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Ladies are off to the Centrobasket

THE Bahamas women’s national basketball team, with seven players returning from the CentroBasket championship team in the British Virgin Islands two years ago, are off to the 2017 CentroBasket Tournament. The team, coached once again by Yolett McPhe

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'The Tank' ready for 'The Nordic Nightmare'

HAVING completed a vigorous training regimen, Sherman “The Tank” Williams has packed his bags and is headed to Helsinki, Finland, where he is slated to square off with Robert “The Nordic Nightmare” Helenius for the WBO Continental and European heavyweight titles on Saturday night.

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Cheetahs tie series

THE Bommer G Lady Operators refused to go down without a fight in the New Providence Women's Basketball Association, tieing the best-of-five series 2-2 with a 74-69 win over the defending champions Career Building Lady Cheetahs.

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Going for gold x3

SHAUNAE Miller put her exclamation mark on her final appearance at the BTC Carifta Games by smashing the one-year-old record by Anthonique Strachan to clinch the under-20 girls 200 metres in dramatic fashion.

Super Value eyes 77,000 VAT price changes per store

Super Value’s owner says the food chain will have to change 77,000 prices in 13 different stores to accommodate Value-Added Tax (VAT), warning that when it came to opposition to the new tax “you ain’t seen nothing yet”.

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Team Bahamas playing 'phenonmenal tennis' in Fed Cup

WHILE she was appreciative of the executive board of the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association for affording her the opportunity to represent the Bahamas as the player/captain of the talented and tenacious Fed Cup team, Larikah Russell said she couldn’t ask for a better performance so far from players Simone Pratt, Kerrie Cartwright and Danielle Thompson.

Bimini expansion is 'like me trying to fit in son's pants'

While welcoming the increased tourist business cteated by Resorts World’s investment, many Bimini residents have expressed serious concern over the project’s size, one saying: “It’s like me trying to fit into my son’s pants.”

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Fed Cup: Top players won't be making the trip

WHEN the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s 45th ranked women’s team travels to Lambaré, Paraguay, next month for the Americas Group 1 of the Fed Cup by Pariba, two of the top players from last year’s undefeated team in Group II in the Dominican Republic will not be making the trip.

Gov’t not just rescuing major loan defaulters

A Cabinet Minister yesterday said the Government was not seeking to absolve “big borrowers” of their debt to the Bank of the Bahamas, after an MP questioned its philosophy regarding troubled smaller borrowers.

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Kyle Alcine 4th in high jump at Big 12 Indoors

KANSAS State’s Kyle Alcine picked up a fourth place finish in the men’s high jump at the 2021 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships that was held over the weekend at the Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.

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Jazz Chisholm hosts baseball camp

MIAMI Marlins prospect Jazz Chisholm hosted youth baseball players to a clinic in conjunction with International Elite-Sports Academy at the Pinewood Gardens baseball field.After several hours of training in the fundamentals at various skill position

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Auto dealers fear 40% sales slump from VAT

Bahamian auto dealers fear Value-Added Tax’s (VAT) implementation will cause the sector to follow its Caribbean counterparts into a 30-40 per cent sales decline, with one arguing that the proposed tax was “not the right fit for our economy”.

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COVID testing: '11th hour' u-turn blasted

* Coalition stunned by '180 degree' reversal * Came after 3m kits distributed to entry ports * Principal: 'This why I don't like work for Gov't'

Insects, not ankle, bug Serena in Aussie comeback

By JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) -- If anything, it was the insects buzzing around Rod Laver Arena that bugged Serena Williams the most. The injured left ankle held up fine in her opening match Tuesday at the Australian Open, and eve

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'Tank' reflects on fight defeat

SHERMAN “The Tank” Williams said he was disappointed Saturday night in Carson, California - not so much with the outcome of his fight against Gerald ‘Gallo Negro’ Washington - but with the fact that he wasn’t able to get on the inside as he has done in the past against previous compatible opponents.

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Selection narrows for national team

AFTER the second tryout over the weekend, the women’s national team has been reduced to 15 with the final 12-member cut expected to be made during the training camp over the weekend of June 23, leading into the two weeks before they travel to the Caribbean Basketball Confederation (CBC) Tournament in Tortola, British Virgin Islands.

ZNS should stop airing Sesame St.

The popular educational television programme Sesame Street has had a very long run on the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (BCB) or ZNS TV 13...

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Realtors warn: 'Don't break the economy'

Leading realtors yesterday urged the government not to “break the economy” as they warned that the mandatory 14-day quarantine facing all visitors will bring the international market to a halt.John Christie, HG Christie’s president and managing broke

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SMALL SQUAD’S BIG BITE IN THE ‘BIG APPLE’

THE “Big Apple” felt a big bite from a small squad of gymnasts who recently competed in the 2017 Manhattan Classic.