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Bannister gives testimony on WSC contracts

FORMER Works Minister Desmond Bannister claimed in court yesterday that he never approved contracts to paint water tanks and buildings belonging to the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) when he was in office.

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VIDEO: Big T Top 10 Countdown Charts

Featuring: K Jae Hinsey, Raheem Devaughn and Alexis Spight

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VIDEO: Radio House Top 10 Countdowns

Featuring Rihanna, Kelly Clarkson and more . . .

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$232m borrowing to pay for boats

THE Christie administration will today table a resolution to borrow $232 million to purchase nine new Royal Bahamas Defence Force vessels.

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You are the change you are looking for!

Everywhere you turn, people are looking for change; craving an improved disposition, especially in their personal life or their outer circumstances. Yearning and wanting is how they spend most of their time. They are waiting for change to happen to them as oppose to them happening to change.

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VIDEO: The Big T Top 10 Countdown

Featuring DJ Earworm, Trinidad James and Keyshia Cole

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DEMOLITION GOES ON DESPITE SHANTY FIRE: No casualties reported but cause of blaze is still being investigated

DEMOLITION of the Kool Acres community will still proceed today despite the blaze that tore through the shanty town on Saturday engulfing more than 70 homes and destroying numerous belongings and personal items.

Cruise line confirms CDC-delayed return

Bahamas Paradise Cruise Line yesterday said US health authorities had left it with “no choice” but to delay its operational restart until October 1. The operator of the Grand Celebration and Grand Classica , which sail to Freeport and Nassau respect

NEW HURRICANE JOAQUIN ALERT FROM THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY

ALERT #5 ON HURRICANE JOAQUIN ISSUED BY THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY WEDNESDAY 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2015 AT 3 PM EDT.

Gas dealers: 50% margin rise to avoid Easter strike

Gas station operators are seeking a 50 percent margin increase and for its calculation to be based on a percentage, as opposed to a fixed amount, amid threats that up to 80 percent of them may strike this Easter weekend.

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Tributes paid to veteran educator

VETERAN educator Tracey W Strachan, who served as headmaster or principal at many schools throughout the Bahamas, died on Saturday morning after a short illness, his family has announced. He was 81.

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.

MEDIUM HOTELS ENJOY 4-7% OCCUPANCY RISE

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net MEDIUM-sized Nassau hotels have seen business levels exceed expectations, with occupancies up between 4-7 percentage points, and exclusive properties such as Graycliff and the Parad

MEDIUM HOTELS ENJOY 4-7% OCCUPANCY RISE

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net MEDIUM-sized Nassau hotels have seen business levels exceed expectations, with occupancies up between 4-7 percentage points, and exclusive properties such as Graycliff and the Parad

MEDIUM HOTELS ENJOY 4-7% OCCUPANCY RISE

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net MEDIUM-sized Nassau hotels have seen business levels exceed expectations, with occupancies up between 4-7 percentage points, and exclusive properties such as Graycliff and the Parad

Family Island resorts in further COVID ease call

Some Family Island resorts yesterday called for the further easing of COVID-19 restrictions while backing the Government’s relaxation of the mask mandate within hotels.

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Rattlers senior boys top Cobras, 79-73

CHAD Smith and Denrico Burrows converted a pair of free throws in the final 16 seconds to help lift the CI Gibson Rattlers to a 79-73 victory over the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association’s defending senior boys champions CC Sweeting Cobras.

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Mega Bemax hold off Texas Tech Red Raiders, 76-73

THE Bahamas Basketball Federation’s 2019 Summer of Thunder men’s play concluded on Sunday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium with the Mega Bemax holding off Texas Tech Red Raiders 76-73. Meanwhile, over at the makeshift gymnasium in the ballroom at the

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Inaugural Mario Bowleg Basketball Camp is free

WHILE the majority of summer basketball camps are staged in a gymnasium with a fee being charged, the inaugural Mario Bowleg Fundamental Basketball Camp is outdoors at the Garden Hills No.1 Park and it’s free of charge.

EDITORIAL: Bahamas faces 'junk pile' because of Government's wrong decisions

MOODY’S has given The Bahamas a two-month reprieve in which to either initiate a programme that has the potential of improving this country’s economic growth rate or face its present Baa2 bond rating being dropped to junk status.