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Call to fix deficiencies in public health care system

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DEFICIENCIES within the public health care system need to be fixed first before any consideration is given to a 'national health insurance scheme,' a doctor telling Tribune Business

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Jonquel Jones helps Liberty take Game 3 of WNBA Finals, avoid sweep

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonquel Jones scored 27 points and Breanna Stewart added 20 to help the New York Liberty beat the Las Vegas Aces 87-73 yesterday in the WNBA Finals and force a Game 4.

Sports Notes

THE Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association has announced its boys and girls national teams that will be participating in the World Junior Tennis Competition in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 11-16.

RoyalStar mulls public offering

A leading Bahamian insurer is examining whether it should become a public company by offering shares to investors via an IPO, its chairman revealed yesterday.

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Dames: We have ‘fair idea’ who shot couple

POLICE have a “fair idea” who was responsible for Monday’s brazen double homicide at the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre in Fox Hill and will “bring them to justice,” according to National Security Minister Marvin Dames.

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LADY PINDLING OWES $306,000

DAME Marguerite Pindling has outstanding real property taxes amounting to $306,831.73 on her home in western New Providence and has not paid for at least 14 years, according to documents obtained by The Tribune.

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NPBA Division I: Rockets advance to Final Four

THE Discount Distribution Rockets completed the New Providence Basketball Association’s Division I Final Four.

Delroy making a name for himself with the Knights

SINCE joining the Niagara College Knights men’s basketball team, Delroy Grandison has been making a name for himself.

Madness incorporated

Why at this time of our economic development, except to assist and do what the clearing banks are supposed to do, do we want to implement a Credit Bureau? Note it was the political guro of the DNA, Johnny Rodgers who proposed this.

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RENALDO'S RAMBLINGS: NFL picks week three

The “The Movie Outtakes Masquerading As An NFL Game” award presented by the prison guard team from The Longest Yard - The Buffalo Bills Defence. Whatever the amount of time was that the Dolphins spent recovering and nursing their injuries this week, it wasn’t enough.

Not as many visitors as expected for Grand Bahama

WHILE Junkanoo Carnival in Grand Bahama last month was a success and generated significant economic activity, but the event did not attract the expected large volume of visitors to fill hotel rooms on the island.

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More than 21,000 people have received vaccinations

MORE than 21,000 people have been inoculated against the COVID-19 virus to date, as the government awaits the second shipment of COVAX-generated vaccines scheduled to arrive in May.

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‘Thousands of vaccines’ to counter near-bottom status

The Bahamas will likely receive “hundreds of thousands” of COVID-19 vaccine doses this quarter, it was revealed yesterday, amid concerns the nation is near-bottom in the Caribbean in inoculation rates.

Harvey scores career high 10 points in win

AHMARD Harvey had the best game of his collegiate career while several Bahamian players made their NCAA Division I basketball debuts this week after their programmes got off to late starts due to schedule adjustments and COVID-19 protocols.

PLP chair branded ‘delusional’ as debt ratio soars to 78%

Bradley Roberts was yesterday branded “delusional” for asserting that the Christie administration had “rescued the Bahamas from the brink of the fiscal cliff”, after it emerged that this nation’s debt-to-GDP ratio ended 2016 at 78 per cent.

$8m Royal Towers upgrades near end

Atlantis is close to completing the $8 million renovations in the Royal Towers, which employed more than 100 Bahamians via the hiring of local contractors.

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Shockers, Cleaners win

The New Providence Basketball Association continued league play with a double header at the AF Adderley Gym Monday night.

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Just what the doctor ordered – poll gives support for medical marijuana

A RECENT Public Domain survey has found overwhelming support for medical marijuana among Bahamian residents across demographics of age, gender and income.

Atlantis holds another blood drive

THE Water Features department at Atlantis held another life-saving blood drive in conjunction with Princess Margaret Hospital and Doctors Hospital blood banks. Some 85 pints of blood were donated over the course of three days.

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30% auto sales boost if taxes back to 2010

A return to pre-2010 import duty rates would likely boost new car sales by “about 30 per cent”, dealers said yesterday, while calling on the Government to give them up to six months’ warning of planned import tariff changes.