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Mid-flight slumber cut short by exploding headphones
Mid-flight slumber cut short by exploding headphones
Australian authorities have warned about the dangers of using battery-powered devices on flights after a woman's headphones caught fire...
Nine Bahamian Films Entered in BIFF Caribbean Spotlight
Nassau, Bahamas - The 9th edition of the Bahamas International Film Festival (BIFF) taking place from December 6-9, 2012 in Nassau will once again be featuring Bahamian filmmakers in their Caribbean Spotlight which will also showcase films from Haiti, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, and Guyana.
Tambearly students display 'egg-cellent' projects
Tambearly students display 'egg-cellent' projects
Tambearly International School students jumpstarted their Easter celebrations early with students in grades Pre-K through 12 putting their creative talents to work to create dioramas using blown eggs as the characters of their settings.
Bel Canto Singers Christmastide Thrills Audience
Bel Canto Singers Christmastide Thrills Audience
Eldridge McPhee?s Bel Canto Singers, an ensemble well known here to all who appreciate professional performance standards, gave their annual Christmastide concert at St. Andrew?s, the Kirk, on December 4 and 5 to packed houses. Saturday night?s concert was their traditional fund-raising gala to benefit the AIDS Foundation of the Bahamas and Unity Center. A silent auction and a buffet dinner accomp...
DQ?s Miracle Treat Day to Provide Hearing Aids for Children
Make Miracles for Hearing Impaired Children - June 21st, 2018 heralds the official start of summer and DQ?s Miracle Treat Day. On Miracle Treat Day, DQ will donate $2 from every blizzard treat sold to The Red Cross Centre for Deaf Children. Pictured is Renold Zion Rolle, a 6 year-old who was diagnosed with hearing impairment at age 5 and received a donation from DQ that assisted with his therapy.
Timothy Smith, 24, Named Top Rookie Producer at Better Homes and Gardens MCR Group Real Estate
Timothy Smith, 24, Named Top Rookie Producer at Better Homes and Gardens MCR Group Real Estate
Timothy Smith, 24, in his first year in real estate earned honours as rookie sales associate of the year at Better Homes and Gardens MCR Group, one of The Bahamas? leading real estate firms with offices or representatives in Nassau and........
Roberts slams FNM over positions on Baha Mar
Roberts slams FNM over positions on Baha Mar
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts has branded the Free National Movement a deeply divided party as the organisation is perceived to have taken two contrasting positions over the unsealing of documents related to the new deal to open $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort.
The real causes of crime
The real causes of crime
Dear Editor,
Keith Bell, the state minister of national security, has stirred from his political slumber to blame the country's current crime catastrophe on the previous government.
A miasma of mediocrity
A miasma of mediocrity
"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
At almost every turn in our daily lives, we are deluged by a miasma of mediocrity. Our society, on so many fronts, appears to be intractably inundated by an attitude that reflects that there is really no need to excel in our undertakings and that, if we just perf...
A challenge to the Stronger Bahamas campaign
A challenge to the Stronger Bahamas campaign
Dear Editor,
Thank you for allowing me to express this challenge, not criticism, of the Stronger Bahamas campaign.