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Volume: 122 No. 71, March 5, 2025
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YET MORE FAILURES OVER DISCLOSURES This time mould Together is blamed for delay in mourning on declarations for Kelli By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
THE Public Disclosures Committee chairman said office inaccessibility and facility issues, including mould, have slowed the processing of this year’s public disclosures of public officials. “We’ve had some
setbacks,” said Bishop Victor Cooper, four days after the deadline passed for public officials to declare their assets, liabilities and income. “We’ve got a situation where the office is unable to operate as it should. That slows down the process because we don’t have SEE PAGE THREE
GLOVER-ROLLE SILENT ON WHO GAVE SUPPORT FOR PAY CHANGE By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net PUBLIC Service Minister Pia Glover-Rolle said the administration has met with stakeholder groups that support bi-monthly pay for public servants –– but government officials have not identified the groups. Meanwhile, Bahamas
Union of Teachers (BUT) president Belinda Wilson, who strongly opposes bimonthly payments, told The Tribune she met with Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis yesterday and he presented a solution favourable to her union. “I anticipate that Minister Pia Glover-Rolle will be SEE PAGE THREE
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham at the funeral of his daughter Kelli Ingraham yesterday. See PAGE 12 for more. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
Super Value’S ‘I’ll come up and slap you’, defence lawyer tells witness $500,000 By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A TOP defence attorney was cautioned in court yesterday after he threatened to slap Water and Sewerage
Corporation (WSC) General Manager Robert Deal during cross-examination in the ongoing trial of Long Island MP Adrian Gibson and others. Geoffrey Farquharson, one of Mr Gibson’s
attorneys, apologised to Mr Deal after the outburst, which occurred while questioning him about his involvement in the WSC’s tank painting project. SEE PAGE SEVEN
Two killed in separate traffic accidents By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net TWO people were killed in separate traffic accidents, bringing the country’s road fatality count for the year to 11. In the second incident, Chief Superintendent Sybrina Porter, head of SEE PAGE FIVE
THE SCENE of a traffic accident that left a man dead on Prince Charles Drive yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
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EGG GAMBLE PAID OFF
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net SUPER Value’s owner yesterday asserted its “$500,000 gamble paid off” with the restriction on how many low-priced eggs customers can buy now doubled from just two to four cartons. Rupert Roberts said that the supermarket chain’s investment in its own brand has “taken the public off noodles and sausages and put them on high-protein eggs at almost one-third of the price they used to be” following arrival of shipment priced at $3.79 per carton. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS