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Providence Storm Basketball Club Holiday Classic gets underway

COUPLE OF UPSETS ON DAY 1 OF FOUR-DAY TOURNAMENT

DAY one of the 2022 Providence Storm Basketball Club Holiday Classic saw a couple of upsets from the Jordan Prince Williams Falcons and the Charles W Saunders Crusaders yesterday at the CI Gibson Gymnasium.

William ‘Knucklehead’ Johnson Cross Country Invitational was a success

THE sixth edition of the William “Knucklehead” Johnson Cross Country Invitational saw athletes come out in droves to compete at the Bahamas Golf Federations’s (BGF) Baillou Hills Sporting Complex Golf Course on Saturday morning.

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Falcons win first BAISS senior boys softball title

The third time around proved to be the charm for the Jordan Prince Williams Falcons as they finally won their first Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) senior boys softball title.

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Shaunae Miller wins Lausanne 400m with sub 50 second run

IT WAS another milestone for Shaunae Miller and Bahamas athletics. Competing at the IAAF Athletissima Golden League Meeting in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday, Miller ran a personal best 400m as she became only the third Bahamian woman to dip under the 50-seconds barrier.

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Murder jury discharged

A MURDER retrial will have to begin yet again after a jury was discharged “in the interests of justice”.

Top restaurant’s manager laments COVID measures

An executive with a prominent restaurant says the tighter COVID restrictions “don’t make any sense” as he lamented the earlier curfew, indoor dining prohibition and discrimination in favour of hotels.

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Pair accused of murder claim they were beaten in custody by police

TWO men accused of murder alleged yesterday they were beaten and suffocated by police while in custody to admit to a crime they say they did not commit.

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Social media campaign against illegal coal venture gathers support

A social media campaign detailing an illegal coal venture near his home has gathered wide-spread support for one Excellence Estate resident and could offer some resolution to a problem that has plagued his community for more than three years.

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Killer's death penalty set aside

THE COURT of Appeal yesterday ordered a murder convict to be resentenced by the Supreme Court after they set aside the death penalty imposed on him for the murder of a policeman who was killed in the line of duty outside The Tribune.

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Eight Mile Rock Blue Jays win national title

VINDERO Lightfoot struggled shooting the ball all night, but his final trip to the line sealed the national title for his Eight Mile Rock Blue Jays.

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NCAA Rowing: Emily Morley and Bombers finish 6th overall in varsity eight grand final

GOLD RIVER, California — The nationally-ranked Ithaca College women’s crew team, featuring Bahamian Emily Morley, wrapped up its season on Saturday as the Bombers placed sixth overall in the varsity eight grand final at the NCAA Division III Rowing Championship on Lake Natoma. 

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Olympic champion Shaunae on top of Diamond Standings for 400

IN 2004, Tonique Williams-Darling achieved the lofty goals of an Olympic title and the IAAF Golden League Jackpot in the 400m.

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DNA rival urges voters to throw out Fitzgerald

Democratic National Alliance Marathon candidate Emily Williams has urged voters not to re-elect current MP Jerome Fitzgerald given his controversial track record with the Rubis Gas Leak and his most recent legal woes stemming from the disclosure of private emails in parliament which saw him fined $150,000 by a Supreme Court judge.

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Marathon women conquer the six Abbott World Marathon Majors

TWO dynamic Bahamian female athletes have recently paced their way into an elite circle of international marathon runners when they completed the 16th edition of the Tokyo Marathon. Shavaughn Blades and Linda Williams, who are both members of The Bahamas Roadmasters Running Club (BRRC), were among the 38,000 marathon runners. The 26.2 miles race event was held on Sunday, March 5, in Tokyo, Japan.

US prosecutor confident on Bankman-Fried case

US PROSECUTORS yesterday voiced confidence they have sufficient evidence to convict FTX’s embattled founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, on charges that he “misappropriated billions of dollars of customer funds”.

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Former amateur boxer Kieshno Major now IBA certified coach

KIESHNO Major is now the latest former amateur boxer to become an International Boxing Association Star 1 certified coach in the Bahamas.

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Agape Eagles Junior Boys take crown

THERE was much cause for celebrations for coach Stephan Johnson and his Agape Eagles, even if it took eight years to achieve it.

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‘OVERWHELMED’: Nurses’ leader says staff struggling with stream of new COVID patients

AN increase of COVID-19 hospital admissions is overwhelming public sector nurses who are already strained by “poor” working conditions, Bahamas Nurses Union president Amancha Williams said yesterday.

Talks aim to settle nursing dispute

THE Bahamas Nurses Union has not yet applied to the Department of Labour for permission to hold a strike vote concerning its dispute with the Public Hospitals Authority over a shift system, Labour Director Robert Farquharson said yesterday.

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Showdown looms over nurses’ shift patterns

THE Public Hospitals Authority appeared to be on a collision course with nurses yesterday, announcing it will implement a new shift system for them on December 10 despite objections from the Bahamas Nurses Union.