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Aspiring entrepreneurs rewarded for innovation

Aspiring Eleuthera entrepreneurs have been rewarded for their ideas after participating in the Centre for Training and Innovation’s “The Next Boss” competition.

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Mother's plea for blood donations after her son is hurt in car crash

A MAN is in need of blood after he was ejected from a vehicle last week, injuring his knee and dislocating his spine in two places.

Grand Bahama Junior Junkanoo parade postponed

GRAND Bahama's Junior Junkanoo parade has been postponed due to a forecast that shows an increased chance of rain this weekend.

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Daylight robbery at Mack Town business

GRAND Bahama police are investigating a brazen daylight armed robbery in the Mack Town area on Saturday, leaving at least three people traumatised.

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Bahamians arrested for human smuggling

THREE Bahamian men are in the custody of United States authorities after they were alledgedly caught attempting to smuggle six Haitians to Florida last week.

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Hurricane-damaged crane dismantled in Freeport

A CRANE that caught fire and sustained hurricane damage last year at the Freeport Container Port was dismantled on Tuesday and will be disposed of, a spokesperson for the company said Wednesday. The transshipment terminal is expecting the arrival of

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Four charged with armed robbery

FREEPORT – Four Grand Bahama men were charged with armed robbery in the Freeport Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

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Claim that man had shares in company given contracts

AN executive at the National Insurance Board in Freeport was fired following allegations that he was assigning contracts to a company in which he owned shares to provide services in Freeport and Abaco.

Reward offered for information on animal killings

FREEPORT – The Humane Society of Grand Bahama is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the killing of several farm animals at the St Georges’s High School.

Toddlers are saved in near drowning

FREEPORT - Two toddlers were victims of a near drowning at a popular beach on Grand Bahama during the Monday holiday.

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Search for four men in connection with armed robberies

FREEPORT – Grand Bahama Police are searching for four men in connection with two separate armed robbery incidents that occurred in Freeport and Hunters.

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Four Haitians and one Bahamian guilty in human smuggling case

FREEPORT – Four Haitian men and one Bahamian man were arraigned in the Eight Mile Rock Magistrate’s Court yesterday in connection with the suspected illegal human smuggling incident at Holmes Rock.

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Marijuana fields worth $17m found

FREEPORT - More than 160,000 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of nearly $17 million, were discovered growing in the pine forest in East Grand Bahama.

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Joining forces to bring visitors to Baha Mar

REPRESENTATIVES from both Baha Mar and the government have met to discuss marketing strategies to attract tourists.

Beach clean-up at Coral Harbour

THE Lyford Cay International School community came together on Saturday, April 12, to participate in a school-wide beach clean up at Coral Harbour.

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Man hurt in hit and run

ABACO police are searching for a hit-and-run driver who struck and left a pedestrian injured on the S C Bootle Highway in Crown Haven.

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High-speed chase ends in double arrest

ARMED robbers led police on high-speed chase in Freeport yesterday afternoon following a daring daylight robbery of the Bristol Cellars Wines and Spirits on Cedar Street.

SWIMMING RESULTS

RESULTS of the Alpha Aquatics - Rhoda Stamp Swim Meet at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex on Saturday:

TOUGH CALL: The deep roots of racial conflict

IN JUNE, a gunman walked into the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine people to death at a prayer meeting. The shooter said his goal was to start a race war.

Portes, Amaro close out XXI CISC with open water swim race victory

MIQUEL Portes from Dominica and Diana Amaro from Puerto Rico closed out the XXI Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships by winning the five-kilometre open water swim race yesterday.