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January 08, 2015
Chocolate is for people, not for pooches

You can spoil your loved one with chocolate and spice your chicken souse with onions, but if you care about your pet, make sure you never feed them either...

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October 15, 2015
SME Helpdesk completes first round assessment

The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation's (BCCEC) Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) Helpdesk has completed assessments of its first tranche of small businesses and entrepreneurs - taking some local businesses one step closer to securing financing and "complete overhauls".

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April 01, 2017
PM announces relaxation of Exchange Control measures that would assist certain Bahamian-owned business

Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie announced in the House of Assembly, on March 29, 2017, that the Government has approved the relaxation of certain Exchange Control...

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February 26, 2017
Reforming our electoral process, pt. 1

"I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting.
These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself."
- Tzipi Livni

Every five years, Bahamians go to the polls to determine which political party should govern the country for the ensuing five years. Bahamians generally love to vote, often having an enviable voter turnout of 85 percent ...

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February 19, 2017
Seven of Exuma's famous swimming pigs die

The government will prevent the feeding of Exuma's swimming pigs by visitors following the recent deaths of seven pigs on Big Major Cay, according to Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources V. Alfred Gray.
Tourists and locals alike visit the Exuma Cays to swim with the pigs and feed them.
One of the pigs' owners, Wayde Nixon, told The Nassau Guardian yesterday, "The pigs were given the wrong ...

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January 20, 2017
Finding real news in the age of social media

There was a stabbing at Government High School yesterday during a fight between students. The student who was stabbed was last listed in critical condition at hospital. Two others sustained less serious injuries.
Video of the stabbing circulated on social media. A young man could be seen with some type of implement stabbing at another in the midst of a wider melee. The school looked like chaos.
Sa...

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December 16, 2016
BAARK's Strutt Your Mutt..."It's all about the dogs..."

Having fun and raising money for a wonderful cause was the name of the game on Sunday December 11th Strut your Mutt Walk-A-Thon at Goodman?s Bay, for both two and fourlegged participants. Just under 100 people and their dogs took part in the event...

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December 09, 2016
Progress in reducing stray animal populations

Dear Editor,
I would like to comment on the noticeable difference in numbers of stray dogs and potcakes that are now on our streets. I just drove by East Bay Street at the foot of the old P.I. bridge. Ten-plus years ago, that area was abounding in potcakes - packs of potcakes - and they often harassed the tourists, who found it to be completely unacceptable and perhaps even dangerous. On numerous ...

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October 28, 2016
FNM to ratify seven more election candidates tonight

THE Free National Movement will ratify "up to seven" more candidates for the 2017 general election tonight, according to FNM Chairman Sidney Collie.

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October 13, 2016
Hield lighting up the preseason

Chavano "Buddy" Hield has been everything that the New Orleans Pelicans' front office hoped he would be through the first three games of the National

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