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Nesbitt, Miller making immediate impact on hardwood

DAVID Nesbitt and Tavario Miller swapped clubs and leagues for the 2021-22 season and have had immediate impacts for their respective organisations.

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Sprinter Denisha Cartwright named NSIC Women’s Track Athlete, Newcomer of Year

MINNESOTA State Mavericks’ junior sprinter Denisha Cartwright had a remarkable season that led to her being named the NSIC’s Women’s Track Athlete and Newcomer of the Year.

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World U-20s take spotlight

Sprinters Camille Rutherford, Lacarthea Cooper and Carlos Brown, Wendell Miller and javelin thrower Keshawn Strachan will begin competition for Team Bahamas today as the World Athletics’ Under-20 Championships gets started in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Luxury goods retailer locked in $34m battle

A local luxury goods retailer is locked in a furious $34m legal battle with an overseas supplier who is asserting that the dispute threatens “to ruin the name of The Bahamas” if not resolved.

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Hudson in record book, athletes qualify for CARIFTA

Tarahj Hudson tossed his name into the record book, while Dion Desamour, Larcathea Cooper and Clinton Laguerra emerged as CARIFTA qualifiers during the inaugural Red-Line Classic at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium on Saturday.

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Remembering ‘gentle giant’ Charles Sweeting

TRIBUTES have poured in for former Queen’s College principal and president of The Bahamas Conference of the Methodist Church Reverend Charles Sweeting, who died last week.

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Auto dealers brace for 70% orders fall

New car dealers are warning that the government’s tax earnings from the industry will be severely reduced with 2021 orders expected to be up to 70 percent off compared to pre-COVID levels.

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More than 100 apply to have criminal records expunged

MORE than 100 Bahamians have applied to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Committee so far for the year seeking to get their criminal records expunged, the committee’s chairman Paul Farquharson said yesterday.

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Moss clears personal best

It was a great start to the collegiate indoor season for jumper Daejha Moss and quarter-miler Megan Moss in two separate meets on Saturday.

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Sprinters qualify for Under-20 Worlds, CARIFTA

SPRINTERS Carlos Brown Jr, Larcathea Cooper and Wanya McCoy all qualified for the World Athletics’ Under-20 Championships and a few others qualified for the CARIFTA Games at the Easter Track and Field Classic.

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Tourism chief: COVID test tightening ‘right thing to do’

The Bahamas’ top hotelier yesterday said the government’s tightening of COVID-19 testing requirements for incoming travellers was “the right thing to do” in a bid to bring the country’s soaring infection rate under control.

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Hudson and Mackey qualify again for postponed CARIFTA Games

TARHJ Hudson and Camitra Mackey both surpassed the qualifying standards for the postponed CARIFTA Games - again - at the Roadrunners 15th annual Dianna Lynn Thompson Classic on Saturday at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium.

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‘Freebie for mega wealthy must end’

A Bahamian realtor yesterday argued that “the freebie for the mega wealthy has got to stop” as he urged the Government to exploit the current high-end real estate boom to boost property tax revenues.

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STATESIDE: The gloves are off for an embittered ex-president and those who turned against him

It’s just hard to resist the continuing saga of Donald Trump. A couple of things have happened in the past week that many foresaw but whose dramatic impact is nonetheless notable.

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FRONT PORCH: A More Authentic Understanding of Hope

During the general election season and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic the virtue and value of “hope” has often been bandied about as a sort of magical thinking or a bottled elixir than can be employed as an easy fix for difficult problems, whether personally or nationally.

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STATESIDE: Has America lost its mind? Maybe

Hurricane Ida brought gloom, cloudy weather and occasional monsoon rain to the American Northeast yesterday. The dismal weather created a fitting backdrop for a generally discouraging outlook for Democrats and liberals.

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Four sprinters qualify for championships

IN what turned out to be the biggest match-up of the 18th Star Performers Track Classic 2021 meet resulted in four sprinters attaining the qualifying standards for the World Athletics Under-18 and Under-23 Championships boys 100 metres.

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PETER YOUNG: Could Trump have been right after all and the virus leaked from a Chinese lab?

It is the international story of the week. Despite the earlier denials, evidence seems to be mounting that the COVID-19 virus could have leaked from China’s Wuhan laboratory rather than evolving naturally from animals to humans.

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