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Read storyThe contractor for the New Providence Road Improvement Project (NPRIP) is on schedule and should begin work this month or next month according to the project's coordinator.
Khader Alikhan said Jose Cartellone Construction of Argentina has submitted a plan and that it is under review.
In addition, Cartellone is locating underground utility pipes, some of which may have to be redirected.
The first two projects expected are Corridor 5 (Bethel Avenue) and Corridor 18 (West Bay Street near Saunders Beach).
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Read storyA group of six men beat a customer and sliced his neck open at Green Parrot bar Friday night.
The victim told The Tribune that security guards did nothing while the men attacked him. Instead a female companion with him was hurt trying to defend him.
The men left after they cut the man's neck and the guards came over to help the young woman get her friend in the car.
The injury required 60 stitches in and outside the man's neck and could have easily cost him his life.
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Read storyFormer Member of Parliament for Long Island James "Jimmy" Knowles died at home on Saturday.
Knowles had been fighting cancer for four years but returned home when doctors said they had done all they could.
An attorney by trade, Knowles served as minister of transport, minister of works and minister of agriculture and fisheries.
Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette said:
“Jimmy was very strong minded. He was firm on his convictions and he had a great sense of humor and it was always a pleasure to work with him."
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Read storyA College of the Bahamas survey shows that citizens are optimistic about the economy.
This month, economics lecturer Randy Forbes and a team of college students collected in-person responses from 1,500 Bahamians.
The answers to five questions, including "Is this a good time to spend $3,000 or more?" and "How will the general economy be in the next six months?" Showed a general optimism, Forbes said.
Forbes is calling the research the Economic Society of The College of The Bahamas Consumer Confidence Index, or the ESOCOB CCI, modeled after its American counterpart.
He has collected the information for the past five years but has only published the results this year.
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Read storyTwo people were killed in a three-car collision at about 1.50 Sunday morning.
A 23-year-old driver and his 27-year-old passenger were killed when the car they were drigin collded with an SUV at the corner of East Street and Cox Way. The car then spun around and hit another car.
The 36-year-old woman who was driving the SUV was taken to hospital in an ambulance although she was responsive and her condition was said to be non life-threatening.
The 34-year-old woman driving the third car to be hit injured her ankle but was otherwise unhurt.
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Read storyThe architect who designed the cancelled straw market facility has joined the project's contractor in complaining that government has not paid for work that was done.
Michael Foster said he has taken legal action to collect the money he is owed for designing the $23 million facility that the FNM government cancelled saying it was too expensive.
Foster also defended his design, saying it could have generated $2 million a year. He said he did not see how a $10 million dollar structure could do the job.
Ashley Glinton of Woslee Dominion Construction recently expressed concern that the government has not met its obligation to him.
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Read storyPolice shot and killed a man after a chase near Fire Trail Road Sunday night.
An unidentified caller spoke to police around 9pm to say he had been hit by a white Cadillac that did not stop. The driver said he followed the car along John F Kennedy Drive.
Police saw the car and tried to intercept it on Fire Trail Road but it turned onto Allen Drive stopping on a mound of dirt at the end.
Two men got out and one shot at police. Officers shot back, hitting him in the torso and killing him.
Police recovered a 12-guage shotgun and launched a search for the other man that was still going on yesterday.
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Read storyTURKS AND CAICOS: A Bahamian couple was sentenced to four years jail time after pleading guilty to cocaine smuggling.
Spence Dean, 39 and his girlfriend, Mary Sawh asked for leniency after admitting to taping more than four kilograms of cocaine to their bodies.
But Magistrate Clifton Warner gave them each four years, one year shy of the maximum.
The couple were stopped by police trying to board a Bahamasair flight at Providenciales International Airport.
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Read storyThis Thursday, Sir Orville Turnquest will be the first lecturer in the Eugene Dupuch Law School's “Distinguished Lecture” series.
The series is meant to promote discussion of current legal issues among lawyers and members of the public.
The lecture starts at 7.30pm at the Wyndham Nassau Resort and
Crystal Palace Casino.
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Read storyGRAND BAHAMA: A woman was attacked after a man lured her out late Saturday night.
Police said the woman, a 27-year-old clothing vendor, got a call from a man at about 9.40pm. He asked her to come out to the Summerville Drive area so that he could buy some of her products.
When she got there, the woman was attacked by a masked man. He raped her, took her belongings and her van.
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Read storyMore than half of the water bought by the government is never paid for, doubling the cost of supply while cutting revenue in half.
Minister of State for Public Utilities, Phenton Neymour, said the Water and Sewerage Corporation is dealing with several challenges, such as not changing the cost of water since 1999, before expensive reverse osmosis technology was started.
The corporation loses $2.2 million ever year because it charges less than water costs and more than half the water is either stolen or lost through leaky pipes.
Bad pipes also mean rusty water for some residents, especially on the Eastern Road.
Neymour said government is waiting on a report from an Inter American Development Bank study. He hopes the report will help the WSC become self-sufficient.
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