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Discus national record holder Serena settles for second place

AFTER taking the past three years off to recuperate from a shoulder surgery, national women’s discus record holder Serena Brown made her return to the field for the University of Iowa Hawkeyes’ track team on Saturday.

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Mobile commerce provider at 100,000 download mark

A Bahamian mobile commerce provider says its app has hit the 100,000 download mark through local businesses increasingly using the platform to drive digital sales.

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‘We need to know more about sinking of tanker’

ACTIVIST Joe Darville has called for more information from authorities about the potential environmental impact a sunken gas tanker will have on the seabed.

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Are political parties ‘not for profit entities’?

Yes, carnival.....accepted the “tradition” party in-office has a business arrangement with the Carnival Company, but does the political party have a Business Licence? Has it a VAT Tin number?

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Bahamian student athletes take NCAA Division I spotlight

CHARLES Bain’s scoring output since last week’s senior night has been his best stretch of the season to highlight play from Bahamian student athletes in NCAA Division I basketball last weekend.

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Don’t trust the hype

Certain business celebrities if they need a description, love the use of extreme superlatives to describe something they are just getting into, or even at concept stage, a thought, but it is already a world beater, will shoot the Bahamas ahead of the world, and, of course, it is already internationally famous hardly conceived.

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Collegiate baseball players making impact

THE 2021 campaigns are underway at nearly every level of play in collegiate baseball and several Bahamian players had early impacts with their respective programmes.

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Sprinter Denisha Cartwright makes her presence felt

MINNESOTA State Mavericks’ sprinter Denisha Cartwright felt like an energiser bunny as she “kept going and going” in her four final appearances at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships on Saturday.

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Risking their lives to flee an impoverished country

Just after the election last month, all hell broke loose when we were faced with what appeared to be an invasion of Haitian immigrants.

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Minister: Difficult to put limits on social welfare

A Cabinet minister yesterday said it was difficult to place timelines and limits on the Government's COVID-19 social assistance initiatives given the continued uncertainty created by the pandemic.

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Rotarians put focus on the environment

THE first day of July marks the beginning of a new Rotary year - and this year it also marks the addition of a new focus for Rotarians.

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BREAKING NEWS: Family Islands airport operations hit by industrial action

AIRPORT operations on several Family Islands were severely affected today after more than a dozen airport employees refused to show up to work in protest of unresolved workplace grievances.

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Two key environmental appointments announced

THE Office of The Prime Minister and Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources has announced two key appointments to support the government’s commitment to promoting and supporting issues relating to the environment and climate change.

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Cameron Riley wins the first individual title of his NCAA career

CAMERON Riley and his Florida A and M Rattlers continue to solidify their standing as the top HBCU programme in NCAA Division I.

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Flamingos Women’s Golf Club to host their first tournament on Saturday

TWO years ago after national and African American Golfer’s Hall of Famer Agatha M Delancy formed the non-profit Flamingos Women’s Golf Club, they will host their first tournament on Saturday at the Bahamas Golf Federation’s Nine-Hole Golf Club.

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More Caribbean growth now on insurer’s ‘radar’

A Bahamian insurer says “there is something on our radar” for further Caribbean expansion as it bids to cut its reliance on this nation to just 55-60 percent of its annual business activity.

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A deserved thank you

I wrote several months ago to express my appreciation for the stellar organisation and professionalism of the vaccine site at Loyola Hall. And just when I thought the first experience couldn’t have gone better, I write again to say that it was even better.

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Probation for making false report

A 20-year-old man, who lied to police officers when he told them that two men had robbed him of his car at gunpoint, was placed on six months probation yesterday.

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Bimini businesses are mixed on COVID test

Bimini businesses yesterday gave mixed reactions to the Government’s requirement that persons travelling to and from the island must take an RT-PCR COVID-19 test in a bid to contain the latest outbreak.

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Ole Miss projected no.6 in preseason coaches poll

YOLETT McPhee-McCuin and her Ole Miss Rebels are expected to improve in one of the most keenly contested conferences in all of NCAA Division I.