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Death toll rises to 28 at Freeport Indonesia tunnel collapse
Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold said Wednesday that 28 people have been pronounced dead after a tunnel collapsed last week at a training tunnel close to its Grasberg mine ...
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Freeport cant say when Indonesia mine to reopen confirms 28 dead
1 of 2. Freeport McMoran Chief Executive Richard Adkerson (R) chats with Indonesian Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Jero Wacik during a news conference after their meeting in Jakarta May 22, ...
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Cable Wireless Comms targets Caribbean cost cuts
Wed May 22, 2013 2:27am EDT LONDON May 22 (Reuters) - Cable & Wireless Communications met expectations with a 1 percent rise in full-year core earnings, and said it would cut $100 million of costs from a business now focused on the Caribbean and Central American. The company, which has sold its Macau and Monaco and Islands businesses, posted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and ...
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Baha Mar Selects Global Gaming Asset Management To Manage Casino Operations Of $3.5 Billion Integrated Resort
GGAM Executives Involved with Developing, Operating World-Class Destinations; Bring Best-In-Class Casino Management to Bahamian ...
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Freeport losing 220000 T of ore output a day at shut Indonesia mine
JAKARTA | Wed May 22, 2013 1:55am EDT JAKARTA May 22 (Reuters) - Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc is losing production of about 220,000 tonnes of concentrated ore a day after the shutdown of its Indonesian copper mine in Papua after a tunnel collapse that killed 28 people, a company executive said on Wednesday. Freeport closed the remote Papua mine on Wednesday last week, a day after ...
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Alle-Kiski Valley Spotlight Athletes Freeport’s Alec Stivers Apollo-Ridge’s Reannah Martin
Did last year's event play into your mind at all? (Stivers was eliminated after he failed in his first three attempts). Yes. I started at 12-6 this year and missed my first two jumps. I didn't want to repeat last ...
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Leisure and pleasure Caribbean way of life
St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves has cited the "leisure and pleasure" way of life as one of the "anti-social" trends developing in the Caribbean in the past ...
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Caribbean Farming Gets Its Roots Wet
- As Caribbean communities grapple with the entwined challenges of climate change and food security, modern technologies offer hope that the region’s stagnating agricultural sector can be made more ...
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AES supplies energy at Central Americas and the Caribbean’s most competitive prices
Santo Domingo.- The consolidated portfolio of energy generators that the power company AES manages offer the most competitive electricity prices in the local market as well as the Central America and Caribbean region. This was revealed by Marco De la Rosa, during breakfast the Energy Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAMDR), explaining that "AES sells a kilowatt hour of ...
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East meets South in friendly exhibition at HOYTES
By Buster LaingSpecial to The FNOn a warm Saturday morning, over 100 kids flocked to the Gladstone "Moon" Mcphee Park last weekend for the "HOYTES Fun Day and East meets South" in a friendly basketball tournament.Gladstone "Moon" Mcphee, the brainchild of HOYTES, invited players in HOYTES from Pinder's Point to play in exhibition games versus their counterparts ...
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U.S. tourist dies while snorkeling
LEDEDRA MARCHEFN News Editorlededra@nasguard.comA snorkeling outing for an American visitor took an unexpected turn Wednesday morning and immediate resuscitative methods had to be performed.While little information about the incident is being given, police say reports are that a male visitor was on a snorkeling excursion with Underwater Explorers Society (UNEXSO) officials when he developed ...
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PM meets investors abroad
ASHLEY?PENNFN News Reporterashley@nasguard.comAfter attending serveral meetings abroad, Prime Minister Perry Christie has said he is hopeful Grand Bahama will be able to attract major investment.The Prime Minister revealed he attended a series of meetings in New York with investors about possible development on Grand Bahama."I'm continuing to meet with the proposed developers. I ...
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PM says govt to make major commitment to athletics
By?Andrew CoakleyFN Sports EditorPrime Minister Perry Christie made a stronger commitment to the development of sports in The Bahamas, during a session of the House of Assembly on Wednesday afternoon.In offering congratulations to the young Bahamian beach soccer team, which performed well at a recent tournament, the Prime Minister noted that within the next few years, his government intends to ...
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YMCA Youth Development Basketball League going strong
By Andrew CoakleyFN Sports EditorIt was a program Terry Wildgoose talked about many times and although he had certain versions of it, a few weeks ago, Wildgoose's dream for a youth basketball league began to take shape.It started out as the Cable Bahamas Youth Development basketball program, where the main idea was to take the participants through a series of drills, all of which were ...
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Sports to become big part of ROM Family Fun Day
By Andrew CoakleyFN Sports EditorThis year's Reach Out Ministries Men United Parade and Family Fun Day at Taino Beach will have even more of a sports appeal than in the past.Last year, the Family Fun Day featured a basketball tournament, which went over pretty good, although organizer Dudley Seide was hoping for a better tournament.In any event, it was the first time that a basketball ...
