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Boy, 15, dies in new gun attack

A 15-year-old boy is the country’s latest murder victim after a shooting off Prison Lane last night.

Govt asked: Do all GBPA licensees get 20-year tax breaks?

The Government was yesterday urged to clarify whether it will grant Freeport businesses an automatic 20-year extension of their expired tax breaks, amid general acclaim for its pledge to “roll back” the Christie administration’s impositions.

Teachers' and pupils' grief over murder

GRIEF-STRICKEN educators at Albury Sayle Primary School yesterday mourned not only the tragic killing of third-grader Eugene Woodside, but crime’s relentless attack on the hopes of inner-city youth.

CULTURE CLASH: A twerking schoolgirl - where’s the real problem?

ONCE again a video of high school students has made its rounds on social media.

GB Power’s $15m investment to ‘set bar for Caribbean’

GB Power Company will invest $15 million in upgrading its transmission and distribution (T&D) system over the next five years, as it aims “to set the Caribbean bar for energy reliability”.

INSIGHT: Everything to lose and so little to gain

PRIME Minister Hubert Minnis has been unwavering - perhaps even deluded in his claim that his government will save The Bahamas. But save The Bahamas from whom? It is his own government that could be poised to plunge it into economic ruin.

Bahamasair loses Supreme Court 'jurisdiction' challenge

Bahamasair’s challenge to the Supreme Court’s “jurisdiction” to hear employee unfair dismissal cases has been rejected by the Court of Appeal.The national flag carrier’s bid to overturn an award made to Omar Ferguson, a former customer service agent,

High jumper Wilson wins title, ready for World Indoors

JAMAL Wilson feels his consistency in the men’s high jump this year will enable him to go to the IAAF World Indoor Championships and compete very well against the rest of the top-notch competitors next month. Over the weekend at the 2018 Samford Inv

FIBA: Team Bahamas looks to focus on defence

WHEN the second leg of the FIBA World Cup is played on Thursday and Sunday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, the key word for Team Bahamas against the Dominican Republic and Canada will be defence. Team Bahamas, with a 13-member team selected, will pl

Bahamian group in cruise port proposal

A 50-plus Bahamian investor group has submitted a proposal to take over management of Nassau’s cruise port as part of wider plans to grow the capital’s tourism industry.The group, which first proposed a “cultural village” development for Arawak Cay u

Tech firm opening 'is only the beginning'

GIBC Digital officially opened its offices on Grand Bahama on Wednesday as the first of many companies that will help develop a new technology sector on the island.Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest welcomed CEO Greg Wood and his team to Freeport

Leave term limits alone

Must we copy-cat the United States on everything they do, even the dumb stuff? The government wants to tinker with the Constitution by imitating the American practice of limiting their president to two terms in office.

Senior Doctors hit back at Sands over ‘non performing clinicians’ comments

A WEEK after junior doctors complained of their substandard terms of service in the public healthcare system, senior doctors did the same yesterday, focusing their ire on Health Minister Dr Duane Sands and his recent talk of “non-performing clinicians”.

Roach 33rd overall in historic triathlon feat

GOLD COAST, Australia — Cameron Roach will take a lot away from his historic debut here in the men’s triathlon at the XXI Commonwealth Games.As the first Bahamian to compete in the swim, bike and run combined event, Roach was 33rd overall out of a fi

A CARIBBEAN PERSPECTIVE: Tax rules we can’t meet, unity we must not avoid

The financial services sector of Caribbean jurisdictions - and other parts of the developing world - have been under continuous assault by the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) since the mid-1990s.

Shaunae surges to victory

SHAUNAE Miller-Uibo, running with a heavy heart, relied on some extra external help from her late spiritual leader to boost a fantastic comeback victory in the Muller Grand Prix women’s 200 metres as the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s Diamond League’s 12-race series came to a close on Saturday in Birmingham, England, and with the finals looming in two weeks.

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