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Seawolves to help Cornish and his family

JARON Cornish left an indelible mark on Stony Brook men’s basketball during his tenure and the programme looks to give back to the Abaco native. The Seawolves established several initiatives to target the recovery efforts for Cornish and his family

NPBA: Giants close out the regular season undefeated

THE Commonwealth Bank Giants closed out the New Providence Basketball Association regular season play for the year as the only undefeated team remaining in the team standings.

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Renaldo's Ramblings: Week 11 picks

The “When Nobody Wins, Everybody Loses” Award presented by The Entire Referendum/Opinion Poll Hulabaloo - The Rams missed an opportunity to win and make the biggest statement win for the Sam Bradford era, while the Niners looked far too marginal against a team they should have dominated

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Commercial properties: 70% behind on taxes

Some 70 percent of commercial properties are in arrears on their real property tax payments, it was revealed yesterday, although a “high proportion” of Bahamian homeowners are compliant.

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NPBA: Bucket, Shockers Stingers in the win column

THE Aliv Bucket, Seafood Shockers and PJ Stingers were winners of the New Providence Basketball Association’s triple header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Saturday night.

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BFS purchase by Sysco ‘best thing that can ever happen’

A leading retailer yesterday backed any potential acquisition of Bahamas Food Services (BFS) by the multi-billion dollar Texas-based giant, Sysco, as potentially “the best thing that ever happened to the food services industry in the Bahamas”.

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PM confirms approval for Sysco’s BFS deal

PRIME Minister Perry Christie yesterday confirmed that the Government had decided to approve Bahamas Food Services’ (BFS) takeover by multi-bilion US giant, Sysco, promising his administration would ensure that Bahamian wholesalers were not “unduly impacted” by the sale.

Top pro basketball players begin seasons on high note

SOME of the country’s top pro basketball players throughout the European, Asian and Middle Eastern circuit began their seasons on a high note.

Cuba: Immediate threat to 20% of Bahamas’ visitors

Cuba’s opening will immediately threaten more than 20 per cent of the Bahamas’ stopover visitor market, it has been revealed, amid calls for a ‘tourism trade agreement’ with the US to mitigate the impact of its ‘diplomatic reset’ with Havana.

Gov’t to phase-out VAT bi-annual filing

The Government is moving to eliminate the bi-annual filing of Value-Added Tax (VAT) returns by year-end, in a bid to boost its cash flow and obtain more consistent returns.

Tourism share loss to Cuba ‘inevitable’

A prominent businessman yesterday said it was “inevitable” that a fully-open Cuba will eventually “take a piece of the Bahamian tourism pie”, amid calls for this nation to urgently boost its economic competitiveness.

Bahamas is Caribbean's top tourist market share loser

The Bahamas has lost the greatest tourism market share of any Caribbean nation in the post-recession years, an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report has revealed, with this nation ranked as the region’s most expensive.

Distribution of income and property

There is a nebulous myth here in The Bahamas that there is and has been a gradual equalisation in income and property ownership amongst our people. I

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PI residents ordered to pay $23.7m penalty

The Canadian receivers for an alleged "fraudulent" life insurance scheme will today appear before the Court of Appeal in a bid to overturn a verdict that forced them to

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‘Headroom for growth’: Tourism forecast to hit regional average

A senior hotelier yesterday said The Bahamas “still has some headroom for tourism growth” post-COVID amid forecasts its annual expansion rate will merely match the Caribbean average for the next decade.

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Bahamas can't 'sit and wait for next Baha Mar'

Small businesses will have to drive economic growth for the next two-three years, a leading accountant said yesterday, arguing that he did not see “any significantly large business coming to the Bahamas” post-Baha Mar.

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Government approves $2m to rebuild BAMSI dorm

THE government has approved the use of more than $2m to rebuild the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI) dormitory that was destroyed by fire in early 2015, according to Agriculture and Marine Resources Minister V Alfred Gray yesterday.

Ellis, USC beat BYU

PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Boogie Ellis scored 21 of his 27 points after the break to help Southern California beat BYU 82-76 in yesterday’s first round of the Battle 4 Atlantis.

COVID visitor testing hits 'bumps in road'

The Government's five-day COVID-19 visitor testing strategy has hit "some bumps in the road" on islands where provision is solely reliant on the public sector clinics, a Cabinet minister said yesterday.

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Rejection of NHI model ‘curious’ says secretariat

THE recent rejection of the proposed National Health Insurance model by industry stakeholders is “curious” considering the government had consultations and “fruitful discussions” with them about the scheme, NHI Secretariat Permanent Secretary Peter Deveaux-Isaacs said yesterday.