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Bommer G Operators extend winning streak

THE Bommer G Operators and Truckers have one thing in common. They both acquired some top-notch pitching during the off-season and it is already paying off big dividends in the New Providence Softball Association (NPSA).

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Jasrado Chisholm and Young Marlins look to build on surprising 2020 playoff run

MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Marlins were beginning to arrive at camp for the start of spring training when left-hander Daniel Castano ran into Don Mattingly, the 2020 National League manager of the year.

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SAC lead QC by 13.5 points on final day

A WIN in the final event of the day widened the margin for the St Augustine’s College Big Red Machine as they continue their bid to unseat the Queen’s College Comets as BAISS track and field champions. Headed into day three, just 13.50 points separa

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Byron Ferguson making a name for himself in Greece

Byron Ferguson Jr continues to shine in his pro volleyball career in Thessaloniki, Greece. The 29-year-old, 6-foot, 6-inch middle blocker is back with the Iraklis, who are currently 1-1 since they resumed play in October to sit in fourth place in Gr

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Warriors get 4-3 win over Wildcats, stave off elimination

DESPITE losing their potent batter Latoya Brown, their manger Richard Bain and coach Kelly Smith to an illegal substitution, the Inventive Intellect Warriors managed to avoid elimination in their best-of-seven championship against the defending champ

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Say farewell to double wave backs and love handles

Exercises to tackle those stubborn fatty areas for women and men

Economics and crime

Thanks again in advance for space to address two issues sure to intersect in ways some of us cannot imagine or desire if we can: Economics and crime!

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Bulldogs are No.1

Manager Hazel McDonald said his Creter’s Bulldogs’ triumph as the new men’s champions in the Bahamas Softball Federation was a result of a group of guys coming together from all across the island of Abaco, including its surrounding cays.

NPBA: High Flyers rout Buckets 89-72, Shockers stun Rebels 65-63

THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night with the Breezes High Flyers and the JD’s Seafood Shockers winning their respective games. In the opening game, the High Fly

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It’s official: Isnord will join Get Better Academy

WILKENSON “Kenny” Isnord will officially join Get Better Academy (GBA) in Prague, Czech Republic, as he makes his transition to pro basketball.

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NPBA: Giants beat Cleaners 104-94

WHILE the match-up between high scoring wing players Michael Bain and Lenny Oscar drew the focus, the Commonwealth Bank Giants’ supporting cast with five players in double figures led to the 6-0 start to the season.

GSSSA: Cobras rout Mystic Marlins, 94-64

THE CC Sweeting Cobras made an early statement to the remainder of the Government Secondary School Sports Association senior boys’ basketball league as they dominated an eagerly anticipated early season matchup against the defending GSSSA and Hugh Campbell runners up.

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I DON’T know what action will be sufficient to roll back both the Islamic State militant group and Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, but I do know what’s necessary. And it’s not “leading from behind”, which didn’t really work for President Barack Obama in Libya, and it isn’t simply leading a lonely and unpopular charge from in front, which certainly didn’t work for President George W Bush in Iraq. It’s actually reviving America’s greatest strategy: leading from within.

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INSIGHT: If I was running a sham like this I’d avoid the hard questions too

IT HAS been almost 18 months since the Free National Movement became the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and many of us are still struggling to figure out just who this government is. What is their brand of governance? What will we remember them for? Will it be for taking a savvy campaign catchphrase and turning it into a punchline? Or as the government that unabashedly increased the tax burden on its citizenry?

$102m energy project 'comes alive again

By NEIL HARTNELL

‘The Tank’ Williams loses unanimous decision to Hammer

IT WAS a less than desirable result in the return to the ring for Bahamian heavyweight Sherman “The Tank” Williams in his first fight of 2015.

Police hunt for wanted men

GRAND Bahama police are searching for two men who are wanted for questioning in connection with armed robbery, housebreaking and stealing incidents on the island.

Police bail extended for man accused of stealing $40,000

AN Eleuthera man accused of stealing more than $40,000 from his employer between 2009 and 2012, had his police bail extended in the magistrates court yesterday until he is formally arraigned in Eleuthera next week.

Bahamian companies wait two years for $1m fraud recovery pay

Bahamian companies battling to recover assets lost in a $400 million financial fraud are experiencing “financial stress” themselves because they have not been paid almost-$1 million due for two years’ work.

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Cabbage Beach access row ‘about property rights, not birthrights’

THE relocation of the dozens of Cabbage Beach vendors upset over the closure of an access point to the popular Paradise Island property is not the responsibility of the landowners but the government, according to Atlantis’ Senior Vice-president of Public Affairs Ed Fields.