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130 health workers off the frontline as cases continue rising By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville said about 130 healthcare professionals are out of the system because of COVID-19, including 100 in New Providence and 30 in Grand Bahama. His comment comes as the country recorded 315 confirmed COVID-19 cases on Monday with a positivity
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rate of 45 percent. He said while there is sufficient hospital bed space, the challenge now is ensuring sufficient manpower to staff these wards. “As it stands, in New Providence there are little over 100 healthcare professionals out and there (are) about 30 to my last count in Grand Bahama at the Rand Memorial Hospital,” Dr Darville said. SEE PAGE THREE
DIRE PREDICTIONS OF HOW BAD IT COULD BE A NEW study has projected that due to the Omicron variant in The Bahamas, daily case numbers could reach a high of 2,610 by February 13. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, an independent global health research centre at the University of Washington, used local data through December 13, 2021 and ran its model which produced
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the new data on December 21, 2021. The study presents several possible scenarios by which infections, cases, hospitalisations and deaths could reach maximum levels. These scenarios include a reference scenario; high severity of Omicron scenario; 80 percent mask coverage scenario; third dose scenario; and reduced vaccine SEE PAGE THREE
SUPERSTAR Doja Cat helped celebrate the start of 2022 with an exclusive outdoor event at Atlantis’ Royal Deck on New Year’s Day. The performance by the “Say So” singer was part of the resort’s acclaimed entertainment series ‘Atlantis Live’. She is a three-time Grammy Award nominee and has taken home the Best New Artist Award at the MTV VMAs, the MTV EMAs, the AMAs – where she also won the Best Female Soul/R&B Artist Award – and the iHeart Radio Awards. (Photo: Jason Koerner/Getty Images for Atlantis)
PASSENGERS’ FEAR AT FOUR ‘SERIOUS’ OFFERS MID AIR ‘NEAR MISS’ FOR LUCAYAN ON TABLE PASSENGERS were left terrified after being involved in a near mid-air collision on a Bahamasair flight out of Abaco. Flight UP236 had just taken off 10 minutes earlier than scheduled from
Marsh Harbour airport last Thursday when it suddenly had to bank steeply and make a rapid descent. Businessman Adam Darville was among those on board. SEE PAGE TWO
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
THE Grand Lucayan’s ex-chairman yesterday
urged the Davis administration to pick up four “serious” purchase offers for the resort that he left behind as an alternative to “an act of humiliation”. SEE BUSINESS SECTION
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By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Michael Halkitis said the government will do away with a patron tax on lottery winnings, although the levy was never implemented on gaming houses. The previous Minnis
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administration had announced in 2018 that on July 1 of that year the
industry’s patrons would foot a five percent tax on deposits and winnings. However, it faced repeated delays because of a number of issues among them, especially web shop operators and patrons challenging the implementation in court. “That patron tax as far as
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