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Ayton aims to give back with new Puma deal

MANHATTAN, New York – With a new Puma endorsement deal, Deandre Ayton hopes that the new faces of the country’s basketball division can serve the needs of young Bahamians.“Puma is a big deal on all these Caribbean islands, especially in their track a

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Chisholm hits two home runs, ties career high for RBIs

JAZZ Chisholm homered twice to bring his season total to 17 and tied a career high for RBIs in a single game to lead his Jackson Generals to their latest win in Double A Baseball. Chisholm also added a single to finish 3-5 with five RBI and two runs

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AG’s office to investigate gas tanker sinking liability

THE Office of the Attorney General will investigate the environmental liability attached to a collision at sea that resulted in a gas tanker sinking off the coast of New Providence.

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Buddy hosts clinic

THE University of the Bahamas has partnered with Sacramento Kings’ Buddy Hield to host an elite invitational basketball clinic for top high school players in the country.At a press conference yesterday, UB president Rodney Smith revealed that UB Athl

Unlock the Secrets to Painting Tropical Designs with Texture

Unlock the Secrets to Painting Tropical Designs with Texture By Teri M. Bethel WHEN you think tropical perhaps the first thing that comes to mind for you as it does for me is a lush, brilliantly coloured floral design with bursts of contrasting colour

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Entrepreneur aims for 'mass' manufacturing

A fledgling Bahamian artisan company is eyeing a mass-scale light manufacturing venture, its owner telling Tribune Business there was a huge market for Bahamian hand crafted products.

Sports in brief

THE New Providence Women’s Basketball Association is scheduled to play its final set of games at the DW Davis Gym this weekend before taking a break for the Christmas holiday.

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Turnquest: I don’t want us to abandon Family Islands

FREE National Movement Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest has emphasised that he does not believe any Family Island affected by Hurricane Joaquin should be abandoned.

An all-time low

Yesterday was indeed a sad day in more ways than one! I was aghast as I read and watched press accounts that demonstrated blatant attacks on our human and gender rights as Bahamians.

Gov’t told: Don’t finalise conclusions on Freeport

THE Government was yesterday urged not to finalise the report and recommendations on Freeport’s future, a well-known QC warning this would spark a further Judicial Review challenge.

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Boat goes up in flames at Dick's Point

A BURNING boat sent flames shooting into the air and plumes of billowing, black smoke across Montagu Bay yesterday afternoon as firefighters tackled the blaze and the owner looked on helplessly.

Yesterday’s icons & relevancy

It is a sad phenomenon to see how many iconic Bahamians, living and dead, would have either voluntarily removed themselves from frontline politics, either voluntarily or by a natural death, and still seek to have a meaningful role in the administration of the nation. A recent case in point is where a former Minister of Immigration under the late great and almost irreplaceable Sir Lynden Oscar Pindling, the Hon Loftus Archibald Roker, castigated the current administration of the Most Honorable Philip ‘Brave’ Davis, MP, KC as ‘leaderless’.

Customs staff must understand

Listening to the demands of the Customs and Immigration Union members, you wonder if there is any reasonable dialogue happening in that organisation. Two of their demands stick out like sore thumbs and you wonder if the term “economic fallacy” has application here.

Christie being led by Davis

Christie being led by Davis EDITOR, The Tribune. It is public knowledge by now that the leader of the opposition is being led by his deputy leader into a fray that is going to mark him with all of the negative frailties that some in the watching public

It’s up to us over COVID

The world is desperate to find a weapon to destroy COVID-19, to which nature has given free reign to cripple, if not destroy mankind. Prime Minister Minnis is seemingly being blamed for not knowing what to do to halt the pandemic’s spread in the Bahamas, which is expected to get a second and even stronger life to take us humans down. It is up to us as to who wins this battle.

Same sex marriage

THIS same sex issue is an ideology, a philosophy, a way of seeing relationships that deviate from common sense norms. At its heart is the way a person feels about who they are and how they feel toward others of the same sex. This world is a sea of ideas and has seen many philosophies come and go. Remember Marxism, imperialism, humanism, sexism for its own sake and other such ideas? The consequences of ideas may take many generations before they are seen. Ideas can change, but time tested values don’t have to.

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Minnis to discuss marital rape laws and marijuana in Cabinet meeting

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will devote a day of Cabinet meetings to discuss marijuana and marital rape with his ministers, his Press Secretary Anthony Newbold said.

Activists blast no warning on ‘green’ bills

Several prominent activists yesterday denied they had been consulted on the environmental legislation tabled in the House of Assembly, and accused the government of exploiting Dorian.

Bahamas morning

The long nightmare which Bahamians endured for a little over four years is, mercifully, at an end with the election of the Davis administration two months ago. The draconian responses to the arrival of the pandemic and reaction to the devastation of Dorian pushed Minnis and his people them straight over the cliff, even if they gratuitously carried thousands of the unwashed masses with them.

Bahamas morning

The long nightmare which Bahamians endured for a little over four years is, mercifully, at an end with the election of the Davis administration two months ago. The draconian responses to the arrival of the pandemic and reaction to the devastation of Dorian pushed Minnis and his people them straight over the cliff, even if they gratuitously carried thousands of the unwashed masses with them.