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Jones named Kia Eastern Conference Player of Month

For the second time this season, Jonquel Jones has been named the WNBA’s Kia Eastern Conference Player of Month.

Curtis earns landmark place in Division One basketball

A WEEK before “Selection Sunday”, Tristian Curtis became the first Bahamian to earn a berth in the 2015 NCAA Division One men’s basketball tournament.

Lashann Higgs scores 27 points in loss

HARBOUR Island native Lashann Higgs produced another outstanding game, but it wasn’t enough to get her Embutidos Pajariel Bembibre PDM team back into the winning column in the women’s Spanish Professional Basketball League.

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Bahamas ranks 60th on UN preparedness list

THE Bahamas ranks 60th in the world in preparedness for the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the United Nations Development Programme. The UNDP has explored countries’ readiness in terms of overall human development, inequality, doctors per 10,000 pe

Knowles-Tener and Strachan face off on gridiron for the first time in college

FORMER high school teammates Mike Strachan and Rondre Knowles-Tener competed against each other on the gridiron for the first time at the collegiate level.In the NCAA Division II matchup in the Mountain East Conference, Strachan and the University of

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Ayton posts another double

The Phoenix Suns are going through their growing pains in the National Basketball Association and so is Deandre Ayton in his rookie season.

Higgs in FIBA Eurocup, Nesbitt makes impact

VALERIE Nesbitt has had an immediate impact in her rookie season of pro basketball while Lashan Higgs made her first appearance with her new club in the FIBA EuroCup.

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Bahamian amateur golfers in Caribbean Golf Classic

SEVERAL Bahamian golfers are in competition with top amateurs in the region at the 24th Caribbean Golf Classic, hosted at the Westin Puntacana Resort and Club in Punta Cana, the Dominican Republic.

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FNM chairman questions W&SC ‘water rationing’

FNM Chairman Darron Cash has questioned how the Water and Sewerage Corporation (W&SC) could be “rationing water” after the government underwent millions of dollars in repairs and the installation of a new desalination plant in 2011.

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Only 46% leave high school with a diploma

ONLY 46 percent of students who leave high school qualify for a diploma, Education Minister Jeff Lloyd revealed yesterday during his budget contribution in the House of Assembly.

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Hospital nears end of phase one

PHASE one of the urgent and emergency care project is nearing completion at Princess Margaret Hospital.

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Correctional officers to receive training on how to manage mentally ill inmates

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said yesterday that officers at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services who oversee mentally ill inmates will be receiving training on how to effectively manage them.

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Bamboo Shack takes 2-0 lead

THE Bamboo Shack Cybots took a 2-0 lead in the Bahamas Government Departmental Basketball Association’s championship series after winning the first two games over the Police Crimestoppers at the DW Davis Gymnasium over the weekend.

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Prime Minister guests as Ed Fields returns to radio

VETERAN broadcaster Ed Fields returns to the Radio House airwaves today with a new talk show on KissFM, with his first guest Prime Minister Perry Christie.

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Rolle begins offseason play in the ZBL League

FOLLOWING her historic promotion to the Women’s National Basketball Association, Waltiea Rolle began offseason play, like many other WNBA players, on the European circuit.

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'Other crime down' but murder rate 16% up on last year

STATE Minister for National Security Keith Bell and Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson championed the Christie administration’s efforts to fight crime yesterday even as the murder rate for 2015 outpaced last year’s figures.

Flying to a solution

The Minister recently announced that the biggest drag on Bahamasir’s profit was the high and increasing price of fuel, which he cited as approaching $85 per barrel. Even allowing for a jet fuel premium, can management be so dim as to buy fuel at such a huge margin over the present West Texas Crude quote of about $54, in a flat or even declining trend? That price has come nowhere near $85 since briefly in 2017.

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Jamaican woman begs for 'lenience' before drug smuggling sentence

A JAMAICAN woman begged a Magistrate for "lenience" before being sentenced to over a year in prison for smuggling over three pounds of drugs into the Bahamas inside of her abdomen. 

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Whylly and Hurricanes ranked No.6 in latest CCAA top 15 poll

ROOSEVELT Whylly and the Holland College Hurricanes men’s basketball programme remain nationally ranked into the winter holiday break.

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Streaks come to an end for ‘Buddy’ Hield, Deandre Ayton

SATURDAY’s NBA schedule featured the end of a five-game winning streak for Deandre Ayton’s Phoenix Suns and the end of Chavano “Buddy” Hield’s four-game streak scoring at least 20 points.