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College football teams are ready for Bahamas Bowl

It was a day of fun and relaxation for the college football teams yesterday after they arrived in town on Monday for the HomeTown Lenders Bahamas Bowl.

WORLD VIEW: Another ban on leaders attending international meetings?

ONCE again, politicians in the US are entangling the internal politics of their country with US obligations to the international community.

‘Major Pain’ to run for president

MEACHER ‘Major Pain’ Major, whose Major Boxing Club is preparing to stage the inaugural Frederick Sturrup Boxing Championships on September 24 at the National Boxing Gymnasium, has decided to put his name in the hat for the post of president of the Boxing Federation of the Bahamas.

AOS gold partner for the 50th Golden Jubilee CARIFTA Games

LEADING by example as they put their “money where their mouth is,” Accounting Outsource Services Limited came on board as a Gold Partner for the 50th Golden Jubilee CARIFTA Games.

WORLD VIEW: Abortion is a woman’s right - legalise it

(The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States of America and the Organization of American States. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London and Massey College in the University of Toronto).

WORLD VIEW: Summit of the Americas was worth attending

AS beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so is success or failure measured by the beneficiary or the overlooked. Summits of the Americas, from the time they were initiated by the administration of the US in 1994, have overlooked the Caribbean.

Call termination cuts ‘a beautiful thing’

A rival telecommunications provider yesterday said it was “100 per cent behind” plans to cut the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) call termination rates by up to 60 per cent, telling Tribune Business the proposed 2 cents per minute slash for 2013 was “a beautiful thing”.

Bahamas to face top teams in Rugby World Cup Finals regional qualifier

The Bahamas Rugby Football Union (BRFU) returns to international competition this week, this time in 7s play against the region’s best lineup of teams.

6m tourist target's big 'psychological value'

THE Bahamian tourism industry is reaping "huge psychological value" from visitor numbers tracking 10 per cent ahead of 2011 and on target to pass the six million mark for 2012, with April the first month "solidly ahead" of pre-recession comparatives.

Stopover visitors to hit 1.88m by 2022

THE BAHAMIAN tourism industry's 2012 GDP contribution growth was yesterday forecast to exceed the next decade's average by hitting 3.1 per cent, with stopover arrivals projected to increase by around 500,000 over the next 10 years ti hit 1.883 million.

TOURISM BODY'S GROWTH GOAL 'AT BOTTOM OF RANGE'

THE World Travel and Tourism Council's (WTTC) growth projections for the Bahamian tourism industry over the next decade are towards "the bottom" of the likely expansion range, the minister of tourism and aviation said yesterday, adding that this nation had "some ways to go" to reach iots potential.

Bahamas sees 'phenomenal' 11% airlift rise

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas saw a "phenomenal" 11 per cent increase in airlift capacity year-over-year for February 2012, the minister of tourism and aviation yesterday saying this trend reflected "growing visitor demand" and was