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Security forces should have voted yes

At the advanced poll yesterday, I hope the security forces voted yes.
It would have been in their best interest to do so.

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Thomas expects 'nothing but the gold' at Commonwealth Games

After turning in what he called a “disappointing” performance at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain, last week, Donald Thomas has his sights set on winning the gold at the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast, Australia,

Sports news in brief

Sports news in brief BEFORE the rain came at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday, a limited number of games were played during the second week of the Baptist Sports Council's 2012 Basketball League. Here's a summary of the games played: Temple

Quotes of the day

Quotes of the day I'm a 20 year old, COB student, and a first time voter. I'm so proud to be able to have a job in this country, and to also be on a COB scholarship! Don't know HOW ppl could still vote PLP. I Can't wait until I get off at 12pm sharp to v

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OLYMPIC GAMES: Pedrya Seymour sixth in final

Wednesday in Rio.

sports inbrief

OLYMPICS TICKETS SALES THROUGH the International Association of Athletic Associations (IAAF), the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) has Olympic Track and Field tickets for purchase. Individuals interested should contact Linda Thompson at

sports inbrief

OLYMPICS TICKETS SALES THROUGH the International Association of Athletic Associations (IAAF), the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) has Olympic Track and Field tickets for purchase. Individuals interested should contact Linda Thompson at

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL BSC POSTSEASON EAGLES Nest pulled off a 40-35 victory over Temple Fellowship to secure a rematch with defending champions Macedonia Baptist in the Baptist Sports Council's 2012 Basketball League's 15-and-under best-of-three championship series.

Fighting for rights - and naming your heroes

TOMORROW is International Woman Day and Bahamian women will join women around the world in celebrating the beauty of the feminine spirit.

Law and order established

For two hundred years the settlement of Hope Town on Elbow Cay, Abaco, was a sleepy little fishing village with very little crime. In the 1990’s when the internet put the island on the map, the economic growth that followed, led to more and more crime. A tipping point came in 2018 when Hope Town experienced its first armed robbery http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/may/22/holiday-weekend-blighted-by-series-of-armed/robberies.

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SKYGuard | Bahamas Power & Light Tropical Storm Projected Track & Intensity ( Bulletin #8)

Surface observations and Doppler radar data from Puerto Rico indicate that the centre of Laura is currently over the Virgin Islands, eastern Puerto Rico, and the adjacent Caribbean waters.

CBC launches the official website of Championship

WITH just over 80 days to go before the region’s best basketball teams square off in the elite FIBA qualifying event for Caribbean countries, the organisers are beginning to galvanise support through the Internet.

Port Lucaya: '95% won't survive further 2 months'

Tenants in Freeport’s Port Lucaya Marketplace are planning a march to highlight their plight, one operator saying yesterday: “I can’t see 95 per cent of us surviving another two months.”Troy Cartwright, who is leading efforts to organise the march, t

Star Trackers Track & Field Club results

THE Star Trackers Track & Field Club got away from the normal track and field meets by hosting their first Star Kids Track & Field Classic at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium Saturday.

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NPVA all set for Best of the Best Tournament

THE New Providence Volleyball Association (NPVA) is scheduled to hold the 2012 Best of the Best Tournament during the Christmas break.

Why can’t Finance collect property tax?

PM says we are collecting 40 percent of the whole due from Real Property Tax - the FNM and then the PLP governments re-assessed New Providence and found, so they say, and it is reported that thousands are not registered and hundreds with enormous arrears… didn’t they say $600m?

Treat all people the same

Health controls and protocols have to be as close to the same whether it involves us residents, the visitors, or the cruise visitors who are here for a few hours... we have to accept COVID virus does not respect curfews - lockdowns or the unvaccinated and in the case of the current scourge not even the vaccinated it seems.

Time for minister to resign

I have long been a political and fraternal supporter of the Hon Doctor Duane Sands (FNM-Elizabeth). He is a skilled medical practitioner but, in my view, a ‘bad’ politician and people’s person.

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Peace on da Streets

THE 19th annual Peace on da Streets Basketball Classic tipped off at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium in New Providence last night and runs until Saturday. The tournament attracts players of all levels, from 13 and under to the best Bahamian college players who are hoping to catch the eye of American university coaches.

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ON DA HOOK

THERE are certain events that take place where everything you know is put on hold to assist a fellow countryman in need.