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TENNIS BRAJAXBA TOURNEY THE Brajaxba Tennis is slated to hold its Winter Classic 11 Junior Tournament at National Tennis Centre this weekend. The deadline for entry is Friday. Action is scheduled to start at 10am Saturday. Competition will be held in the
NCAA: Bahamian players bond in exhibition games
WE may still be months away from the NCAA basketball season, but several Bahamian players had the opportunity to travel with their programmes this summer as they prepare for the 2015-16 campaign.
THE FINISH LINE: Pintard remarks 'like music to the ear', vote for All-Star select Jonquel
IT IS not how you start, nor how you get there. Most importantly, it’s how you finish. • The Finish Line, a weekly column, seeks to comment on the state of affairs in local sports, highlighting the highs and the lows, the thrills and the spills and
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: The day Wilt the Stilt and the Bears made their point
CHRISTMAS is fast approaching - the equivalent of the Super Bowl for ‘shopaholics’ like my wife.
Golf teams feeding the needy in inaugural BFN Golf Tournament
WITH the demand increasing on a daily basis for those in need for food, the Bahamas Feeding Network is making an extra effort to raise at least $100,000 to be able to assist as much as they can by hosting its inaugural Golf Tournament on Sunday, September 25 at the Ocean Club Golf Club.
DPM hails 42% rise in FDI equity inflows
The deputy prime minister yesterday hailed a 42 percent year-over-year increase in foreign investors’ equity investments as confirmation that “The Bahamas’ economic turnaround has begun”.
Czechs target $22m of Kozeny’s assets
Controversial Lyford Cay-based financier, Viktor Kozeny, is confronting a ‘ghost from his past’ over moves to enforce a $410 million judgment against him by seizing $22 million held in frozen New York bank accounts.
Cruise visitor spend slumps 23% in 3 years
Average cruise visitor spend in the Bahamas has slumped by an alarming 23 per cent over the past three years, a report for the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) has revealed, even though this nation leads the Caribbean through an annual $394 million economic impact from the industry.
Elizabeth constituents undecided as election countdown continues
SOME traditional supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and the Free National Movement (FNM) in the Elizabeth constituency see no reason to change their preference when they vote in eight days, they told The Tribune yesterday.
Aliv takes 100 site options as BTC ‘Plan A’
Aliv will “revert to Plan A” and execute 100 mobile network site options if it cannot reach agreement with the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) within a reasonable time period.
Bodies in bathtubs
WHEN anyone is declared dead on Cat Island they are stuffed into a body bag, placed in a bathtub and blanketed with ice to slow the process of decomposition, The Tribune has been told.
Swim meet: Alpha Aquatics win their annual Invitational
THE Alpha Aquatics Swim Club won their annual invitational swim meet held at the Betty Kelly Kenning swim complex over the weekend. At the end of the two-day meet held on Friday and Saturday, Alpha posted the highest scores of 513 points in the wome
WORLD VIEW: Boris Johnson’s homegrown can of worms
THERE were echoes of US President Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan, “Make America great again”, in the first parliamentary statement of Britain’s new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. “Our mission”, Mr Johnson declared is “making this country the greatest place on earth”.
IT miss exposes NHI to ‘US-fraud levels’
A well-known physician yesterday warned that the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme could be exposed to “US-style fraud levels”, after the Government admitted the necessary IT system will not be ready for its January 2017 launch.
Bid to snatch Kozeny's $22m was 'doomed'
The Czech authorities’ bid to seize $22 million allegedly belonging to Lyford Cay financier, Viktor Kozeny, has been “doomed” by the defective service of court documents on him in the Bahamas.
Fidelity 'turns on a dime' via 67% profit rise
Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) yesterday said its ability to “turn on a dime” gave it a competitive advantage over larger commercial banks, although it conceded it had “taken many years” to deliver 2012’s $6.4 million comprehensive income.
Sports in brief
THE Junior Baseball League of Nassau is slated to host its first US Embassy/JBLN/MLB Baseball Skills Clinic October 30 to November 2 at the St Andrew’s Field of Dreams.
Seven-fold jump in Benchmark’s debt to clients no alarm
A BISX-listed firm has reassured investors that the seven-fold increase in monies owed to clients at year-end 2021 is no cause for alarm since it stems from $150m in securities trading activity.
Seven BOC members on upcoming elections
SEVEN Bahamas Olympic Committee (BOC) members, including five vice presidents, the treasurer and assistant treasurer, have issued a joint press release voicing their displeasure with the manner in which BOC president Wellington Miller wants to conduct their upcoming elections.
