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Shining bright in women’s college basketball

ON the women’s side of NCAA Division I basketball, the Bahamas has had one coach continuing her team’s win streak and one player setting new career highs.

Macedonia Baptist Church celebrates 52 years

Macedonia Baptist Church will its celebrate 52nd anniversary on Sunday, May 27. A special anniversary service will be held at 4pm when a number of churches will participate. The guest speaker will be Rev Trajean Jadorette, pastor of New Covenant Bapt

Pair accused over guns and drugs

TWO men and a woman who denied being in possession of two loaded firearms and a quantity of marijuana will stand trial later this year.

Winners for Junior Junkanoo

WHILE hundreds of students took to the streets to rush in the 2012 Junior Junkanoo parade, four schools captured bragging rights.

$40,000 of Urban Renewal funds at heart of fraud case

A FORMER civil servant is standing trial in Supreme Court, accused of defrauding a community development initiative of more than $40,000.

Conference's focus on sustainable tourism

A two-day Small Island Developing States Conference (SIDS), which is set to kick-off on February 19, will be the highlight of the Ministry of Tourism’s ‘Sustainable Tourism Month’.  The Ministry has designated February as Sustainable Tourism Month, in keeping with the 50th anniversary of the country’s number industry.

Meshach gets bronze in open water

WHILE the 35-member team is on its way to Bridgetown, Barbados, for the Caribbean Islands Swim Championships, the Bahamas Swimming Federation is celebrating the success of Meshach Roberts in the Open Water competition.

Officer says man owned up to Fernander shooting

A MAN reportedly owned up to his involvement in the shooting of a senior police officer when police interrupted his medical examination to arrest him for questioning, a jury heard yesterday.

Swimmers hope to make cut for Olympics at CISC

The focus switches today on the XXI Caribbean Island Swimming Championships (CISC) with more than 20 countries in town to compete in the four-day event at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex.

Victims named as police probe Exuma deaths

POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle said investigators looking into the deaths of three Americans at Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma are probing what the victims may have eaten as well as whether any “contaminants” were present in the separate rooms where they were found.

Peet's Andros seat now vacant

THE Parliamentary seat for North Andros and the Berry Islands has been officially vacant since March 1, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham revealed.

WORLD CUP: Belgium knock out Brazil for place in semis

(Mirror.co.uk) Belgium's golden generation produced unquestionably its finest display with a magnificent first-half performance as they dumped Brazil out of the World Cup.

Four face off in 242Untapped finale

By Arthia Nixon

Witnesses describe policeman's shooting

TWO witnesses in the vicinity of the shooting of a senior police officer told a Supreme Court jury what they saw and heard on the evening the policeman pulled into his St Vincent Road driveway.

Man shot dead while driving

A MAN was shot in the head and killed Tuesday night while driving on Augusta Street.

Columbia ‘blacklist’ no reality reflection

The Bahamas Financial Services Board’s (BFSB) chief executive said yesterday that Washington D. C’s pending ‘tax haven’ blacklist, featuring the Bahamas and 16 other Caribbean nations, “bears little resemblance to reality”.

Man who stabbed girlfriend to death in rage jailed for 45 years

A MAN was sentenced to 45 years in prison yesterday for the murder of his girlfriend who he stabbed 15 times and nearly beheaded.

Ease of doing business?

The Prime Minister and the Minister of State for Investments have given candid assessments of the (lack of) ease of doing business in the Bahamas and the lack of a (functioning) National Development Plan. They have committed to turn these situations around. These intentions are good.

Man who jumped out of police car is fined

A MAN was fined a collective $800 in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after being found with drugs and jumping out of a moving police car to evade custody.

2012 New Providence emergency shelters

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