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April 25, 2024
NIB: '12.1% uptick in employers failing to pay National Insurance Board contributions'

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The National Insurance Board (NIB) has revealed that it has seen a significant uptick in cases where the government agency has been forced to take employers to court for delinquent NIB payments. Heather Maynard, Acting Director of NIB, said the agency has taken about 300 employers to court for failing to pay [...]

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April 24, 2024
The National Family Island Regatta Sets Sail on its 68th Year of Competition with Goombay Punch

Caribbean Bottling Company (CBC), local producers of Coca-Cola and Dasani products and longtime corporate supporter of the National Family Island (NFI) Regatta looks forward to another year of steep competition and culture at the 68th NFI Regatta this April 23-27 in George Town, Exuma.

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April 24, 2024
National Family Island Regatta - Cup Race for Class C and E Boats

The Exuma National Family Island Regatta --Cup Race for Class C and E Boats, Wednesday, April 24, 2024 in George Town.

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A national blunder
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January 27, 2017
A national blunder

Dear Editor,
It has been said that history is the witness that testifies to the passing of time. History is our guide because history knows what was, what is and what is yet to come.
On January 10, 1967, all eyes were focused on The Bahamas watching to see if the result of that election would be as that of 1962 when women were first given the right to vote.
In that general election history moved f...

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April 24, 2024
The Governor General arrives in Exuma for the National Family Island Regatta

The Most Hon. Cynthia Pratt, Governor General, arrived in George Town, Exuma, Tuesday, April 23, for the 68th Annual National Family Island Regatta.

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April 24, 2024
Woods wins 2024 Young Reporters for the Environment National Competition

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF) has announced that Dejae Woods, a 19-year-old from the University of the Bahamas, is the first-place winner of the 2024 Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) National Competition.  The winning photo entry, "Confronting the Devastating Effects of Marine Pollution in The Bahamas, " calls attention [...]

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April 23, 2024
National Security Minister states appreciation for launch of UN's Program for Vulnerable Population Response for Bahamas Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Agencies

The United Nations' Women Multi-Country Office (MCO) - Caribbean, and the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Section within the U.S. Embassy in Nassau, launched a new program to improve the response to victims and survivors of violence and youth crime in The Bahamas.

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April 26, 2011
PLP Hypocrisy on National Investment Policy

The PLP Statement on the updated National Investment Policy is not surprising but hypocritical and disappointing, particularly coming from a political party which has never found it necessary, nay possible, to either produce or comply with any National Investment Policy in our country.

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April 26, 2011
National Address: New Providence Transformation and Modernization

Nassau, Bahamas - The following is a National
Address by the Rt Hon Hubert A Ingraham, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas: 
New Providence
Transformation
and Modernization delivered on April 25th, 2011.

My Fellow Bahamians:

Good evening. On behalf of my wife Delores, my family and myself, I wish you and your family a blessed and happy Easter.  May this season of spiri...

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April 21, 2024
National Security Minister: State of Simpson Penn Raises Concerns for At Risk Boys

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe, along with the education minister and social services ministers toured the Simpson Penn Centre for Boys and the Willie Mae Pratt Centre for girls recently.

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