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Softball Games prelude to Public Service Week

PUBLIC service workers enjoyed softball games at the Blue Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday morning in their leadup to full launch of their commemorative week.

Pinder back in role

EDITOR, The Tribune. As a resident of Spanish Wells I have waited now for a week to see if any of the PLP loudmouths and some Internet site called Bahamas Press - who carried on in the media and also in Parliament back in July about the fact that they ha

Tourism executives meet police on security issues

THE Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association (BHTA) and the Downtown Nassau Partnership (DNP) met with officers at downtown’s Tourism Police Station to discuss security issues.Representatives from the two organisations met with Superintendent Anthony Ro

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Shipyard to donation helps marching band

THANKS to a donation from the Grand Bahama Shipyard, the Grand Bahama Legends Marching Band can now fund their much-awaited trip to Sanford, Florida.

Sports notes

THE New Providence Oldtimers Softball Association is slated to return to action over the weekend of November 7-8.

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NPBA: Pirates defeat Pros, Stampers stop Titans

THE Triple K Stampers and the Caro Contractors Pirates won the New Providence Basketball Association’s double header at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night.The Stampers won the opener 96-85 over the Caro Contractors Titans, while the Pirates

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Sides differ on oil hearing

An oil explorer and its opponents have given sharply different versions of the Christmas Eve legal battle that set up today’s hearing on the Judicial Review challenge to halt its exploratory drilling.

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection'

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection' By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The 29 per cent year-over-year new car sales increase for the first two months of 2012 is "not a true reflection" of the anemic overall market, two Bahamas Motor D

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection'

29% auto sales rise 'not true market reflection' By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The 29 per cent year-over-year new car sales increase for the first two months of 2012 is "not a true reflection" of the anemic overall market, two Bahamas Motor D

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Fredrick King Jr commits to cards

IT took just several months for Fredrick King Jr to go from relative unknown to elite Division I prospect for the class of 2022.

LED us realise energy savings

As I work with clients to help them save money in their homes, churches and businesses, I often get asked about lighting.

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College basketball: Bahamians shine in Canada

BAHAMIAN players are leading their respective programmes to national rankings at various levels of collegiate basketball in Canada.

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Tropical Storm Jerry update

Tropical Storm Jerry is about 715 miles (1,150 kilometres) east of the Leeward Islands and moving west-northwest at 15 mph (nearly 25 kph).

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NPBA: Rockets top High Flyers 93-87

THE Sun Oil Rockets scored an early-season win over the defending Division II champions in the New Providence Basketball Association.

Bail makes NCAA debut with UCLA Bruins

While the Bahamas’ NCAA focus was on the Battle 4 Atlantis, there were Bahamian players who reached career milestones this weekend, one in scoring, while the other made his NCAA debut.

‘Great’ if quarterly VAT filers achieve 80-90% compliance

A top Ministry of Finance official believes the compliance rate for quarterly Value-Added Tax (VAT) filers will “not be as high” as that for larger companies, suggesting an 80-90 per cent level would be “great”.

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Rolle fails to make the cut

It wasn’t so much the windy conditions as it was her putting that made it difficult for Bahamian exemption player Georgette Rolle to improve on her performance as she ended up at the bottom of the 108-player field at the Pure Silk-Bahamas LPGA Classi

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Waltiea Rolle posting major numbers

WALTIEA Rolle is back on the pro circuit in Bulgaria and posting major numbers for her Haskovo 2012 club.

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Malisse, Knowles fall to Bryan brothers

BAHAMIAN tennis ace Mark Knowles and Xavier Malisse of Belgium lost to American twins Bob and Mike Bryan 6-3, 6-2 at the French Open yesterday.

Fix child protection act for dads

I am writing to bring awareness to a social crisis that has permeated Bahamian society, and that is fatherhood absenteeism.