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NHI's extra $10m 'no cost overrun'
Top National Health Insurance (NHI) executives yesterday said extra government funding was required to cover the five percent monthly increase in beneficiaries, and did not represent a “cost overrun”.Dr Robin Roberts, the National Health Insurance Au
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'I've never seen it like this before'
By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net Bahamas-based used car dealers have seen a significant drop off in business year-over-year, with one telling Tribune Business: "I've never see
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Call for Caribbean to adopt HIV self-testing
ON the occasion of World AIDS Day, Caribbean AIDS response stakeholders are calling for countries in the region to adopt HIV self-testing.
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Another 114 Haitians are expelled from country
THE Department of Immigration expelled more than 100 Haitians on Saturday. According to a press release, the group of 114 Haitians left New Providence on a Bahamasair flight at 7.30am to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, escorted by a team of law enforcement o
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NPBA: UB Mingoes, Elite make it to the win column
THE University of the Bahamas Mingoes and the Basden Elevator Elite won their games in the New Providence Basketball Association’s double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.
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David Nesbitt helps his team capture league title in Brazil
David Nesbitt and his club captured a league title in Brazil.Paulistano Sao Paolo closed out the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB) finals with an 82-76 win over Mogi das Cruzes to clinch the best of five series 3-1.Nesbitt got the start but finished with ju
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Florine Ella Major
Mrs. Florine Ella Major age 85 affectionately called “Ma Flo” a resident Of Harbour Island, Eleuthera, died at her son’s residence Thursday February 16th, 2017. Precious memories are held by: Sons: James. Wendell, Danny and Luke Daughters: Julie, Kathy and …
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ESTHER FOX
Death Notice MRS. ESTHER FOX, 85 of #34 Wayne Circle, Freeport, Grand Bahama and formerly of #48 Wulff Road, Nassau, New Providence, died at the Rand Memorial Hospital, Freeport, Grand Bahama on Tuesday, July 18, 2017. She is predeceased by …
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Herbert Burns
Funeral Service for Herbert Burns, age 85 of Pink Cassia Avenue, Garden Hills, will be held on Saturday, July 20th, 2019 at 10:00 am at Friendship Baptist Church, Laird Street. Officiating will be Rev. Archelaus Burrows, assisted by other Ministers …
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NPBA: Giants squash Marines 132-73
THE New Providence Basketball Association ended the first segment of its season on a high note with a pair of marquee matchups Saturday night at the DW Davis Gymnasium. The league reopens play on January 3.
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Two game leads in NPBA best of five championship series
THE Giants basketball teams are at opposite ends of the spectrum against the Rockets as the New Providence Basketball Association began its best-of-five championship series over the weekend at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.
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Red Stripe, Eudeva dominate regatta results
LUNDY Robinson, skipper of both the A Class Red Stripe and B Class Eudeva, dominated the 2013 National Family Island Regatta that was held last month in picturesque Elizabeth Harbour, George Town, Exuma.
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Bahamian connection, Knights capture the Tip-Off Challenge
THE Niagara Knights men’s basketball programme got off to a successful start in exhibition play to set the tone for a promising 2017-18 campaign.With several Bahamian players on its roster for another season, the Knights captured the Dave Stewart Tip
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80 percent increase in cyber crime
CYBER crime in the Bahamas showed an 80 per cent increase, with 171 incidents reported in 2017 up from the 95 recorded in 2016.
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Winston Cooper
Final Rites and Burial for the late Mr. Winston”Gus” Cooper, M.B.E. Age 72yrs, a resident of Stapledon Gardens, will be held on Saturday, 11th January 2014, 10.00 am. at The Parish Church of the Most Holy Trinity, Stapledon Gardens, Officiating …
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Giants, Saints national basketball champions
A PAIR of new national champions emerged from the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s Bunny Levarity National Round Robin and featured a title split between New Providence and Grand Bahama.
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BISX-listed fund targets storage drive to $100m
A BISX-listed fund is entering New Providence’s warehouse and storage space market to help drive ambitions of more than doubling in scale to some $100m in assets.
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Chamber chief urges: ‘Stop finger pointing’
The Chamber’s chief executive yesterday urged Bahamians to “stop finger pointing” and instead develop “workable solutions” to this nation’s economic and fiscal woes, in the wake of Standard & Poor’s (S&P) ‘junk’ downgrade.
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Joe leads 76ers past Thunder in SLC Summer League 80-79
ISAIAH Joe made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 25 seconds left, his fourth of the game, and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 80-79 on Thursday on Day 3 of the Salt Lake City Summer League.
