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February 02, 2024
Cuba Puts Brakes On Planned Public Transportation Rate Hike

CUBA - Cuba has decided to postpone a proposed fare hike for public transportation, just a day after delaying a planned 5-fold increase in fuel prices due to a cyberattack.

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November 02, 2023
McDonald's Pumps Brakes On Prices

USA - McDonald's said it's pumping the brakes on higher prices and focusing more on value meals after seeing a drop-off in visits by some customers.

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June 01, 2023
NHTSA: Automatic Emergency Braking In New Vehicles

USA - The Biden administration proposed requiring automatic emergency braking on all new passenger cars and light trucks Wednesday.

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March 18, 2023
Ford Recalls 1.5M Vehicles To Fix Brake Hoses

USA - Ford says it is recalling more than 1.5 million vehicles in the U.S. in two actions to fix leaky brake hoses and windshield wiper arms that can break.

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May 02, 2019
Put the Brakes on Traffic Fatalities with Road Marking and Studs, says BSGC

Labelling a recent US report as a “damning indictment” of the nation’s motorways, Bahamas Striping Group of Companies (BSGC) said more must be done to better guide drivers, particularly those travelling along unmarked, dimly lit roads on the Family Islands...

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February 10, 2017
Crime and violence put the brakes on development

The traditional logic seemed unassailable: Where there are low levels of development and high levels of poverty and hopelessness, people are more likely to act outside the law and commit criminal and violent acts. And yet, despite the unprecedented levels of economic growth and poverty reduction in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last decade, the region still experiences high levels of cr...

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Give cyclists a brake
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September 21, 2015
Give cyclists a brake

Dear Editor,

The other day I was hit by a jitney. I was on my bike, going around a corner out west on a road that typically doesn't have much traffic.

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May 08, 2015
Five reasons to press the brakes on the proposed NHI scheme

After decades of discussions, research, studies, proposal and reports, the government of The Bahamas has indicated that it intends to introduce National Health Insurance (NHI) effective January 1, 2016.

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June 06, 2011
Brake failure caused prison transport convoy collision

Brake failure caused last month's collision within the police and prison bus transport convoy on Bernard Road, The Nassau Guardian has confirmed.
Superintendent Carolyn Bowe, the officer in charge of the Traffic Division, told The Guardian that failing brakes on the school bus used by police to carry prisoners caused the vehicle to crash into the prison bus.
Two prisoners and one guard received tr...

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February 15, 2024
Sandals hosts major charity event in Nassau Village

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — With a major focus on community empowerment and economic development, the Sandals continues to resort its quest to make a positive impact in the Bahamas, one community at a time. A group of 20 managers and team members from the resort recently journeyed to Nassau Village where they met scores of residents [...]

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