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DEREK SMITH: Building compliance for global workforce

Despite the changes in a company’s day-to-day workflow due to technological progress, the backbone of a successful corporation remains its trained and engaged workforce.

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Team Bahamas beaten by Dominican Republic

THE Bahamas women’s national basketball team will have to play for the bronze medal on Sunday at the FIBA Caribbean Women’s Championships after losing to the Dominican Republic in their semifinal playoff game on Saturday.

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WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: Bahamian athletes in action on day one

THE Bahamas, with a mixed relay team and three individual athletes, didn’t have a successful negotiation through the qualifying rounds of their respective events to advance on Friday as the World Athletics’ 2022 World Championships got underway in Eugene, Oregon.

Nassau hotel demand jumps 27% in Florida

Connections to Nassau/Paradise Island hotels through their promotion board’s website have leapt 98 percent for 2022 to-date, the latter’s chairman revealed yesterday, predicting that business will further “ramp up” into early 2023.

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Give Bahamians ‘direct’ carbon manager equity

Opposition MPs yesterday urged that “ordinary Bahamians” be given an opportunity to directly own shares in the company being created to manage this nation’s multi-million dollar carbon credits and their trading.

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BPL Skyguard Severe Weather Alert 15th July: Nassau – extended

STARTS: 07/15/2022 8:20 AM EDT EXPIRES: 07/15/2022 5:30 PM EDT

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Man in court on incest charge

A MAN was arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday for allegedly having sexual intercourse with his underaged sister.

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Donald Thomas first to compete for Bahamas at World Champs

THE stage is set for Team Bahamas as competition gets underway today at the World Athletics’ 2022 World Championships in Eugene, Oregon, the first time the event is being staged in the United States of America for the first time since it officially got started in 1983 in Helsinki, Finland.

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STATESIDE: Roll up, roll up for the great game of ‘pick your nominee’

“I’M just disgusted by what’s happening in the US,” the Bahamian lady said over the telephone. WhatsApp, of course. “What a colossal mess! You know, I heard the other day someone was talking, and they said that the Democrats actually figured out how to entice the conservatives on the Supreme Court to vote on Roe v Wade right now, because it’s the only thing that can prevent a Republican takeover of Congress in November.”

Development Bank aided by $20m NIB bond switch

Some $37m in Bahamas Development Bank (BDB) bonds held by the National Insurance Board (NIB) were converted into a long-term 20-year loan as the lender’s solvency deficiency rose to $13.629m at year-end 2020.

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Can you help pets in need?

GRAND Bahama animal shelter is being forced to put to sleep more than half of the animals being taken to the centre.

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NIB fund hit for $190m by COVID

A $190m deficit blow-out triggered by COVID-19 resulted in the National Insurance Board’s reserves slumping to $1.54bn at year-end 2020, it can be revealed.

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Team Bahamas falls to Cuba 76-44 in opener

The Bahamas senior women’s national basketball team opened the 2022 Caribbean Women’s Championship with a lopsided loss to the host country on the first night of competition.

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Jonquel reaches 2,500-point career milestone

JONQUEL Jones continued her momentum from the WNBA All-Star break and posted her seventh double double of the season.

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Qyemah Gibson goes professional

BASKETBALL PLAYER TO BEGIN HIS CAREER IN SPAIN’S LEB GOLD LEAGUE

QYEMAH Gibson will take his talents to professional basketball and will begin his career in Spain’s LEB Gold League.

PM: Digital asset ambitions to rebuild financial services

The Prime Minister yesterday said The Bahamas’ ambitions to become a digital assets hub will help it recover financial services activity that has been lost to the “global assault” on international financial centres (IFCs).

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Banks and regulator seek to ‘mute’ cheque-end dissent

The Central Bank yesterday removed from its website a document seeking bids for a campaign “to mute” opposition to the elimination of cheques after the language used was questioned by Tribune Business.

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Wentia helps to keep her father Wenty Ford’s legacy alive at baseball camp

SHE was too young to remember the exploits of Wenty Ford as a Major League Baseball pitcher with the Atlanta Braves, but Wentia Ford-Diagne said she’s so glad that there are so many memories of her father that she can still rely on to help keep his legacy alive.

Aged targets of the drugs industry

Sitting in my family doctors lobby waiting to be seen, I happened to speak with an elderly lady nearby. She was waiting to see the doctor, but had been there previously and told to go buy the medication she would need the doctor to inject her with.

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28-year sentence reduced to 15 for manslaughter of Breanna

A WOMAN has had her 28-year sentence for her involvement in the murder of Breanna Mackey reduced to manslaughter with 15 years behind bars.