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‘GB POWER DEAL A POLITICAL STUNT’ Critics in GB claim residents are being used as “puppets” in a deal with no final agreement By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Government was yesterday accused of treating Grand Bahama residents as “puppets” by generating more questions than answers over its announced ambitions to acquire the island’s electricity monopoly.
Darren Cooper, proprietor of D’s Car Rental and a wellknown radio talk show, told Tribune Business that the Prime Minister’s disclosure of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Emera, the Canadian energy giant that presently owns 100 percent of Grand Bahama Power Company, was SEE BUSINESS FOR STORY
GB Chamber of Commerce warning
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Kwasi Thompson calls for clarity
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PRIME MINISTER PHILIP ‘BRAVE’ DAVIS
Uber proposal ‘soundly TWO OFFICERS FACE DISIPLINARY Mitchell to PLPs: No rejected’ by taxi union TRIBUNAL OVER BRIBERY CLAIMS need to talk to reporters By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas Taxi Cab Union has flatly rejected any partnership with ride-sharing giant Uber, with union president Tyrone Butler saying the proposal was “not something
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
that was welcome” by taxi drivers. Mr Butler said the union was approached last year by a representative of Uber as part of broader discussions on modernising the taxi industry, but the idea was decisively turned
FRED Mitchell has told Progressive Liberal Party politicians that they should not feel compelled to answer questions from the press. In a voicenote yesterday, he said there is “nothing that compels you to answer a phone from a reporter and nothing that compels you to give a statement to the press,” noting that when statements are made and “there are what seems to be unforced errors, as a result,
UBER - SEE PAGE FOUR
POLICE officer in a viral video where he appears to solicit a bribe. By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net POLICE Commissioner Shanta Knowles said two police officers are facing disciplinary proceedings
before the police tribunal after a viral video appeared to show an officer attempting to solicit a bribe from a tourist during a traffic stop. “Unfortunately, that BRIBE - SEE PAGE FIVE
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PLP chairman Fred Mitchell our opponents are reading the tea leaves and are too PRESS - SEE PAGE FIVE
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