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Dwight Coleby and Hilltoppersaccept bid to play in the NIT
IT may not be on the main stage in the NCAA Tournament but several Bahamian NCAA Division I basketball players will still have postseason opportunities. Dwight Coleby, Travis Munnings and Calvin Anderson will be featured in tournaments as their prog
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Victim was 'nice, quiet young boy'
A NEIGHBOUR of the man who was shot dead on Monday night is taken aback by his murder, describing the victim as a quiet and down-to-earth person. Kevin Storr, believed to be in his early twenties, was killed near his home on Toote Shop Corner off Ea
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The sting of death
In memory of my beloved brother-in-law Andrew Melvin Newton, of Nassau, Bahamas, who transitioned to heaven on November 1, 2017. Dedicated to his wife Shena Newton and sister Theodora (Dora) Newton. What makes the sting of death so painful is that ea
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Teenager accused of Grand Bahama murder
AN 18-year-old man was charged with murder in the Freeport Magistrates Court yesterday.
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Centenarian enjoys Bahamas vacation
After having reached the grand old age of 100 years, American visitor Gussie Taylor-Dennis would not be deterred from enjoying a fun-packed vacation in the Bahamas. She was in Nassau last week as a guest of former Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia “Mothe
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95% of teachers called in sick at primary school – BUT chief
BAHAMAS Union of Teachers President Belinda Wilson said yesterday that 95 percent of teachers at CW Sawyer Primary School called in sick yesterday, noting they are still awaiting a full report submitted by engineers to the Ministry of Education on the safety of the school.
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Almost 1m referrals to Nassau/PI hotels
A senior Bahamian tourism executive yesterday said Nassau/Paradise Island has recovered to 97 percent of pre-COVID business volumes by March 2023 with airlift capacity up by double digits for the year-to-date.
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Activists not reassured by oil explorer's pledge
Environmental activists yesterday said they were "even more concerned" despite Bahamas Petroleum Company's (BPC) assurance it has sufficient insurance to cover all costs associated with an oil spill.
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Bowleg to coach Team Bahamas in AmeriCup Qualifier
MARIO Bowleg will return to the sidelines to coach the Bahamas Basketball Federation men’s national basketball team when they travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to take on the United States of America and Puerto Rico in the third and final leg of the FIBA 2020 AmeriCup Qualifier.
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Mildred Brown
Funeral service for Mildred Brown, 91 a resident of Strachan’s Corner & formerly of Turks & Caicos Islands, will be held at Mt. Pleasant Green Baptist Church, Quakoo & East Streets, on Saturday 8th April, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. Officiating …
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Corese Lucille Ritchie
Funeral Service for Corese Lucille Ritchie, 91, of Rocky Pine Road, formerly of Deadman’s Cay Long Island, will be held on Saturday, September 22nd, 2012 at 10:00 a.m., at St. George’s Anglican Church, Montrose Avenue. Officiating will be Archdeacon G. …
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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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Prince Albert Newton
Death Notice for Prince Albert Newton, also known as, Leonard “Noah” Newton, age 85 years, of Queen’s Highway, San Andros, formerly of Blanket Sound, Andros, died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Wednesday December 27, 2017. He is survived by …
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Reginald L Sheppard
Death Notice for Reginald L. Sheppard, age 85 years, of Kiki Street off Farrington Road, died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Monday September 19, 2016. He is survived by his wife: Carrie Sheppard; his children: Ingrid Ferguson, Debra Pinder, …
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John Arlington McPhee
Death Notices Comrade Elder John Arlington McPhee, 85 Mother Nellie H. McPhee’s beloved husband of 62 years, Comrade Elder John Arlington McPhee, of Williams Lane, off Kemp Road, and formerly of Rolleville, Exuma, returned to the Holy Father in the …
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‘THE MOST IMPORTANT DRAFT IN BAHAMIAN HISTORY'
FOR most of you, this is really your first NBA Draft.
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Giants, Panchos get wins
THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season at AF Adderley Gymnasium Wednesday night when the Johnson Trucking Panchos and the Commonwealth Bank Giants won their respective games.
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NPBA PLAYOFFS: Eagles Nest, Rockets in the win column
THE Leno Eagles Nest stunned the Aliv Bucket and the Discount Distributors Rockets knocked off the Leno Regulators as the New Providence Basketball Association continued its first round playoffs at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night.
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RESULTS: Bunny Levarity National Basketball Tournament
HERE is a look at the games played in the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s Bunny Levarity National Basketball Tournament at the AF Adderley Gymnasium over the weekend:
