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Still in limbo despite ruling on citizenship

MANY would welcome giving citizenship to a Harvard-educated scholar like Dr April Finlayson, but seven months after the Privy Council ruled that people like her are citizens at birth, she still can’t get a Bahamian passport and limits her visits to The Bahamas to avoid being warned again that she overstayed her time in the country of her birth.

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DEADLY CHRISTMAS AS FOUR MURDERED: Police shooting kills another as he ‘attacks officers with cutlass’

THE heartbroken girlfriend of a man killed on Sunday said her two sons were robbed of the precious memory of spending Christmas with their father, with one crying: “Mummy, daddy is dead.”

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Rattlers fall short of title

THE CI Gibson Rattlers came close to bringing home one of the divisional championship titles at the Tarkanian Basketball Classic in Las Vegas, Nevada. But they had to settle for unwrapping the runners-up hardware over the Christmas holiday weekend.

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I-BAP pop up camp a success

I-BAP (Bahamas Athletic Pride) in collaboration with New York’s Electric City Bombers hosted a successful pop up Christmas camp on Saturday at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex to close out the 2023 calendar year.

Athletes qualify early for CARIFTA Games

BEFORE athletes took a break for Christmas festivities, they hit the qualifying mark for the 2024 CARIFTA Games at the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations (BAAA) Odd Distance Meet on Friday at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium.

Providence Basketball Holiday Classic tips off today

IN the aftermath of the Christmas celebrations and as a prelude to the second half of the regular season in the new year, the Providence Basketball Club Holiday Classic is all set to tip off today at the CI Gibson Gymnasium.

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Clarke sisters give back

IN her usual way of giving back, tennis player Sydney Clarke returned to the Bahamas Children’s Hostel for the third consecutive year to provide some much-needed supplies of groceries, toiletries and toys to the 30 residents of the home from nine months to 18 years of age.

Man presumed dead after falling off a cruise ship destined for The Bahamas

A 41-year-old man is presumed dead after going overboard on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship to The Bahamas on December 23, two days into the cruise.

Is political arrogance rising again?

Past political experience has shown clearly the Bahamian electorate hates an ‘arrogant’ Government — we saw that after 26 years in government even Sir Lynden fell to that … Hubert Ingraham ... Perry Christie and Hubert Minnis got the same treatment. Arrogance saw the end of their terms in office.

Condolences for Watkins family

“It was with deep sadness that I learned of the passing of my former colleague, Mr. Floyd Watkins,” the Rt Hon Hubert Ingraham wrote on learning of the former MP’s death.

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Boxing Day Junkanoo parade postponed until Tuesday

The Junkanoo Corporation New Providence Limited (JCNP) has announced that the Boxing Day Junkanoo Parade has been postponed until Tuesday night at 10pm – due to inclement weather conditions.

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Three face drugs and ammunition charges

THREE MEN were granted $7,500 bail on Friday after they were allegedly found with a quantity of dangerous drugs and ammunition that police suspected them of trying to sell.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: When bad things happen to good people

A young man with a college degree, good job, solid marriage and a six-year-old daughter is about to start a gofundme page.

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URCA’s BPL fuel tariff review ‘sounds bit odd’

The Opposition’s leader yesterday asserted “it sounds a bid odd” that regulators now plan to examine the lawfulness of Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) fuel charges having previously approved them.

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Small Business Act: ‘Let’s close the deal’

A small business advocate is pledging to “close the deal” on legislation to advance the sector’s interests in 2024, adding: “This is my last year in pushing for this Act.”

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Don’t leave fiscal change until ‘things getting dicey’

The Bahamas must not leave the need for any fiscal adjustments to the stage where “things get a bit dicey”, a governance reformer advocated yesterday in backing the IDB.

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Judge allows Shiver to stay with parents in US

AN American woman accused of plotting to kill her husband had her bail terms varied so she could move to her parent’s home in Alabama, United States, as she awaits trial in the Supreme Court in March.

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Underwater photographer calls to regulate chumming

A POPULAR underwater photographer joined calls to regulate chumming following a shark attack that killed Lauren Erickson Van Wart, 44, two weeks ago as she paddle-boarded three-quarters of a mile off Sandals Resort.

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‘I WAS VICTIM OF SEX ATTACK IN DETENTION’: Woman claims assault by Immigration officer - and says son was beaten too

A PREGNANT Jamaican woman claimed she was sexually assaulted in immigration custody and continually abused after complaining about an officer’s actions. She claimed an officer touched her sexually without her consent.

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Pratt and Newman national champions

The 2023 Giorgio Baldacci Open National Tennis Championships saw Simone Pratt and Baker Newman claim the championship hardware for the women’s and men’s divisions respectively.