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Honouring our top athletes

ROADRUNNERS TRACK CLUB’S 23RD ANNUAL AWARDS BANQUET @ SANDALS

A number of student athletes from the Roadrunners Track Club were honoured on Saturday night at Sandals Royal Bahamian as the club hosted its 23rd Annual Awards & Presentation Banquet.

'Busy Christmas' beats retailer expectations

BAHAMIAN retailers yesterday reported “an extremely busy Christmas”, with one telling Tribune Business: “It was much much better than I expected”.Charmaine Daley, manager at John’s Shoes and Accessories on Carmichael Road, said: “As expected we were

Chamber chair offers vaccine roll-out PPP

The Chamber of Commerce's chair yesterday said the business community is ready to assist the Government in rolling out COVID-19 vaccinations via public-private partnerships (PPPs).

Too quick to get rid of Shenique

The abrupt termination of veteran journalist and host of The Conversation at ZNS, Shenique Miller, is being labelled political victimisation by Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters.

Dr Sands, the country needs you

The back and forth between Minister of Health, Dr. Duane Sands and PLP Chairman Mr.Bradley Roberts has exposed one glaring fact. It shows that Dr. Sands did not follow his many friends advice to not put the country at risk and remain in a profession that is more important to people than him being a member of parliament.

Construction job fair sees 'on spot hiring'

MORE than 800 persons attended last weekend’s construction industry job fair, with the Director of Labour yesterday confirming that some were hired “on the spot”.While he did not have hiring numbers available up to press time, Robert Farquharson desc

BTVI receives technology gift

The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) recently received a donation of 13 desktop computers and 15 monitors for its Student Resource Centre.Retired accountant, Robert V Lotmore, partnered with Custom Computers to make the donation in h

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Sailing Club in move to support students

THE Cat Island Sailing Club Association has awarded five students with scholarships to attend the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI).

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BSA members get opportunity to sail 7--foot Volvo Ocean Racer

ADULT and junior Bahamas Sailing Association members and their families were afforded a unique opportunity to sail a 70-foot Volvo Ocean Racer.

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PLP plans for 60th anniversary

BY RASHAD ROLLE

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Cheers to miss Universe Bahamas hopeful Shanae

CONNOISSEURS picked up consumer tips and indulged in a selection of Pommery champagnes at Liquid Courage’s tasting showcase – “A Flight of Bubbles” – last week.

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Union chief seeks 100-133% increase in minimum wage

The Trade Union Congress’s (TUC) president yesterday backed a 100-133 per cent increase in the Bahamas’ minimum wage, describing this as “reasonable”.

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FRONT PORCH: Antidote to ambivalence

A beloved departed friend, a priest of 50 years before he died, recounts this modern parable. He travelled to the Cistercian monastery Mount Saint Bernard in rural Leicestershire, England, to meet a 93-year-old, who was 73 years a monk. The two settled in to share a pot of tea.

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THE KDK REPORT: The angel on my shoulder

IN a moment of self-reflection, it is not unusual for an overwhelming torrent of emotion to inexplicably take hold of your soul as you plummet into a dark void. In that downward spiral, your heart feels like it’s being squeezed, your breath sucked out, and you wonder if the slow beat of a once happy heart will ever return. In those moments of grief and melancholy, even the strongest amongst us can succumb to the tentacles of depression. It’s unbelievably harder when the one experiencing the unexpected is still a teen.

Athletes flock to inaugural Government High Cross Country Championships

A PAIR of University of the Bahamas Mingoes track and field team-mates took their share of the spotlight, while there were a couple of new faces that emerged to the forefront during the inaugural Government High Cross Country Championships.

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Super Value to ‘terminate’ if COVID rules disobeyed

Super Value has warned its 1,000-strong workforce they “will face termination” if caught disobeying COVID-19 protocols, its principal warning yesterday: “We cannot go back into lockdown.”

Masked gunmen rob Winton Super Value store

MASKED gunmen robbed the Super Value store in Winton on Friday night and escaped with a small amount of money from the cash registers.

NHI rhetoric ‘putting sparks on dry tinder’

A well-known physician has slammed the “dangerous” rhetoric the Government is now employing to sell its National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme, and accused it of “putting sparks on dry tinder”.

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Another shanty town blaze as residents search rubble

POLICE were called to the scene of another fire in the Gamble Heights shanty town last night, the third blaze in the community since Sunday.

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Defectors branded as ‘political opportunists’

DNA Chairman Andrew Wilson yesterday branded Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins and Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells as “political opportunists” over their decision to join the Official Opposition.