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‘Ossie the Sports Insider’ top 10 high school basketball rankings

OSWALD Simmons, better known as “Ossie the Sports Insider,” released his latest standings for the senior boys and girls High School Basketball Top 10 Rankings.

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Primary School Basketball Champions crowned

THE members of the Carlton E Francis girls’ basketball team knew that there was no better way to keep the memory alive of their beloved deceased coach Sherman Smith than winning the New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association mini basketball tournament.

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Carlton E Francis, CW Sawyer undefeated in mini basketball tournament

CARLTON E Francis and CW Sawyer finished undefeated in their five games played as the two days of the round robin segment of the New Providence Public Primary School Sports Association’s Mini Basketball Tournament closed out yesterday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

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UB Mingoes men beat Giants 69-51

THE University of The Bahamas Mingoes men’s basketball team pulled off a 69-51 rout over the TMT Giants as the two teams faced off in their second matchup of the New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) season at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Saturday night.

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‘All I want is justice for my child’ says victim’s mother

THE mother of a teenage girl shot dead on Saturday has said she is left heartbroken and hoping for justice for another child.

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Police hunting for two men after attempted child abduction

POLICE have launched an island-wide manhunt for two men who tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl on Thursday.

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PM aims for budget surplus by fiscal year 2024/25

WHILE tabling the 2022 Fiscal Strategy Report (FSR) in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Phillip Davis said his administration’s plan to restore the country’s fiscal health is working and already “bearing fruit.”

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BDCS recruiting 100 new officers from Family Islands

OFFICIALS from the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services are in Grand Bahama to search for 100 new recruits.

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Athletes qualify for CARIFTA

The third annual Red-Line Athletics Oaktree Sonja Knowles Track Classic over the weekend at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium was termed a tremendous success with quite a number of athletes attaining the qualifying standards for the CARIFTA Games.

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PM ‘AS NORMAL’ DESPITE THREATS: Two anonymous calls warning of death for Davis

PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis plans to continue his normal duties despite his office receiving two anonymous calls on Friday from someone who made death threats, prompting a full-blown investigation.

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Girl sexually assaulted by home intruder

A GIRL was sexually assaulted by an intruder who unlawfully entered a residence in the Freeport area early this week, police reported.

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Two suspects shot by police after man killed on Joe Farrington Road

POLICE officers shot and arrested two suspects shortly after the assailants killed a man on Joe Farrington Road Tuesday.

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Swimmers make the mark for CARIFTA

THE FAC first annual Bert Bell Memorial Swim Meet took place over the weekend with quite a few competitors attaining the qualifying standards for the 2023 CARIFTA Games in Curacao in April.

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‘Mango season girls’ arrested, says Bell

FOUR Jamaican women, known as the “Mango Season Girls,” were arrested last month for working illegally in the country as a part of government operations to stamp out illegal immigration, Immigration Minister Keith Bell revealed in the House of Assembly yesterday.

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DAVIS: STAY OUT OF MY BUSINESS – PM hits back at FNM leader over calls for reshuffle

PRIME Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis insisted yesterday that he has no plans to shuffle his Cabinet at this time after calls from FNM leader Michael Pintard for him to do so, saying the opposition needs “to stay out of my business”.

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Star Trackers Classic has CARIFTA qualifiers

DESPITE the inclement weather, which forced officials to finish the meet ahead of time, at least a pair of CARIFTA Games qualifying standards were established in the same event at the Star Trackers Track Classic on Saturday.

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Bain denies recent protests responsible for threats on PM

COALITION of Independents Leader Lincoln Bain says he finds it “ridiculous” that people would seek to blame last week’s protest as the catalyst for threats being made to the nation’s leader, insisting the party would never incite people to do such a thing.

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Bipartisan support as debate begins on new Nurses and Midwives bill

MEMBERS of Parliament yesterday began debating the Nurses and Midwives Bill (2022) which, once enacted, will repeal the Nurses and Midwives Act (1971) and expand the nursing and midwifery practice in the country.

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EDITORIAL: Captain Rolle offers insight into Haiti situation

THE diplomats who have returned safely from Haiti have seen the situation on the ground there first-hand.

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Signing allows $150m Briland expansion

THE Davis administration signed an amended Heads of Agreement yesterday with developers behind the Briland Club Residences & Marina development that will allow for the expansion of the Harbour Island-based project, set to cost some $150m.

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