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PI developer takes on Schooner Bay

A Nassau financier/developer has struck a deal to take over management, and develop a boutique resort, at a south Abaco community once hailed as a sustainable development model for The Bahamas.

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'Changing' property market on up to 300% listings jump

A 200-300 percent increase in new listings is driving Bahamian real estate's "transition" away from a sellers' market by outstripping buyer demand, a prominent realtor is asserting.

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INSIGHT: An opportunity to pause, think and remember we’re all human, Haitians too

In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, a great deal of public conversation has focused on the injunction prohibiting demolition of communities of Haitian ethnicity called shanty towns.

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INSIGHT: 'Nine months on all we want is an answer - where is she?'

FOR many Hurricane Dorian survivors in Abaco, the process of picking up the pieces of their lives has already begun. But, nearly eight months after the deadly storm hit the island- residents still struggle to gain a sense of normalcy.

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Panthers stop Truckers for men's crown

THE Palmetto Point Panthers were not supposed to be here, but they will take the Bahamas Softball Federation’s 2018 Men’s National Softball Championship title back to Eleuthera.The Panthers, embroiled in a dispute over their representation of the Ele

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ALFRED M SEARS, QC: We need to build a safe and prosperous future for The Bahamas

Hurricane Dorian’s $3.4 billion loss has decimated 27 percent of the GDP of The Bahamas making it impossible for the country to make its budgeted $340 million debt servicing on the $8.4 billion outstanding national debt.

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Truckers dominate ladies’ division for the victory

WHILE the Johnson’s Lady Truckers literally dominated the ladies’ division, the men’s division of the Bahamas Softball Federation’s BTC National Championships’ round robin was a topsy turvy one.

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Building up a better Bahamas through athletics, academics

For more than a decade, Pastor Anthony Williams has been building a home way from home for a number of track and field athletes at his home in Moore’s Island, Abaco.

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Cherubims rout Suns, T-Wolves top the Giants

THE Providence Basketball Club’s 2014 Holiday Classic came to a close at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium yesterday. Teleos Christian Academy Cherubims, CV Bethel Timberwolves and CV Bethel Stingrays all won their respective divisions to put the final touches on the round robin play.

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Sporting community shocked by Shavez Hart death

ABACO Olympian Shavez Hart, one of the country’s top male sprinters, was killed on Saturday morning in his hometown, sending shock waves through the sporting community, in particular track and field.

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How the North Abaco vote unfolded

9am: PLP and FNM supporters are outside polling booths as voters cast their ballots for Renardo Curry (PLP), Greg Gomez (FNM) or Ali McIntosh (BCP).

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Giants, Saints national basketball champions

A PAIR of new national champions emerged from the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s Bunny Levarity National Round Robin and featured a title split between New Providence and Grand Bahama.

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Cur-phew: PM eases back

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday relaxed a number of COVID-19 restrictions for New Providence, Grand Bahama and several Family Islands, including new curfew hours and a variety of additional benefits for fully vaccinated people.

Cays ‘feel neglected’ over Dorian recovery

Residents on Abaco’s multiple cays “feel neglected” by Hurricane Dorian relief efforts, an Elbow Cay developer charged yesterday, amid perceptions that wealthier residents will “pay for everything”.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: Dorian’s emotional toll – where are the shrinks, the counsellors, the comforting hugs?

On August 23, 1992, family members were stationed on an island just off Bimini when Hurricane Andrew slammed The Bahamas with ferocious winds that topped 200 miles an hour.

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Tent cities for GB and Abaco

THE government may create a memorial site where The Mudd and Pigeon Peas once stood as the country’s largest shanty town communities - and is also considering tent cities to get people back to Grand Bahama and Abaco, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said yesterday.

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Code violations: Tip-offs wanted

Under-staffed regulators cannot catch all building code and planning violators without tip-offs from law-abiding Bahamians, a Cabinet minister has revealed to Tribune Business . Desmond Bannister, minister of works, told this newspaper in a recent i

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Abaco mom releases memoir on loving and losing children with sickle cell

In her newly released, deeply emotional memoir, Zetta Sylvia Baillou-Poitier shares the challenges of raising children with sickle cell disease and the pain of losing her daughter.

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Tearful reaction to movie telling the story of how every child counts

NO HEART was left untouched or unmoved in the audience of the world premiere of an international documentary film featuring a special needs school in Abaco that refuses to leaves any child behind.

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Softball: National Round Robin Championship set to start tonight

IF you enjoyed the competitive Austin Knowles National High School Softball Tournament at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex over the weekend, Bahamas Softball Federation president Burkett Dorsett says you won’t want to miss the National Round Robin Softball Championship Tournament which starts tonight