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Govt acts on Family Island airport woes

A Cabinet minister yesterday said the Government was already moving to address health and safety deficiencies at several key Family Island airports, adding that Exuma’s redevelopment is ‘well underway’.    

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Youth Flag Football clinic on Harbour Island was a success

THE Bahamas Youth Flag Football League (BYFFL) partnered with the newly formed Barracudas Flag Football Club in Harbour Island to host a successful training clinic last weekend.

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AG hails ‘greatest ever Out Islands investment’

The Attorney General yesterday asserted that the Davis administration is making “the greatest investment in the Family Islands of the country that we have seen since independence”.

Minister questions microgrid unveiling

A Cabinet minister last night questioned whether an Italian company’s announcement of its successful bid to develop a Bahamas-based mircogrid is compliant with the law.

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2021/2022 BUDGET: PM announces employment incentive programme

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has announced the upcoming launch of an employment incentive programme that will allow businesses to apply for a VAT tax credit to cover the salaries of up to ten new employees brought onto their payroll as of July 1.

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Inagua, Ragged Island projected to feel strongest winds of Tropical Storm Laura

A TROPICAL depression being monitored by weather officials has been upgraded to Tropical Storm Laura.

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Harbour Island legal war settled

A Harbour Island developer and his former project manager have this week settled their $1m legal dispute in the California courts, Tribune Business can reveal. Documents obtained by this newspaper reveal that Michael Wiener, 4M Harbour Island's prin

Digital B$ ‘very critical’ to future of Family Islands

A digital Bahamian dollar will likely be “extremely critical” for future access to financial services on the Family Islands, the Exuma Chamber of Commerce’s president argued yesterday.

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LONG ISLAND FOR LORETTA

By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net MONTAGU MP Loretta Butler-Turner has been nominated as the FNM candidate for Long Island, replacing current MP Larry Cartwright, The Tribune has been unofficially informed. Sources suggest

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INSIGHT: Stories uncovered from the global conflict which touched our shores

IN THE 1960s, an American woman returned alone to remote Acklins Island to commune with her dead husband who crashed there in World War II. But which of some ten airmen from three planes was he on, and can we verify as much with living witnesses?

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Island Relays Bahamas Spring University Track & Field Invitational this weekend in Grand Bahama

ALL six of the universities from the United States of America are now in Freeport, Grand Bahama to participate in Island Relays Bahamas Spring University Track and Field Invitational this weekend at the Grand Bahama Sports Complex.

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Three in hospital after Abaco shooting

Police on the island of Abaco are questioning a 29-year-old man from the island in connection with a shooting incident that left three men in hospital in serious condition.

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16 weddings for 16 couples on a special day

IT was all smiles for sixteen couples who were married simultaneously on 16 different islands in the Bahamas yesterday.

Scotiabank major sponsor of junior regatta

Scotiabank major sponsor of junior regatta MAJOR SPONSOR: Shown (l-r) are Clyde Rolle, vice commodore of the National Family Island Regatta committee, Leah R Davis, senior manager of marketing and public relations for Scotiabank (Bahamas) and Wycliff Alb

No injuries as plane crashes in cross winds

POLICE are investigating a plane crash which occurred on Tuesday at Pitts Town Airport, Crooked Island. Shortly after 3pm, a PA32 Cherokee 6 aircraft, registration #N38677, left Deadman’s Cay, Long Island en route to Pitts Town Airport, with four pa

Firefighters contain wildfires on Abaco

A GROUP of volunteer firefighters have successfully combated two separate wildfires in the last five days on the island of Abaco.

St Peter's Parish in North Long Island spreads Christmas joy

FATHER Chester Burton, Rector of Anglican Churches in Long Island, and the praying ladies who accompany him every fortnight in St Peter’s Parish began their Christmas celebrations early last week and with a bang.

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Wendy's serving food on Paradise Island – from a mobile kitchen

AFTER a very public debate over plans to open a Wendy’s restaurant on Paradise Island, the company is now serving food at the site – but from a mobile kitchen.

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New Year Weather Synopsis

NOAA / NHC Synopsis for the South-West North Atlantic, The Commonwealth of The Bahamas including Cay Sal Bank, San Salvador, Ragged Island, Rum Cay, Inagua and Mayaguana

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Culinary students show off their "Island Flare"

THE Island Flare Food Fight turned out to be an “overwhelming success”, according to organisers.