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Lyford Cay International Schools sends delegates to Model UN Symposium

LYFORD Cay International School sent a team of 11 delegates and two chaperones to the Model United Nations Symposium in Montreal, Canada.

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FNM hits back at 10-point list

THE governing FNM has responded to the 10-point list of complaints about the economy issued by the PLP, calling them "false, hypocritical attacks that distort and even ignore the FNM's record"

Term limits

I see that Opposition Leader Dr Hubert Minnis is once again talking about term limits for a prime minister. Dr. Minnis is clearly not capable of learning. After three years as FNM Leader, he keeps making the same mistakes and repeating the same old foolishness. He is also a big hypocrite when it comes to term-limits.

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Trial of woman accused of harbouring convict underway

THE trial of a woman accused of harbouring escaped murder convict Ormand Leon opened in Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

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Strike team found escaped murderer

A POLICE search that lasted two weeks ended Wednesday night when a special team of officers arrested escaped convicted murderer Ormand Leon at a home in bushes on Fire Trail Road.

Better forms of corporate giving

People often refer to Christmas as the season of giving. It is a time when most corporate donors ‘show their shape’ and give to charitable organisations, churches, the homeless and other non-profit entities.

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‘Bringing in FBI shows crime pledge was untrue’

FREE National Movement Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest said that the government’s decision to bring in a special task force from the US’ Federal Bureau of Investigation to assist local law enforcement with crime, proves the Progressive Liberal Party was not truthful about having the solution to crime in 2012.

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Exumians ‘very excited about having Byron Scott in town’

AFTER spending the past month hosting his 28th annual basketball camp at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, Jeff Rodgers returned to Exuma this week for the third consecutive year to provide an opportunity for the young people on the island to experience the same type of environment to learn the game.

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Man on bail is shot and killed

A 23-year-old man on bail and being electronically monitored was shot multiple times and killed early yesterday morning, feet away from his McCullough Corner home.

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HMBS Rolly Gray commissioned in Exuma

THE fourth of nine patrol vessels acquired for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force has been named after legendary Bahamian sailor, Rolly Gray, and been commissioned during an official ceremony at the Marina at Emerald Bay, Exuma, on Thursday.

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DNA: Time for solutions to third-world thinking

LAST weekend’s island-wide blackout is the result of “third world thinkers refusing to look at modern options,” Democratic National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said yesterday.

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Government considering 'lock down' proposals

NATIONAL Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage yesterday said the government is giving “consideration” to a “lock down” of notorious crime areas in the capital, but only “to the extent that the law permits it”.

Has Gomez read his own bill?

There is an old joke and it has never been so true than in recent times: “How do you know when a politician is lying? When their lips are moving!” I have put a quote from Dr Gomez below which was in The Tribune August 11.

EDITORIAL: No place for those who would harm officers

THE injury suffered by a police officer yesterday brings home the reality of the dangers that our law enforcement officials face on the streets every day.

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Munroe continues defence of TCI police operation

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe has defended government’s decisions to send law enforcement to the Turks and Caicos Islands amid public concerns and escalating crime in The Bahamas.

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Coalition gives govt ‘14 days’ to act on migration

MEMBERS of the Coalition of Independents protested outside the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday over what they term to be an immigration crisis in the country.

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Munroe: Zero tolerance towards rogue officers

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said yesterday that he has a zero-tolerance approach towards “rogue” officers.

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Victim found dead on septic tank

THE country recorded another homicide yesterday after a man was found dead at Butler’s Alley off Carmichael Road.

Food authority warns on peanut butter recall alert

THE Bahamas Agricultural Health and Food Safety Authority has advised the public to be on high alert after a number of Jif Peanut Butter products were recently recalled in the United States due to concerns about potential salmonella contamination.