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$73m ‘zero carbon’ project targets 36k annual visitors

A $73m investment is aiming to attract 36,000 guests per year at full build-out of a “zero carbon” residential and yacht community on an Exuma cay located just three miles from Georgetown.

URCA seeks to shorten reconnection time

THE Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority wants to shorten the time communications service providers have to reconnect the services of people who are wrongfully disconnected or were disconnected because of non-payment.

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Bridgewater dominates in his French reunion

DOMINICK Bridgewater was dominant in his return to France’s NM2 League.

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Sports in brief

THE Baptist Sports Council completed the first week of the 2013 Coca-Cola Softball Classic in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday with the Bahama Island Baptist Association (BIBA) making the most noise.

Tobacco manufacturer eyes 55 'growing' jobs

A wholly-Bahamian owned cigarette and tobacco manufacturer plans to have its growing program on Andros at “full throttle” this summer, a move which is expected to create 50-55 direct and indirect jobs on the island.

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National basketball team standouts making presence felt across globe

SOME of the most prominent names in Bahamian basketball are adjusting well to their new surroundings in their respective leagues.

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Mountaineers rout Bahamas team by 46

Head coach Dustin Kerns likes what he saw from his Appalachian State University Mountaineers men’s basketball team in their 46-point rout over the Bahamas Select Team yesterday at the Summer of Thunder in the Imperial Ballroom of the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island.

Top pro basketball players begin seasons on high note

SOME of the country’s top pro basketball players throughout the European, Asian and Middle Eastern circuit began their seasons on a high note.

URCA: BTC cell monopoly 'rare'

URCA: BTC cell monopoly 'rare' By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While conceding that the Bahamas Telecommunications Company's (BTC) ongoing cellular monopoly was "increasingly rare", the industry regulator has rejected Cable Bahamas' urging that

Tobacco plans

IT’S very considerate of the Bahamas Cigarette & Tobacco Co to plan to introduce a tobacco factory for the benefit of the people of Andros.

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Buddy Hield and Sooners into 'Sweet 16'

ONE of the most popular sporting events in America, the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship tipped off with several Bahamian players figuring prominently in the first two rounds.

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Caribs fall to Bucs 91-82 in overtime

HIALEAH, Florida — Game two of the Florida National University’s Basketball Classic at the Bucky Dent Gymnasium was a complete turn around for the College of the Bahamas men’s basketball team.

Look for a Super Bowl rematch in Indianapolis

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer GET ready for the rematch. The Super Bowl rematch, not the Harbaugh coaching family reunion. For a Super Bowl redux to happen, the New York Giants will need another huge road win, this time at San Francisco. And whe

Professional Bahamian basketball players shine in Asia, Europe

IT was an active weekend for Bahamian basketball across pro leagues in Asia and Europe as several players made their season debuts and others had season-high performances.

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Willis Mackey Jr signs with Mulhouse Basket Agglomeration in France

Willis Mackey Jr has relocated to a new club in France’s Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1) League.

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Victim dies at scene of knife fight

POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a stabbing incident that left a man dead Wednesday morning.

Wilson, Burrows and Tigers remain No. 2 in Canada

AS U Sports men’s basketball heads into the winter break, Jordan Wilson, Shamar Burrows and the Dalhousie Tigers remain the No. 2 ranked team to headline Bahamian players competing at the top level in Canada.

Romad Dean ends season in OSBA final four

ROMAD Dean and the Crestwood Lions finished the Ontario Scholastic Basketball Association season as one of the top prep programmes in all of Canada.

Sanctioned broker eyeing Canada exit

A BAHAMIAN broker/dealer yesterday said it was assessing whether to re-domicile millions of dollars in assets, belonging to both itself and its clients, away from Canada due to concerns over a regulatory "domino effect" resulting from a recent ruling against it.

Troubled broker in Judicial review against regulator

A BISX-listed firm’s broker/dealer subsidiary has filed a Judicial Review action against the Securities Commission of the Bahamas, over the regulator’s demand that it cease taking on new business and submit to a “solvency review”.