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Godfrey Nolan Cooper Jr. IDd as latest traffic fatality
LEDEDRA MARCHEFN News Editorlededra@nasguard.comPolice identified the victim who died following a car crash on Queens Highway one week ago as that of the 27-year-old Godfrey Nolan Cooper, Jr.Cooper, a resident of Freeport, was celebrating his birthday last week Thursday and driving a silver 2007 Chevrolet Malibu in the area of the Fishing Hole Road around 11:20 p.m. with two passengers when he ...
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10 illegal Brazilian immigants discovered
Police in Grand Bahama arrested 12 people, including 10 Brazilian nationals, on Monday and are working with Immigration officials to determine how the illegal immigrants came to be here.Officers from the Marine Division on sea patrol in the Bell Channel area around 6:10 p.m. reportedly observed a yellow 20-foot Cobira vessel with two 200 horse power Yamaha outboard engines and two males on ...
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Magnum Rolle offers advice to up-and-coming ball players
By Buster LaingSpecial to The FNOn June 25, 2010, 6'11'' Magnum Rolle, a former star player at St. Georges High School under Coach Darrell Sears, was chosen in the draft as the 21st pick of the 2010 NBA Draft (second round and 51st overall) by the Oklahoma City Thunder. His rights were traded to the Indiana Pacers. Rolle became the first Grand Bahamian to be drafted into the NBA. ...
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Skeletal remains found in bushes
LEDEDRA MARCHEFN News Editorlededra@nasguard.comPolice in Grand Bahama are seeking the public's help in determining the identity of the human skeletal remains discovered Wednesday morning in bushes in the Heritage Subdivision area.After police received information around 10:00 that morning, a team of officers from the Central Detective Unit and others were dispatched to the scene.According ...
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Secretary-General says survival in global market demands commonality
Matt MauraBahamas Information ServicesThe Caribbean Community must remain alert, proactive and responsive as it confronts the shifting priorities of the world's dominant players including its traditional partners, CARICOM Secretary-General, His Excellency, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque said Monday. "Survival in the current global environment demands a commonality of ambition and vision, as ...
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AIDS candlelight memorial set for Sunday May 19
Sharell LockhartFN News Reportersharell@nasguard.comProject Hope Bahamas Committee in conjunction with the Grand Bahama AIDS Awareness Committee and the Red Rose Ball Committee will unite in solidarity on Sunday, May 19, in recognition of the 30th International AIDS Candlelight Memorial.The memorial is much more than it seems as it serves as a community mobilization campaign to raise social ...
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IAAF presents The Bahamas BAAA with huge test
Sports ScopeBy Fred SturrupAnother noteworthy item to be etched in the legacy of International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack is the World Relays event. The free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, gives this brief insight to the new IAAF element: "The IAAF World Relays is an international annual track and field sporting event that will see national teams from around ...
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Bahamas-Dominican Republic Bilateral talks
Permanent Secretary Philip Miller welcomed the delegation from the Dominican Republic and expressed thanks for their participation in recent negotiations.Following is his statement in its entireity."The Bahamian Delegation, led by our Foreign Ministry, wishes, at the outset, to thank the Foreign Ministry of the Dominican Republic, and its relevant authorities for its hospitality and ...
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Bahamas Attorney General spends time visiting Eleutheran Nation Builders
Gena GibbsBahamas Information ServicesAttorney General, Senator Allyson Maynard Gibson recently visited Eleuthera's infamous Nation Builders while promoting the Registrar General's new E-Government JP services in Eleuthera.On May 9, Sen. Gibson stopped in at the Tingum Village Hotel in Harbour Island and met with Ma Ruby at her Restaurant, which is best known as the home of Jimmy ...
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Driver succumb to injuries sustained in traffic mishap
LEDEDRA MARCHEFN News Editorlededra@nasguard.comA 27-year-old male, who was reportedly celebrating his birthday Thursday, was recorded as the island's latest traffic fatality on Sunday after succumbing to injuries he received in a serious car crash on Queens Highway.The victim was driving a silver 2007 Chevrolet Malibu along Queens Highway on Thursday, May 9 around 11:20 p.m. and had two ...
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Baha Mar integral to Bahamas long-term tourism plans
The Bahamas is already a major tourist destination in the Caribbean, but the financial crisis has reduced tourist numbers worldwide, creating a situation in which The Bahamas now have to compete globally for tourists. The Baha Mar resort, slated as a first-of-its-kind in the Caribbean hotel complex, may help it to do this.
The building of the Baha Mar resort on Cable Beach in Nassau has been seen by industry leaders across the Bahamas as a major investment in the future of the economy and tourism, which makes up a significant portion of the Bahamas’ GDP. It is a huge resort, costing $2.6 billion (by 2008 estimates), and will occupy an area of over 1000 acres. Read more
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