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The Bahamas Basketball Federation (BBF) recently announced its coaching staff for junior boys and girls teams representing The Bahamas this summer in international play.
The boys will be playing at the Centrobasket Under-15 (U15) Boys Championship in Gurabo, Puerto Rico, June 18-22, 2022. They will be playing at the Fernando ‘Rube’ Hernandez Coliseum.
After working on his sailboat into the evening of June 2, Nick Buckell returned to the mooring field at St. Thomas Bay, Virgin Gorda, the following morning to find that the 30-foot mono-hull had disappeared.
He searched the harbour and other parts of the territory to no avail and filed a police report at the Virgin Gorda station, he told the Beacon.
On November 23, 1956, a Directed Missile Base was inaugurated in the town of Sabana de la Mar, El Seibo province, by virtue of an agreement signed in 1951 between the governments of the D.R., the U.S., and Great Britain.
The facility was in operation until 1962 when the 10-year agreement expired and was extended by mutual agreement for one year in its final phase.
The common interests explain Great Britain’s participation in the base’s objectives and that similar bases were located in British colonial possessions.
Santo Domingo, DR.
The Dominican Association of Exporters (Adoexpo), celebrating yesterday the 50th anniversary of its founding, highlighted the potential of the sector, citing that the export volume in this last four-month period of the year totaled US$4.1 billion, a growth of 9.87% compared to January-April 2021 and 31.69% compared to 2019, year.
It has been the neglect of the Dominican authorities the re-emergence of rabies, says Felix Flores, president of the Dominican College of Veterinary Doctors, who points out that despite being an endemic disease on the island, it has been neglected in the last two years.
The authorities’ neglect in managing this program of control and eradication of the disease.”
On Friday, Virgin Islands students helped clean up the oceans — virtually.
Onscreen, an entity powered by artificial intelligence combed through an ocean of colourful fish and other objects. However, it had to learn what was ocean debris and what was a fish. Each time the AI came across another object, its memory for recognising fish got better and better.
COSTA Rican dancehall promoter Fire Don is hoping that the two-year-old shutdown of reggae shows due to COVID-19 in that Central American country will soon end.
"Right now Costa Ricans are hungry for Jamaican music. They love reggae because this is the music their foreparents played when they came here as part of the railway workers in the latter part of 1880s. They never left, so we have some three generations of music lovers here in Costa Rica," said Fire Don, who has Jamaican parents.
After an extensive maritime and land interdiction operation was deployed on the coast of Bayahibe, agents from the National Drug Control Directorate (DNCD) and members of the Navy seized 454 packages, presumably of cocaine, in the province of La Altagracia.
The incident occurred after receiving reports that a speedboat with several occupants, intended to leave Dominican territory for the neighboring island of Puerto Rico, carrying an undetermined amount of controlled substances.
Recent studies of global broadband and mobile data pricing from United Kingdom-based telecommunications provider Cable.co.uk haven’t turned out well for the Virgin Islands, which has consistently shown to have some of the highest prices in the world for those services.
However, when it comes to electricity, the VI ranks near the middle of the pack regionally.
Just 11 out of 28 Caribbean countries have cheaper electricity than the VI, according to a study released last month from the company.
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