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BASKETBALL GENEVA RUTHERFORD TOURNEY AFTER winning their fifth straight Government Secondary Schools Sports Association senior girls title, the CR Walker Knights will be heading to Grand Bahama to try and win another crown at the Geneva Rutherford Girls

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL GENEVA RUTHERFORD TOURNEY AFTER winning their fifth straight Government Secondary Schools Sports Association senior girls title, the CR Walker Knights will be heading to Grand Bahama to try and win another crown at the Geneva Rutherford Girls

sports inbrief

BASKETBALL GENEVA RUTHERFORD TOURNEY AFTER winning their fifth straight Government Secondary Schools Sports Association senior girls title, the CR Walker Knights will be heading to Grand Bahama to try and win another crown at the Geneva Rutherford Girls

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Bahamas strikes for the gold in CARIFTA water polo

TEAM Bahamas continues to establish its position as a regional powerhouse in CARIFTA water polo and captured three medals at the event for the second consecutive year.

GB Power: ‘16 deficiencies’ in its metering and billing

A well-known Freeport food retailer is now challenging its more than $40,000 monthly electricity bill in the Supreme Court, a move that comes after a report uncovered “16 deficiencies” in Grand Bahama Power Company’s metering and billing practices.

Global warming’s huge threat to Bahamas

The Bahamas is at risk of losing 80 percent of its landmass in the next eight decades due to the current pace of global warming, according to Bahamian T Oneil Johnson Jr.

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EQUAL PAY? Not if you’re women: 30% gender pay gap exposed in UN global study

A UNITED Nation’s report has revealed a nearly 30 percent income disparity between men and women, ranking The Bahamas 75th on its gender inequality index.

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Plane used for mail flights to Bahamas has a grisly history

A TURBOPROP plane once used to deliver mail to The Bahamas from Florida has been revealed to have had a grisly history – with political detainees in Argentina having been thrown from the vehicle to their deaths during the country’s 1976-98 military dictatorship.

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Retailer 'can't afford to take risks blindly' after 80% sales fall

A Bahamian retailer has warned he and others "cannot afford to take blind risks any more" due to the Government's handling of COVID-19, with curb-side restrictions slashing his sales by 80 percent.

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Home owner tax breaks to aid 80% of new starts

AN ex-Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) president yesterday hailed the Prime Minister’s home ownership tax breaks package for potentially boosting 80 percent of new construction starts, and said: “Better late than never.”

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Epic matchup in Battle 4 Atlantis

The inaugural Bad Boy Mowers’ Battle 4 Atlantis Women’s Tournament will conclude with an epic matchup between the top two teams in all of college basketball.

Murder count close to tally at same point last year

TWELVE murders in the past 12 days brought the country’s murder count to 81 for the year, not far behind last year’s count of 85 by this same time, last year.

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Gov't gets 'F' for VAT implementation

The Government is losing the public relations battle over Value-Added Tax (VAT) through its “cloak and dagger” tactics, a leading businessman warning yesterday he had to believe the Nassau Institute study’s conclusions in the absence of other evidence.

Mr Prime Minister, is this not victimisation?

URBAN RENEWAL, the PLP’s solution to most of the country’s ills, has many Bahamians confused as to what it really is.

Competition fears on Super Value's City Markets 'deal'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Rival food retailers have voiced fears that allowing Super Value to acquire City Markets' remaining stores would create a "virtual monopoly" in the New Providence supermarket business, with an estimated 60-80 per

Competition fears on Super Value's City Markets 'deal'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Rival food retailers have voiced fears that allowing Super Value to acquire City Markets' remaining stores would create a "virtual monopoly" in the New Providence supermarket business, with an estimated 60-80 per

FTX Bahamas properties must fetch ‘80% of value’

All sales of FTX’s 35 high-end Bahamas properties must fetch a price that is “equal to or greater than 80 percent” of their broker-appraised values, it has been revealed.

$5.5bn refinery: 80% of jobs for Bahamians

THE developer behind the proposed $5.5 billion oil storage terminal and refinery for Grand Bahama yesterday pledged that 80 per cent of jobs will go to Bahamians. Peter Krieger, Oban Energies’ non-executive chairman, speaking at the signing of a Memo

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Roosevelt Whylly helps Hurricanes to win

THE midseason winter break is over for Bahamian basketball players and their respective colleges in Canada and as play resumed they look to hold on to their national rankings in the second half. 

Port: GB Power rates to lower cost for 85%

THE Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) says that the new rate structure being proposed by the Grand Bahama Power Company, if approved, would result in a reduction in the “all-in” price of electricity for 85 per cent for residential customers in Grand Bahama.