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PRESS BOX: Cowboy Nation, first let’s get rid of Linehan’s lacklustre offence ASAP

ATTENTION Dallas Cowboys fans here in the Bahamas, we can’t be delusional any longer, at present we are a bad football team.

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A COMIC'S VIEW: Five hopes for the new year

It’s a brand new year, a clean slate so to speak.

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Vaccine is not the mark of the beast

The following is my exposition of Revelation 13 and the dreaded mark of the beast, which many Bahamians have wrongly assumed to be the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. This faulty conclusion is due to them disregarding the time text indicators in the opening and closing sections of the Apocalypse (Revelation 1:1,3; 22:20).

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Union protests over alleged victimisation at BTVI

MEMBERS of the Bahamas General Workers Union employed at Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) yesterday stood in solidarity against the alleged victimisation of union members.

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Healthy living made simple

In 2013, Americans spent a little over $2 billion in the anti-aging market. Globally, the anti-aging market was estimated to be worth $122.3 billion in 2013, and is now being estimated to be worth $191.7 billion by 2019.

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Chamber launches mentoring to improve 70% SME fail rate

THE Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) is hoping its pilot mentorship and training programme will improve entrepreneurs’ chances of success, given that 70 per cent of Bahamian small business ventures end in failure.

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Traumatic brain injury survivor helps spread awareness

MARCH is recognised as Traumatic Brain Injury Awareness Month. All over the world, people take this time to participate in various campaigns and initiatives to shine a light on a condition that affects millions.

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A COMIC'S VIEW: Our Prime Minister, King of the Selfies

OUR Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis craftily, and without providing details, on the actual cost of his recent trip to the United Nations’ 73rd General Assembly, did manage to get some awesome “selfies”. Minnis did, however, table in Parliament a lis

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Court seizes Nygard Cay as two-day stand-off ends

NYGARD Cay, the infamous property of Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard, is now in the possession of the Supreme Court.Deputy Provost Marshal Tommy Sands along with a team of police officers seized the premises shortly after 11am on Friday, bringing

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EDITORIAL: Trump under fire - and furious

Two relatively unploughed fields of battle have now opened in Washington, DC for America’s most adept media manipulator. While President Donald Trump’s public 2017 fights with critics and erstwhile friends were largely limited to TV and print media, the worlds of books and movies have now been added to the public frenzy that is the current US presidency.

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THE PRESS BOX: Romo optimistic about Cowboys wide receivers

ALL offseason long, and now on the eve of training camp, the biggest question in Dallas remains what to expect from the team’s wide receivers, in the post Dez Bryant era. As NFL training camps are set to open this week, former Cowboys QB, and now th

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Pompey - a hero for our nation

Universal Negro Improvement Association founder Marcus Garvey, George William Gordon and Paul Bogle were the first three recipients of Jamaica’s Order of National Hero in 1969 – the year it was created by the Jamaica Labour Party administration via its National Honours and Awards Act.

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A COMIC'S VIEW: ‘Cat Fight for Charity’ steals the headlines from crime

AFTER a short, sweet and hot holiday season, I found myself sitting in front of my laptop wondering what I would write about this week.

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Fraud claims denied

THE Bahamas National Drug Agency has refuted allegations contained in a forensic audit into the Public Hospitals Authority that raises concerns that an official at the drug agency allegedly had ties to a “shell company” established hurriedly only to do business with the PHA.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: The culture of power is changing before our very eyes

Through the six decades that I have been writing thousands of published news articles, magazine pieces, more lately columns, I have steered clear of politics and have rarely tapped the overflowing well of famous people whose legacy descends into a downhill slide from grace.

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Sisters launch Bahamian version of 'Angie's List'

A NEW online web application hopes to change the way Bahamians and residents seek reputable home service providers when it launches its first phase this August.At the helm of this project, called FindrPro, are Janay Pyfrom-Symonette and her sister Ya

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Mike Sands making presence felt as the new NACAC president

ALTHOUGH he won’t take office until after the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s Congress in Doha, Qatar next month, Mike Sands is making his presence felt as the new president of the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletic Association.

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Sir Randol, MLK and Garvey

There is one striking similarity between Sir Randol Fawkes, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, and Jamaican National Hero Marcus Garvey that caught my attention after reading their biographies.

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UPDATED: U.S. hits back with Bahamas travel advisory

THE United States Embassy released a security message yesterday urging its citizens and US visitors in Nassau and Paradise Island to exercise heightened personal security awareness, pointing out that armed robberies and violent crime remain primary criminal threats.

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Minister admits Fyre Fest conflict ‘doesn’t look good’

The involvement of a senior Ministry of Tourism official in the ill-fated Fyre Festival’s catering “doesn’t look good”, a Cabinet Minister admitted yesterday, agreeing it created ‘conflict of interest’ perceptions.