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‘JJ’ cans season high 28pts

JONQUEL Jones celebrated Tuesday’s new contract announcement with the Connecticut Sun with her most dominant performance on the FIBA EuroLeague Women’s circuit.

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'Deck now stacked against' Bahamian tourism's rebound

The hotel union's president has voiced alarm that "the deck's being stacked against" the revival of the Bahamian tourism industry and wider economy by travel restrictions imposed in its major markets.

Lead adviser: Gov't to avoid double taxation

A key Ministry of Finance consultant “suspects” the Government has given itself enough breathing room to deal with the private sector’s post-Budget ‘double taxation’ fears, adding: “We don’t have two shots at this.”

NPBA: Divisional semi-finals set to jump off tonight

THE Patron Regulators and PJ Stingers survived their respective third and deciding games in the first round of the New Providence Basketball Association playoffs to advance to the divisional finals.

Bahamas ‘tops’ 5m visitors to end-June

The Ministry of Tourism's top official yesterday disclosed that visitor arrivals breached the five million mark for the 2023 half-year although higher-yielding stopovers and air arrivals remained slightly down on 2019's "banner year".

‘Pay up’: students ignore loan plea

THE Education Loan Authority (ELA) is expected to resume loan services to students in the “not too distant future,” ELA Chairman Michael Foulkes disclosed yesterday, adding the entity has also commenced legal action in the Supreme Court against delinquent borrowers and guarantors to recover the more than $150m it is owed.

Just $1m small business COVID relief to distribute

The Prime Minister yesterday said the Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) has just $1m of COVID-19 relief funding that remains to be distributed to successful applicants.

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Dames: We must identify the causes of crime

MINISTER of National Security Marvin Dames recently said that over the past decade, escalating crime and violence numbers have presented challenges to the economic and social development of The Bahamas.“Much of the violence and crime that we are seei

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Kings exercise team option on Buddy Hield

BUDDY Hield has increased his scoring and productivity with back-to-back 20-point games and the Sacramento Kings exercised the team option on the third-year guard.

Minnis: Where did $100,000 cash come from for BEC payment?

OPPOSITION leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday renewed calls for an investigation into the $100,000 cash payment made to the Bahamas Electricity Corporation.

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Woman dies in West Bay Street car crash

A WOMAN was killed in a traffic accident when her car hit a tree on West Bay Street on Saturday morning.

‘Don’t get giddy’ over beating deficit target

The Government was yesterday urged not to become “giddy” over beating its 2014-2015 fiscal deficit projections by almost 31 per cent, as the Prime Minister moved to return “the dividends from the successful Value-Added Tax (VAT) regime” to hard-pressed Bahamians.

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Airbnbs ‘choke off’ local rental market

Exuma’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday warned that the island’s soaring vacation property success was “choking off” Bahamian access to affordable rental units.

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Bahamas Great Abaco Classic tops the Web.com leaderboard

THE Bahamas Great Abaco Classic is high on the Web.com leaderboard with several PGA golfers raving about their experience at the event.

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‘Jazz’ gets a warm welcome home

JASRADO “Jazz” Chisholm Jr made his return to home soil this past weekend at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

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UPDATED: Police name seven victims in helicopter crash

A Bahamasair jet left Grand Bahama International Airport on Friday afternoon with the bodies of billionaire Chris Cline, his 22-year-old daughter, Kameron, and five other people who were killed in a helicopter crash off Abaco.

EDITORIAL: Bahamas, Gun Laws and Lessons of the Pittsburg Massacre

At 9:57 on Saturday morning, gunshots shattered the peace of Tree of Life Synagogue in a quiet section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Within minutes, in one of the oldest houses of worship in the United States, 11 people would be dead including a 97-year-old man who, determined to thank God for life, made it to the temple where he would die as he prayed. Police rushed into the line of fire. Four were injured as they captured and arrested 46-year-old Robert Bowers, a man poisoned by hate and armed with three Glock handguns and an AR-15 assault rifle. “I just want to kill Jews,” he screamed.

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Carnival cost nearly $10m

FOUR months after Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, officials from the Bahamas National Festival Commission have finally released key financial details surrounding the event, revealing the total cost was $9.8m with a government subsidy of $8.1m.

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FINCO goes 'organic' through 2013 with $98m problem loans

FINCO is relying on existing borrowers to “carry us through” to the end of its 2013 financial year, having suffered a “bit of a spike” in accounts over 90 days past due during the 2012 third quarter.

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PI residents ordered to pay $23.7m penalty

The Canadian receivers for an alleged "fraudulent" life insurance scheme will today appear before the Court of Appeal in a bid to overturn a verdict that forced them to