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Tiktok creators could sue over ban

Eight TikTok content creators sued the US government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a year.

Will AI replace doctors who read X-rays, or just make them better?

How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?

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Joanna Evans’ suspension increased to four years

BAHAMIAN two-time Olympian Joanna Evans took to social media on Monday to voice her grievances with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) after her initial two-year doping ban from the sport was doubled to four years following her attempt to appeal the decision through the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).

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Get ready for Samuel P. Haven Jr High Schools Soccer Nationals next week

GET ready for the Ministry of Education, Technical and Vocational Training’s sixth Samuel P. Haven Jr High Schools Soccer Nationals next week at the Roscoe Davies Developmental Center at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.

Gov’t awards 43 sustainable food grants

Forty-three fishermen and farmers have been presented with sustainable food grants by a variety of government agencies.

Freeport Business Expo attracts 400 attendees

The Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) says its Freeport Business Expo 2024 attracted more than 40 exhibitors and 400 attendees earlier this month.

Man charged for attacking another man using a screwdriver granted $5k bail

A MAN was granted $5,000 bail yesterday after being accused of attacking a man with a screwdriver at a bar in Nassau Village last August.

Man accused of breaking into two Bay St shops

A MAN was denied bail yesterday after he was accused of breaking into two stores on Bay Street last week.

Police seize $400k of Marijuana, three men held

THREE Bahamians are in police custody following the seizure of more than $400,000 worth of suspected marijuana during a drug bust in Grand Bahama.

Police testify Collins was a suspect, but friends say he had no gun when he was shot

AN officer testified that Aliko Collins was a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a woman on Cowpen Road just before he was shot and killed by an off-duty officer in Pinewood Gardens in 2017.

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Four teams ‘in the hunt’ for GSSSA soccer title

Four teams remain in the hunt for the 2024 Government Secondary Schools Sports Association (GSSSA) junior girls and boys soccer championships.

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Pintard: PAC examining concerns over how govt spends, manages and processes funds

FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard says the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is examining several audits from the Office of the Auditor General under the administration of Prime Minister Philip "Brave" Davis, saying there are overwhelming concerns about how the government spends, manages, and processes funds.

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FACE TO FACE - Paying it forward and creating lasting smiles

DR Welmilya Francis is living proof of how powerful the impressions are that we make on very young children.

Police: Teen killed on basketball court had running feud with a suspect in his murder

THE teen killed on a basketball court over the weekend had a running feud with one of the suspects in his murder, Chief Superintendent of Police Chrislyn Skippings said yesterday.

Coroner’s court empanels jury for inquest into police-involved killing of Aliko Collins

A FIVE-PERSON jury was empanelled yesterday as the inquest into the 2017 police-involved killing of 21-year-old Aliko Collins in Pinewood Gardens began.

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Two ‘sick slips’ delays Gibson trial

A SUPREME Court judge adjourned the trial of Adrian Gibson and others yesterday after the Long Island MP failed to appear in court for medical reasons.

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Pedestrians intervene to stop woman jumping from the bridge

A WOMAN tried to jump from the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge while holding her two-year-old daughter yesterday before pedestrians intervened to stop her before police arrived.

FNM Senator says the country experiencing a ‘deepening mental health crisis’ as suicides rise

A SENATOR says the country is experiencing “a deepening mental health crisis” amid a rise in suicides and attempted suicides.

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Skippings: ‘Bit too early’ to know if foul play involved in suspected Hamilton suicide

POLICE Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings said it is a “bit too early” to determine if foul play is suspected in the death of Destiny Hamilton, the 27-year-old found dead with a lacerated wrist.

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Evan Fox ‘suffered a self-inflicted wound’, say police

POLICE said Evan Fox, a man who was reported missing last month before he was found dead near his truck in bushes of Frank Watson Boulevard, committed suicide.