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‘SAY SORRY AND PAY YOUR FINE’
Minnis says PM at fault over isolation breach - but no need to quit By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said he thinks Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis should apologise to the nation and face the fine for violating quarantine. Dr Minnis told reporters yesterday that leaders should lead by example. Last week, Mr Davis revealed that he left quarantine to purchase Christmas gifts at former Taxicab Union President Leon Griffin’s store on Bay
Street shortly before the latter was shot dead outside his home. “I think our nation is in crisis,” Dr Minnis said. “We’re experiencing multiple fronts in terms of crisis. We have a leadership crisis. If you look, the Prime Minister had admitted that he had violated quarantine and in an admission he obviously knew that it was wrong because he wanted to enter the store when it was empty and via side door where nobody would see him.”
THE majority of teachers at T A Thompson Junior High School staged a sit out at the school yesterday over inadequate working conditions. As the issues may take some time to address, the school will revert to a fully virtual programme until
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SEA SEARCH CONTINUES FOR 38 ON BIMINI BOAT
HALKITIS’ SHOCK AT TAX HIKE BACKLASH
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there is complete resolution, according to assistant shop steward with the Bahamas Union of Teachers Jon Montpetit. He told The Tribune yesterday there were serious structural issues at the school’s main education block and the alternative was to work from another structure at the school.
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The Coast Guard battled time and currents Wednesday as its planes and ships searched for 38 people missing off the coast of Florida, four days after a suspected human smuggling boat capsized in a storm. The accident killed at least one person and left a single known survivor, and US authorities launched a criminal investigation. SEE PAGE 11
TA THOMPSON TEACHERS SIT OUT OVER STATE OF SCHOOL By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
FRONT PORCH: WHEN WILL WE SHAKE OFF OUR SHACKLES?
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
‘TOGETHER - AT LEAST IN PRAYER’ PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and Leader of the Opposition Michael Pintard at the annual House of Assembly church service yesterday. Photo: Racardo Thomas/Tribune Staff
BASEBALL STADIUM’S FINAL COST RISES TO $31M
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
WORKS & Utilities Minister Alfred Sears says more than $31m will be needed to complete the Andre Rodgers Baseball Stadium of which $27m has already been “certified for payment”. The Christie administration initially contracted Woslee Construction Company to build the stadium for about $24.9m. That
THE ANDRE Rogers Baseball Stadium. figure, Mr Sears said, was adjusted to $21.4m then increased to $27.5m after contingency and provisional
fees were added. Mr Sears said construction began in September 2016 and was supposed to last for 15 months, ending in November 2017. He said: “To date, $27,438,868.26 has been certified for payment. However, of that amount, there are payment certificates valued at $3,256,650 to date, which have not been paid for lack of funding allocated in the 2021/22
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MINISTER of Economic Affairs Michael Halkitis yesterday said he was “shocked and disappointed” that Bahamian realtors are calling for the withdrawal of all 2022 real property tax bills because they are “illegal and invalid”. Mr Halkitis said the legality concerns raised over the recent valuation exercise “do not arise”. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
STATESIDE - ARE WE STARING INTO THE ABYSS?
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