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C I Gibson Senior High School hosts 'Labour on the Campus' career fair

STUDENTS of C I Gibson Senior High School had the opportunity to speak with professionals from several industries ranging from medical, hospitality, security, and law enforcement as the school, in collaboration with the Department of Labour, hosted its 'Labour on the Campus' career fair.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: The road to Olympics relays runs through The Bahamas

IN the days and weeks leading up to May 4-5, hundreds of athletes will descend upon The Bahamas for the World Athletics Relays Bahamas. As of this week, athletes from 54 countries had registered. One estimate projected the final number of competitors would exceed 1600. And that does not include coaches, trainers, medical staff, therapists, event support staff, family, friends and camp followers.

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Darville: Did Equinor pay penalties for oil spill?

AN environmentalist is asking whether Equinor has paid financial penalties associated with the environmental damage caused by an oil spill in 2019 and inadequate efforts to remedy the spill.

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Fernander ‘very disappointed’ with union chief’s description of recent police search

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said he is “very disappointed” with Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) president Kyle Wilson’s description of a recent police search of his properties.

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Security summit aims to tackle regional issues

US Charge d’Affaires Usha Pitts said she hopes cooperation through the Northern Caribbean Security Summit can lead to more multi-national narcotic initiatives such as Operation Bahamas Turks and Caicos (OPBAT), which has significantly hindered the transit of drugs in Bahamian waters.

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Kate, Princess of Wales, says she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy

LONDON (AP) — Kate, the Princess of Wales, has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, she said Friday in a stunning announcement that follows weeks of speculation about her health and whereabouts.

Freeport poised to be ‘fastest growing Caribbean economy’

FREEPORT needs Nassau-based investors to help build “critical mass” in a city “poised to be the fastest-growing economy in the Caribbean”, a Port Authority executive asserted yesterday.

Top KC sounds ‘dark side of Bahamianisation’ alarm

A PROMINENT KC yesterday sounded the alarm over the “dark side of Bahamianisation” for breeding mediocrity based on “a sense of entitlement”.

‘Specialist skills dearth’ hurts financial services

A “DEARTH of specialist skills” in the legal and other professions is undermining the Bahamian financial services industry’s competitiveness, a prominent KC warned yesterday.

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NAECOB: Only 35 percent of public schools are registered

ONLY 35 per cent of public schools are registered with the National Accreditation and Equivalency Council (NAECOB), with officials hoping to register all public institutions by June, according to the Ministry of Education acting Director Dominique McCartney-Russell.

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Govt considers giving bench or jury trial choice

ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder said government might consider changing the status quo of the judicial system so people could choose between bench and jury trials.

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Commissioner gives support to new ankle monitor company

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said when Migrafill Electronic Security takes over monitoring people on bail in “another week or so”, it will electronically monitor more than 600 people.

New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association volleyball playoffs begin today

THE stage is now set for the playoffs in the New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association’s 2024 Volleyball Tournament.

Junior baseball team ‘didn’t play well enough’

FOR a team that wasn’t supposed to be in the Dominican Republic, Bahamas Baseball Association president Theodore Sweeting said they couldn’t be happier with the way Team Bahamas performed at the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s Under-15 Baseball Pan American Tournament.

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Cooper defends Prime Minister’s travels, dismisses car controversy

DEFENDING Prime Minister Philip "Brave" Davis' travels yesterday, acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said former Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield did not travel enough.

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Court of Appeal dismisses application to prevent key witness testifying

THE Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed an application from Adrian Gibson and his co-defendants seeking to prevent a key witness from testifying in their criminal trial.

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‘Kwondrick died from gunshot wounds to his head and body’

A PATHOLOGIST testified that 18-year-old Kwondrick Lowe died from gunshot injuries to his head and torso last year as the inquest into the police-involved killing continued yesterday.

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Three men on bail after being charged with stealing $8,000 in construction equipment

THREE men were granted bail yesterday after they were accused of stealing over $8,000 worth of construction equipment in January.

Travel for the PM is crucial

With the traditional Easter Season upon us, as a professed Christian nation, I will be as neutral as possible. Many have asked why it is the Prime Minister and assorted delegations have been travelling the globe to meet with other Heads of State and governmental leaders. Some have even gone so far as to suggest that public funds are being wasted on such trips. I beg to differ.

We should be better than this

Many years ago when I was a student, I remember being very annoyed by a novel by Evelyn Waugh called “Black Mischief”. I was annoyed because I was of the opinion that the author used a fictional country to illustrate how he thought blacks misgoverned their countries.