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Sky mulls US pull back after 15-20% loads

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Sky Bahamas is "reviewing daily" whether it will reduce its US flight schedule or withdraw from that market completely, its president telling Tribune Business yesterday that load factors on some flights were down

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‘Footage shows Saunders shot at police before killed’

A POLICE inspector testified yesterday that security footage showed Ishido Saunders chasing and shooting at a police car before two officers fatally shot him near Golden Gates Assembly Church in 2022.

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‘Buddy’ Hield and Pacers fall to Lakers

CHAVANO “Buddy” Hield, who was linked to trade rumours with the Los Angeles Lakers, watched as LeBron James and Anthony Davis put on a show to dismantle his Indiana Pacers to claim the first National Basketball Association’s In-Season Tournament title.

Digital payments double to $4.5m for November

BAHAMIAN digital payments transactions doubled in value to $4.5m for November 2023, the Central Bank disclosed yesterday, with mobile wallet holders increasing by 20 percent over the year’s first 11 months.

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‘MY FAMILY MUST SLEEP LIKE A DOG’: Haitian father of three speaks out after latest shanty demolitions

A HAITIAN father of three said his family must sleep “like a dog” in his truck after bulldozers destroyed his home of more than 20 years in a New Providence shanty town yesterday.

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Cycling Club Bahamas. - Membership fees are due for 2017, $75 for the year. Plans for a new cyclist ID card are in the works. A membership form will be sent by email.

Falcons fly past Big Red Machine, 65-55

WHEN it wasn’t Frantwion Newton, it was Adam Johnson or Sherman Johnson who helped the defending champions Jordan Prince William Falcons to slow down the St Augustine’s College Big Red Machine senior boys basketball train at Jordan Prince William on Friday.

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Nashad named to All-Conference second team

IN his first season of NCAA Division II basketball, Bahamian college basketball star Nashad Mackey produced a number of career milestones and postseason awards.

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‘Major improvements’ needed on bank fees

Almost two-thirds of Bahamian businesses say the fees charged by commercial banks need “major improvements”, according to the findings of a Central Bank survey.

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Conch shell killer gets sentence reduced by ten years in appeal

THE COURT of Appeal has quashed the 30-year sentence of a man who was convicted of bludgeoning another man to death with a conch shell over five years ago.

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Rhema Otabor shatters junior national record in the javelin

IT was an awesome performance from Rhema Otabor in the Hurricane Invitational at the University of Miami’s Cobb Stadium in Coral Gables, Florida.

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Team Bahamas: ‘We are all safe’

By now the Bahamas’ nine-member team should have returned home from the World Athletics’ Under-20 Championships in Nairobi, Kenya, but they had to take a slight detour in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Help our children

Today (19/1/20) I received a very disturbing video on social media of the physical and psychological abuse being committed on well over a dozen children by four or five female staff at the Children’s Emergency Hostel. This is totally unacceptable and heads should roll for this. These women should hang their heads in shame for their behaviour.

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Boy’s last words: ‘Grammy, I love you’

A GRANDMOTHER’S worst nightmare has become a reality for Ingrid McIntosh after she was made aware of her eight-year-old grandson’s reported drowning during Hurricane Dorian in Abaco.

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‘Buddy’ Hield cans 26 in loss to Trail Blazers

SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — Damian Lillard scored eight of his season-high 40 points in the final four minutes, and the Portland Trail Blazers tied a franchise record with 23 3-pointers to beat the Sacramento Kings 132-126 last night for their fourth straight victory.

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Students return - but up to 25 schools still shut

EDUCATION Minister Jeffrey Lloyd said there are approximately 20 to 25 schools on four islands that did not see students return to campus today for face-to-face instruction due to needed repairs.

'VAT holiday? Who's buying uniform for virtual school?'

Retailers are not enthused about the back to school value added tax (VAT) holiday set to run from August 31 to September 20.

Bahamas ranked low on financial stability reporting’s quality

The Central Bank has been criticised by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) paper over the quality of its Financial Stability Report, which was ranked fourth-bottom out of 20 Latin American and Caribbean nations.

Western Union unveils service, expansion plan

WESTERN Union has pledged to expand beyond its existing 20-plus Bahamas locations, as it unveiled a new service designed to increase money transfer efficiency.The cross-border payments solutions provider, in an effort to drive traffic to its growing

UB Mingoes men's basketball team splits series with visiting Falcons

THE University of the Bahamas Mingoes men’s basketball team gave fans an early look at the development of the programme and reasons to be optimistic about the upcoming season.The Mingoes split their series with the visiting Florida College Falcons at