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Volume: 122 No. 36, January 15, 2025
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SARKIS: ‘JOBS SAFE’ IN CCA WIND-UP BID Staff reassured their livelihood not at risk in face of liquidation NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net BAHA Mar’s original developer yesterday pledged hundreds of Bahamian jobs will be protected despite his bid to wind-up two major Nassau hotels. Sarkis Izmirlian, in a statement, reassured staff at downtown Nassau’s British Colonial and Margaritaville Beach Resort properties that their livelihoods will be safe even if he succeeds in persuading the Bahamian Supreme Court to appoint liquidators for their parent company that is presently owned by the Baha Mar project’s Chinese contractor. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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Court injunction orders lack of gb fire JUNKANOO GROUPS UPSET unions to return to work trucks ‘a state LEANDRA ROLLE Controllers Union, the over ‘biased’ By Tribune Chief Reporter Bahamas Doctors Union, of emergency’ lrolle@tribunemedia.net Consultant Physician By DENISE MAYCOCK judging system THE Davis administra- the Staff Association, and the Tribune Freeport Reporter Bahamas Nurses Union By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrusssell@tribunmedia.net
FRUSTRATION is mounting for several Junkanoo groups over what they call a deeply broken and biased judging system that has, for years, SEE PAGE TWO
tion secured an interim injunction yesterday against affiliates of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), ordering staff to return to work after two days of industrial action. The injunction, granted by Justice Darron Ellis yesterday, restrains members of the Bahamas Air Traffic
from engaging in any strike or industrial action against the government. Such action includes refusing to report to work, leaving their place of employment during scheduled hours, taking sick leave without a valid sick
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COMMUNITY leaders, residents, and public officials on Grand Bahama have expressed outrage over the island’s lack of functioning fire trucks, describing the situation as a “state of emergency” and SEE PAGE FIVE