Ministry of the Environment awaits full picture of Irma's Impact; encourages environmental cleanup volunteerism

Minister of the Environment & Housing, the Hon. Romauld Ferreira, M.P. addressed House of Assembly last Wednesday, on September 20th, to share his concern for the homelessness and collateral damage left behind by Hurricane Irma earlier this month, throughout the archipelago of the Caribbean region...

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A picture of waste

While contributing to debate on the 2015/2016 budget in the House of Assembly in June 2015, then Minister of Education Jerome Fitzgerald said the government had allocated $2.3 million for STAR Academy, a facility for at-risk youth.
Two years later, Minister of Public Works Desmond Bannister revealed that the former administration actually spent just under $30 million on STAR Academy, which was bei...

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A picture of waste

The Christie administration executed over $90 million worth of medical-related contracts -- one of which was for the cleaning of an Abaco clinic that was closed -- just two weeks before the 2017 general election, Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands revealed yesterday.
Sands said the contracts were executed despite a $16.4 million shortfall that prevented the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) from pu...

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Baha Mar's opening - in words and pictures

Richard Coulson and his daughter, Amanda, offer different but approving views of a landmark occasion . . .

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DNA defends candidate over pictures with gun

THE Democratic National Alliance (DNA) yesterday defended its Nassau Village candidate, after pictures of Mario Lockhart brandishing a handgun and posing with scantily-clad women went viral on social media over the weekend.

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Picture Nassau

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Two more from the excellent crop of this year's Best Picture nominees

As usual, with the Super Bowl last weekend, there was very little of significance or worth watching in theaters. As such, I used the time to sample my final two of the nine movies nominated for Best Picture in this year's Academy Awards.
Sadly, neither of these two dramas, "Manchester by the Sea" or "Hell or High Water" has played here in The Bahamas as yet, but they are among the best-acted, writ...

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P.J. Patterson Gets Framed Junkanoo Picture From The Bahamas Press Club

The Bahamas Press Club held its Media Awards Banquet in the Governor?s Ballroom, British Colonial Hilton on Saturday, November 21, 2016.

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Killarney Member calls on constituents to forward pictures of trees to be removed in the area

Member of Parliament for Killarney, Hon. Hubert D. Minnis, is asking Killarney residents who have fallen trees on houses, or cars, fences or walls to forward photos...

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Big Picture Paint Sip Studio opens in Sandyport

Local residents and tourists alike now have a new outlet to express themselves with the opening of the Big Picture Paint & Sip Studio.

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Seeing the Picture- New Paint & Sip Studio Opens in Sandyport

Local residents and tourists alike now have a new outlet to express themselves with the opening of the Big Picture Paint & Sip Studio.

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Retail sales picture is mixed for Xmas

By ALISON LOWE

Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Retail operators are reporting mixed sales levels for Christmas 2010, with several describing top lines which show little improvement or even a decline over last year, while others have noticed a spike in consumer spending.

Heather White, of the Linen Shop, located on Bay Street, said sales this year have been "quite flat".

"We certainly...

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Parliamentarians 'ought to be ashamed' over pictures of sleeping MPs

HOUSE Speaker Dr Kendal Major said yesterday that parliamentarians should be ashamed of themselves after an investigation revealed that at least one government MP was responsible for taking and spreading an "unflattering" photo of two opposition members who appeared to be asleep during a previous session.

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The picture of good health

Having established their legitimacy and benefits in the East over centuries of practice, holistic therapies have taken off in this hemisphere in more recent decades.

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Woman, 20, pictured with high-powered rifle on social media arrested

POLICE have arrested a 20-year-old woman for questioning over firearms possession in response to a recent social media posting of a female posing with a high-powered assault rifle.

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Miller: Look at the big picture on Baha Mar

BAHAMAS Electricity Corporation Executive Chairman Leslie Miller said people must "look at the big picture" with Baha Mar, concentrating on getting the resort open rather than on the developer's failure to pay its hefty electricity fees.

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Sony Pictures Classics' acclaimed comedy Tamara Drewe to open 2010 Bahamas International Film Festival

 

Nassau,
Bahamas - October 26, 2010

- The Bahamas
International Film Festival (BIFF), announced today that Sony Pictures
Classics' acclaimed comedy "Tamara Drewe" will be the opening
film at this year's festival, which takes place December 1-5 in Nassau.
The special event screening will take place on

Thursday, December 2nd at
the Atlantis Theatre on Paradise Island. The announcement was m...

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Activist says picture shows immigrants 'caged like animals'

HUMAN rights activist Fred Smith has demanded that Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell explain a photograph depicting illegal migrants "caged like animals" in the back of a vehicle following an apprehension in Exuma.

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Last chance to win a getaway to 'Picture Perfect Pittsburgh'

FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- In cooperation with the Ministry of Tourism and the Grand Bahama Island Tourism Board, VisitPITTSBURGH is sponsoring a "Picture Perfect Pittsburgh" contest to find the perfect social media travel host from Grand Bahama.
The winner and guest will receive two roundtrip airline tickets to Pittsburgh; hotel room accommodations, two tickets to the Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Hous...

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Pictures 'show silt damage caused by Bimini ferry'

THE environmentalist group Bimini Blue Coalition has released photographs taken a week ago by a ferry passenger which it claims shows a plume of mud and silt thrown up by the Resorts World Bimini (RWB) SuperFast.

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