Police arrest a man suspected in a spate of recent sexual assaults in Bacardi Road area

POLICE arrested a 27-year-old man yesterday concerning several recent sexual assault cases in the Bacardi Road area of New Providence.

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Bacardi Road shantytown resident claims "we don't live here free"

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — A Bacardi Road shantytown resident yesterday claimed the land owner has received over a million dollars from residents over a 20-year period. Matny Fren, a truck driver and father of three, told to Eyewitness News that the community stopped making payments in November last year when the alleged owner refused to give [...]

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Wells' group targets second Bacardi site

By NEIL HARTNELL

Tribune Business Editor

The investor group headed by ex-Cabinet Minister and MP, Tennyson Wells, is negotiating with Bacardi to acquire the latter's second New Providence-based property at Clifton Pier, Tribune Business can reveal, with plans for a joint venture to develop it into a biodiesel manufacturing facility.

Sources close to developments confirmed that Mr Wells's group,...

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Mario Carey Plants Seed -- Transform Former Bacardi Plant into Regional Life-saving Disaster Rescue Recovery Rebuilding Centre for Southern US, Caribbean

Three years ago, real estate visionary Mario Carey called for the creation of a regional disaster relief and recovery centre that would fly into action the second a storm was predicted. The only problem – where to locate it.

Now, he says, he knows – a 62-acre site that includes every possible ingredient, existing warehouses, sprawling acreage and the most essential ingredient of all – vas...

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Bacardi buyer eyes 200-300 new jobs

The Bacardi property's purchaser yesterday told Tribune Business it was set to invest a further $1 million in equipment necessary to meet demand for its bottled water product, adding that it could employ an extra 200-300 persons in two years time if plans for juice production and a commercial bakery come through.

Tennyson Wells, the principal investor in Source River Holdings Company, said the ...

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Bacardi pledges 1M?to small businesses in?GB

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2m from Carnival Cruise Line - and 1m from Bacardi

CARNIVAL Cruise Line's corporate parent and its chairman have pledged a multi-million-dollar donation toward hurricane-relief for storm affected islands.The corporation's philanthropic arm, Carnival Foundation, and its nine global cruise line brands

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Man found shot to death near Bacardi Road

A man was shot multiple times about the body and left dead on a track road yesterday.
According to police, just before 8 a.m. on Wednesday, officers received a report that a body had been discovered on a track road east of Bacardi Road.
When officers attached to the Southwestern Division arrived at the scene, they were directed to the man’s body. Police said he was a Bahamian man in his ear...

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Bacardi relaunch targets downtown 'icon' status

Aiming to create a new downtown "icon", Bacardi will officially re-launch its store and a new bar/lounge concept by the end of the month in its former location which was gutted by fire in 2011.
Gricelle Richmond, operations manager for the store/bar, said Bacardi had spent a "significant" sum re-establishing and expanding what was a major attraction in downtown Nassau after over three years during...

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Bacardi T-Shirt Contest

Bacardi?s latest promotion ?Design with the Bat in Mind? was a T Shirt Contest designed to show the relationship between the Bacardi Company and the Islands of the Bahamas...

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