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FOUR STRAIGHT: Spanish Wells Bulldogs win annual Austin ‘King Snake’ Knowles National High School senior boys’ softball championship title

The Spanish Wells Bulldogs won the Bahamas Softball Federation’s annual Austin ‘King Snake’ Knowles National High School senior boys’ softball championship title for the fourth consecutive year.

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FACE TO FACE: Two young women in the fight to protect our planet

All around the world, countries are looking at ways to address climate change and the devastating impact that emissions from fossil fuels and other contaminants are causing to planet Earth. The Bahamas is no different.

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FACE TO FACE: What happened next to Sweet Emily, the Queen of Junkanoo

She was the biggest female name in Bahamian music. Her songs are still played, sung and loved to this day.

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Sister denies she knows the Fox Hill shooters

A woman yesterday denied a defence attorney’s assertions that she knows who the perpetrator of the 2013 Fox Hill mass shooting really is but is afraid to call his name because of his notoriety as a member of a “dope gang” in the community.Euphemia Da

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Athletes qualify for the Carifta games

SIX athletes attained the qualifying standard for the 2020 CARIFTA Games to highlight the third annual DTSP Wolf Pack/Rose Cleare Track Classic on Saturday at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium. Leading the way was Anthaya Charlton in the

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THE PETER YOUNG COLUMN: Following in some mighty footsteps

Since the US media tends to concentrate on domestic news and, nowadays, in particular on the behaviour and tribulations of their President, it is hardly surprising that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s visit to Pakistan last week has not attracted much attention this side of the Atlantic. During a jam-packed five-day tour, which was the first royal visit there for a decade, the general view has been that they did not put a foot wrong on what was their own first trip to the country and that overall it was an outstanding success.

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FACE TO FACE: A helping hand from a man I’ll never forget

HE was the shepherd of one of the oldest Baptist churches in The Bahamas and longest continuing Baptist church in the Caribbean. He presided over an entire convention of churches across the United States and the region. He was a nation builder and community leader. He was a husband, father, uncle and friend.

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FRONT PORCH: Where’s our appetite for moving towards a republic?

ON one of his trips to a Family Island to discuss independence for The Bahamas, Sir Lynden Pindling was confronted by an older lady who accepted the country should become a sovereign nation. But she added a warning cum proviso: “We’re going to keep the Queen though!?”

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UPDATED - Sacked: 61 jobs go at Ocean Club

MORE than 60 employees, including management and line staff, have been fired from the One&Only Ocean Club for “performance based” reasons, with the hotel’s reported dissatisfaction over unsavoury guest reviews about its staff serving as the primary reason for conducting pre-Christmas layoffs.

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RATTLERS RETAKE CLASSIC TROPHY

By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net WITH the key big men on both teams fouled out, the CI Gibson Rattlers got a 1-2 punch from Lamont Armaly and Kristen Francis to win the Providence Holiday Basketball Classic for the first ti

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TOUGH CALL: Sketches under the sun

THE following is an excerpt from Bahamas Sketchbook, Islands in the Sun, a new hardcover picture book by acclaimed watercolour artist Graham Byfield which launches next month.

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Gov't will not 'relinquish landfill control'

The Government will “not be relinquishing control” of the Tonique Williams-Darling Highway landfill, a Cabinet Minister has confirmed, although private sector involvement in waste-to-energy is going to be allowed.

Meet our athletes

TEAM BAHAMAS profiles for the inaugural IAAF World Relays Bahamas at the new Thomas A Robinson National Stadium this weekend:

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Team Bahamas 2nd overall

Team Bahamas improved on last year’s performance and in their role as hosts with a second-place finish at the 47th Flow CARIFTA Track and Field Championships.

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Sands: ‘I’m disappointed in the final outcome’

It was a humbling but disappointing experience for incumbent Mike Sands on Saturday as he was ousted as president of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations by Rosamunde Carey.

Sports notes

THE top scorer in Financial Bowling League competition last night was Dwayne Ingraham of Best Deal Kirki Bar with a 533 high three game set. Runner-up MVP was Kevin B Williams of Strike Force with a 201 high game and a 528 second high set.Rashad McCardy of Davis & Co Moonlight Strikers downed the pins for a respectable 198 second high game.

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES 11062015

Cycling Club Bahamas. - Upcoming events: Saturday - leaving 6am sharp from Harbour Bay Shopping Centre in front of First Caribbean Bank 30 miles headed west. In order to complete this ride, it is recommended that you have done some recent cycling. Leaving P/I Bridges optional at the end.

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Duo take the spotlight in classic all-star classic match-up

LIVINGSTON Munnings and Michael Bain went out on a scoring spree as the New Providence Basketball Association’s All-Star Classic turned out to be one for the ages on Friday night at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.

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THE Bankers Athletic Association is all set to open its 2016 Bankers Slow Pitch season in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday.

When will Americans give up their ‘inalienable rights’ - guns?

“AT some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.