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Minister pledges financial support for performance
AS producers struggle to shoulder the cost of re-staging “The Legend of Sammie Swain” earlier this month, Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe yesterday pledged financial support for an encore performance.
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LIFE OF CRIME: Serial killers - Is a new breed of assassins lurking on the streets of the Bahamas?
A SERIAL killer holds a worldwide fascination, nicknames like “The Ripper” have entered cultural folklore and they have made many fictional writers famous.
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Should Christians let their kids celebrate Halloween?
Tonight is All Hallows’ Eve – more commonly known as Halloween – and thousands of Bahamians will be taking their kids trick or treating and attending costume parties dressed up as their favourite superheroes, celebrities or storybook characters.
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Send in the clowns...
As a follow-up to the Christmas Carnival caper we now have the Dubai Debacle. The back-to-back mini-disasters by the PLP government are very revealing. We have a seemingly giddy, frivolous, non-serious prime minister who seems to like showmanship and hanging out with celebrities instead of substance.
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Ministry of Education says 'Don't play Charlie Charlie'
THE Ministry of Education has sent a memo to school administrators around the country, urging them to prevent students from playing the "Charlie Charlie" game that some believe involves the summoning of supernatural spirits.
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Music documentary ignites raging debate
THE debate over what is considered true Bahamian music was reignited by the release of a new documentary: The Evolution of Bahamian Music.
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Visual artists keep Jackson’s memory alive at Fash|Art
FOR the second consecutive year an Abaco artist took home the Jackson Burnside Emerging Visual Artist showcase during Fash|Art 2013. Zyandric Jones, an Abaco native won for his intriguing submission of Three Sisters: Prelude to Tragedy.
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Memorable moments from 40 years of history
INDEPENDENCE, a new flag, a national anthem, Jumbey 73 - these are among the milestones as we continue out countdown to the 40th Anniversary of Independence with the first part of our flashback to 40 memorable independence moments.
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Team Bahamas will have to wait on welcome reception it deserves
DUE to delays forcing late night schedule changes yesterday, Team Bahamas will have to wait on the welcome it deserves after their performance at the Summer Olympics in London.
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PETER YOUNG: More than just a game
IN the US it is called soccer. Elsewhere in the world it is known as football, and in Britain it carries the affectionate sobriquet of the “beautiful game” which folklore suggests was a phrase first coined by the Brazilian footballer, Pele, known as perhaps the most famous footballing hero of them all.
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The power of women supporting women
WOMEN entrepreneurs have always played an important role in the Bahamian economy, however, for many it is often a challenge to get the necessary exposure for their businesses.
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FEEL THE RHYTHM
By JEFFARAH GIBSON Tribune Features Writer
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Farewell to the man who kept the lights on
ABACO’s lighthouse “lifeline” Everette Roberts died last weekend after a long battle with illness.
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INSPIRED ART FROM TALENTED YOUNGSTERS
WORKS by young artists celebrated the islands of the Bahamas in a host of different ways for the ‘Island Art Explosion’ competition held by Atlantis Resort.
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YOUR SAY: How the Spelling Bee can help our nation
ALTHOUGH he did not advance to the finals of the 2016 Scripps National Spelling Bee, Bahamians have every reason to be proud of the remarkable performance of Bahamas National Spelling Bee Champion Donovan Aaron Butler in the highly competitive annual competition at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbour, Maryland, near Washington DC this week.
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EDITORIAL: TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL OF TOURISM POLICY
THE possibility of establishing normal relations between the USA and Cuba has always been seen as a potential threat to our tourism industry here in The Bahamas.
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What if the moon were made of cheese?
IN his column on page 18 of today’s edition, Larry Smith writes about what is today called “counterfactual history”— as he explains, it is “an attempt to answer hypothetical questions by considering what would have happened if certain key historical events had not occurred”.
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Who are Sri Lanka’s Christians?
Nearly 300 people were killed in several coordinated bomb attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter.
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INSIGHT: Making Grand Bahama’s story available for all to read
The Groves family is continuing its philanthropic legacy in The Bahamas with the soft launch of a new digital Grand Bahama Museum – the first in the Caribbean region.
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YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The Carnival mistake
THE importation of carnival – in the form of the Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival – is a mistake that can only be likened to a forced ripe dilly.