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Al Jarrett dies, aged 69
RETIED banker, economist and patriot Alfred Jarrett, pictured, died early yesterday morning after a massive heart attack.
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IAN FERGUSON: Remembering how essential we all are
Yesterday provided another opportunity for my colleagues and myself to reflect on how fragile life is and, more importantly, how much we must love and honour - in meaningful ways- those who labour among us.
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Copper thieves hit BTC lines
THE Bahamas Telecommunications Company has been a victim of “copper theft,” which has caused some disruption in telephone service in Grand Bahama.
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Prayers for the year
THE Oasis of Love Ministries is encouraging the general public to be specific in their prayers for the remainder of 2014, using the telephone directory as an inspiration and going by the different months:
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Free communication to Inagua, Ragged Island and Long Island
RESIDENTS in some of the islands ravaged by Hurricane Joaquin are able to communicate with the outside world again after the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) initiated communications centres in Ragged Island, Inagua and Clarence Town, Long Island, yesterday, allowing them to make telephone calls and send emails free of charge.
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Telephone cables stolen during Hurricane Sandy
FREEPORT – Although the Bahamas Telecommunication Company fared well during Hurricane Sandy with minimal damage to its equipment, a large quantity of telephone cables were stolen by thieves during the storm.
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Availability of telephone directories
Earlier this morning, I hopped onto a public service jitney bus for Route 10-A, which means that it would have taken me by the Bahamas Telecommunications Corporate building on John F Kennedy Drive.
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TELEPHONE DISRUPTION RESOLVED
BTC announced today that the disruption in telephone services affecting residents of Mangrove Cay for the greater part of a week has been resolved and that all services are back to normal. The outage, affecting both voice and internet services, was occasi
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Unsolicited BTC ads
Grateful I am for allowing me this small space to make an inquiry into the unsolicited BTC ads, for certainly other customers/clients experiencing some of the same deluge of this company’s ads, and unsolicited at that.
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Office of the Prime Minister moves
THE Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance will relocate to the former SG Hambros building, now the new Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield Centre, today. Telephone numbers and e-mails are unchanged.
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Flawed survey
THE FNM - Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Poll taken between November 29th and December 5th.
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Waiting for RBC
Calling if not the leading commercial bank one is told calling their Client Service there might be a delay – what is a reasonable delay I have to ask?
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URCA releases final decision on number portability
THE Utilities Regulation and Competition Committee has released its final determination on the implementation of number portability in the Bahamas.
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PM considers BTC rivals
PRIME Minister Perry Christie said yesterday the government is not satisfied with the level of service from Cable and Wireless and are in negotiations with another telephone company to provide telephone services.
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URCA orders BTC interconnection changes to facilitate NewCo mobile entry
The Utilities Regulation & Competition Authority (URCA) yesterday issued its final determination on the amendments to the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) Reference Access and Interconnection Offer (RAIO), setting out terms and conditions to facilitate interconnection services to other licensed mobile operators, namely NewCo.
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A frequent problem in cats and dogs
Undoubtedly there has never been a full day in most veterinary practices when they have not had one or more telephone calls regarding vomiting and or diarrhoea in a cat or dog. Most dogs and cats are not very discriminating as to what they might eat, and many pet owners feed their animals with tidbits and leftovers that are unacceptable to the canine and feline digestive tracts. So it is easily understood why these problems are so frequent in number.
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Telecoms auditor touts 12-25% client savings
A telecommunications audit specialist says its recommendations can often help Bahamians companies slash their monthly phone bill by between 12-25 percent.“Many businesses tend to accept utility bills as they come, assuming there’s nothing they can do
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NAUGHTY'S PICKS: Let’s hit the road for starters with Steelers and Colts
FIRST let me open by saying thank you Jesus, King of Endless Glory, who reigns in Heaven, for allowing me to see another NFL season, and for positioning ‘our’ Dallas Cowboys (Yes, God is a Cowboy, thus the retractable roof in the stadium, we leave it open so God can watch His team, the Cowboys, play) on the threshold of another Lombardi Trophy!
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Waste collection
I am a resident of Stapledon Gardens and sometime ago our garbage was collected on a weekly basis.
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Masked men raid Eight Mile Rock business
TWO armed men, one with a handgun and the other wielding a knife, robbed a business in Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama of cash, police said.
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