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Backbenchers disillusioned by govt - Moxey

Backbenchers disillusioned by govt - Moxey THERE are those today who are convinced that if Ed Moxey's dream of a cultural community centre in the heartland of the Grove had been allowed to grow, the shipwrecked state over which we mourn today would not h

Clear the clutter

I am not on Facebook, but I did see, over the weekend, a post by Ed Fields on the disgusting and disgraceful garbage dump next to “Retirement Park” on what looked to be Mackey and Ernest Streets. An excellent exposé, Mr Fields.

Progress along the waterfront

IT seems the leadership of Ed Fields something might now happen along the Nassau Harbour waterfront.

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL NPBA SCHEDULE THE New Providence Basketball Association is scheduled to continue its regular season with the following games at CI Gibson Gym: Friday 7:30pm - RBDF Mariners vs Commonwealth Bank Giants 8:30pm - Phil's Rockets vs COB Caribs Satur

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL NPBA SCHEDULE THE New Providence Basketball Association is scheduled to continue its regular season with the following games at CI Gibson Gym: Friday 7:30pm - RBDF Mariners vs Commonwealth Bank Giants 8:30pm - Phil's Rockets vs COB Caribs Satur

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL NPBA SCHEDULE THE New Providence Basketball Association is scheduled to continue its regular season with the following games at CI Gibson Gym: Friday 7:30pm - RBDF Mariners vs Commonwealth Bank Giants 8:30pm - Phil's Rockets vs COB Caribs Satur

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL NPBA SCHEDULE THE New Providence Basketball Association is scheduled to continue its regular season with the following games at CI Gibson Gym: Friday 7:30pm - RBDF Mariners vs Commonwealth Bank Giants 8:30pm - Phil's Rockets vs COB Caribs Satur

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL NPBA SCHEDULE THE New Providence Basketball Association is scheduled to continue its regular season with the following games at CI Gibson Gym: Friday 7:30pm - RBDF Mariners vs Commonwealth Bank Giants 8:30pm - Phil's Rockets vs COB Caribs Satur

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Sports in brief

THE Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association announced the names of the players who will be representing the Bahamas at the ITF/COTECC Pre-Qualifying World Junior Tennis Championship Event in the Dominican Republic March 11-17.

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Students let their kites fly for autism awareness

Blairwood Academy celebrated Autism Awareness Month in April by painting the sky blue.

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NPBA: Giants beat Cleaners 104-94

WHILE the match-up between high scoring wing players Michael Bain and Lenny Oscar drew the focus, the Commonwealth Bank Giants’ supporting cast with five players in double figures led to the 6-0 start to the season.

The destruction of Jumbey village

"NO, I can't believe it - that can't be true!" This was Coconut Grove MP's Ed Moxey's shocked reply in May 1974 when a news reporter called to ask what he thought of a report that government had planned to build a replica of his Jumbey Village at Fort Charlotte.

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Police road checks net 91 Grand Bahama motorists

GRAND Bahama police have cited 91 people for various traffic violations as a result of road check exercises in the past two days.

Benchmark denies 'material impact' via client's liquidation

BENCHMARK (Bahamas) yesterday said the Supreme Court-supervised liquidation of one of its key clients would “not have a material impact” on its financial position or “long-term development”, expressing confidence that it would achieve long-term business development goals.

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80 percent increase in cyber crime

CYBER crime in the Bahamas showed an 80 per cent increase, with 171 incidents reported in 2017 up from the 95 recorded in 2016.

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‘Mr Consistent’ Maycock a national golf champion

As consistent as he was from day one, Greg Maycock maintained his lead and held on to win the Bahamas Professional Golfers Association’s Leroy ‘Roy’ Bowe Founder BPGA 2020 National Championship title.

Sports Notes

THE Bahamas Softball Federation will crown its new men and women champions this weekend as the National Round Robin Tournament is held at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

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Ed Smith: 'We knew each other from we were pee wees'

FROM playing around as kindergarten students to trying out for the National Football League, Ed Smith and Allan Ingraham are still close friends, although they ended up heading in different directions.“We knew each other from we were pee wees, going

D’Aguilar: Govt 'living in a dream world' over Bahamian contractor payout

THe Government is “living in a dream world” if it believes that Bahamian contractors will be paid the $74m owed collectively for work carried out on the $3.5 billion Baha Mar development, a former Baha Mar director said yesterday, asserting that “no buyer” except the original developer is interested in seeing them paid.

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Legal threat to $5m benchmark pref equity

Liquidators for an alleged multi-million dollar ‘Ponzi’ fraud are threatening legal action to force a BISX-listed company to unwind, and return, a $5 million investment that accounts for 100 per cent of its preference share capital.