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HIT, RUN, SCORE: Inaugural Babe Ruth Region Caribbean Championships Day 1 highlights

Day one of the inaugural Babe Ruth Region Caribbean Championships and Invitational featured both close games and lopsided results to set the tone for an exciting weekend of youth baseball at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

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FRONT PORCH: A new mission for a new monarch

THE helmeted Britannia figure, a Corinthian-like female warrior armed with a trident and protected with a shield, is the personification and symbolic representation of Great Britain and the now defunct British Empire.

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Darville: $50m in unbudgeted debt when I took office

HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville said yesterday that upon taking office he found about $50m in unbudgeted debt in his ministry.

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FNM founding member hopes Gibson will win legal fight

FNM founding member Maurice Moore is hoping the outcome will be successful for Long Island MP Adrian Gibson when he faces the court in connection with numerous abuse of power allegations during his tenure as executive chairman of the Water and Sewerage Corporation.

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Bahamas’ 20% shrink ‘not seen in worst crisis’

Bahamian economic output shrunk by a “remarkable” 20 percent in 2020, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economist said yesterday, branding this COVID-induced plunge as “something you don’t see in the worst crisis”.

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Woman, aged 96, dies of COVID-19

OFFICIALS reported another COVID-19 related death yesterday.

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‘I’m here on my merits’

NEWLY appointed Deputy Commissioner Leamond Deleveaux says it is “unfair” for people to assert his rise to the police force’s second-in-command came about in a bid to pacify him after being sidelined by the Minnis administration.

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Ian Winder to be new Chief Justice

IAN Winder was yesterday named as successor to Chief Justice Sir Brian Moree who officially retires on August 4. The appointment will take effect on August 5.

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ECONOMY CRASHED $9.5BN FROM COVID: Full impact of crisis laid bare - including $2.4bn in lost wages

THE impact of COVID-19 on the Bahamian economy has been pegged at $9.5bn, according to a joint study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC).

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Inaugural Babe Ruth Region Caribbean Championships and Invitational starts today

THE top national youth baseball programmes across the region are in the capital this weekend for the inaugural Babe Ruth Region Caribbean Championships and Invitational.

COVID imposes $120m public health system cost

A Cabinet minister yesterday said COVID-19 has cost the public health system some $120m to-date, leaving it with $50m in “unbudgeted debt” which he discovered upon taking office.

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DevCO slams concrete maker over ‘gross underperformance’

The Grand Bahama Development Company (DevCO) has accused a concrete manufacturer or “gross contractual underperformance” and asserted that it cannot continue to grant it an aggregate monopoly that excludes local rivals.

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Mangrove Mania seeks to replenish forests

THE organisers of ‘Mangrove Mania’ are extremely thankful to Ann Marie Davis, wife of Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis, and Minister of Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey for participating in the official kick-off of the country’s first-ever competition aimed at restoring and replenishing the Bahamas’ vitally important, critically threatened mangrove forests.

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COVID collapse sparked rare $1.7bn ‘dual deficit’

Tourism’s “collapse” at COVID-19’s peak “exposed the fragility” of The Bahamas’ current economic model by producing rare twin goods and services trade deficits worth a combined $1.7bn.

Job fair for Royal Caribbean International

ROYAL Caribbean International will host a job fair on July 7 and 8, as it looks to fill vacancies for its private island experience Perfect Day at Coco Cay in the Berry Islands.

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Buddy: ‘We didn’t match their physicality’

NATIONAL Basketball Association player Chavano “Buddy” Hield said he couldn’t ask for more support than they got from the Bahamian public for the men’s national team matchup against the Dominican Republic.

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Teams arriving for Babe Ruth Caribbean Championships

While workmen are busy completing the final cosmetic work to the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex, teams are starting to arrive for the Babe Ruth 12-and-under Caribbean Championships and the 16-and-under Invitational.

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Coach McPhee-McCuin makes her presence felt

SHE made history as the first Bahamian female to serve as a coach on the men’s national basketball team. But Grand Bahamian Yolett McPhee-McCuin has assured the females that she won’t abandon them as the team’s head coach.

GB Chamber targeting SME boost for island’s West End

The Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce president yesterday said the group is aiming to stimulate small and medium-sized business growth in the island’s West End after the latest bid to acquire the former Ginn project foundered.

Retailers enjoying rebound in Independence Day sales

Retailers yesterday said Independence Day sales are much stronger than last year with one reporting a 10 percent year-over-year increase.