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SANDALS SAYS $84-$85M SPENT ON EMERALD BAY
By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net SANDALS has invested between $84-85 million in its Emerald Bay property on Exuma to date, its chairman telling Tribune Business the resort's occupancy levels were in the 70 per cent
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Gon Unlock/Jailbreak iOS 6.1.3/IOS6.1.4 for iPhone 5,4S,4 iPAd iPod
Dear Apple Fan, boys and girls, we have hit the time once again in the unlock iPhone 5/4/4S/3Gs iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 cycle when we can all breathe a huge sigh of relief and raise a glass to the unlock iOS 6.1.3/6.1.4 producers of a Permanent/Official unlock solution, while we overload their …
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Amateur golfers take the spotlight in Cayman
THE 62nd Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships continued at the North Sound Golf Club in the Cayman Islands and several Bahamian golfers lowered their scores from the opening rounds.Team Bahamas includes nine golfers - Richard Gibson Jr, Pablo Nahmias
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Nassau hotel demand jumps 27% in Florida
Connections to Nassau/Paradise Island hotels through their promotion board’s website have leapt 98 percent for 2022 to-date, the latter’s chairman revealed yesterday, predicting that business will further “ramp up” into early 2023.
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BPL says just two per cent without power in New Providence
BAHAMAS Power and Light has restored electricity to approximately 98 per cent of customers in New Providence and has completed restoration efforts in the Family Islands, the company said.
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MARION PRISCILLA SMITH-PRATT
Funeral Service for MRS. MARION PRISCILLA SMITH-PRATT, 66 a resident of Taylor Road Nassau Village, will be held on Sunday, September 3rd, 2017, 2:30 pm. at St Agnes Anglican Church, Blue Hill Road. Officiating will be Rev’d Fr. I Ranfurly …
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Sports in brief
THE New Providence Volleyball Association continued its second playoff series at the DW Davis Gymnasium on Wednesday night as the Johnson’s Cherry Bombs swept the College of the Bahamas Lady Caribs 28-26, 25-17 and 25-22 to win the series 2-0 and advance to the ladies’ championship.
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Jonquel, Liberty advance to WNBA playoff semifinals
WOMEN’S National Basketball Association (WNBA) player Jonquel Jones posted her second straight double double to complete the 2-0 sweep against the Washington Mystics last night.
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Minister: Strong turnout by staff
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said more than 85 percent of teachers showed up to work on Monday “despite being urged to turn off their computers and sit it out”.
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BUDDY HIELD STRUGGLES FROM BEYOND THE ARCH IN NBA SUMMER LEAGUE
BUDDY Hield struggled from beyond the arch in the first two games of the 2017 Las Vegas Summer League but the sharpshooting guard improved in his latest outing.Hield scored 22 points, including 6-9 from three-point range in the Kings’ 95-92 loss to t
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DPM: ‘This is not the death’ of IBC sector
The deputy prime minister has asserted that the new regulatory structure “will not be the death” of International Business Companies (IBCs), as not all will have to pay business licence fees.
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Solar AC shines for savings light
Where did winter go? Just the other week we were wearing warm jackets, but now it feels like summer is already here. The forecast for this summer, like every year in the Bahamas, is sunny and hot.Normally, this means just one thing: Ya’ll ga sweat. Today, however, we will see how you can use the sizzling summer sun to remain cool.
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PLAYER OF THE MONTH: Jonquel ‘JJ’ Jones earns honours for October
Grand Bahama native Jonquel “JJ” Jones is The Tribune Sports’ Player of the Month for October.
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ART OF GRAPHIX: Getting better returns from video marketing
In the past, research showed the average person spent 84 minutes or more per day watching online videos, and this is only expected to increase in 2021. Facebook Live videos have become incredibly popular, especially gardening and cooking videos, with 88 percent of marketers reporting they offered a positive return on investment. Many businesses were using video as a marketing tool in 2020, and 92 percent of those marketers credited this medium as an important part of their marketing strategy.
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Going into a year of hope
If no one else in The Bahamas believes that I am a prophet, I do. Please, my beloved fellow Bahamians, do not take this assertion as an attempt to big up myself or a vain one to convince any reader to accept whatever I might say or prognosticate without a dose of Morton Salt. Nor, I declare and proclaim is that to suggest any degree of infallibility.
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Cable readies $30m pref share offering
Cable Bahamas is again preparing to tap the Bahamian capital markets for a further $30 million in preference share financing, which will help fund the roll-out of this nation’s second mobile provider.
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Atlantis hits out at BPL after outage
The Atlantis resort has hit out at Bahamas Power and Light following Friday night’s island-wide power outage.
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Concern over hiring process at prison
BAHAMAS Prison Officers Association President Gregory Archer said politicians are unduly interfering in the hiring processes at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDCS), sometimes causing qualified applicants to lose out on jobs.
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Webshops expand to be 'too big to fail'
THE Free National Movement deputy leader yesterday said that he was concerned about the expansion of web shops ahead of the issuance of licences, suggesting that they were being set up to be “too big to fail” and must have government tacit approval.
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Jones pegged as a leader for Colonials in 'breakout year'
THE 2014-15 campaign is expected to be a breakout year for the George Washington Colonials and Bahamian forward Jonquel Jones.
