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Townhouse’s helping hand for Harbour Island students

ROMALIA’S Townhouse donated 65 backpack school bags and 36 drawstring bags with assorted school supplies, nutritional snacks and toiletries to the Harbour Island All Age School last month.

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‘Buddy’ Hield scores 19 in loss to Jazz

NBA star Chavano “Buddy” Hield scored 19 points, jawing with Donovan Mitchell, but it wasn’t enough as the Utah Jazz prevailed with the victory in Salt Lake City, Utah, last night.

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Swift Athletics track club stages 4th annual Fresh Creek Road Race

IN their continued effort to promote the track and field programme ran by former basketball player turned physical education teacher Felicia Cartwright, Andrew Tynes and his Swift Athletics Track Club returned to Andros to put on the fourth annual Fresh Creek Road Race.

EDITORIAL: Out with the orders, in with the rules

THE move away from emergency orders has begun.

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Gov’t ‘reaching ceiling’ on debt

The Government may be reaching its debt limits given that such liabilities are now bigger than the economy, the Debt Advisory Committee’s head warned yesterday.

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Ex-Board defends BPL’s $535m bond

Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) outgoing Board yesterday pushed back against the Davis administration’s bid to kill-off the utility’s $535m refinancing by defending it as the “optimal solution”.

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PM tells COP26: Do what is needed, not what you can get away with

PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis called on world leaders to take concrete action on climate change as he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday.

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Mitchell: Stick to issues and don’t bash former govt

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell has advised his new colleagues to stick to important national issues and refrain from bashing the former government when making contributions in Parliament, thanking the Governor General for the Speech from the Throne.

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Davis joins world leaders at climate conference

ABOUT 120 leaders came together in Glasgow yesterday at the start of COP26, launching two weeks of global negotiations to help determine whether humanity can drive forward the urgent action needed to avoid catastrophic climate change.

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New rules for a ‘new reality’

THE Davis administration yesterday tabled the 2021 Health Services Rules in the House of Assembly to replace the current COVID-19 emergency orders – regulations that, once enacted, will put an end to the competent authority and empower the Ministry of Health and Wellness to manage the ongoing pandemic.

Pintard for FNM leader a no-brainer

THE September 16 general election was the most ho-hum since the formation of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1953. The low voter turnout attest to this fact.

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Three-year sentence quashed over firearms

THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed the three-year prison sentence imposed on a senior citizen who was resentenced after prosecutors appealed the $15,500 fine he was initially made to pay when he was convicted of a number of firearm and drug related offences last year.

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Waltiea Rolle: ‘I can still play a little more before saying goodbye’

WALTIEA Rolle has had a successful return to pro basketball this season, but the veteran centre still believes she has much room for growth to reach both her short term and long term goals.

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VAT cut’s ‘modest’ jobs, growth effect

Cutting the VAT rate to 10 percent will cause “only slight improvement” in job creation and economic growth, a University of the Bahamas (UoB) study asserts, while advocating it still “be pursued’.

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Central banks love to print money

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Except for a few countries, Germany being a noticeable example where the use of physical cash to settle everyday transactions remains high due to cultural reasons, payment by electronic means is becoming more and more common.

Baha Mar unveils latest restaurant

Baha Mar has revealed that its latest restaurant option will open at its Grand Hyatt property on December 20, 2021.

BPL $535m bond ‘too late out gate’

The Minnis administration was “too late getting out the gate” on Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) mammoth $535m refinancing, an ex-union president said yesterday.

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Ayton sidelined with right leg contusion – Suns centre posts second straight double double

Deandre Ayton had his second consecutive double double of the season but was also sidelined with a right leg contusion.

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Aftershock Boxing Club hosts its first show in COVID-19 pandemic

VALENTINO Knowles and Keishno Major, two former top notch amateur boxers turned coaches and now organisers, were both quite impressed with what they saw from their newly formed Aftershock Boxing Club on Saturday night.

Burrows and Tigers get wins over Woodswide and Capers, Gibson and Huskies open season victorious

THE 2021-22 Atlantic University Sport men’s basketball season tipped off on October 29 and several Bahamians were active for their respective programmes in opening weekend double headers.