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‘Buddy’ heats up, Ayton injured

Chavano “Buddy” Hield has enjoyed a hot shooting streak over the last four games while Deandre Ayton continues to be sidelined with an ankle injury to highlight play from Bahamian players in the NBA.

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McPhee-McCuin looks to build on last year’s success

WITH a new contract signed, Grand Bahamian Yolett McPhee-McCuin is looking forward to building on the success of last year by her University of Mississippi Lady Rebels.

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Bahamians get early start in NCAA Division I

THE NCAA Division I basketball season is still days away from tip-off but several Bahamians got an early start to their 2022-23 campaigns with exhibition games.

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Agriculture sees inflation raise prices fivefold

COMPANIES in the agriculture industry said inflation has impacted them, with one business stating that in some cases prices have increased fivefold.

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BPL’s ‘15%’ mega hotel dilemma on renewables

Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) former chief executive warned it cannot afford for the country’s two largest mega resorts to convert entirely to renewable energy because it would lose 15 percent of its revenues.

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Pintard: Gov’t had ‘enough meat’ over BPL fuel hedge

The Opposition’s leader yesterday charged that key policymakers in the Davis administration were given “sufficient meat” to understand the fall-out if the trades underpinning Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) fuel hedge were not executed.

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Crime wave by Haitian shamans

I believe the case can be made that certain officials danced around the issue of law enforcement officers being assigned to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) nearly a month ago.

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Man who jumped out of police car is fined

A MAN was fined a collective $800 in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after being found with drugs and jumping out of a moving police car to evade custody.

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Mentally-ill man hits defendant in court hearing with handcuffs

A MENTALLY ill man found guilty of a damage charge was restrained after attacking another defendant in the prisoner’s dock while awaiting his own arraignment in Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

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Sports Notes

THE Bahamas Small Schools Athletic Association’s 2022 volleyball season continued on Wednesday at the Tom “The Bird” Grant Sporting Complex in Yellow Elder with the following results posted:

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Ayton earns his second double double of season

DEANDRE Ayton recorded his second double double and his Phoenix Suns dominated the defending NBA champions in a tense physical game that featured an ejection and seven technical fouls.

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Lahiem Bell looks to boost his ‘Name Image and Likeness’

BASEBALL player Lahiem Bell made a major move on the business side of collegiate athletics when he signed with Premier Talent Sports and Entertainment to boost his “Name Image and Likeness” (NIL) opportunities.

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Fuel hedge to save $55m, BPL chief informed minister

Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) was on track to save its customers more than $54m over the 18 months to January 2022 if its controversial fuel hedging initiative was followed, a Cabinet minister was informed.

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VAT lift on power bill ‘insignificant’

FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said the government’s amendment to the Value Added Tax Bill to increase the VAT-free ceiling on Bahamas Power and Light bills from $300 to $400 is “insignificant”.

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Darville tables new NHI Bill in Parliament

HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville yesterday tabled the new National Health Insurance Bill 2022, which once passed will repeal the NHI legislation of 2016.

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Motorsport mania

Team Bahamas is poised to make history for the local development of the sport when they compete in the 2022 International Automobile Federation (FIA) Motorsport Games.

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Four accused over fatal dog mauling of homeless man

THREE men and a woman were charged with manslaughter in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday in connection with the fatal dog mauling of a homeless man in late August.

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Month of events to celebrate small businesses

THE Ministry of Economic Affairs yesterday announced the launch of various events and initiatives for November, which was declared National Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Month to recognise and honour Bahamian small businesses.

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Three years in prison over $3.8m drug haul

A MAN was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday in connection with a $3.8m marijuana drug bust off Andros in 2018.

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Gov’t not budging on price control deadline

A CABINET minister yesterday confirmed the expanded price control regime will be implemented from November 1 even as the Government awaits proposed revisions from the food distribution and pharmaceutical industries.