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Cooper: Bahamas faces EU ‘moving the goal posts’

The Opposition's deputy leader yesterday voiced fears that the European Union (EU) will soon "move the goal posts" on The Bahamas again when it comes to tax and anti-financial crime regulation.

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Training for vaccinations has begun

HEALTH Minister Renward Wells says training for the administration of COVID-19 vaccines has already begun as the country awaits the arrival of its first vaccines.

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Greene and J Addison win OSBA Challenge Series

PAUL Greene led his J Addison Prep basketball programme to another in-season tournament title in the Ontario Scholastic Basketball Association.

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Last shelters stay open ‘til June

OFFICIALS hope to have completely deactivated shelters for victims of deadly storm Dorian before the start of the 2020 hurricane season, according to Social Services Minister Frankie Campbell yesterday.

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Tourism losing $8.5m yearly to plastic pollution

The Bahamian tourism industry is losing up to $8.5m annually to plastic beach pollution, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report has revealed, undermining the sector's key attraction.

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BPL lights up headquarters for brand launch

BAHAMAS Power & Light (BPL) formally launched its brand on Friday, hoping to mark a new era for the country's electricity provider since PowerSecure was selected as its manager.

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Beverly Wallace-Whitfield likes to volunteer

“THIS is what I do,” Beverly Wallace-Whitfield said with a deeply-felt confidence as she cast her eyes towards the sand pitch where Paraguay and Tahiti’s players were warming up ahead of their crucial quarter-final.

Aliv: ‘Hundreds’ of mobile users porting

Aliv’s top executive said yesterday it has seen “hundreds” of customers switch to their network since number portability launched last month, telling this newspaper that the subscriber boost would keep the company in line with its targets.

Knights and the Rattlers top senior standings

THE senior school segment of the GSSSA Track and Field Championship meet concludes today with a deadlocked tie atop the standings setting the stage for the final day of competition.The defending champion CR Walker Knights and CI Gibson Rattlers both

Rev Morris Russell, former pastor of Calvary Bible Church, dies at age 90

Rev A Morris Russell, former pastor of Calvary Bible Church in Nassau, died on June 27 after taking ill suddenly on that same day. He had just celebrated his 90th birthday in February, and survived two heart attacks over the last five months. Rev Rus

One God, one stage - artists perform for 'gospel explosion'

Bahamian are invited to get ready for a “gospel explosion”, as Aldo Stubbs and The Legacy Continues team present their annual concert this Sunday.Under the theme “Let All God People Praise Him. One God. One Stage. One Sound,” the event is set to take

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Calling all wise women

Festival to foster, celebrate sisterhood

Ladies, save the date – April 14 – as the Wise Women Festival is all set to “nurture the mind, body and spirit”.

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Navajo robotics team heads to international competition

A team of Navajo high school students from a remote town in southern Utah is building a robot to represent North America in an international robotics competition.

Xmas jewellery sales better than expected

Many Bahamian jewellery retailers shrugged off early holiday season pessimism to report “good” Christmas sales that beat 2018 figures by up to eight percent. Denise Cooper, area retail manager for Colombian Emeralds, told Tribune Business: “This is

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Progress for Abaco power restoration

FOUR months after Hurricane Dorian destroyed Abaco, Bahamas Power and Light said it has made major inroads in restoring electricity to the island.

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Families benefit from beds donated by charity

About 100 families in Grand Bahama were recipients of new beds provided by a local private charitable foundation that has been providing relief aid since Hurricane Dorian. The Grand Bahama Disaster Relief Foundation (GBDRF) - the charitable arm of t

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Ayton and Suns 7-0, stay in hunt for play-in spot

Bahamian centre Deandre Ayton and his Phoenix Suns kept their playoff hopes alive with a 130-117 rout over the Philadelphia 76ers yesterday in the National Basketball Association’s bubble at the ESPN Wild World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida.

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Shark feeding blamed for attacks

AN American man survived a shark bite in Abaco last week just days before an American woman was killed, raising further concerns about possible chum dumping in Bahamian waters.

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PLP underwhelmed by PM's national address

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell criticised the prime minister’s national address, saying it provided no new information.

Grounds for refusal of citizenship expanded

THE Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill 2018 features expanded grounds for the refusal of citizenship under the constitution, and registration and naturalisation under the law to include terrorism, human and drug trafficking, as well as gang-related activities.