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Jones and the Connecticut Sun miss out on championship

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Mystics won their first WNBA championship, getting 22 points from Emma Meesseman and 21 from banged-up league MVP Elena Delle Donne to beat Jonquel Jones and the Connecticut Sun 89-78 in Game 5 of the Finals on Thursday night

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Killings go on as another man dies

POLICE are investigating another shooting incident that left a man dead yesterday afternoon, the fourth killing since Tuesday.

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PETER YOUNG: Enforce the law but show good will

LAST week’s controversial exchanges about the treatment of displaced migrants following the destruction by Hurricane Dorian of the shanty towns in Abaco should have come as no surprise. As everyone knows by now, the potentially explosive issue of Haitian immigration to The Bahamas goes back a long way.

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ACP Butler: Nothing could have prepared me for Dorian

HURRICANE Dorian brought on a “new phenomena” for Grand Bahama and the northern Bahamas, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Samuel Butler who admits having to abandon their pre-storm police plans in order to save lives. He said that nothi

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Jones and Sun in WNBA Finals 'do or die' tonight

One final game to decide the 2019 WNBA title with both the Connecticut Sun and Washington Mystics looking to win their first championship in the history of their respective franchises.Game five is all set for 8pm tonight at the Entertainment and Spor

GB Power: 90% now electrified

Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) yesterday confirmed that 90 percent of its customer base have seen electricity services restored following Hurricane Dorian.Dr Hubert Minnis, the Prime Minister, revealed the energy monopoly’s restoration progress in

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One killed, two shot by lone gunman

POLICE in New Providence are investigating a shooting that left two men in hospital and another dead.

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‘My category five house survived’

WHEN Mary Thaysen built her “Category Five” house in East End, everyone “teased” her about it.

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Victim, 22, shot dead outside his home

POLICE are investigating the country’s latest homicide after a man was shot in broad daylight sitting near his Wilson Track home yesterday afternoon.

Ignore the pundits and demolish the shantytowns

One by one our sadly out-of-touch public intellectuals and fake rights groups line up to feed the gullible among us their canned, imported take on the moral situation unleashed by Dorian.

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Jones, Sun force game five to decide WNBA champions

The WNBA Finals will come down to the greatest thing in sports - a single elimination game to decide the title.

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Call for Dames to resign over Abaco: FNM branch chairman hits out over island’s ‘weak security’

THE chairman of the Free National Movement’s Central and South Abaco constituency branch wants National Security Minister Marvin Dames to resign over the “weak security” on the island.

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Nygard wants Privy Council to reverse Court of Appeal decision

CANADIAN fashion mogul Peter Nygard wants to petition the Privy Council to reverse the striking out of his appeal of a contempt of court conviction for breaching a court order prohibiting him from engaging in any illegal dredging near his Lyford Cay

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Workers Call for new public hospital in Grand Bahama

HOSPITAL workers took to social media to call for a new public hospital in Grand Bahama following closure of the Rand Memorial Hospital after it was severely flooded during Hurricane Dorian in early September.They are concerned that the facility – wh

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Eyes on the prize

In the midst of a heated WNBA Finals series, Jonquel Jones added to her career résumé with more league-wide recognition for her stellar season.

BISX announces three new funds

THE Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) announced that three new investment funds sponsored by Witherbotham Trust Company Ltd, along with one with sub-fund, have successfully completed the BISX mutual fund listing process and have been l

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'We lost so we have to continue to grow as a team'

BUDDY Hield picked back up where he left off last season and continued to be the leading scorer for the Sacramento Kings in their 2019-20 preseason opening series.The Kings and Indiana Pacers played the NBA’s first ever games in India at the NCSI, SV

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Mystics beat Jones and Sun 94-81 to take 2-1 lead in WNBA Finals

THE Connecticut Sun were back at home for game three of the WNBA Finals but an elevated Washington Mystics team played inspired by the return of the league MVP to spoil the homecoming. Jonquel Jones finished with nine points and nine rebounds in the

Consumers warned on plastic bag levy

Consumers have been reminded that Bahamian businesses will be required to charge them a minimum 25 cents per bag for using single-use plastic bags from January 1, 2020.The levy is mandatory under Section 8 of the Environmental Protection (Control of

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Insurer 'praying' Abaco 90% paid in six months

A top Bahamian insurer was yesterday “praying” that 90 percent of Abaco’s Dorian-related claims will be paid out within the next six months given the scale of the island’s devastation. Anton Saunders, RoyalStar Assurance’s managing director, told Tr