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Higgs and her team don’t make playoffs in Spanish Women’s Basketball League

DESPITE not making it to the playoffs, Harbour Island native Lashann Higgs said she was still pleased with her rookie professional basketball season with the Embutidos Pajariel Bembibre PDM team in the Spanish Women’s Basketball League.

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Below the belt – Male urological cancers

Penile cancer is relatively rare in developed countries, but in some it can represent as high as 20 percent of all male cancers. In the United States, according to the American Cancer Society, penile cancer affects one in 100,000 men. Prostate cancer has an incidence of one in seven American men in their lifetime.

Nassau/PI hotels suffer 90% room revenue decline

Nassau/Paradise Island hotels suffered a 90 percent year-over-year decline in January room revenues to highlight just how slow the initial post-COVID rebound actually was.

‘Phenomenal’: Briland at 90% of pre-COVID levels

Harbour Island resort operators yesterday revealed business activity is at 90 percent of pre-COVID levels for Easter and beyond as they hailed a “phenomenal” rebound from the pandemic.

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Forbes: We are on the brink of a third wave

THE country’s top infectious disease expert believes The Bahamas is on the brink of a third COVID-19 wave, as health officials remain on high alert over a sustained uptick in positive cases in recent weeks.

Marines get jabs

EIGHTY people were vaccinated during the three days the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s Coral Harbour base was open as a COVID-19 inoculation site.

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Hield scores 20, Kings beat Spurs for 5th straight win

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — De’Aaron Fox scored 24 points, Chavano “Buddy” Hield added 20 and the Sacramento Kings beat the San Antonio Spurs 132-115 last night for their fifth straight victory.

Easter Classic this weekend ‘just like CARIFTA’

For the second time in its history, there will be no CARIFTA Games held during the Easter holiday weekend as the event has been postponed by North American, Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) until August due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Mavin Saunders scores touchdown for Black Demons in 46-38 win

MAVIN Saunders returned to the gridiron and was a pivotal force behind his club’s playoff berth in Spain’s LNFA Serie A, the second-tier division of American football in the country.

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Jones and Foxes advance to semis in the Russian Premier League

JONQUEL Jones and her UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes continue to steamroll the competition in the Russian Premier League and advanced to the semifinals after they opened the playoffs with a pair of dominant wins.

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McCoy qualifies for CARIFTA Games in under-20 boys’ 200m

WANYA McCoy took advantage of the Blue Marlins Track Series to qualify for the postponed 2021 CARIFTA Games in the under-20 boys’ 200 metres.

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US urged: ‘Make us next in line’ on COVID vaccines

A Cabinet minister yesterday voiced hope that The Bahamas will be “next in line” to receive a distribution of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from “overflowing” US stockpiles.

‘We couldn’t leave 40 terminated staff in limbo’, says hotel

An Exuma resort’s top executive yesterday said post-COVID business levels gave it no choice but to terminate 40 staff, adding: “We couldn’t leave them in limbo.”

Tourism must be ‘realistic’ over vaccination roll-out

The Bahamian tourism industry must be “realistic” over the speed at which its employees can be vaccinated against COVID-19, one hotelier says.

Out Island resorts see Easter uptick

Family island resorts are reporting strong bookings for Easter, with some fully booked and voicing optimism that they have “turned the corner” despite COVID-19’s lingering impact.

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Inaugural National High School Golf Champions crowned

HOME schooled Jaden Ward held off a strong challenge from St Andrew’s Alex Dupuch to clinch the senior boys’ title in the Ministry of Education’s inaugural National High School Golf Championships.

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Baseball legend Edison ‘Ed’ Armbrister laid to rest

EDISON ‘Ed’ Armbrister was not just remembered on Saturday for his controversial bunt in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds, but for being one of the few Bahamians to win two world titles in any sport.

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Ministry adds four patrol vessels

Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard said they are making progress as a ministry in protecting the country’s scarce marine resources, with the addition of four patrol vessels at a cost of some $700,000.

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Smith criticises govt's use of Act to repossess shanty town land

ATTORNEY Fred Smith accused the government of using the Building Regulations Act for reasons that are contrary to the intention and purpose of the law – namely, to repossess shanty town land.

EDITORIAL: In the shadow of Stalin and Chairman Mao?

FRED Smith, QC, certainly knows how to catch attention. In his latest collision with the government over shanty towns, he compares government policy to that of Stalin. Asked to tone it down by the court, he offered an alternative of Mao Zedong in China, whose cultural revolution “destroyed the homes of 20 million people”.