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Caribs fall to Bucs 91-82 in overtime

HIALEAH, Florida — Game two of the Florida National University’s Basketball Classic at the Bucky Dent Gymnasium was a complete turn around for the College of the Bahamas men’s basketball team.

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CR Walker wins 10th straight title

COUNT it 10 straight for the CR Walker Knights as they were crowned the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association’s track and field champions again.

Near $200m energy saving from natural gas switch

The Bahamas would realise between $172-$186 million per annum in “net savings benefits” if it switched to natural gas as its main energy generation source, with this nation’s electricity system costs the highest in the Caribbean.

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Kadeem Coleby posts triple double

Kadeem Coleby continues to post career numbers this season in the Japanese B-League and recorded another milestone in his fourth season with the Akita Northern Happinets.

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Projected BEC loss cut in half to $22m

The Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) executive chairman has slashed its projected 2013 financial year loss by over 50 per cent to $22 million, adding that half its disconnected customers owed less than $2,000.

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Jones Player of the Week

For the third consecutive week this season, Connecticut Sun centre Jonquel Jones has earned the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Player of the Week honours.The Grand Bahama native shares the honours this week with Natasha Howard of the Seatt

Giants rout high flyers in NPBA season opener

THE New Providence Basketball Association tipped off its 2019-20 season Saturday night at the AF Adderley Gymnasium with a championship rematch in Division II.

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Both sides predict win as early voting begins

BOTH major political parties are promising a victory on October 15th after advance polling was conducted yesterday in the North Abaco bye-election.

URCA 'u-turn' over third cellular player

URCA 'u-turn' over third cellular player By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamian communications regulator has reversed course by deciding not to reserve space in the key 700 MHz radio frequency spectrum for a third cellular operator, while

NPSA: Top 20 batters in the spotlight

MICHAEL ‘Vida’ Ingraham and Rudy Fox would have probably preferred to transfer their explosive regular season batting average for a chance for their Chances Mighty Mitts and Iradez Hitmen respectively to play for the New Providence Softball Association’s championship crown.

In ‘national interest’ to end water plant waste

A Cabinet minister yesterday said it was “manifestly in the national interest” to complete a much-criticised waste water treatment plant project plagued by a 91 percent cost overrun.

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Ayton flashes new aspect of his offensive game, ‘Buddy’ has led Kings in scoring

THE NBA restart has gone through two of three scrimmages at Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida, and both Bahamian players at the NBA “clean site” appear ready to perform at a high level once the games count toward the record books.

Activist: Vote is not a waste of time

ACTIVIST Marion Bethel yesterday disagreed with statements made by former Court of Appeal President Dame Joan Sawyer as she called for heightened education and public awareness in the lead up to the gender equality referendum.

Bleachers mean Bay Street ‘looks like a prison’

The Downtown Nassau Partnership’s (DNP) managing director yesterday expressed “extreme disappointment” over the placing of Junkanoo bleachers on Bay Street so far ahead of the parade, arguing that it “looks like a prison rather than a city centre”.

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Software delay for MARCO Alert system

NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames said officials are waiting to receive “mass communication software” that will send out warnings about missing children to facilitate the roll-out of the Mandatory Action Rescuing Children Operation (MARCO) Alert system.

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Barracudas champions of Atlantic Medical Invitational

EVEN though they got some welcomed competition from the visiting Surf Side Ocean Academy Aquatic from the Turks and Caicos Islands, the Barracuda Swim Club still emerged as the champions of their Atlantic Medical Invitational.

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‘IF YOU WANT WAR, YOU’LL GET WAR’: Furious Speaker shuts down Parliament over government’s inaction on COVID outbreak

HOUSE Speaker Halson Moultrie accused the government of disrespecting Parliament by ignoring and refusing to implement his COVID-19 preventative measures, leading him to abruptly adjourn yesterday’s sitting until May 3.

EDITORIAL: Bahamas, Gun Laws and Lessons of the Pittsburg Massacre

At 9:57 on Saturday morning, gunshots shattered the peace of Tree of Life Synagogue in a quiet section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Within minutes, in one of the oldest houses of worship in the United States, 11 people would be dead including a 97-year-old man who, determined to thank God for life, made it to the temple where he would die as he prayed. Police rushed into the line of fire. Four were injured as they captured and arrested 46-year-old Robert Bowers, a man poisoned by hate and armed with three Glock handguns and an AR-15 assault rifle. “I just want to kill Jews,” he screamed.

Job fair to be held at COB next week

STUDENTS at the College of The Bahamas (COB) have the opportunity to meet leading professionals in a diverse range of careers at the Career Symposium and Job Fair next week.

Get hooked on fish and stay healthy!

By Dr Betty Adderley