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Jones and Sun suffer 96-83 loss to Sky

FACED with their fifth game in 11 days, Jonquel Jones and the Connecticut Sun were unable to keep pace in their home finale as the WNBA playoff race closes out the regular season. The Sun suffered a 96-83 loss to the Chicago Sky Friday night in thei

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Law firm to host free forum on wills and trusts

On April 20, the law firm Halsbury Chambers will host a free legal forum at the British Colonial Hilton titled “Wills, Living Wills and Trusts”.

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Athlete hopes for end to charges

STEPHEN Newbold’s lawyer hopes charges against the Bahamian sprinter will be dropped after his co-accused Josh Mance was cleared this week.

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Freedom Farm Baseball League to open season this Saturday

THE stage is all set for the 2013 season opening of the largest youth sports league in The Bahamas. 

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Sands: Were any deportees witnesses?

FNM Deputy Chairman Dr Duane Sands has questioned whether any of the recent Cuban nationals who have been repatriated to their home country were either witnesses to, or victims themselves of the reported physical abuse at the Detention Centre that took place on May 20.

A 'world of dance' coming to Bahamian theatre

OVER one hundred students will hit the stage during Jubliee Dance Studio’s second dance production set for Friday.

MARKETING REVOLUTION: Sports investments give major pay-off

The Bahamas Judo Federation took a 27-person team to the US Junior Open in Fort Lauderdale for a week.

SIMON COOPER: Foreign examples show Bahamas the way on VAT

With the draft Value-Added Tax (VAT) Bill out for consultation, it is appropriate to consider the experience of other countries on the subject.

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Activists go on walkabout to drum up VAT opposition

ACTIVIST group Citizens for a Better Bahamas yesterday canvassed the Centreville area to encourage residents to sign a petition opposing the proposed VAT system.

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Bahamas 'best positioned' for automatic tax information

The Bahamas is the world’s “best positioned” financial centre when it comes to thriving in an automatic tax information exchange environment, a Cabinet Minister said yesterday.

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Roberts: Government has demonstrated extraordinary fiscal discipline

CONTRARY to the assertions of opposition leader Dr Hubert Minnis, there is “incontrovertible evidence” that the government has demonstrated extraordinary fiscal discipline and leadership according to Bradley Roberts, chairman of the governing PLP.

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Sands blames Gibson for cost overruns on building

THE “millions of dollars” spent by the former Ingraham administration to “refurbish” the current office of the Attorney General was the direct result of decisions made by Labour and National Security Minister Shane Gibson, Free National Movement (FNM) Deputy Chairman Dr Duane Sands said yesterday.

BTC targeting global dropped call standard

Newly-appointed Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) chief executive, Leon Williams, is aiming to reduce the carrier’s dropped call levels to below the international standard of 1.8 per cent.

Club Monica Track Classic: Athletes qualify for CARIFTA

AT least four athletes surpassed the qualifying standards for the CARIFTA Games and Grand Bahama Power Track Club made their presence felt as the Club Monica Track Classic took centre stage at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium over the weekend.

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INSIGHT: Bahamians lose out as Chinese win big

Carey Leonard continues his series looking at the detrimental effects of Chinese investment in the Bahamas with an examination of the Agreement for Waiver Exclusivity . . .

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UPDATED: Bahamas finish third at Carifta track and field championships

WILLEMSTAD, Curacao — Latia Saunders and Tamar Greene added to the gold rush as Team Bahamas pushed its final medal count to 31 on the final day of the 46th Flow Carifta Games to finish in third place behind Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago.

Fisherman still missing

INVESTIGATIONS are still continuing into the disappearance of a Bahamian crewman at sea during bad weather off Great Isaac Cay on December 4, according to a senior police official in Grand Bahama.

Great Harbour Cay Wahoo tourney another great success

THE seventh annual Great Harbour Cay Wahoo Tournament, held in honour of long time resident Jim Storey who fished this tournament for many years, was another great success.

Health statistics

THERE should be no one who would wish and not support a viable/proper NHI programme but those criteria must be evident and experienced.

Gibson and greed

Does anyone else think its ironic for Minister Gibson to call anyone greedy? Does anyone else worry when Fred Mitchell decides to ignore judicial decisions?