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Hurricane Humberto maintains strength
Tropical Storm Humberto strengthened to become the first hurricane of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season.
NPBA: Tucker Boys beat Giants 57-56, Eagles top Rebels 76-60
THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action at the AF Adderley Gymnasium over the weekend with a pair of games played on Friday and Saturday night.
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THE Mail Boat Cybots were the first team to advance out of the New Providence Basketball Association’s first round playoffs.
Jonquel Jones named WNBA Eastern Player of the Week
JONQUEL Jones of the Connecticut Sun and Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks were yesterday named the WNBA’s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week respectively, for games played June 12-18.
Evan Sweeting boosts his stock ahead of collegiate baseball recruitment
EVAN Sweeting has delivered a series of impressive performances to boost his stock ahead of his collegiate baseball recruitment.
Govt spending controls will require ‘innovation’
THE Government’s ability to implement spending controls “will require innovation”, the Chamber of Commerce’s chairman arguing that it must demonstrate its commitment to balancing the Budget without damaging the economy.
Minister: 100-150% increase in Bahamians at the Pointe
The Labour Minister yesterday said the number of Bahamians employed on downtown Nassau’s Pointe project has increased by between 100 to 150 percent. Dion Foulkes, pictured, said: “I have received two reports recently, one from the Department of Labou
Donald Thomas wins bronze, Bahamas protests 4x400 result
TEAM Bahamas will leave Toronto, Canada after adding a bronze medal - with the possibility of another medal in the balance - on the final day of the athletic competition on Saturday night at the 1th Pan American Games. The Bahamas is currently sitting in 17th place overall in the medal haul with a total of six, including two gold, two silver and two bronze.
Record-breaker Shaunae wins 200m gold
GOLD Coast, Australia: On a night when three Bahamians mounted the podium to receive their medals at the XXI Commonwealth Games, Shaunae Miller-Uibo received the gold from Jamaica's retired icon Usain Bolt for her record breaking performance in the women's 200 metre final.
‘Tum Tum’ and Spartans rout Lions 78-51 in Big 10
Conference championship week continues throughout NCAA Division I basketball and several Bahamian players took part in tournaments with mixed results for their respective programmes.
U Sports Basketball: Bahamian players shine in Canada colleges
THE Dalhousie Tigers fell one spot in the U Sports Men’s Basketball ranking after their first loss of the season, but rebounded with a pair of wins to highlight weekend play from Bahamians in the top level of Canadian college basketball. Shemarr Bur
Water & Sewerage loses court ruling on ‘double dipping’
A Supreme Court judge has ruled against the Water & Sewerage Corporation’s practice of docking the salaries of union members in a bid to end “double-dipping” in relation to sickness and maternity benefit claims, ordering that the corporation reimburse and/or refund all monies taken from union members as a result of the “ultra vires” exercise.
15 per cent reduction in duty collection costs eyed by 2017
A 15 per cent reduction in the Government’s import duty collection costs is being targeted over the next five years, along with increasing the proportion of taxes/duties paid electronically from zero to 80 per cent.
Sunshine Insurance Marathon Bahamas - Full Marathon Results
Junkanoo Beach - Nassau, Bahamas January 15, 2012 Overall Male Winner Overall FirstName LastName Country Age 10K 21K 30K GunTime NetTime Pace 1 Bryan Huberty USA 33 36:41 1:16:56 1:51:12 2:42:53 2:42:53 6:13 Overall Female Winner 3 Angela
STATESIDE – Halfway through his first term: Biden and the immigration issue
US President Joe Biden is halfway through his first term in the nation’s top job. After an initial boost in favourable poll ratings and with TV and other media pundits, Biden began to slip, until earlier this year he achieved a dubious distinction when he sank “under water” with less than 50 percent approval ratings in the polls. Oddly, Donald Trump and “his” Supreme Court have rescued Biden twice.
STATESIDE: When – if ever – is it going to stop?
IS horrific gun violence in the US even newsworthy anymore? One can reasonably wonder what will be required for American legislators to enact meaningful gun control laws.
STATESIDE: Watching the election
FOR months, headlines have screamed out warnings that the future of American democracy was at stake in Tuesday’s elections.
STATESIDE: Trump just won’t go away and it may be Liz Cheney is the one to stop him trying again for the White House
There are serious people in the United States this morning who will tell you the future of democracy in America rests with Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell and Liz Cheney.
Bahamians win medals, qualify for the NCAA Nationals
NCAA Track and Field moved into its conference championships across several divisions and Bahamian student athletes produced medal winning performances en route to qualifying for the upcoming NCAA National Championships.
STATESIDE: How long will it take for the US to recover the ground it’s lost in the eyes of the world?
“I feel sorry for Americans,” a lawmaker in Myanmar told The New York Times recently. From Berlin, another Times reporter wrote that events in the US were “shaking fundamental assumptions in Europe about American exceptionalism”.