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BPL switches billing dates to help customers
BPL has modified its billing dates to allow customers to receive bills by the 20th of each month.
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Courts need to show the way
In the last fortnight, social media has been obsessed by the PM’s silly remarks about Bahamians having lost their fear of crime under his watch. While foolish remarks by our prime minister have long since become as newsworthy as the sunrise, it is sad to see the focus of the discussion about crime once again misdirecting itself: this time onto the absurd distinction of whether 90 or 110 Bahamians were slaughtered with illegal guns in a given year.
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Sir Geoffrey Johnstone remembered
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, other dignitaries and relatives paid tribute to Sir Geoffrey Johnstone at the former politician and lawyer’s funeral on Saturday.Sir Geoffrey died in Doctors Hospital on Friday, August 4. He would have turned 90 years
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Sports in brief
THE defending champions Career Building Lady Cheetahs and last year’s runners-up Bommer G Lady Operators took the opening game of their respective New Providence Women’s Basketball Association best-of-three semifinal series at the DW Davis Gym on Saturday night.
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Scotia: 95% gone online amid ‘lousy’ service claim
SCOTIABANK (Bahamas) will this year test mobile banking technology capable of serving all Family Islands, its top executive said yesterday, with 95 percent of customer transactions now conducted online or at ABMs.
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Former PM Christie: Drop in voters is a concern
FORMER Prime Minister Perry Christie lamented the low voter turnout on Election Day, saying the reports have concerned him.
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Sports in brief
THE New Providence Basketball Association resumed its regular season play at the CI Gibson Gym over the weekend after taking a break for the Christmas holiday.
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Man brought back to life after heart stops twice - Complicated 10-hour surgery saves Cayman man's life -
CAYMAN ISLANDS – A 33-year-old man is breathing again, with a sigh of relief, after the Health City Cayman Islands medical team brought him back from the brink of death.Bjorn Ebanks’ heart stopped twice and he underwent CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscita
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Baha Mar eyeing 15-20% job cuts
A Cabinet minister yesterday conceded it is “deeply concerning” that Baha Mar has delayed its re-opening amid plans to make “additional staffing reductions” that could result in hundreds losing their jobs. Dionisio D’Aguilar, pictured , minister of
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Loretta Edgecombe Burns
Loretta Edgecombe Burns, 88 a resident of Hillside Estates & formerly of Simms, Long Island died at PMH on 15 May, 2014. She is survived by her 3 sons: Alexander, Douglas & Dexter Burns; 3 daughters: Doris "Princess" Nesbitt, Elizabeth …
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MILDRED GENEVA SANDS
MILDRED GENEVA SANDS age 88 years of Garden Hills #1 died at her residence on Saturday, July 25th, 2015. She is survived by her Sons: Mark, Frankie, Patrick and Philip Sands; Daughters: Arnetta Kemp, Mildred Huyler, Linda Cleare, Wendy Turners, …
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Gustavus Adonimal Forbes
Death Notice for Gustavus Adonimal Forbes, age 88 years of Windwhistle Street, Hawkins Hill, formerly of Middle Caicos, Bambarra Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands, died at his residence on Thursday October 27, 2016. He is survived by his wife: Charlamae …
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Kenneth Benjamin
Death Notice Kenneth Benjamin, 88 of Stapledon Gardens, died in New Jersey on Friday, May 19th 2017. He is survived by his Sons: Trevor, Cleveland, Kenneth, Ludlow and Wilfred Benjamin; Brother: Donald Cruise; Daughter: Jillian Patnett; Sister: Cynthia Benjamin, Claudette …
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Effie McPhee
Ms. Effie McPhee age 88 years old of Boganvilla and formerly of Pirates Well, Mayaguana died at her residence on Friday, June 28th, 2013. She is survived by her sons: Byron Collie, Jentley, Charles and Vanlock Murphy; daughters: Heastlene Collie, …
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Anthony Whitfield Gardiner
Anthony Whitfield Gardiner age 88 years of Soldier Road and formerly of Bottle Creek, Turks & Caicos died at Princess Margaret Hospital on Tuesday, January 21st, 2020. He is survived by his Children: Bonfill & Ricardo Gardiner; Daughter: Bonita Johnson; …
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The destruction of Jumbey village
The destruction of Jumbey village "NO, I can't believe it - that can't be true!" This was Coconut Grove MP's Ed Moxey's shocked reply in May 1974 when a news reporter called to ask what he thought of a report that government had planned to build a repli
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New automated passport control unveiled at airport
GOVERNMENT and aviation officials yesterday announced the official launch of 20 new Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosks at the Lynden Pindling International Airport, which would allow for US-bound passengers to be processed “up to four times faster”.
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Revived Mortgage Plan may assist ‘over 1,000’
The Government yesterday unveiled a revised Mortgage Relief Plan it believes could assist “upwards of 1,000 delinquent borrowers”, via a 20-25 per cent cut to monthly loan payments.
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'Oversubscribed' AML offer attracts $10m
AML Foods yesterday confirmed Tribune Business’s Monday article by disclosing that its preference share issue had been oversubscribed by $2.5 million, adding that the extra sum would be used to boost cash flow by taking out short-term bank debt.
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Insurers: Dorian losses increase to $1.5bn-$2bn
Estimates for Hurricane Dorian’s total insured losses were yesterday said to have increased to between $1.5bn to $2bn as the entire Bahamian industry was removed from international “review”. Anton Saunders, RoyalStar Assurance’s managing director, t
