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Ayton scores 17 to help Suns top Bucks, 125-124

PHOENIX (AP) — Devin Booker scored 30 points, Chris Paul added 28 and the Phoenix Suns extended their winning streak to four games by rallying to beat the Milwaukee Bucks 125-124 last night.

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Young and Cavalry advance to semifinals

CHAVEZ Young and the Canberra Cavalry continued their recent streak into the Australian Baseball League playoffs and advanced to the semifinals.

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Bahamian student-athletes shine at junior college level

SEVERAL Bahamian student-athletes are having an immediate impact on their respective programmes at the Junior College level.

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PHA says sorry for maternity problems

HEALTH Minister Renward Wells said building work in the maternity ward at Princess Margaret Hospital has now been completed after a social media post went viral this weekend, showing unsanitary conditions.

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Hield scores 21 in loss to 76ers

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Chavano “Buddy” Hield scored 21 points last night but it wasn’t enough as Joel Embiid’s 25 points and 17 rebounds helped the Philadelphia 76ers turn up the defensive intensity in the fourth quarter to beat the Sacramento Kings 119-111.

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Smith finally gets to feel Vince Lombardi Trophy

His role as a player ended in 2015, but after playing on a number of different teams, he ended up back where he started in the National Football League as a professional scout with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

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Young and Cavalry clinch playoff berth

Chavez Young was back in the lineup for the Canberra Cavalry and had his most productive series of the season to help his team clinch a playoff berth in the Australian Baseball League.

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Tennis ace Sydney Clarke and Blazers suffer loss

FRESHMAN Sydney Clarke and her University of Arlington at Birmingham women’s tennis team suffered another loss on Saturday at the Rula Tennis Pavilion in Starkville, Mississippi.

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Accountants brace for surge in insolvencies

Bahamian accountants are bracing for “an uptick” in corporate insolvency work during the 2021 second half with companies already moving to restructure as hopes for a quick economic rebound fade.

Bowleg to coach Team Bahamas in AmeriCup Qualifier

MARIO Bowleg will return to the sidelines to coach the Bahamas Basketball Federation men’s national basketball team when they travel to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to take on the United States of America and Puerto Rico in the third and final leg of the FIBA 2020 AmeriCup Qualifier.

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Hield’s 3-pt streak comes to an end

CHAVANO “Buddy” Hield had his worst shooting night of the season and saw his three-point streak come to an end, but his Sacramento Kings continued their recent winning streak.

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Airline industry faces $3.7m Customs debt

The Auditor General’s Office has urged Customs to collect millions of dollars in unpaid taxes and fees, including $3.747m collectively owed by 13 airlines as at end-June 2018.

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Knowles and Saints eye championship repeat

Although they have a slightly different team this year, Theo Knowles is still confident that his Pasadena Faith Saints men’s basketball team can repeat as the 2021 Texas A1 State champions.

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Pinder surpasses 200 three pointers made

TYLER Pinder continues to deliver standout performances during his senior season and notched another career milestone.

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FRONT PORCH – Joe Biden: repairer of the breach

At 78, with his wizened face and white mane grown long at the back, President Joe Biden somewhat resembles Sir Ian McKellen’s Gandalf from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Like the JRR Tolkien wizard, in countenance and character, Biden is the archetype of the wise man.

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Ayton scores 13 points in loss

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Zion Williamson punctuated a 28-point performance with a soaring, one-handed alley-oop jam during a decisive fourth-quarter surge, and the New Orleans Pelicans soundly defeated the Phoenix Suns 123-101 last night.

Freeport economy

Perhaps in a move to get under the skin of the Free National Movement administration that sacked him from the Hotel Corporation in 2018, the outspoken Pineridge MP Frederick McAlpine tabled a private Bill for an Act to repeal the Ocean Industries Incorporated (Aragonite Mining Encouragement) 1971 in the House of Assembly in early December 2020.

Minister: Difficult to put limits on social welfare

A Cabinet minister yesterday said it was difficult to place timelines and limits on the Government's COVID-19 social assistance initiatives given the continued uncertainty created by the pandemic.

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Tourism return to pre-COVID peak in 2023

The start of tourism’s revival has been “pushed back” beyond the peak winter season, the Central Bank’s governor warned yesterday, with a return to top performance not expected until 2023.

Coleby grabs season high 19 rebounds in win, Knowles cans 16 in loss

THE race for the final playoff spot in Turkey’s Turkish Basketball First League with both Dwight Coleby and Zane Knowles looking to secure spots for their respective clubs.