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Two teams vie for BSC championship series place

WHEN the Baptist Sports Council resumes its 2014 Basketball League postseason play tonight at the DW Davis Gymnasium, two teams will be vying for a chance to get into the men’s championship series.

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Two held over latest murder

POLICE have two men in custody in connection with the country’s latest murder.

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76 Haitians held in Exumas

THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force arrested 76 Haitian migrants on Friday after receiving intelligence from OPBAT.

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Meshach gets bronze in open water

WHILE the 35-member team is on its way to Bridgetown, Barbados, for the Caribbean Islands Swim Championships, the Bahamas Swimming Federation is celebrating the success of Meshach Roberts in the Open Water competition.

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THE Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association has announced its boys and girls national teams that will be participating in the World Junior Tennis Competition in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 11-16.

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BRINGING HOME THE GOLD, SILVER: Team Bahamas makes nation proud

BIRMINGHAM, England — After 11 days of intense competition in seven disciplines, Team Bahamas will return from the 2022 Commonwealth Games with a gold and silver medal and tied for the 23rd spot on the medal chart with Grenada.

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PETER YOUNG: Do politicians ever learn?

IT IS said journalists and diplomats have a great affinity. Both are scribes. Journalists tell the public what is happening by the moment and comment on it and diplomats report back regularly to their governments. The reporting by journalists is sometimes over dramatised and opinionated because that sells newspapers, while diplomats must stick strictly to the issue at hand and be objective without frills or exaggeration.

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Penn Relays: Three teams qualify for 14th IAAF World Championships

THE Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ mission to have all four relay teams qualified for the 14th IAAF World Championships in Russia was almost completed at the Penn Relay Festival over the weekend.

THE FINISH LINE: ‘I firmly believe that more recognition needs to be given to our athletes for their achievements’

Last week, the Bahamas Government rolled out the red carpet with the ceremony to name the road from Thompson Boulevard to the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium, the Mychal Thompson Boulevard.

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SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: Tony Romo’s injury leaves Cowboys weak and ‘Weedy’

OH, how painful it is when history repeats itself negatively.

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A clean sweep

It was a clean sweep of all four divisional titles in the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools 2023 best-of-three basketball championships that ended last night at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

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Franklyn Petion seeks assistance

Franklyn Petion has overcome several setbacks over the course of his collegiate basketball career and is now seeking assistance to complete his academic and athletic goals.

Athletes qualify for the CARIFTA Games

DANIELLE Nixon and Taysha Stubbs were the latest field athletes to attain the CARIFTA Games qualifying standard.

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UPDATED: Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe releases statement

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe suggested yesterday that a 40-year-old man convicted of having unlawful sex with a 14-year-old girl received a sentence that was too severe, saying had he defended the case he would have argued it was not rape and that the girl consented.

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USA track & field stages its first legends reunion and retreat in The Bahamas

IN their bid to enhance their relationship in their post track and field careers, the United States of America Track and Field decided to stage their first Legends Reunion and Retreat in the Bahamas.

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Pinder, Brown honoured

DEMETRIUS Pinder and Chris 'Fireman' Brown admitted that, although they are rivals, they both had one mission and that was to win a medal at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Abaco residents renew water billing complaints

An Abaco resident says she has been hit with a $1,300 Water & Sewerage Corporation bill despite being absent from her property for over three years after it was devastated by Hurricane Dorian.

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Eric Wiberg – Nylon stockings, parachutes and wreckage found on Acklins of a B-26 Bomber

Women who donated her nylon stockings to the US war effort might not know they often became parachutes, four of which floated to earth and sea over Acklins. After Ralph Stevens rolled out of a doomed bomber, spraining ankle and knee, it was given to a family of six children in Pompey Bay, by the resident commissioner, Chauncy Tynes.

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Mingoes hold off fightback

The University of the Bahamas Mingoes led the Leno Regulators by as much as 28 points, but in the fourth quarter of their New Providence Basketball Association’s division one match-up on Friday night, UB almost let the Regulators back in the game.

GIANTS TOP THE CYBOTS 97-87

AFTER getting off to a great start in their season opener, the defending champions Mail Boat Cybots suffered a humbling defeat to their arch-rivals Commonwealth Bank Giants at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Saturday night.