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FIBA AmeriCup Qualifiers: BBF needs $70,000 for team travel

WITH the third and final leg of the FIBA AmeriCup 2020 Qualifiers set for February 19-20, Bahamas Basketball Federation president Mario Bowleg said they will need about $70,000 for the team to travel to compete.

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Bahamas in Fintech 'first for Caribbean'

Corporate loan rejection rates in The Bahamas are double those in other Caribbean countries, it has been revealed, resulting in financial technology (Fintech) being deployed to boost capital access. An Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) paper on

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MLB players vote to end lockout, salvaging 162-game season

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball's acrimonious lockout ended Thursday when a divided players' association voted to accept management's offer to salvage a 162-game season that will start April 7.

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Sir Franklyn ‘surprised’ at hint margin talks ending

FOCOL’s chairman says he is “surprised” that Bahamian petroleum retailers indicated negotiations over a margin increase had ended because talks were ongoing at the Prime Minister’s Office yesterday.

‘Drips’ Poitier gets new coaching job

AFTER a brief hiatus to coach at the high school and club level while improving on his golf game, former Bahamian national coach Edrick ‘Drips’ Poitier has returned to coaching at the collegiate level.

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'Cuda' pride as swim club victorious in BSF meet

THE Barracuda Swim Club pulled off another victory on the Bahamas Swimming Federation’s 2012/13 season. This time at their own Insurance Management Invitational at the Betty Kelly Kenning Aquatic Center over the weekend.

PM: 40% of VAT money to deficit

Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday said 40 per cent of the $1.14 billion Value-Added Tax (VAT) revenues has gone towards reducing the deficit, as he gave an accounting designed to end the “grave and nonsensical misconceptions that revenues were being squandered”.

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THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action with a pair of games played at various gyms on Friday and Saturday night.

1,000-seat Nassau boost from Delta

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DELTA AIRLINES is projecting load factors of between 80 to 85 per cent for its reinstated non-stop service between Nassau and New York's LaGuardia airport, airline executives tellin

1,000-seat Nassau boost from Delta

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DELTA AIRLINES is projecting load factors of between 80 to 85 per cent for its reinstated non-stop service between Nassau and New York's LaGuardia airport, airline executives tellin

1,000-seat Nassau boost from Delta

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DELTA AIRLINES is projecting load factors of between 80 to 85 per cent for its reinstated non-stop service between Nassau and New York's LaGuardia airport, airline executives tellin

1,000-seat Nassau boost from Delta

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DELTA AIRLINES is projecting load factors of between 80 to 85 per cent for its reinstated non-stop service between Nassau and New York's LaGuardia airport, airline executives tellin

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Volleyball: Vixens and Intruders 2-0 in best-of-5 series

BOTH last year’s defending champions Scottsdale Vixens and National Fence Intruders won the first two games of the New Providence Volleyball Association’s best-of-five championship series at the DW Davis Gymnasium.

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Mitchell: Bill may let web shop owners launch banks

FOX Hill MP Fred Mitchell has questioned whether the new Banks and Trust Companies Regulations (Amendment) Bill will open the door for web shop owners to petition the Central Bank for permission to launch their own lending institutions.

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‘Very little impact’ at immigration

INDUSTRIAL action by Customs and Immigration officers yesterday had “very little” impact on daily operations, according to the heads of both government departments.

Finding what is lost

By Rev Angela C Bosfield Palacious

Fishermen seek regulation for entire industry

Bahamian fishermen hope the Government will “sooner rather than later” move to regulate the entire fisheries sector and not cherry pick certain segments, a leading executive yesterday calling for it to address mandatory licensing.

Demand to criminalise marital rape

Thank you for allowing me to make a comment on the continuing discussion about the alleged need for the criminalisation of marital rape by the Parliament of The Bahamas.

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Junior boys suffer third straight loss

FIBA UNDER-15 CENTROBASKET CHAMPIONSHIPS

THE Bahamas junior boys’ basketball team suffered their third straight loss at the FIBA Under- 15 CentroBasket Championships in Puerto Rico.

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Local experts take part alongside clinic director in webinar

LOCAL medical professionals will take part in a webinar this weekend alongside a senior official from Florida’s Cleveland Clinic.