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Volume: 123 No. 35, Wednesday, January 14, 2026
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ANDROS FISH FRY RAZED AS NO FIRETRUCK CAME Inoperable fire aparatus leaves residents to fight blaze with buckets and garden hoses By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A FIRE tore through the Fish Fry in Nicholls Town, Andros, early yesterday as residents fought flames with buckets of seawater, once again exposing the absence of a functioning fire engine on an island of The Bahamas. The blaze broke out shortly before 6am, turning a quiet morning into chaos as residents ran for help, shouted warnings and rushed to the sea in a desperate effort to slow the fire’s spread. With no operable fire truck, residents said they were left defenceless as strong winds pushed the flames from stall to stall. BLAZE - SEE PAGE TWO
A MAN seen fighting fire at the Nicholls Town, Andros fish fry with a garden hose yesterday.
Senior PLPs urge PM ‘wait until our time is right’ and avoid early election By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net SOME senior PLP supporters have a message for Prime Minister Philip
“Brave” Davis: don’t call an early election. As speculation about election timing grows, several party stalwarts say the Davis administration should resist the temptation
to go early, warning that rushing to the polls could undercut unfinished work and repeat political miscalculations voters have not forgotten. The debate comes as the
government has tabled a new Boundaries Commission report, both major parties have moved to ratify candidates, and the opposition continues to predict an early vote. The Tribune canvassed views at the Progressive Liberal Party headquarters during Monday’s Majority Rule ceremony, where
FORMER PYL CHAIR SHOT AND CRITICALLY INJURED
EARLY - SEE PAGE FOUR
BANK CHIEF SLAMS DAVIS OVER ‘UNINFORMED’ FOOD VAT REMOVAL By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE chairman of the Clearing Banks Association has sharply criticised the Davis administration’s decision to remove VAT from unprepared food sold in grocery stores, calling the move “an uninformed and an understudied or not
sufficiently studied exercise” that sacrifices fiscal discipline for political appeal. Gowon Bowe, Fidelity Bank’s chief executive, noted the policy delivers the same tax relief to higher-income earners as it does to those struggling most, a blunt approach he argued FOOD - SEE PAGE FIVE
JORDAN CLARKE By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net QUESTIONS swirled yesterday over the motive behind a shooting that left a former Progressive Young Liberals chairman critically injured in the hospital. Jordan Clarke was shot near a baseball field in
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Pinewood Gardens early Tuesday, an attack that also sent a second man to the hospital. Police said that shortly before 2am on Tuesday, January 13, officers responded to reports of gunshots near the baseball field on Walnut Street. On arrival, they SHOT - SEE PAGE THREE