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Which high school will take home national volleyball title?

THE official list of participants has been released as 20 teams are set to vie for the title of high school volleyball national champions this weekend. Corporate sponsor JS Johnson Insurance Agents and Brokers Ltd will join the Ministries of Youth S

Four shillings and a bottle of rum

Those Disney people have come into Eleuthera the way the Bay Street Boys used to come in at election time in the bad old days.

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Streaks come to an end for ‘Buddy’ Hield, Deandre Ayton

SATURDAY’s NBA schedule featured the end of a five-game winning streak for Deandre Ayton’s Phoenix Suns and the end of Chavano “Buddy” Hield’s four-game streak scoring at least 20 points.

EDITORIAL: In the shadow of Stalin and Chairman Mao?

FRED Smith, QC, certainly knows how to catch attention. In his latest collision with the government over shanty towns, he compares government policy to that of Stalin. Asked to tone it down by the court, he offered an alternative of Mao Zedong in China, whose cultural revolution “destroyed the homes of 20 million people”.

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'Imperative’ that man jailed for 20 years given shooting retrial

THE COURT of Appeal has ordered a retrial “as a matter of priority” for a man previously sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for the shooting death of someone he allegedly thought had put a bounty on his head.

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'Shaq' Cleare re-signs with basketball club in Spain

AFTER a successful late-season stint with Actel Forca Lleida less than a year ago, Shaquille Cleare resigned with the club for the upcoming 2019-20 campaign. Actel Forca Lleida competes in Spain’s Liga Española de Baloncesto – Gold, the second divis

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Estimated cost of Rand repairs and renovations around $20m

HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands revealed that initial estimates of the total value of repairs and renovations of the Rand Memorial Hospital in Grand Bahama would be in the region of some $20 million.

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Annual KPMG Youth Winter Championship rocks Montagu

THE annual K.P.M.G Youth Winter Championship was hosted by The Nassau Yacht Club and Bahamas National Sailing School (B.N.S.S.) with sailing in Montagu Bay February 19-20.

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Chisholm Jr: ‘Now we’re seeing what we’re about to go into next year’

WITH just 10 games remaining in the regular season and the Miami Marlins out of the 2021 MLB playoff picture, Jasrado “Jazz” Chisholm Jr is looking ahead to the future of the franchise and the young players at its foundation.

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Canadian U-Sports teams in late season push for final playoff standings

THE St Mary’s Huskies are still streaking while one Bahamian national team standout had her usual leading performance in the final home game of her collegiate career.

Date ‘hoopla’ to boost Carnival, says chairman

The  Bahamas National Festival Commission’s (BNFC) chairman yesterday said the Carnival postponement controversy would inflict no long-term damage, arguing that “all of the hoopla” had given the event “a new presence” locally and internationally.

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Man held as more than 20 cars seized

POLICE are investigating several Road Traffic Department employees and insurance companies in connection with a massive nationwide car theft ring.

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Festival of Afro-Caribbean composers

From February 20-25, 2013, the Nassau Music Society will hold a “Festival of Afro-Caribbean Composers” in Nassau.

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Sports in brief

THE New Providence Volleyball Association continued its regular season at the Donald Davis Gymnasium on Wednesday night.

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Sports in brief

THE New Providence Volleyball Association’s best-of-three playoffs got started at the DW Davis Gymnasium Wednesday night.

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Lions advance with 22-20 win over Sharks

IT came down to a battle between two of the league’s top scorers to decide the second finalist for the GSSSA junior girls’ basketball championship series.

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Man sentenced to death to challenge conviction

A MAN sentenced to death for a “contract killing” will challenge his murder conviction and punishment to the Court of Appeal in three months.

VAT exemptions 'not in best interest of gov't or businesses'

EXEMPTIONS under the proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) systems would “not be in the best interest of the government or businesses” according to the head of the Retail Grocers Association, who argued that the potential to recover only 20-25 per cent of their inputs would eventually drive some retailers out of business.

New golf challenge on Grand Bahama

GRAND Bahama is back on the golfing map again with the launching of the first Mychal “Sweet Bells” Thompson/Fred Higgs Golf Challenge at the Reef Golf Course next week.