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OPTINAM 2019 deemed a success
OPTINAM 2019 deemed a success
The curtains have already closed on a successful 2019 Optimist North American Championships (OPTINAM) on October 4 but The Bahamas has been given high praises for being the host of the event. Vice-President of the International Optimist Dinghy (IODA) Americas Sigrid Beckman raved about the [...]
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Man 'beat me and held knife to my throat'
Man 'beat me and held knife to my throat'
A WOMAN yesterday testified that a man brutally beat her before holding a knife to her throat during a domestic dispute earlier this year.
Tribute to Sir Clement Maynard by Sir Arthur Foulkes
Tribute to Sir Clement Maynard by Sir Arthur Foulkes
?If there is no struggle there is no progress. There are those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation. They want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.?
Two weekends of back-to-back crazy
Two weekends of back-to-back crazy
After three weekends of soca hysteria, it's time to settle down, and have your funny bone tickled with two different stage plays on two different weekends.
The tipping point
The tipping point
Dear Editor,
Now that the political dust, so to speak, has settled and Hubert Alexander Minnis (FNM-Killarney) has been re-elected as leader of the Free National Movement (FNM), that party and its leadership cadre must get down to the real job at hand.
The traditional and constitutional job of the major opposition party is to oppose the agenda of the governing party and to critique its performanc...
Catholic Church Must Be Firm With China
Catholic Church Must Be Firm With China
Dear Editor,
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This letter concerns the AP article of July 4, 2011, "China ordination raises tensions with Vatican". You can't bargain with the devil.? This should be clearly understood by Vatican officials who persist in establishing, at all costs, improved relations with communist China.
Where is the science
Where is the science
Former U.S. President Barak Obama recently said: "More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing." Here at home we have similar doubts. We have been told [...]
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Tourism’s Accelerated Recovery in Wake of Dorian to be Cut Short by Global Presence of COVID-19
Tourism’s Accelerated Recovery in Wake of Dorian to be Cut Short by Global Presence of COVID-19
The Bahamas’ tourism industry’s accelerated recovery in the wake of the monster storm, Hurricane Dorian in 2019, is expected to be cut short by the global presence of COVID-19, House Members heard Wednesday...
I hope you dance
I hope you dance
Dear Editor, As the curtain comes down on 2019 and we begin our journey into another decade, as we embrace each other with agape love, let us pray that we leave all of the hardship and trials behind. This year has been the most challenging [...]
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The experience of breastfeeding
The experience of breastfeeding
The decision to breastfeed is a personal one -- but it's a decision a nurse and lactation coordinator at the Department of Public Health hopes more mothers will choose as a means to feed their babies.