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URCA: What’s App won’t fully replace mobile calling
What’s App and other over-the-top (OTT) applications are “unlikely” to fully replace traditional mobile phone calls and text messages despite their 97 percent penetration of the Bahamian subscriber base, regulators believe.
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Licences 'soon' for nation's second cellular provider, says PM
THE Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) will award licences to the country’s second cellular mobile services provider soon, Prime Minister Perry Christie said during his budget communication yesterday.
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location.href="http://tinyurl.com/nowmlb13" (Watch).Boston.Red.Sox.vs.St.Louis.Cardinals.Live.Stream.Game.2.Online.Free.World.Series.2013 While the Yankees failed to make the World Series for the fourth straight year, there is precious little …
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Nearly 100 evacuated from hurricane-hit islands this week
NEARLY 100 people have been evacuated - some for medical reasons - from islands severely impacted by Hurricane Joaquin by two private relief air operators this week.
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Countdown to the Heart Ball
THE countdown is on for the Sir Victor Sassoon Heart Foundation’s 52nd Annual Heart Ball.
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Doris Elizabeth Poitier
Funeral service for Mother Doris Elizabeth Poitier, 97, of West & Brougham Streets, who died on 10th August, 2012, will be held at Bethel Baptist Church, Meeting Street, on Saturday at 3:00 p.m. Officiating will be Pastor Timothy Stewart. Interment …
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Dancer Virginia Maura dies at the age of 97
CELEBRATED dancer Virginia Maura died Thursday at age 97 leaving behind a grieving family.
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Tahnaj Thomas has eight strikeouts in victory
TAHNAJ Thomas had another dominant performance on the mound for Greensboro Grasshoppers in High-A baseball.
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Streaks come to an end for ‘Buddy’ Hield, Deandre Ayton
SATURDAY’s NBA schedule featured the end of a five-game winning streak for Deandre Ayton’s Phoenix Suns and the end of Chavano “Buddy” Hield’s four-game streak scoring at least 20 points.
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Gasol leads Lakers past Hornets, 93-91
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Pau Gasol had 25 points and nine rebounds, and the Los Angeles Lakers overcame Kobe Bryant's absence to beat the New Orleans Hornets, 93-91 last night. Bryant missed his second straight game with a sore left shin, but Ramon Sessions hel
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Professional basketball players making moves
BAHAMIAN professional basketball players in leagues around the globe continue to progress in their respective seasons while others have made the transition to new leagues.Kadeem Coleby continues to perform at an All-Star level for his first place Aki
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Buddy cans 15 in 1-pt victory over Clippers
IT was quite a weekend for Buddy Hield with a pair of performances that produced a new career high and a thrilling come-from-behind win on the road.
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Governor trims growth forecast ‘closer to 4%’
The Bahamas’ stopover visitor numbers rebounded to 97 percent of pre-COVID levels in the 2023 first quarter, the Central Bank’s governor said yesterday, while slightly trimming his full-year economic growth forecast.
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Stanley Clarence Beneby
Stanley Clarence Beneby, 97 yrs., a resident of Marathon Estates & formerly of Brown's, Crooked Island, died at his residence on 14th April, 2015. He is survived by his 6 sons: Simon, Benjamin, Glen, Gordon, Earl, Edbert Beneby; 2 daughters: …
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BORCO enjoys 29% ship berthing rise
The Bahamas Oil Refining Company (BORCO) saw a 29 per cent year-over-year increase in the number of ships berthing at its facilities during the 2012 fourth quarter, with its “unparalleled capabilities” ensuring 97 per cent of storage tanks were fully leased.
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sports inbrief
NPSA ELECTIONS A NUMBER of sporting bodies will conduct their election of officers this year. The first one is the New Providence Softball Association, which is expected to go to the polls 7pm Thursday at Banker's Field, Baillou Hills Sporting Complex. Al
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sports inbrief
NPSA ELECTIONS A NUMBER of sporting bodies will conduct their election of officers this year. The first one is the New Providence Softball Association, which is expected to go to the polls 7pm Thursday at Banker's Field, Baillou Hills Sporting Complex. Al
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Two men in rape case say woman gave consent
A POLICE investigator told the Supreme Court yesterday that two of the seven men accused of rape admitted to having consensual sex with a Bimini woman who had also given her permission for their friends to have sex with her after a night of drinking and partying at several night clubs.
