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Whylly and Hurricanes one game away from a perfect regular season
ROOSEVELT Whylly and the Holland College Hurricanes are now one game away from a perfect regular season record while Samson Cleare set an all-time rebounding record for the NAIT Ooks in Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association basketball.
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'Know Your Numbers': Bahamas' biggest diabetes expo seeks to save lives
With more than 35,000 Bahamians living with diabetes and many more who may be considered pre-diabetic, it is extremely important that members of the public “know their numbers” as it relates to blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure.These number
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Miller re-elected president of BAAC in landslide victory
SHAUN Miller has been re-elected as president of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Coaches in a landslide victory over past president Curtis Pride with all of his slate of officers voted in.
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Merilin Johnson
Merilin “M.J.” Johnson, 86 yrs, a resident of Sapodilla Blvd., Pinewood Gardens, died at PMH on Sunday, July 29, 2018. She is survived by her 4 daughters: Beverley Lopez, Saralee Miller, Josephine Miller & Carmel Dean; 4 sons: Albert & …
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Hilda Viola Gibson
Hilda Viola Gibson age 86 years of Seymour’s, Long Island and formerly of Burnt Ground, Long Island died at the Princess Margaret Hospital on Monday, March 5th, 2018. She is survived by her Husband: Willard Gibson; Son: Shorn Gibson; Daughters: …
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Gifford Sweeting
Mr. Gifford Sweeting age 86 of Wemyss Bight Eleuthera, died at The Government Clinic in Wemyss Bight on Monday April 3rd 2017. He is survived by: His wife: Agnes Sweeting 6 daughters: Thelma Sweeting, Delores Stubbs, Grace Rolle, Michelle Curry, …
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Mitylene Julia Moss
Mrs. Mitylene Julia Moss, age 86 years, a resident of Zanadia Drive, St. Andrews Beach Estates, and formerly of Pestel, Chesters, Acklins, died at her residence on Tuesday August 13th, 2019. She is survived by her daughters: Faye Cash, JerriJane …
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Standards Bureau aims to expand ‘bread and butter’
THE Bahamas Bureau of Standards and Quality (BBSQ) yesterday said it is aiming to expand its “bread and butter” after achieving 86 percent of the targets in its last strategic plan.
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Atlantis gains court bar on union action
Atlantis last night obtained an emergency injunction to prevent further industrial action by the hotel union following yesterday’s picketing that hit an industry trying to rise from its “knees” post-Dorian. Tribune Business understands that the Supr
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Man denies using fake cheques to defraud businesses
A 32-year-old man who denied using fraudulent insurance cheques to defraud three businesses will appear before a magistrate next year to determine whether he will be granted bail before his trial.
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Sports Notes
THE New Providence Women’s Basketball Association kicked off its 2015 season at the DW Davis Gymnasium on Saturday. In the opening game at 7pm, the Bommer G Operators face the Career Builders Lady Cheetahs. Following a “soft opening,” last year’s runners-up Super Value Cybots Queens take on defending champions Johnson’s Lady Truckers in the feature contest.
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Extra $16.7m may have saved 600 Baha Mar staff
Up to 600 Baha Mar jobs could have been saved had the project’s joint provisional liquidators secured $16 million in additional funding, Tribune Business can reveal.
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Blue Raiders have the edge in Christmas Eve rumble
TO continue our series in the build up toward the 2015 Popeyes Bahamas Bowl, Aldo Amato, who covers Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders football for The Daily News Journal, offered his insight on the edge the team will have in the Christmas Eve matchup.
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Baha Mar liquidator Order still awaited
Baha Mar was still awaiting the court Order appointing the joint provisional liquidators and spelling out their powers after the business close at 5pm yesterday, Tribune Business can reveal.
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Baha Mar: Chapter 11 end undermines ‘commercial viability’
A Baha Mar director yesterday warned that the termination of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection had undermined the $3.5 billion project’s “commercial viability”.
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‘Options running out’ rapidly on Baha Mar
A senior Chamber executive yesterday warned that “the options are running out” for a speedy resolution to the $3.5 billion Baha Mar dispute, with the project facing “great jeopardy” if the warring factions are unable to agree terms.
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Liquidators reassure 1,000 Melia workers
Baha Mar’s joint provisional liquidators yesterday pledged that salaries and benefits due to the Melia Nassau Beach Hotel’s 1,000 staff would not be disrupted, even though the resort’s owner is one of the Baha Mar companies now under Supreme Court supervision.
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Strong Bahamian presence again in the Battle 4 Atlantis
THE 2015 Battle 4 Atlantis will include another stacked field, with not only two Bahamians, but some of the top incoming freshman classes in all of NCAA Division I basketball.
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Evolution of Junkanoo and Rake 'n Scrape
“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
