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Basketball to football switch pays off for Andrews Jr
MAKING the switch from The Bahamas to the United States and from basketball to football has paid off for Raynor Andrews Jr.
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Long-time PE teacher Hattie Moxey retires on August 31
WHEN the new school year begins in September at Jordan Prince Williams High School, one of the familiar faces returning students won’t see is long-time Physical Education Department head Hattie Moxey.
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Mom wants police ‘charged with murder and jailed’
THE mother of a man whose killing was determined to be homicide by manslaughter believes the ruling should have been homicide by murder.
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Son ‘was at the wrong place at the wrong time’
THE father of a 22-year-old man murdered on Saturday believes his son was simply at the “wrong place at the wrong time”.
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Raynor Andrews makes it official with Rutgers
AFTER making the switch from basketball to football, Raynor ‘Big Ray’ Andrews now finds his way on the verge of joining one of the elite college football programmes at Rutgers University where he will be playing for the Scarlet Knights team next year.
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Feeling the life of the disabled
AS a highly educated qualified legal professional to be discriminated against due to my paralysis by my chosen profession is not only perplexing but very disappointing and extremely hurtful.
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‘WE JUST SHOT OURSELVES IN THE FOOT’: Men’s national beach soccer team goalie speaks on Bahamas’ 4th place finish
It’s not every day that an athlete makes a successful transition from one sport to the other.
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Lamar Taylor: Honestly, getting the medal, I was really shocked
Lamar Taylor, back in university as he prepares for the collegiate and World Championships and Olympic year, said he was “shocked” when he touched the wall for the Bahamas’ first swimming medal ever (for men) at the Pan American Games.
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Make-up of Davis and Billie Jean King teams complete
WITH their final trials held over the weekend at the National Tennis Center, the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association completed the make-up of both the men’s Davis Cup and female Billie Jean King Fed Cup teams.
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Deyton Albury to enter the NCAA Men’s Division One Basketball Transfer Portal
AFTER producing an outstanding season for the Royals men’s basketball team at Queen’s University where he earned several individual awards, Bahamian guard Deyton Albury has decided to enter the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Men’s Division One Basketball Transfer Portal.
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Anthonique Strachan finishes second in Diamond League 200m
SPRINTER Anthonique Strachan is content going into the season-ending Prefontaine Classic Diamond League Final of the Wanda Diamond League in Eugene, Oregon on the weekend of September 16-17.
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Zuri’s skating into a new life
PACKING her bags and relocating to a new country was one of the hardest things nine-year-old Zuri Carey has had to do.
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Customs ‘new rules’ sour visit
Having grown up in Nassau, attending both Xavier’s College and St Andrew’s School, and being married at Sacred Heart Church over 50 years ago, I was more than excited that my husband and I were returning for a visit last week. Although it was a bittersweet trip as we were bringing a loved one’s cremains with us to be put in the sea, I was still very excited since it had been three long years (since the start of the COVID circus) that I hadn’t been back to Nassau.
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Cayman Islands packs 1-2 punch in open water swim
After losing out to Team Bahamas in the CARIFTA Swimming Championships at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex, the Cayman Islands wanted to make sure that they made their presence felt in the open water 5K swim in Goodman’s Bay.
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Boxer Carl Hield ousted
As the lone ranger representing the Bahamas at the International Boxing Association’s World Boxing Championships, Carl Hield’s run didn’t last past his first bout.
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Power of the pen and democracy
With your kind permission I wish to offer an opinion on the power of the pen and the expression of democracy. Having written letters to The Editor since the age of 18, which was more than a few years ago, I have always enjoyed and appreciated the democratic freedom I possess while I express my opinion via the pen. I believe every human being in this country ought to have the right to express their opinion. And when that individual is prevented from the expression of an opinion, then Houston we have a problem.
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Eric Wiberg – A budget and a dream that became a passion
Bomber on a budget. That’s what I chose to name my pyric missions to find the metal and scraps of old World War II aircraft in our country.
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I-BAP pop up camp a success
I-BAP (Bahamas Athletic Pride) in collaboration with New York’s Electric City Bombers hosted a successful pop up Christmas camp on Saturday at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex to close out the 2023 calendar year.
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REACH Fun Run/Walk attracts hundreds for worthy cause
THE Resources and Education for Autism and Related Challenges (REACH) non-profit organisation closed out Autism Awareness Month on a high note.
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‘From my core, I am devastated’ says family member of Freedom Park murder victims as three men acquitted
SONIA Kemp waited ten years to hear a jury forewoman utter a single word: “Guilty.”