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October 12, 2015
Govt should waive all taxes for Family Islands relief

A prominent attorney yesterday called for a "full tax waiver" for victims of Hurricane Joaquin as Family Island residents and business owners start to rebuild in the aftermath of the category four storm.

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January 13, 2012
Sweetheart Deal 'Very Scary' For Bahamas

Legal action taken against Brookfield Asset Management to block the debt-for-equity swap with Kerzner International has been met with fear, confusion and silence.

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June 02, 2010
2010/2011 Budget Debate - Minister Charles Maynard

Every Bahamian can vividly recall the day when as a country we earned what is likely our most treasured Olympic Gold Medal. We remember watching our ?Golden Girls? execute flawless baton passes. Picture Debbie Ferguson grabbing that baton from Pauline Davis Thompson and racing with all her might to the finish line bringing to this country what then was its first track and field Gold Medal.

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November 08, 2010
Letter: Be kinder to gun-wielding hoodlums

EDITOR, The Tribune

Re: Gun terror in Montagu, witnesses claim police used 'excessive force'. - The Tribune, 28 October, 2010.

Surely there are kinder, gentler ways for our police to disarm gun-wielding suspects.

For instance, a hoodlum might be coaxed into discussion whilst sharing a caff? latte, perhaps with just a touch of Madagascar ginger, to be followed by a word of prayer.

Then ...

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January 16, 2019
A Revealing Look at the Contemporary Art Market, HBO's Original Documentary 'The Price of Everything' Premieres on January 21

Can the value of art really be measured in dollars and cents? Paintings by artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and Gerhard Richter sell at auction for tens of millions of dollars...

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July 17, 2018
'Demons told me to burn my daughter'

A MOTHER accused of setting her one-year-old daughter on fire last year told psychiatric specialists she was coaxed to do so by "demonic voices" which had been "commanding" her to kill herself and do other "bad things", Supreme Court jurors heard yesterday...

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Taking Up Residence
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June 11, 2016
Taking Up Residence

It is a long upheld tradition in ?the art world? ? that seemingly separate planet where for many it is baffling that one can take an unmade bed or a pile of bricks and call it art.

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November 25, 2015
Mixed response from Russsia to downed fighter jet

A day after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet over Syria, Moscow said both of its pilots ejected the stricken aircraft and one of them had survived and made it safely to a Russian base in the war-torn country...

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May 30, 2013
VAT proposal to be released this summer

The government is powering ahead with the implementation of value-added tax (VAT) by July 2014 and claims it will pass relevant legislation by the end of this year.
Draft legislation for the much-anticipated tax, representing perhaps the most radical fiscal change in years, is now being reviewed internally.
Prime Minister Perry Christie announced during his budget communication yesterday that pu...

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April 26, 2013
New Online Workshops from the Gaulin Project for May 2013

In this 8-week online writing workshop, we?ll read published memoirs, poetry, and nonfiction that illumines the spiritual experience from diverse traditions. We?ll write weekly and discuss both craft and our spiritual journeys. We?ll work towards a rich and inspired portfolio of writings that tell your story of a personal relationship to the divine.

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