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April 10, 2018
Smartphone apps for persons with hearing loss

The smartphone is fast becoming a part of most citizens everyday life. Not only do we use it for its basic communication functions, to make calls and text, but also to take photos, conference call, watch movies, play games, read, use GPS functions, web searches, [...]

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February 28, 2018
7th Annual Public Software Regional Workshop

The Bahamas hosted the 7th Annual Public Software Regional Workshop February 22 and 23, 2018 at SuperClubs Breezes...

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February 19, 2018
Locally Developed Onshore APP proves A Hit with Visitors

A locally developed mobile application for tourists, called ?Onshore Bahamas,? is proving a useful tool for both air and sea visitors...

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November 21, 2017
Waterkeepers Bahamas Trains Volunteers to Test Waters for Swim Safety

Waterkeepers Bahamas Executive Director Rashema Ingraham spends hours at beaches in The Bahamas every week, but she isn?t splashing in the water, combing for shells or searching for treasure. Ingraham is part of a team that tests water at 16 public beaches in The Bahamas on a regular basis...

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September 14, 2017
God speaks through winds, storms, floods, fires and earthquakes when people disobey

"Except the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it." Psalm 127:1

How could we escape when we are aware that the season of hurricanes is upon us. As Harvey was forming in the Atlantic Ocean, not only were there National Weather Service bulletins but also prophetic predictions that the flood of Noah times has returned. You ask "What time is it" and the prophet replies "it is the end ...

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May 12, 2017
Minimally Invasive, Innovative Surgical and Non-Surgical Treatment Options for Epilepsy Now Available

Globally, there are more than 50 million people living with epilepsy ? with 80 percent living in low-to-middle class income countries, and 75 percent without treatment, according to the World Health Organization...

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April 27, 2017
"Mobile Device Management for BTC Business

BTC Business has partnered with C&W Business to introduce a solution based, management tool for its corporate customers. The solution, Mobile Device Management Plus (MDM Plus) will transform the dynamic of the adaptive workspace. MDM Plus allows employers to access and manage their productive devices at anytime from anywhere...

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April 13, 2017
First on CNN: US drops largest non-nuclear bomb in Afghanistan

The US military has dropped an enormous bomb in Afghanistan, according to four US military officials with direct knowledge of the mission...

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April 02, 2017
Two Alf Thompson Scholarships available for internship opportunity at 'shark lab'

Two Bahamians will be afforded the opportunity to intern at the Bimini Biological Field Station (BBFS), which is more commonly known as the "shark lab", as applications are being accepted for the Alf Thompson Memorial Scholarship.
The scholarship is open to Bahamians ages 20 to 26, and covers expenses for travel, food and lodging for four weeks, from August 15 to September 15.
The intent of the pr...

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A soldier's heart
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February 22, 2017
A soldier's heart

Dear Editor,

Worrisome is possibly the most newspaper appropriate adjective I can find to describe the minister of national security's knee-jerk response to the "Wild West"style violence being perpetrated on our streets.
There is apparently no one on either side of the political divide who takes with even a tinge of seriousness the fact that our sons are dying on our corners and in our neighborho...

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Smugglers' paradise
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December 12, 2016
Smugglers' paradise

Shipping in Nassau is a story of two worlds: The Nassau Container Port at Arawak Cay -- which with all its checks and balances still faces a problem, albeit small, with the smuggling of guns, drugs and money -- and to the east, Potter's Cay Dock, a hodgepodge of food stalls, mailboats, cargo, vehicular traffic and people...

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November 29, 2016
The future of health care

The future of primary care -- health care provided by the doctor who sees the patient first and provides basic treatment and who will determine whether a patient needs to be referred to a specialist -- is basically the future of health care according to family medicine specialist Dr. Denotrah Archer-Cartwright.

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November 24, 2016
Bell calls for measures to tackle Dominican poachers

STATE Minister of National Security Keith Bell yesterday advocated for the government to take more aggressive measures against Dominican poachers, claiming that the intruders are becoming "more and more violent" towards fishermen and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force.

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November 24, 2016
U.S. officials tell staff Sand Trap 'off limits'

AMERICAN officials have declared that the St. Albans Drive nightspot, Sand Trap, is "off limits" for its employees and their families, citing the shooting death of a woman there last week and an "ongoing association with known criminal elements".

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November 22, 2016
Greenslade: Lack of support from gov't in bail monitoring program

After the loss of his company's multi-million-dollar contract to monitor suspects on bail, ICS Security Concepts CEO Stephen Greenslade said his company did not get the necessary support from government and the police.

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November 11, 2016
Swift Swimming set to host annual open water race

Once again, Swift Swimming Club is set to host its annual open water race, and for the third consecutive year, it will be staged at the Palm Cay Marina and Beach Club.

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October 21, 2016
Equipment reportedly stolen from airplane at LPIA

Police were yesterday investigating an alleged theft from an airplane that was tied down on the ramp of Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA), Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) confirmed.

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October 18, 2016
Businessman claims thieves stole from two planes after hurricane

WHILE Bahamians were facing the reality of the destruction left behind in Hurricane Matthew's wake, a local businessman alleged that thieves were busy at work pillaging two of the aircraft he owns of avionics worth an estimated $70,000.

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August 12, 2016
Arrests made as police hunt for boat theft ring

SEVERAL persons in Abaco who are suspected of being involved in a boat theft ring on that island have been arrested, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Emrick Seymour told The Tribune.

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July 28, 2016
How to snorkel without leaving the boat

In 1799, the British naturalist Dr. George Shaw was presented with the preserved body of what he would later name a ?platypus?, a chimeric creature so extraordinary that he was immediately sure it was a prank created by some opium-addled taxidermist.

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July 27, 2016
MSS fighting crime and keeping boaters safe at sea

The Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) Marine Support Service Northern Bahamas Fleet presently has three vessels that are utilized to combat illegal activity on the water, as well as to assist persons who may be in need of assistance while at sea.

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July 12, 2016
U.S. Embassy Nassau, Bahamas security message: Personal security awareness

This message is to remind U.S. Citizens resident and visiting New Providence Island (Nassau) and Paradise Island to be mindful of their surroundings at all times and employ practical personal security awareness when in public and at home to avoid being a victim of crime...

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July 04, 2016
This bird species can fly for months at a time without landing

If there were an endurance record for bird species, the little-known frigatebird would win.

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June 28, 2016
BauBax creates clothes to wirelessly charge your devices

Less than a year after the Kickstarter campaign for his BauBax jacket raised a whopping $9.2 million, he's debuting his next project -- clothes that wirelessly charge your devices.

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June 23, 2016
Meet the humans with microchips implanted in them

Tim Shank's dogs have implanted GPS chips in case they get lost. Now, he has a chip of his own.

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June 15, 2016
RBDF crew return fire with suspected Dominican poachers

ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) marines were involved in a shootout and subsequent high-speed chase with suspected Dominican poachers in the Cay Lobos area on Monday night, National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage said yesterday.

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April 28, 2016
Florida Teens Lost at Sea Sent Ominous Snapchat to Friends...

Two Florida teens who vanished while fishing together at sea last summer may have sent the message, "We're f'd," to friends on Snapchat as weather conditions turned bad.

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May 04, 2016
This Self-Flying, Camera-Equipped Drone Can Follow You Anywhere

Hover Camera?s creator, Meng Qiu ?MQ? Wang, pulls out a small, rectangular device that looks at first like an external hard drive.

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February 17, 2016
BFM's got an app for that

Bahamas Faith Ministries (BFM) has gone live -- with a new app that will allow people to stay connected with church whenever they want, wherever they are.

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