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‘We are happy to say that softball is back’

DESPITE not having the proper size field to play on, the Bahamas Government Departmental Softball Association kicked off its 2022 season over the weekend.

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Cases dating back to 2020 add nine more COVID deaths

COVID-19 deaths have risen by nine to 798 after a woman died of the disease in early April and health officials reclassified several other deaths that took place between August 2020 and June 2021.

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Hope and Fear

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THE recovery on the European financial markets continued vigorously in the second half of last week. Good corporate balance sheets and low prices beat fears of war and the return of COVID lockdowns.

Protect our precious patrimony

This is a call to action once again for Bahamians to wake up and protect our precious patrimony!

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Trio on murder bid charge

THREE men were arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on Friday accused of attempting to murder a man.

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Fredrick King Jr commits to Bluejays

Just over one month after he reopened his recruiting process, Fredrick King Jr committed to the Creighton Bluejays and will head to the Big East to begin his collegiate basketball career.

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Jonquel Jones leads the Sun to preseason victory

IN her return to the WNBA, Jonquel Jones showed flashes of the dominance expected to come this season for the Connecticut Sun.

QC Comets are BAISS swimming champions

THE Queen’s College Comets emerged as the champions of the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools’ 2022 Swim Championships held at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex on Friday.

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Closing the circle: Getting to the root causes of crime

In recent news headlines, we have seen more than 20 young men being murdered on New Providence in March.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: What it takes to breathe new life into historic Nassau

PARTS of this column first appeared nearly five years ago. Sadly, it remains all too relevant. The Tribune has agreed to re-run it today at my request in light of the Davis administration’s commitment to rescuing and resuscitating the historic city of Nassau.

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Summit to discuss COVID and climate change

REGIONAL leaders are expected to discuss COVID-19’s impact, the effects of climate change as well as disaster preparedness at the ninth Summit of the Americas scheduled to be held in Los Angeles this summer.

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Ingraham tours GB for book launch

FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham presented his new book to Grand Bahama school principals at the Sir Charles Hayward Library yesterday.

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‘World’s in worst state that I have ever seen’

Super Value’s principal has voiced hope that “we can do better than” the World Bank’s dire prediction of high food prices lasting for three years, but conceded: “The world is in the worst state I’ve ever seen.”

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Disney triples construction workforce promise to 300

Disney Cruise Line yesterday revealed it is near-tripling the number of construction jobs created by its Lighthouse Point project to 300 amid hopes that Eleuthera can attract up to $1bn in total investment over the next decade.

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‘Creatures of evolution’: Digital firm to top $130m

A Bahamian digital payments provider yesterday predicted it will this year “top” the $130m worth of transactions it settled in 2021, and said of this shift: “This is not going to be the norm; it is the norm.”

Traditional finance providers have ‘duty’ to embrace crypto

Deltec Bank & Trust’s chairman yesterday asserted that traditional financial services providers have a “duty” to help innovators in the digital assets and crypto currency space.

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Suns finish off Pelicans in Game 6

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Paul has accomplished so many things in his 17 NBA seasons that it's nearly impossible to rank his Mount Rushmore moments.

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MAN SHOT DEAD BY POLICE ‘FIRED FIRST’: Officers’ vehicle struck by bullets during gun battle

A MAN, who allegedly shot at police, was killed by officers on Antigua Street yesterday.

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Super Value principal backs VAT’s breadbasket removal

Super Value’s principal yesterday backed calls to remove VAT from breadbasket foods as a means to ease the burden soaring inflation has imposed on hard-pressed consumers still struggling to recover from COVID-19’s fall-out.

Aliv: Third mobile player will damage consumers

Aliv is urging regulators to stop viewing the mobile market as “silos” in its approach to over-the-top (OTT) services such as What’s App, while warning that permitting a third market entrant could undermine investment in 5G technology.