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Police focus on gun traffickers to curb rising violence
ACTING Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander said police are targeting gun traffickers to stem the rise of violence in the country and have also had success against web shop armed robbers.
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Water Corp ‘author of own demise’ on supply cut-off
The Water & Sewerage Corporation has been blasted as “the author of its own demise” over $644,000 in unpaid bills that resulted in water supply to central Eleuthera residents being cut-off for several days last October.
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FRONT PORCH: Mixed signals and confusion when bold action is needed
Outlawing marital rape is a clear and easy moral call. It is about upholding the innate dignity and corresponding equality of women, including spouses, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends and colleagues.
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Police shoot man in buttocks
A JUVENILE who led police on a car chase yesterday morning was shot in the buttocks by officers.
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Robbers snatch Miller’s payroll
FORMER Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller says he was robbed yesterday of $2,700 when he went shopping at an Oakes Field grocery store.
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UPDATED: Man shot dead at barbershop
A MAN in his mid-20s was shot and killed at a barber shop yesterday afternoon, police said.
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Christmas ‘make or break’ for local retail
A Bahamas Federation of Retailers co-chair yesterday warned the upcoming Christmas season will be “make or break” for many merchants still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating economic fall-out.
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VAT cut’s ‘modest’ jobs, growth effect
Cutting the VAT rate to 10 percent will cause “only slight improvement” in job creation and economic growth, a University of the Bahamas (UoB) study asserts, while advocating it still “be pursued’.
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Eleuthera water cut-off prevented at last minute
CENTRAL Eleuthera’s water supply enjoyed a last-minute rescue after the Water & Sewerage Corporation finally submitted a newly-signed contract to the area’s supplier before Friday’s cut-off deadline.
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Man charged with string of robberies on Exuma
A MAN from Exuma was granted bail on Friday for a string of robberies on the island and was also ordered to pay a fine on a drug charge.
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$100k fine for drugs charges
A MAN was fined $100,000 yesterday for drug charges dating back to 2014.
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Gambler winnings tax ‘too complex’
The Minnis administration chose not to implement the tax on web shop patron winnings because it was “too complex” and could have driven gamblers back into the underground economy.
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Retailers glad curfew won’t prevent shopping
RETAILERS were yesterday happy that the newest curfew change taking effect today does not prevent customers from shopping and gives workers sufficient time to get home from work.
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Charity seeing 20% hike in food prices
AN increase in food prices at the grocery store has had an adverse affect on one local charity.
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Man shot dead on Robinson Road
A MAN was shot dead outside of a place he worked early Friday morning.
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‘Huge dreams' snatched away in deadly shooting
A RELATIVE of a Muffler World employee who was shot dead last week said he was planning to attend Florida International University before he was killed.
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‘We’re not taking VAT change sitting down’
A Freeport manufacturer yesterday warned its competitiveness will be undermined, and presence in The Bahamas endangered, by VAT reforms that have seemingly removed its ‘zero rated’ status.
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FINCO chief warns on low growth ‘challenge’
FINCO’s chairman has warned shareholders it will “continue to be challenged” with low growth and credit losses despite a more than four-fold increase in net income to $39.235m for the 2021 financial year.
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‘We won’t give shop away for porridge’
The deputy prime minister yesterday pledged that the Davis administration will “not give the shop away to investors for a bowl of porridge” as he revealed it is presently reviewing the tax breaks granted to them.
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Barbers, beauty salons call for mask mandate easing
Barbers and beauty salons yesterday called for the Government to relax its COVID mask mandate with the sector “coming back” slowly from the economic devastation caused by the pandemic.
