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BOMB SCARE Grand Bahama electricity cut for four hours after threat to power company By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
POLICE and other security agencies investigate a bomb threat at Grand Bahama Power Company yesterday. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn
A BOMB threat forced an emergency shutdown of Grand Bahama’s main power plant Tuesday morning, plunging large parts of the island into darkness and halting business across Freeport. Shortly after 7am, staff at the Grand Bahama Power Company’s generation plant on West Sunrise Highway and Peel Street received the threat and
evacuated the facility. Firefighters and the police Bomb Assessment Team searched the compound. Nothing was found. The precautionary shutdown left residents and businesses without electricity for about four hours. The utility’s Freeport head office also closed, turning away customers as a notice on the door said it would remain shut until further notice. Power returned around 12.30pm. SCARE - SEE PAGE THREE
Man shot dead outside Shirley ‘WE WERE PROMISED THAT WE WOULD BE WELL Street gym after morning workout TAKEN CARE OF AND IT HASN’T HAPPENED’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A MAN leaving an early-morning workout was shot dead yesterday in the parking lot of the Shirley Street Shopping Plaza, just steps from the gym he had attended for nearly three years. Police said the victim, a man in his late 30s, had exited a business establishment shortly after 9am and was walking toward his car when a Japanese vehicle pulled up. A man THE BODY of a man shot to death outside a gym on Shirley street is removed from the scene yesterday. MURDER - SEE PAGE FIVE Photo: Shawn Hanna
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net SOME employees of Grand Lucayan Resort are now facing growing uncertainty about their future amid impending staff layoffs, accusing the government of leaving them in limbo for months and giving them false hope that caused missed opportunities. Workers, speaking anonymously to The Tribune
yesterday, said many held off seeking new jobs because they believed they would be transitioned under the resort’s new ownership, only to now face termination. “There was the numerous promises that the government made during the heads of agreement signing but none of that has been followed,” said a finance employee, who worked at the resort for three and a half years.
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“They claimed that there would be no lay offs and it would’ve been more of a transition. We were promised that we would be well taken care of and it hasn’t happened.” His comments, echoed by other employees, came after The Tribune reported the planned layoffs on Thursday. The proposed terminations were outlined in a STAFF - SEE PAGE THREE