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Photographer and artist Margaret Guillaume dies age 76.

PHOTOGRAPHER and artist Margaret Guillaume has died, aged 76.

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Sumner: Fees and firings likely over NIB hike

FORMER director and CEO of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) Edison Sumner said when National Insurance Board contribution rates increase, businesses may offset costs by increasing prices, service fees and firing employees.

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Mother accused of negligence in drowning death of her son

A YOUNG mother appeared distraught in court yesterday after she was accused of negligence in the drowning death of her four-year-old son last week.

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Man shot dead in Montell Heights area

A MAN in his late 40s was shot dead last night outside a residence at Akel Close in Montell Heights.

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GOVT DITCHES BAIL MONITOR COMPANY: Previous provider chosen to take over ankle bracelet service

THE government has cancelled its electronic monitoring contract with Metro Security Solutions and selected Migrafill Electronic Security, the previous provider of the service, to take over monitoring persons on bail.

GBPA has not made GB better

IT IS disheartening and downright selfish for a foreign company that has been operating in the Bahamas from about 1955, and with nothing to show how it has improve the lives of Grand Bahamians, or its economy, to still want to stay hogging up all the profits, as its monopoly has become strained over decades, leaving many Bahamians to wonder about what percentages of its revenues were being exported to Europe, and now by the minute?

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Isaiah has ‘best showing’

The Windsor Rowing Club, which is fast becoming a household name to reckon with from the Bahamas on the international scene, took an eight-member team to compete in the 2024 OARS Youth Invitational in Orlando, Florida, over the weekend.

’We should find funding for training camps in France’ prior to Olympics

MEMBER of Parliament for Central Grand Bahama Iram Lewis, highlighting the need to adequately fund our sporting programmes, said we need to be able to hold training camps ahead of major events so that athletes have a chance to “sharpen their skills and work together, gel.”

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Dior-Rae climbing up the ladder

SHE’S only in the eleventh grade, but Dior-Rae Scott has been throwing the javelin to unprecedented distances for just an under-18 competitor.

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High school students ‘get a feel’ for the golf course

COMMITTEE chairperson Gina Gonzalez-Rolle said if yesterday’s participation in the Bahamas Junior Golf Association’s fourth annual National High School Golf Tournament was any indication, they should have an interesting week of competition at the Bahamas Golf Federation’s Driving Range.

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03112024 HOME BUYER'S GUIDE

Monday, 11th March, 2024.

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THE KDK REPORT: Slow motion

Time is rather peculiar. We all live within a vortex of irreversibly sequential events and yet, there are many days when hours feel like seconds.

Fostering a shared future and a better world for all women

THREE years ago today, on International Women’s Day 2021, a new chapter began for me as I left Beijing to serve as the first woman ambassador of China to The Bahamas.

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Commonwealth membership is not just a reliable association and support, it’s family

BRITISH Foreign Secretary, and Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs

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INSIGHT: A sign of incompetent governance or is it just outright cowardice?

THE announcement of the increase in National Insurance Board contribution rates last week should have been an example of good planning and well-coordinated execution – instead it was a sign of governance by ineptitude at best, cowardice at worst.

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Restaurant chain to double staff as revenues rise 15%

A BAHAMIAN restaurant chain is aiming to double its workforce by July through the creation of 48 new jobs with revenues for the year-to-date some 15 percent ahead of 2023.

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‘Iconic’ Briland horses battle Gov’t and resort

AN “iconic” Harbour Island horse riding business popular with visitors is locked in a furious legal battle with the Government and Pink Sands resort over the land where its facilities are located.

Deltec’s terminations ‘to realign workforce’

DELTEC Bank & Trust last night confirmed it has moved “to realign its workforce” via a right-sizing which is said to have resulted in around 11 staff being terminated last week.

Campaign opposes $100m Goodman's Bay penthouses

OPPONENTS of a proposed $100m, 14-storey Goodman's Bay penthouse complex have launched the ‘Say No to Wynn’ campaign in a bid to rally public support against approving the project.

‘Coming home’ to boost critical mass in Freeport

A CABINET minister has unveiled the ‘Coming Home’ initiative designed to attract Grand Bahamians to return home and exploit the island’s touted $2bn investment project pipeline.