s criminal justice system.

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CRUISE LINE PLAN FOR GB REVEALED: Xanadu hotel acquisition part of Royal Caribbean goal to transform harbour

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines is eyeing the potential acquisition of Freeport's long-closed Xanadu Beach Hotel as part of plans to develop a resort and water park destination, it can be revealed.

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‘Greatest Show on Sand’

Organisers Todd Isaacs Jr and Lucius Fox stood on Montagu foreshore and looking over the crowd of spectators on hand on Saturday, just basked in their success at the end of the hosting of the sixth Don’t Blink Home Run Derby in Paradise.

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Four men on bail for murder charged with spree of shop break-ins in Grand Bahama

FOUR New Providence men on bail for murder were charged on Monday with a spree of shop break-ins and stealing incidents on Grand Bahama.

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Seaplane operators in call for Out Island infrastructure

Seaplane operators are urging Family Island resorts to install ramps to facilitate their operations and increase airlift to remote destinations.

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Seaplane service must be properly regulated

A Family Island hotelier yesterday backed the use of seaplanes to increase airlift once such services are properly zoned and regulated.

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Artificial Xmas trees enjoy ‘overwhelming’ sales jump

Sales of artificial Christmas trees have been “overwhelming” in the run-up to the holiday season with the premium pre-lit variety also sparking demand, vendors said yesterday.

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GB Chamber chief is ‘positive’ on island’s investment outlook

The Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s president yesterday said “positive” things are happening for the island’s economy despite strained relations between its quasi-governmental authority and the Government.

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‘National Youth Guard will train for climate resilience’

PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said the second cohort of the National Youth Guard will be trained in the fight for climate resilience and gain other employable skills.