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‘Fairly good turnout’ at 10th annual Ed Armbrister Baseball Summer Camp

ORGANISER Michael Butler said he was quite impressed with the outcome of the 10th annual Ed Armbrister Baseball Summer Camp, which paid tribute to the late Major League Baseball Player.

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Freedom Farm back in Babe Ruth’s Cal Ripken Baseball Major/70 World Series

FREEDOM Farm Baseball League is set to make its return to the Babe Ruth’s Cal Ripken Baseball Major/70 World Series and Greg Burrows Sr has been appointed to an executive role in the tournament’s organising committee.

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Bucks edge Suns 123-119 to take 3-2 lead in NBA Finals

PHOENIX (AP) — Jrue Holiday seized his chance to give the Milwaukee Bucks the lead in the NBA Finals.

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Developer’s fears on home construction ‘horror stories’

Construction materials shortages and COVID-19 will combine to create “horror stories” for Bahamians in the process of building their own homes, a prominent developer predicted yesterday.

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AML Foods targets $12m sales at new Freeport site

AML Foods is targeting $12m in annual sales from its new Solomon’s Freeport location, its top executive revealed yesterday, despite it being two-thirds the size of its former Queen’s Highway site.

Radio over-saturation ‘will always be concern’

A top regulator yesterday said concerns about the Bahamian radio broadcasting market being over-saturated “will always be around even if we had 50 percent of the stations we have now”.

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17 new COVID related deaths reported

MINISTRY of Health officials have reported 17 new COVID-19 related deaths including several cases that were previously under investigation and are now reclassified.

Employer to still pay for staff COVID tests

A prominent Bahamian merchant yesterday backed away from requiring employees to pay for their own COVID-19 tests and said it will comply with an Act that requires it to foot the bill.

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‘Give a date for Straw Market’

STRAW vendors are once again calling for the government to provide a timeline on the re-opening of the Nassau Straw Market, saying it’s “unfair” that other tourism businesses are allowed to operate while their place of employment remains closed.

China’s rise is peaceful and unstoppable

At the recent celebrations for the centennial anniversary of the Communist Party of China attended by 70,000 people and watched by fellow Chinese all over the world, General Secretary Xi Jinping confidently announced that China has fulfilled its first centenary goal of turning China into a moderately prosperous society by putting an end to absolute poverty. This is a historic achievement for a century-old party, who was born in the throes of a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

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ART OF GRAPHIX: Video marketing makes for much better viewing

Some marketing executives are caught in the conundrum of trying to decide whether to embark on a video advertising campaign or wondering why they are not already doing it.

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Union chief: Workers not feeling tourism’s rebound

The hotel union’s president yesterday said industry workers were yet to feel the benefits from tourism’s post-COVID resurgence with “no higher than 40 percent” of his members recalled to work to-date.

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Carnival’s GB port to double arrivals to 1m

Carnival’s Grand Bahama port will double the passengers it brings to the island to one million within three years of completion, economic forecasters have predicted, while boosting annual visitor spend by $68m.

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Cruise port eyes 1m visitors by end-2021

Nassau Cruise Port’s top executive yesterday said it could welcome one million visitors over the five months to year-end 2021 even if vessels call with just 60 percent average occupancy.

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Baha Mar builder seeks Bahamian judicial assistance

Baha Mar’s main contractor has launched its own bid to secure Bahamian judicial assistance in a bid to unearth evidence that will support its counter-claims against former owner Sarkis Izmirlian.

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Tennis ace Justin Roberts gets set for Men’s 25K in Ecuador

HAVING gotten over the jitters of playing on his first Davis Cup team for the Bahamas, touting professional tennis player Justin Roberts is now eager to get back on the international circuit.

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Realtor: ‘Best sales in 99-year history’

A prominent realtor has revealed his firm is enjoying “the best year in our 99-year history” with the high-end Bahamian property market “going gangbusters” following its post-COVID lockdown emergence.

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Power and prestige from the race into space

As World War II came to an end and the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union grew, the space race became one of the main stages where the two superpowers competed for an intangible that often plays a crucial role in capturing the hearts and minds of domestic citizens, as well as those of government officials around the world.

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COVID claims life of five-month-old girl

COVID-19 related deaths have climbed by two to 254, with officials reporting that the country’s youngest victim is a five-month-old girl who died from the virus on June 26.

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Ayton’s foul trouble limits the Suns in Game 3 loss

Deandre Ayton struggled in limited, foul plagued minutes of his Phoenix Suns’ game three loss to the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2021 NBA Finals, but acknowledged the support from the Bahamian public as one of his many motivating factors in his team’s chase for the first Larry O’Brien trophy in franchise history.