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Top athletes take year-end spotlight

It was a year of career-defining moments for the country’s premier quarter miler, highlighted by a new 400m national record and his first individual medal at a major international event.

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Fidel Castro dies age 90

MIAMI (AP) — Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, has died at age 90.

DESPITE 41% OF HOTELS SUFFERING 2011 LOSS, MOST POSITIVE FOR 2012

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Although more than half of this nation's hotels are positive on their 2012 outlook some 41 per cent still suffered a net loss last year, the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) yesterday unveiling a survey that was ti

DESPITE 41% OF HOTELS SUFFERING 2011 LOSS, MOST POSITIVE FOR 2012

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Although more than half of this nation's hotels are positive on their 2012 outlook some 41 per cent still suffered a net loss last year, the Bahamas Hotel Association (BHA) yesterday unveiling a survey that was ti

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Roker has double double in 78-74 win over Panthers

CANADIAN colleges and universities continued with their second weekend of play out of the holiday break at both the U-Sports and Canadian Colleges Athletic Association levels.

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CWC: 'Public opinion on our side' over BTC

Cable & Wireless Communications’ (CWC) top executive yesterday asserted that “public opinion is on our side” when it came to the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) privatisation, a survey having found that 84 per cent of Bahamian consumers backed the move.

Central Bank: Growth ‘very mild’ for 2016

The Central Bank of the Bahamas agrees with international agencies that the Bahamian economy “will continue to grow at a very mild pace in 2016”.

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Ayton and Suns eliminated

PHOENIX (AP) — Luka Doncic scored 35 points, Spencer Dinwiddie added 30 and the Dallas Mavericks stunned the top-seeded Phoenix Suns with a 123-90 Game 7 blowout last night, advancing to the Western Conference finals for the first time since 2011.

$2m safety margin for City Markets pension fund

THE value of the City Markets' staff pension fund's main asset "supersedes" what is owed to plan beneficiaries by some $2 million, one of its trustees saying yesterday that he hoped to conclude a deal for its sale "within the next week".

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Banks suffer 37% profitability decline

Bahamian commercial banks saw total private sector loan arrears increase by $76m during the 2020 fourth quarter as the sector’s collective profitability shrunk by 37 percent year-over-year.

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Concerns raised over Cuban immigration

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell yesterday said the government was concerned with the potential impact changes to the Cuban exit visa policy could have on illegal migration, which he termed as the “most vexing issue” for Bahamians.

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Call for union chiefs to resign 'for failing hotel workers'

There has been a call for executives of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union to resign for failing to present to the Bahamas Hotel Employers Association a proposal in time for a new industrial agreement.

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Minister: more residential care facilities are needed

MORE residential care facilities are needed for an ever-expanding population, says Minister of Social Services and Community Development Melanie Griffin.

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Victim is killed by shot to the face

A MAN died in hospital on Wednesday hours after he was shot in the face, police said yesterday.

Six pit bull attack ends with two euthanised

TWO pit bulls will be euthanised after attacking a woman, leaving her hospitalised with severe injuries.

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Man admits attacking woman, damaging her phone

A MAN was placed on six months' probation on Friday after admitting attacking a woman and damaging her phone.

A great loss for us all

Tragedy is something we are never prepared for. ‎The shock of murder is unexplainable, unfathomable.

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Buju brings out the crowds

REGGAE legend Buju Banton wowed hundreds of fans Saturday night during the Bahamian leg of his “Long Walk to Freedom” tour.

We want our old garbage system back

Further to my letter of 2nd January 2019, questioning why our government would feel it necessary to summarily dismantle a garbage collection system that was working extremely well for several years and replace it with novice entrepreneurs ( ontropeners in the colloquial ).

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Man denies involvement in armed robberies

A MAN denied being the culprit behind two gunpoint robberies over the summer during his formal Supreme Court arraignment on Friday.