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Six teams hoist trophies

35TH FATHER MARCIAN PETERS INVITATIONAL BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT

Six teams hoisted their championship trophies in the 35th Father Marcian Peters Basketball Tournament yesterday evening at the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium.

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Mullings: ‘I was happy with my performance’

Ken Mullings will probably not forget his golden opportunity to get on the podium at the World Indoor Championships in Glasgow, Scotland, on Sunday.

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Complaints of slow process at advance poll for West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election

VOTERS arrived early and queued despite inclement weather yesterday as the advance poll took place for the West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election.

Contractor chief challenges ‘short sighted’ stadium deal

THE Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president yesterday argued it was “short-sighted” not to ensure the national stadium’s overhaul involves skills and knowledge transfer by the Chinese.

Cargill BSF president for another four years

FOR another four years, Algernon Cargill will serve as president of the Bahamas Swimming Federation.

Govt urged: Regain our air space quicker

A Bahamian airline operator yesterday hailed the Government for saving him $100,000 in annual payments to US regulators, but warned it to rapidly proceed with taking back control of all this nation’s air space.

Minister: Govt must be ‘more forceful’ on South Ocean resort

A Cabinet minister has suggested that the Government needs to be “more forceful” with South Ocean’s owner if it wishes to see renewed economic activity at the long-closed resort.

Making sense of PM Perry Christie’s obscene gesture

IT took Sir Lynden O Pindling a quarter of a century to be dubbed the worst leader in modern Bahamian history - surpassing the infamous United Bahamian Party government under Sir Roland Symonette and Sir Stafford Sands, the so-called white oligarchy.

EDITORIAL: What do you mean, free speech has limits?

THE words uttered by the erstwhile hard-working, well-meaning Attorney General Carl Bethel this week “free speech has limits” should have sent chills up and down the spine of every Bahamian citizen or individual resident in this country.

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Davis: FNM 'mistruths' impacted poll

THE Free National Movement’s “mistruths” ahead of the 2017 general election heavily impacted Public Domain’s poll showing a slump in the Minnis administration’s popularity, Progressive Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis insisted yesterday.He a

Fishing regulations suspended after 40% booking fall

THE Government has suspended the flats fishing regulations after their “hasty crafting and poor implementation” was blamed for up to a 40 per cent fall in bonefish lodge bookings.

Politicians who have nine lives

WHATSOEVER a man sows that shall he reap, said St Paul to the Galatians. Jerome Fitzgerald is learning about this reciprocal principle firsthand.

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Hall says it’s not his job to check disclosures accuracy

AMIDST mounting controversy over the accuracy of disclosures filed by election candidates last week, both Parliamentary Commissioner Sherlyn Hall and Public Disclosure Commission Chairman Myles Laroda said yesterday they were not responsible for verifying the data put forward by candidates, insisting that responsibility lies with other government agencies.

Ex-minister: VAT break ‘inherited’ from Sarkis

Baha Mar’s new owner will likely have “inherited” its Value-Added Tax (VAT) exemptions from Sarkis Izmirlian, a former finance minister saying “any developer worth his salt” would have sought protection from new taxes.

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A COMIC'S VIEW: ‘I went to bed in Fort Charlotte and woke up in Mount Moriah’

The ‘Green Room’ in any comedy club can be extremely brutal, with comedians trading jabs and barbs.

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Baha Mar chief's fear over crime

ON THE heels of a murder spree in the capital, Graeme Davis, Chow Tai Fook Enterprises (CTFE) Bahamas president, yesterday suggested that if the Christie administration is unable to control crime, the country’s tourism product could be headed in a negative direction.

Winter tourism fears on union 'work-to-rule'

Unionised employees were yesterday placed on “work to rule” at most of Nassau’s major resorts in a move likely to raise fears for this week’s key Thanksgiving holiday weekend.Darrin Woods, pictured, the Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Unio

Unshackle our Family Islands

Some writers have recently brought forth the importance of immediately acting on the idea of democracy, most especially the revision of our local government laws.

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'Armed robbery motive in murder case'

A LEAD police investigator said armed robbery was the motive behind the home invasion that occurred in Deadman’s Reef where a couple were shot to death in September 2015, the Supreme Court heard on Wednesday. Det Sgt 772 Lorenzo Johnson said co-accu

Was 2017 a year of mistakes?

WAS the choice of a new Government on May 10, on one part a massive relief vanquishing the PLP and Rt Hon Perry Christie but on the other hand electing a party whose leader just did not have the leadership qualities or plans needed?