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24 cases of COVID-19 and two deaths on Sunday
THE Ministry of Health recorded 24 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday along with two additional deaths.
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‘CRIME’S DOWN - NOT BY COVID’: Police chief insists lockdowns not key to reduced offences
POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle yesterday credited a 16 percent fall in overall crime to the efforts of his force and not a windfall from the months of lockdown enforced on the nation.
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Ayton and Hield take NBA spotlight
CHAVANO “Buddy” Hield enjoyed his best shooting stretch of the season the last three games in the state of Florida while Deandre Ayton restarted his streak of double doubles over the weekend.
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Jones ‘Player of the Week’
For the 10th time in her five-year career, Grand Bahamian Jonquel Jones has been one of the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Players of the Week.
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Mark St Fort dominates with 38 points, Nesbitt in the win column
MARK St Fort’s transition to the Japanese B2 League has been a welcome change to the veteran swingman.
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Men’s national basketball team members open seasons
SEVERAL senior men’s national basketball team members recently opened their respective seasons across various professional leagues in Europe and South America.
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STATESIDE: The changing faces of today’s America
THE government has announced that preparations are well underway for the next Bahamian national census. An estimated 119,000 households are due to be surveyed over the first three months of 2022. Ho-hum?
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WORLD VIEW: Small states might benefit from the rivalry of larger nations for 21st century dominance
US President Joseph Biden’s address to a Joint Session of the US Congress on April 28 was strikingly different from the speeches of his predecessor, Donald Trump.
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Professional Bahamian basketball players shine in Asia, Europe
IT was an active weekend for Bahamian basketball across pro leagues in Asia and Europe as several players made their season debuts and others had season-high performances.
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Renowned basketball coach Steve ‘Bulla’ Pinder dies at 85
RENOWNED basketball coach Steve ‘Bulla’ Pinder, known as one of the role models in the Bain and Grants Town community, passed away on Tuesday morning.
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Bridgewater leading scorer with 22.4 points per game
DOMNICK Bridgewater continues his dominant play in his second stint in France’s NM2 League.
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Airline industry faces $3.7m Customs debt
The Auditor General’s Office has urged Customs to collect millions of dollars in unpaid taxes and fees, including $3.747m collectively owed by 13 airlines as at end-June 2018.
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Freeport man accused over gun and drugs
A 34-year-old Freeport man was charged in Grand Bahama on gun, ammunition and drug possession charges yesterday.
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Tourism chief: ‘Step up our game’ over vaccination roll-out
A senior Ministry of Tourism executive yesterday urged the Bahamas to “step up its game” on the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out over fears its Caribbean rivals are outpacing it.
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COVID-19 death toll rises to 176
THE country’s COVID-19 death toll has risen to 176 after a 94-year-old woman died from the disease in late January.
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$1,000 FINE FOR SELLING MARIJUANA
A 24-year-old man who told police he was selling marijuana to make a “couple of dollars” was yesterday fined $1,000.
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NBA Playoffs: ‘DA is playing unbelievably well’
DEANDRE Ayton’s offensive production slowed for the first time this postseason, but his Phoenix Suns had their most lopsided win en route to taking a 3-2 lead over the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA postseason.
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Marines get jabs
EIGHTY people were vaccinated during the three days the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s Coral Harbour base was open as a COVID-19 inoculation site.
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‘Thousands of vaccines’ to counter near-bottom status
The Bahamas will likely receive “hundreds of thousands” of COVID-19 vaccine doses this quarter, it was revealed yesterday, amid concerns the nation is near-bottom in the Caribbean in inoculation rates.
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Call for Caribbean to adopt HIV self-testing
ON the occasion of World AIDS Day, Caribbean AIDS response stakeholders are calling for countries in the region to adopt HIV self-testing.