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Grand Bahamians set to be honoured at awards banquet

SOME of the pioneers of softball and baseball in Grand Bahama will be honoured during the Rising Stars Softball’s Pioneers Awards Banquet on Friday, January 26 at Blair House on Magellan Drive, Lucaya.

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Tyrone and Zachary emerge as champions

TYRONE Brown and Zachary Young emerged as the walk and run champions of the fourth Bain and Grants Town Dr Bernard Nottage Fun Run/Walk race held on Saturday.

Teams advance in baiss sudden death playoffs

FOUR teams advanced to the championship round of the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) playoffs last night while their potential opponents square off today at the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium.

Our passive response is concerning

The Bahamian business community now appears alarmingly complacent in the face of escalating government overreach. It’s as though we’ve surrendered our spirit of defiance, meekly swallowing whatever directives and mandates are imposed upon us by policymakers. This worrying trend of passivity, where voices that used to question and challenge now remain eerily silent, is reshaping our business landscape.

Atlantis shop steward’s firing incites protests

The hotel union’s president yesterday said he expects the “law to take its course” as a small group of workers protested at the Department of Labour against Atlantis’ decision to fire a shop steward.

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NPBA: Shockers stun the Caribs 82-59

THE University of the Bahamas Caribs, coming off a 2-1 performance in the Sun Coast Men’s Basketball Classic last week, suffered their first loss of the New Providence Basketball Association regular season.

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Bahamas Olympic Committee president Rommel Knowles expressed their gratitude to the family of the late Barbara Thompson on her passing on Wednesday.

MCKINNEY: ‘EVERYTHING GOING GOOD’ FOR TEAM BAHAMAS

GOLD Coast, Australia — Team manager Ralph McKinney said everything is looking good for the athletic team.

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UB partners with Caribbean and US experts on new studies

Hampton University (HU) and the University of the Bahamas (UB) are collaborating with experts in the fields of public health, population health, clinical health and research to address health disparities in the Caribbean and the United States through

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50th murder victim of year found dead in road

THE country recorded its sixth murder in six days, after a 23-year-old man was found shot to death in Coconut Grove early on Tuesday.

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‘I got out and I was able to finish it off strong’

MEN’S national 400 metre record holder Steven Gardiner said Friday’s IAAF Diamond League victory was just an indication of what to come from him this year.

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Hearing adjourned as Rufa continues to be denied entry to country

THE attorney for Bruno Rufa on Thursday made a request for his criminal trial to be dismissed in the Magistrate’s Court because of the continued refusal by government to allow his client entry to The Bahamas for his trial in Grand Bahama.

Finally, post office has working AC

THE air-conditioning unit at the General Post Office has finally been replaced, Minister of Transport and Local Government Frankie Campbell confirmed yesterday.

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‘Five sloops sailed for Bahamas last week’

IMMIGRATION officials have received information that five Haitian sloops “are on the way” to the Bahamas, according to Kirklyn Neely, head of the Immigration Department’s Enforcement Unit.

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PRESS BOX: Bahamian makes history in professional wrestling

WHAT a nice surprise I had late the other night while flipping through the cable channels.

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FIDA to salute Senior Justice Estelle G Gray-Evans

In observance of the United Nation’s International Women’s Day 2021, the International Federation of Women’s Lawyers (FIDA) Grand Bahama Chapter announced plans to highlight Senior Justice Estelle G. Gray-Evans.

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UPDATED: Body of man is found on track road

A MAN was found dead yesterday on a track road off Graham Drive in Yellow Elder Gardens with apparent gunshot wounds.

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$10,000 fine for illegally using fishing apparatus

A Bahamian fishing boat captain was fined $10,000 for using illegal fishing apparatus to catch over $20,000 worth of fisheries in the Cay Sal Bank area.Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans fined 26-year-old Jeffrey Jolly for admitting to using an air

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Dr Timothy McCartney dies from COVID virus

THE psychiatric community is mourning the loss of Dr Timothy McCartney, who died yesterday in Florida from COVID-19. He was 87 years old.

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THE New Providence Basketball Association is slated to play one game at 8pm tonight when the Mr Ship It Freight Regulators take on the Pirates at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.