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Bahamas Striping’s $183m GB project ‘never signed’
The Tribune (Bahamas)
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August 1, 2025
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net The Ministry of Finance’s top official yesterday said a proposed $183m contract with a Bahamas Striping group affiliate to overhaul west Grand Bahama’s roads was “never signed; it...
Virginia Tech Men’s Hoops Releases Nonconference Schedule
WSLS - Virginia
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August 2, 2025
BLACKSBURG, Va. – Virginia Tech and head coach Mike Young unveiled the Hokies’ 13‑game non‑conference schedule Friday, featuring eight home games at Cassell Coliseum, one true road test, and several neutral‑site highlights. The season opens with...
American man bitten by shark as he dangled leg from boat in Bahamas
The Independent
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July 31, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
SpaceX-Bahamas Deal Falls Through, But Musk Negotiates Booster Landing Approvals
The Global Economics
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July 31, 2025
In April of this year, the Bahamas paused this agreement after a SpaceX rocket, the Starship, exploded a month earlier due to a mid-flight failure, resulting in huge amounts of debris washing ashore onto the island nation. Last year, SpaceX was...
Celebrations for Cooper's 40 Years at Bahamasair
Bahamas Local
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Bahamasair's Managing Director Mr. Tracy Cooper has reached a significant career milestone - 40 continuous years of selfless service to the national flag carrier. His achievements were recently celebrated by colleagues, family and friends who...
Setback For Musk: Here’s How SpaceX’s Rocket Diplomacy Backfired In The Bahamas
StratNews Global
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July 29, 2025
Home United States Setback For Musk: Here’s How SpaceX’s Rocket Diplomacy Backfired In The Bahamas By April, two months after the first Falcon 9 landing, the Bahamas paused the rocket landing deal, citing a debris-spewing Starship explosion and...
Viceroy Research Accuses Vedanta of Margin Theft via HZL Vendor Runaya Green Tech
Moneylife India
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Runaya Green Tech, which appears to function as an integrated subsidiary of Hindustan Zinc Ltd (HZL) despite being 100% owned by the Agarwal family, is siphoning profits from HZL under the guise of strategic processing operations, alleges a new...
How SpaceX's rocket diplomacy backfired in the Bahamas
The Gazette - Colorado
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By Joey Roulette NASSAU, Bahamas (Reuters) -When SpaceX was negotiating a deal with the Bahamas last year to allow its Falcon 9 rocket boosters to land within the island nation's territory, Elon Musk's company offered a sweetener: complimentary...
SA female crew member stabbed on Bahamas cruise ship
Cape Town ETC
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July 28, 2025
Yet another South African crew member attacked abroad. This time, a 28‑year‑old female suffered multiple stab wounds aboard Royal Caribbean’s Icon of the Seas on 24 July. The attack took place in the waters off San Salvador Island (SmileFM)....
Former Cable Bahamas executive sues for wrongful dismissal, alleges sexual harrassment
The Nassau Guardian
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A former legal executive at Cable Bahamas Ltd. has sued the company for wrongful dismissal and breach of contract, claiming she was subjected to sexual harassment, bullying, and misogynistic and racist conduct before she was fired last summer. The...
Cable Bahamas Celebrates Top Performers At Annual Epic Awards
Our News Bahamas
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July 27, 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Celebration was in the air as Cable Bahamas honored the heartbeat of its organization, it’s employees, during the annual Epic Awards. The initiative recognizes...
Tampa Bay educator hopes to bring 'once in a lifetime’ shark research trip into the classroom
FOX 13 Tampa Bay - Florida
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FOX 13's Kailey Tracy reports. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla - Getting up close and personal with sharks may not be your idea of a week well spent, but Remus Bulmer doesn’t feel that way. "We were going to meet them where they are to observe them in the...
Voter cards get biometric update in Dominican Republic, Bahamas
Biometric Update
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July 25, 2025
The Dominican Republic is hoping its new digital identity and voter registration cards will have global reach, according to a brief from Dominican Today. Called a “major modernization,” the new cards are being positioned to “transform the...
A new Bahamas: Building the future on Andros island
The Nassau Guardian
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Dear Editor, Imagine a Bahamas reimagined where innovation meets sustainability, and opportunity is not a privilege but a promise. This vision begins with a bold step: the creation of a smart city on Andros Island — a platform for transformation...
TRC participates in CANTO 2025 in The Bahamas
Virgin Islands News Online
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The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (Commission) is pleased to share that it participated in the 40th Annual CANTO Conference and Trade Exhibition, held from July 12 to 17, 2025, in Nassau, The Bahamas. Photo: TRC NASSAU, The Bahamas– The...
U.S. experts support forensic science upgrades in Guyana to bolster criminal justice system
Guyana Chronicle
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July 24, 2025
IN a significant boost to Guyana’s criminal justice system, a team of forensic science experts from the U.S.-based Strategic Capacity Group (SCG) conducted a comprehensive technical assessment of the Guyana Forensic Science Laboratory (GFSL) from...
Investigating Weather With New Satellites
Forbes
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ATLANTIC OCEAN - SEPTEMBER 1: In this NOAA GOES-East satellite handout image, Hurricane Dorian, now a Cat. 5 storm, tracks towards the Florida coast taken at 13:20Z September 1, 2019 in the Atlantic Ocean. A hurricane warning is in effect for much...
Bahamas Makes Historic Visit to ICAST 2025
ZNS
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July 18, 2025
The Bahamas made history this week at ICAST 2025, the world’s largest sportfishing trade show, with the first ministerial attendance by the Hon Vaughn P Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources. Held July 15–17 in Orlando,...
3 new executive appointments @ Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina
Virgin Islands News Online
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SCRUB ISLAND, VI- Scrub Island Resort, Spa & Marina has made changes to its executive team with the hire of three new individuals. In a press release on July 29, 2025, the resort’s management announced that it had hired Ms Scarlett Steer as Real...
Bonefishing Tournament Series Kicks Off in The Bahamas
South Florida Caribbean News
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July 22, 2025
L-R: Joel Moxey, event co-host and Consultant, BMOTIA; David Tate, winning guide; Omeko Glinton, winning angler; Wendell Saunders, Executive, BMOTIA-Grand Bahama; Malachi Rolle, winning Angler and Earnestine Moxyz, event co-host and Senior Manager...