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Ex-Prison Officer guilty of smuggling drug into prison

A FORMER prison officer was found guilty yesterday of smuggling drugs into the prison.

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Kevin Major Jr wins 3rd straight tournament

For the third time this year, rising tennis star Kevin ‘KJ’ Major hoisted a championship trophy.

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Family Islands: Half beat 110% pre-COVID target

Half the Family Islands boast hotels already beating forecasts that they will post room revenues equivalent to 110 percent of pre-COVID levels in 2023, it was revealed yesterday.

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Bahamas aiming to double Texas visitor share to 10%

The Bahamas is seeking to double Texas’ share of its tourism customer base to 10 percent, the deputy prime minister has revealed, while revealing that the Houston Rockets basketball team will likely hold their training camp in Nassau.

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Man found with gun fined $7,000 and given monitoring device

A MAN was granted $7,000 bail in court yesterday after he was accused of having a loaded gun in the capital last week.

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Man on bail for murder gets six months jail for damaging monitoring device

A MAN was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday after admitting damaging his electronic monitoring device (EMD) while on release for charges of murder and attempted murder.

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NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS: Windsor Academy wins three titles

Jaden Ward led a clean sweep of the top five positions in the senior boys’ division as Windsor Academy put a cap on another successful showing in the Bahamas Golf Federation’s National High School Golf Championships yesterday in the Driving Range at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

Resorts enjoy record winter tourism period

HOTELS throughout The Bahamas yesterday said they are enjoying a record-breaking 2023 to-date with high occupancy levels recorded over the Easter period.

Farmer fees abandoned after 'extensive damages' from Equinor Oil Spill

LOCAL farmer Harold Adderley says he was forced to abandon his farm of ten years after the 2019 oil spill at the Equinor South Riding Point plant in East Grand Bahama.

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Giants crowned champions again

THE Commonwealth Bank and Your Essential Store Giants were crowned champions once again this year.

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ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: Eating for a long and healthy life

It is 2023, and I find myself in what is undoubtedly the most significant year of my life, marching with my Beloved Bahamas – on our ‘Road to 50’.

Port-fighting family in $46.5m GB exit

A Florida-based family who engaged in a bitter public battle with the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) and its affiliates have put all their Freeport interests up for sale with a $46.5m asking price.

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No bail for last weekend’s Dunmore St murder accused

A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday accused of killing his neighbour after a dispute on Easter Sunday.

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National Basketball Championships begin

The return of the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s National Basketball Championships saw the New Providence champions Giants produce mixed results as competition in the weekend tournament got underway at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

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Royal Caribbean cut Crown Land to avoid Toby 'conflict'

Royal Caribbean executives yesterday said they reduced their Paradise Island Crown Land demands by 43 percent in a bid to "untangle ourselves" from any "conflict" with Bahamian entrepreneur Toby Smith.

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RCI DEFENDS PI PROJECT: Cruise line addresses environmental concerns over $100m beach club

ROYAL Caribbean International leaders rebutted environmental concerns surrounding the proposed $100m Paradise Island project yesterday, insisting it would be their most environmentally friendly project of its kind.

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Responsibility allowance up by 58 percent

SENIOR public servants have collectively received a 58 per cent increase in responsibility allowance.

Portland has become another Freeport City

On Easter Monday, CBN uploaded a video report on its YouTube channel titled Portland’s Meltdown: A Progressive Experiment That Has Gone Colossally Bad. Dale Hurd was the reporter.

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‘Mission critical’ cruise port in $12.38m profit

NASSAU Cruise Port's success was yesterday branded "mission critical" for The Bahamas with 35 percent of the country's economy dependent on a facility that has generated $12.383m in net profits even before its official opening.

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BAHAMAS 2ND WITH 41 MEDALS: Nine gold, 12 silver and 20 bronze

As the curtain came down on Team Bahamas’ hosting of the Oaktree Medical Center’s 50th CARIFTA Games at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium on Monday night, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg was delighted to welcome home the five-peat CARIFTA swimming team.