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Courts a sign of our nation’s problems

Please permit me to highlight an issue within this country.

Govt schools are failing our children

According to an article in The Nassau Guardian Monday, 26 June 2023, the Bahamas National Statistical Institute (BNSI) released the latest labour force survey revealing that little more than 55% percent of the labour force completed secondary schools, 4% percent finished primary school and 26% percent finished university.

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RITA sets sail with resounding success and the support from Mount Gay Rum, Sands Beer

ABACO, The Bahamas – The art of sailing took centre stage as the highly anticipated Regattas in The Abacos (RITA 2023) officially set sail on Sunday, June 25.

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Halkitis says Davis administration has to ‘live with’ Cruise Port deal

ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Michael Halkitis said the Nassau Cruise Port deal the Minnis administration executed is one the Davis administration has to live with.

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Almost 1m referrals to Nassau/PI hotels

A senior Bahamian tourism executive yesterday said Nassau/Paradise Island has recovered to 97 percent of pre-COVID business volumes by March 2023 with airlift capacity up by double digits for the year-to-date.

Show your support, shop locally

1000% support import substitution only wish the biggest substitution would occur… Shopping in Miami Substitution but then, so the officials say, that is a divine right. Local production must never cause inflation and exorbitant increase in comparison pricing of foreign against local.

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Special OIympians bring home medals

Team Bahamas’ Special Olympics athletes received a warm celebratory welcome home after amassing four medals at the 2023 Special Olympics Summer World Games in Berlin, Germany.

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FACE TO FACE: Reflecting on Independence, remembering George Smith

WHEN George A Smith passed away on May 26, it was a poignant moment in time. The end of one era is at hand, and the dawning of a new era is taking place right before our eyes.

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Three Bahamians and 18 migrants plead ‘not guilty’ to cocaine smuggling charges

A GROUP of 18 migrants burst into tears when they were told they were going to prison after being accused of smuggling 100lb of cocaine into The Bahamas while en route to the United States of America.

Thank you, Bahamas

My family migrated from the Turks and Caicos Islands to the Bahamas when I was six years old in 1953.

Nation is preparing to celebrate

Without a doubt, The Bahamas will soon be abuzz with celebrations of all sorts related to 50 years as an Independent nation. Amidst the myriad of festive fervor will be a wide variety of individual interpretations of Independence. All the same, celebrations will abound here, there and everywhere. For sure, too, celebrations will come in all forms of low and high fashions.

Road hold-ups

Bay Street and surrounding streets at most times of the day are busy heavily trafficked and when police block off the majority chaos results.

Taxi chief: Fare raise was all about respect

The Bahamas Taxi Cab Union's (BTCU) president yesterday said that while the industry initially wanted a 25 percent fare increase it ultimately settled for 10 percent because “drivers are making money”.

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THE KDK REPORT: Along the banks of Mangrove Cay

LOCATED 20 miles west of New Providence and spanning 104 miles long by 40 miles wide, Andros is by far the largest island in The Bahamas.

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Unemployment rate drop labelled a 'smokescreen'

The Opposition's finance spokesman last night argued that the 8.8 percent unemployment rate, the lowest for 15 years, is a "smokescreen" that masks the "significant" reduction in the labour force's size and number of working Bahamians.

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CCA: Reverse Baha Mar sabotage 'in its entirety'

Baha Mar's contractor is seeking to overturn "in its entirety" a New York judge's verdict that it sabotaged Baha Mar's completion and orchestrated Sarkis Izmirlian's removal as the project's developer.

JBLN stun Freedom Farm

In one of the most dramatic comebacks at this year’s Bahamas Baseball Association’s G-Ball National Baseball Championships, the Junior Baseball League of Nassau stunned Freedom Farm to clinch the 14-and-under divisional title.

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Donald Thomas wins high jump at USATA NYC Grand Prix

GRAND Bahamian Donald Thomas is starting to round himself into shape as he looks forward to making another trip for the Bahamas to the season’s premier event at the World Championships.

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CAC Games: Mixed results for two-man boxing team in El Salvador

AS the XXIV Central American and Caribbean Games got underway over the weekend in San Salvador, El Salvador, there were mixed results from the two-man boxing team.

Fred to investors: 'Pay your fair share or look elsewhere'

The Progressive Liberal Party's (PLP) chairman has demanded that foreign investors "pay your fair share or look elsewhere" in response to push back over the Government's various new tax and revenue-raising measures.