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Iconic Nassau business at centre of legal battle

A legal battle has erupted among one of Nassau’s most prominent families that centres on a long-standing Bahamian business with a corporate history dating back 60 years to before Majority Rule.

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Eric Wiberg – Clifton Bay, Lyford Cay, B-26 All KIA

FOUR RAF pilots, from the UK, Canada, and South Africa, came within 100 feet of a smooth water landing yards off Lyford Cay one fall evening when things suddenly went horribly wrong.

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Bahamas Women’s Football Hummel Cup continues on Saturday

The Bahamas Football Association’s (BFA) second edition of the Hummel Cup will continue for the women’s division this Saturday at the Roscow A L Davies Field. The women’s soccer teams started their games last weekend as teams from Group A and B battled against each other. The Group A teams included Cavaliers FC, Future Stars, and the defending champions United FC. Teams in Group B are the Baha Juniors, Dynamos FC, and Western Warriors. Ultimately, the women’s 2023 Hummel Cup winner will be crowned after this weekend.

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Eric Wiberg – New Providence: 60 land accidents

WHETHER planes touched wingtips, men walked into propellers, bombers collided, planes were lost in microbursts, or had training gunnery mishaps, Nassau, Windsor and Oakes air fields and adjacent waters claimed many lives. More than half of all accidents in the colony – 80 of 150 – took place at or near the air fields and New Providence. This article deals with the 55 accidents that happened or ended up on land. In the three years from January 1943 131 aviators and a Bahamian family of three were killed by military aircraft in New Providence and its waters, with 83 rescued, and those fatalities recovered buried on Farrington Road. Pre-existing Oakes Field, used for training, saw nine crashes and most of the 25 unallocated, and Windsor Field, still in use, had 21.

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Eric Wiberg – 20 accidents at sea off New Providence

NEW Providence saw over 20 World War II aircraft ditch, crash, and explode into its adjacent waters. Most of these were to the south of the island, east, and north, and depended on direction of the winds, which air field was used, and complex night-time exercises using extremely bright Leigh Lights, and flying in formation. Mechanical failures from aircraft just delivered from American factories played a role as well.

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Claridge Primary in the lead going into day two

THE New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association (NPPPSSA) made its return to the original Thomas A Robinson National Stadium yesterday for their annual track and field meet.

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‘Iconic’ Briland horses battle Gov’t and resort

AN “iconic” Harbour Island horse riding business popular with visitors is locked in a furious legal battle with the Government and Pink Sands resort over the land where its facilities are located.

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Eric Wiberg – Nylon stockings, parachutes and wreckage found on Acklins of a B-26 Bomber

Women who donated her nylon stockings to the US war effort might not know they often became parachutes, four of which floated to earth and sea over Acklins. After Ralph Stevens rolled out of a doomed bomber, spraining ankle and knee, it was given to a family of six children in Pompey Bay, by the resident commissioner, Chauncy Tynes.

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Unfair to Colours

Colours were unfairly treated in the B category 2024 New Year’s Day Junkanoo Parade, said Dion Miller, Chairman of the Junkanoo Corporation New Providence.

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Reloaded baseball champions crowned

AFTER hosting a successful Reloaded Baseball Invitational featuring teams from Nassau and the Family Islands in March, the programme held a team championship game for the Coach Pitch division this past Sunday at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

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Bahamas athletes shine in Caribbean Equestrian Association final standings

IT was all good news for the Bahamas equestrian community when the final results of the Caribbean Equestrian Association 2023 Mini Jumping Challenge and 2023 Mini Dressage Challenge were released last week.

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CONCACAF Nations League: Bahamas vs Puerto Rico

THE Bahamas senior men’s national soccer team is slated to take on Puerto Rico at 7pm today at the Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium.

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ERIC WIBERG: B-25 ditched in the sea two miles north of Tarpum Bay

JUST before noon on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the operational record book of base OTU 111 records that “B-25 FW-154 FR was airborne at 11.16am upon A/S [anti-submarine] patrol No 2. No W/T [radio] contact was made with this aircraft after 11.50am, when a long dash [Mayday] was received. At 1.50pm, a signal was received from the pilot, via government channels, that the aircraft had ditched in the sea two miles north of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, at 11.48 am.

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Veterans shine at bodybuilding nationals

VETERAN bodybuilders shined at the Bahamas Bodybuilding Wellness and Fitness Federation (BBWFF) National Championships this past weekend.

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Skydive The Bahamas still waiting on govt approval for new venture in Grand Bahama

SKYDIVE The Bahamas, a new commercial venture in Grand Bahama, is still seeking the government’s approval to operate skydiving excursions in The Bahamas.

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REGATTA TIME AGAIN: Best-of-the-Best off to great start in Montagu Bay

The sixth Best of the Best Regatta lived up to the hype on day one of the sloop sailing event. Skippers and their crew members were in top form on the waters at Montagu Bay, competing in Class A, B, C and E.

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CONCACAF Nations League: Bahamas could be relegated – Bahamas men’s national soccer team suffers 6-1 loss to Puerto Rico

The Bahamas men’s national soccer team suffered a 6-1 loss to Puerto Rico last night in the CONCACAF Nations League at the Juan Ramón Loubriel Stadium in Bayamon, Puerto Rico, and could end up being relegated from League B to League C.

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Billie Jean King Cup: Team Bahamas relegated to Group III

AFTER competing against the Pool B teams at the Billie Jean King Cup (BJKC) in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Team Bahamas was relegated to the Americas Group lll.

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Resort to Gov’t: ‘Pursue’ horse riding venture like shanty towns

A MAJOR Harbour Island resort yesterday urged the Government to “aggressively pursue” a local horse riding entrepreneur’s “unauthorised construction” with the same vigour as its shanty town crackdown.

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St George’s High School unofficial winner of GB Junior Junkanoo

ST George’s High School is the unofficial winner of the 2024 Anthony “Huck” Williams Junior Junkanoo Parade in Grand Bahama.

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