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Praise in Parliament for Major League hopefuls

Accolades continue to pour in for the dynamic trio of Bahamian teenagers recently chosen in the 2014 Major League Baseball Draft.

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'Make the right decision on Sir Arthur's successor'

FREE National Movement Deputy Leader Loretta-Butler-Turner is hopeful the government will make the right decision on the appointment of a new governor general amid a revelation that Dame Marguerite Pindling owes hundreds of thousands of dollars in real property taxes.

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Lifeless body found in Christie Park, police on scene

POLICE are reporting they are on the scene of a murder in Christie Park, Nassau Street, on Tuesday morning.

Resort lay-offs raise query over $110m expansion

The Opposition’s deputy leader yesterday questioned why the Government kept touting a purported $110 million expansion at the Deep Water Cay resort when it had just terminated nine staff.

No severance for 2,026 terminated Baha Mar staffers

The 2,026 terminated Baha Mar employees will not receive due severance pay and all benefits owed to them, amid increasing uncertainty over the $3.5 billion project’s fate come November 2.

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SWAT officers on street after latest killing

DOZENS of heavily armed SWAT officers locked down Nassau Village yesterday afternoon, moments after a 22-year-old father of one was shot multiple times and killed while walking in the area.

PM ‘two hats’ give overly-optimistic economic outlook

The Prime Minister’s ‘wearing of two hats’ is delivering an overly-optimistic economic outlook, as key indicators fail to justify his forecasts “just yet”.

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Symonette says Mitchell’s Baha Mar comments not appropriate for a Cabinet minister

FORMER Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Brent Symonette yesterday said recent statements made by Fred Mitchell about Baha Mar CEO Sarkis Izmirlian sent the wrong message to foreign investors.

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Special reception held in honour of Thompson family

THE nearly week-long celebration of the Thompson family and their prowess on the NBA hardwood continued as the Government of the Bahamas hosted a reception in their honour.

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‘Psych tests for all developers’

LABOUR Minister Shane Gibson yesterday defended Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell’s public warnings to Baha Mar CEO Sarkis Izmirlian, and suggested that the government should now begin performing “psychological evaluations” on all foreign developers seeking to do business in this country.

Public Accounts Committee to meet this week on Urban Renewal

 THE House of Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee will meet on Wednesday to determine the way forward in its probe on Urban Renewal 2.0, PAC Chairman Hubert Chipman said yesterday.

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Urban Renewal co-chairs are ‘eager’ to appear before Public Accounts Committee

URBAN Renewal Co-Chair Algernon Allen yesterday said he and Cynthia “Mother” Pratt are “eager” to finally appear before the Public Accounts Committee to give an account for the government’s controversial programme.

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Apologies for ‘stress’ caused by fuel spill

AMIDST widespread criticism for delays in making a Black and Veatch International report on the Rubis underground gasoline leak public, key members of the Christie administration yesterday laid out remediation plans and insisted that recommendations made in that report were acted on “immediately”.

Canadian banks stand firm on web shop bar

CIBC FirstCaribbean’s Bahamian managing director yesterday confirmed the three Canadian-owned banks were standing firmly behind their position not to accept deposits from a legalised web shop industry.

Scotiabank to undertake more downsize briefings

Scotiabank (Bahamas) executives will meet this week with the Ministry of Labour to formally present details of its restructuring plan, which will result in branch closures and lay-offs.

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Minnis says FNM will not relent in calling for Gray to quit

FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday insisted that his party will be unrelenting in its calls for the full resignation of MICAL MP V Alfred Gray from the Cabinet post of minister of agriculture and marine resources over his alleged interference in the court case of a resident from his Mayaguana constituency.

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Govt incompetence blamed for referendum delay

FORMER FNM Deputy Leader Loretta Butler-Turner suggested that the government “incompetence” is to blame for any further delays to the proposed referendum on gender equality.

BEC field is narrowed; no preferred bidders

The Government’s advisers will today announce that the bidding field for the Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) restructuring has been narrowed further, although no winners have yet been selected.

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The view on the street over gambling

DESPITE the majority vote against the legalising of web shops and establishing a national lottery last year, the Gaming bill to legalise web shops has been passed by Parliament.

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Grand Bahama Port Authority co-owner Sir Jack Hayward dies

SIR Jack Hayward, honorary chairman and co-owner of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, died yesterday in Fort Lauderdale, Florida after battling an illness for several months. He was 91.