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GOVT UNPAID BILLS NEARLY DOUBLES Govt agency debts surge by 97.6% to $242m in arrears Neil Hartnell Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net UNPAID invoices and arrears owed by the government increased by 97.6 percent, or almost $120m, year-over-year to hit $241.898m as a year-end 2025, the mid-year Budget disclosed yesterday. Documents tabled in the House of Assembly revealed that sums owed to suppliers, vendors and other purveyors of goods and services to the government had increased significantly and almost doubled compared to the $122.425m shown to have been due exactly one year
before on December 31, 2024. The 2025 year-end figures showed that close to three-quarters of this sum, or a combined $176.606m worth of unpaid invoices and arrears, were owed by just five government ministries and entities. The one with the largest liabilities was shown to be the Ministry of Works, which commissions and funds large-scale infrastructure and public works projects. It was shown as owing $46.327m in unpaid invoices that fall under capital expenditure, plus a further $21.562m in arrears, for a total $68.095m. SEE BUSINESS FOR STORY
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‘I would deal with a party issue CROSSDRESSING ATTORNEY before a second newspaper cycle’ GUILTY OF CHILD CRUELTY By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net A DAY after being sentenced to three years for impersonating a female attorney and defrauding clients of nearly $20,000, Kimeo McIntosh returned to court yesterday, where he
admitted to giving liquor to two teenage boys and offering one money to touch his genitals while acting as a teacher and headmaster. McIntosh, 30, pleaded guilty before Magistrate Charlton Smith to two counts of cruelty to children
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis suggested yesterday that under his leadership, a candidate facing questions tied to a criminal investigation would not linger in the headlines, amid scrutiny
around the man he once appointed Minister of National Security, Free National Movement candidate Marvin Dames. “View the records,” Dr Minnis told reporters outside Parliament. “These matters or matters of that nature would not make a second newspaper cycle.” He did not mention Mr Dames
by name, but his remarks came days after it emerged that Mr Dames’ business partner was arrested off Florida with roughly 200 kilograms of cocaine worth an estimated $4m aboard a boat the two men jointly own. “Under my leadership, those MINNIS - SEE PAGE FOUR
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Date set for five in US cocaine trial BY TRIBUNE STAFF REPORTER FIVE defendants in an alleged plot to import cocaine from The Bahamas to the United States are being kept apart in prison, a court heard yesterday. The men, including a former chief superintendent with the Royal Bahamas Police Force, are not being allowed to associate at the Metropolitan Detention
Centre in New York. Lawyers for the five complained to a judge that they were not allowed to see their clients at the same time and one lost his job in the prison, apparently because it involved being around another defendant. No explanation was given for why the separation was in effect, but they are normally implemented for TRIAL - SEE PAGE THREE
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