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Fire destroys structures in Kool Acres shanty town

Around 77 structures or some 80 percent of the Kool Acres shanty town off Joe Farrington Road have been burned to the ground in a fire that took place around 4pm on Saturday, according to Craig Delancey, Buildings Control Officer with the Ministry of Works and a part of the Unregulated Communities Action Taskforce.

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Cybots rout Cleaners 104-71, Wreckers clip Rockets 87-86

WHILE the Mail Boat Cybots pulled off a rout, the Y-Care Wreckers had to go right down to the wire before they prevailed in the New Providence Basketball Association’s double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.

Aliv ‘credibility’ boost as roll-out targets hit

The Bahamas’ second mobile operator yesterday received a “credibility” boost from regulators confirming it had met its first network roll-out targets, and disclosed it was ahead of schedule in bring service to Abaco, Grand Bahama and Eleuthera.

Nassau/PI resorts in booking rebound

Bahamian resorts say they have already begun to see bookings rebound post Hurricane Irma, with one executive predicting an even bigger boost as travellers re-book.Ed Fields, Atlantis’s senior vice-president of public relations, told Tribune Business:

The Bahamas’ top two life insurers downgraded

The Bahamas must “take concrete steps” to reverse the trend of sovereign credit rating downgrades after the country’s two largest life and health insurers saw their own financial strength assessments slashed as a result.

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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.

NPBA: Specialists stop Rebels 93-85, Eagles Nest get 96-89 win over Elites

THE Uptown Cuts Specialists and the Leno Eagles Nest prevailed in the New Providence Basketball Association double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.

NPBA: Specialists and High Flyers win

UPTOWN Cuts Specialists and Breezes High Flyers pulled off the New Providence Basketball Association’s double-header played at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night.

Nesbitt, Coleby, Burrows take the spotlight

IT’s playoff season for several marquee Bahamian basketball players in their respective leagues across the globe.David Nesbitt and Kadeem Coleby are in the midst of their championship series, while Juraun “Kino” Burrows will begin his playoff run thi

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Cybots, Giants take 2-1 lead

ALTHOUGH he wasn’t 100 per cent, shooting guard Ricardo Pierre felt he had to come back and make a contribution to the Commonwealth Bank Giants in game three of their New Providence Basketball Association men’s semifinal playoff series.

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Man faces court over death of 11 Haitians in boat sinking

AN Abaco man who allegedly owned a boat used in a human-smuggling operation that ended up with 11 of its 28 passengers dead was brought to court yesterday. However, 43-year-old Alphonso "Carpo" Ed

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BASKETBALL GSSSA FINALS THE Government Secondary Schools Sports Association (GSSSA) best-of-three championship series is slated to begin at the Kendal Isaacs gym on Thursday. In the junior girls division at 4pm, the H O Nash Lions are scheduled to take on

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BASKETBALL GENEVA RUTHERFORD GIRLS' TOURNEY RESULTS from day one of the HOYTES 2012 Geneva Rutherford Girls National Basketball Classics in Grand Bahama are as follows: Jr Girls: Temple Christian def. Catholic High 30-23. Sr Girls: Tabernacle def. Centr

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Committee set up to advise on university president search

THE board of trustees of University of The Bahamas has appointed a Presidential Search Committee to establish the process by which the new institution’s president will be selected and hired.

Junkanoo icon Anthony ‘Stick-A-Tone’ Johnson dies

THE sporting fraternity of softball and baseball as well as the junkanoo world is mourning the loss of Anthony ‘Stick-A-Tone’ Johnson. Johnson passed away last week. He joined the Saxons in 1967 and brought with him a group of men from Market Street called ‘The Lollipop Boys,’ who included Jay Fox, Katanga Johnson, Kenny ‘Mary’ Fox and KC Campbell.

Downtown derelicts

For over ten years many of us have been staring at the decaying structures blighting eastern Bay Street, and agitating for their reconstruction, replacement, or demolition. Never seeing any action, our eyes now just glaze over as they scan the continuing dilapidation in the Zombie Zone.

Forum discusses amendments to insolvency regime

The Restructuring and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA Bahamas) has held its first roundtable discussion on proposed reforms to The Bahamas’ insolvency framework.

MAYNARD: ROAD TO BE RENAMED FREEDOM FARM WAY

DURING the opening of the Freedom Farm Baseball League on Saturday, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Charles Maynard confirmed that the road from Yamacraw Road leading to the field will be renamed Freedom Farm Way. Mr Maynard, however, did not discl

Work on London residence to cost Bahamas $247,000

PRIME Minister Perry Christie said the structural work on the Bahamas High Commissioner’s residence in London – which he claimed had been delayed for more than four years by the former government – will cost around $247,000 (£159,000).

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Jones and Flame on brink of elimination

Jonquel Jones and her Shanxi Xing Rui Flame are on the brink of elimination and face an early deficit in the Women’s Chinese Basketball Association Finals.The Flame dropped the first two games of the series to the top seeded Beijing Great Wall as the