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March 15, 2017
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...

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November 28, 2012
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.

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April 03, 2023
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.

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December 10, 2010
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...

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May 28, 2018
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.

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January 04, 2018
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........

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September 09, 2016
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.

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October 30, 2015
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.

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A miasma of mediocrity
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July 19, 2015
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...

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July 07, 2015
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.

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