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PM touts Bahamas' 'reliable electricity'

THE Prime Minister described the Bahamas as having a “constant and reliable electricity supply of North American standards” as he sought to ‘sell’ this nation to technology investors.Dr Hubert Minnis’s speech to the Austin Technology Council and Texa

$5m Solar Energy Park planned for Grand Bahama

A NEW $5-million Solar Energy Park capable of generating 4.5 million kilowatt hours annually of clean, renewable energy is expected to be built in Grand Bahama in the Spring of next year.

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Bahamas bounces back with win over Suriname

AFTER losing the opening game of the FIBA U17 Centrobasket Championship for Women 53-39 to Costa Rica, the Bahamas bounced back on Thursday to take their frustration out on Suriname with a 86-69 rout.

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BOC has two major issues to deal with in next few months

Who will form the new executive board and who will become the new official sponsors of the Bahamas Olympic Committee?

Bahamas enjoying 15% funds growth

THE Bahamas saw a 15 per cent year-over-year increase in funds registered and domiciled in this nation in 2013, the Financial Services Minister said yesterday.

Bahamas must 'make best case' for itself on bank consolidation

The Bahamas must continue to “make the best case” for itself in the face of continuing industry consolidation, a top financial executive saying she did not subscribe to “the gloom and doom” surrounding recent local downsizings.

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All that jazz

The Bahamas National Commission to UNESCO highlighted jazz, the love of the art form and its history in the Bahamas by presenting International Jazz Day.

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Ex-Sky Bahamas chief’s ‘compliance nightmare’

Sky Bahamas principal says he is enduring “a compliance nightmare” as the now-defunct airline “lives to fight another day” in the battle over its former Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) hangar.

OECD alters rules for Bahamas ‘half way through game’

A Bahamian QC yesterday accused the OECD of “changing the rules half way through the game” by attempting to force this nation into abandoning its preferred approach for implementing automatic tax information exchange.

$250m resort developer: We want to be with ‘best of best’

The developer behind Grand Bahama’s $250m Six Senses project yesterday said he wants it to be viewed “at the top level of resort development in the world” with a construction start targeted for early 2024.

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Handgun handed into police in Grand Bahama

A HANDGUN, containing four live rounds of ammunition, was discovered in the Eight Mile Rock area on Thursday and handed into Grand Bahama police.

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Bahamian beauty working to protect beauty of the nation

MISS Earth Bahamas Darronique Young began her work as a “beauty with a cause” when she met with principals of the Bahamas National Trust, to which she is assigned for a year.

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On Da Hook

The latest Bahamas Sport Fishing Network (BSFN) slideshow - What’s the catch? Terrific tuna caught in The Bahamas - is attracting plenty of interest since being posted last week.

Bahamas Bowl announcers named

VETERAN ESPN SportsCenter anchor and college football commentator Steve Levy, 1991 Heisman Trophy winner and Super Bowl XXXI MVP Desmond Howard and sideline reporter Laura Rutledge will call the 2017 Bahamas Bowl.The big game is between UAB (8-4) and

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Scotia teams with BFSB to promote sector in Canada

Scotiabank has announced it will join forces with the Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB) to help promote this nation to the Canadian market.

Bahamas 23rd as captive domicile

The Bahamas Financial Services Board (BFSB) has hosted a half-day Insurance Industry briefing, in collaboration with the Insurance Commission, the Ministry of Financial Services and the Insurance Institute of the Bahamas.

47 Cuban migrants apprehended in Bahamas

FORTY SEVEN Cuban migrants have been intercepted at sea in the Bahamas over the past two days this week, according to Bahamas Immigration officials.

Several months before a new ambulance arrives for West Grand Bahama, says PHA

THE Public Hospitals Authority said it would take several months before a new ambulance reaches West Grand Bahama.

SHIPYARD WORKER ELECTROCUTED IN ACCIDENT

FREEPORT - A man is said to be in critical condition at the Rand Memorial Hospital after being electrocuted at the Grand Bahama Shipyard. Sources identified the 35-year-old victim as Ali Isusin, a Romanian resident of Grand Bahama. The Shipyard employee

SHIPYARD WORKER ELECTROCUTED IN ACCIDENT

FREEPORT - A man is said to be in critical condition at the Rand Memorial Hospital after being electrocuted at the Grand Bahama Shipyard. Sources identified the 35-year-old victim as Ali Isusin, a Romanian resident of Grand Bahama. The Shipyard employee