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Volume: 122 No. 73, March 7, 2025
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‘160,000 TO GET FREE MEDICINE’ Non-communicable diseases targeted in new health care plan By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration has announced plans to expand healthcare access, saying more than 160,000 Bahamians with chronic non-communicable diseases will soon receive free prescription medication. Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville told Parliament yesterday
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the initiative will benefit people with hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, certain cancers, renal insufficiency, and mental illness. He did not disclose the budget or timeline for the programme, telling The Tribune details will be provided later. He noted that the NIB Chronic Drug Prescription Plan provides free
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net A TEENAGE girl testified in an incest trial that her father began sexually abusing her in 2015 when she was just ten years old and continued doing so into her early teens until 2019. The 19-year-old victim said the abuse took place in Abaco during her father’s visits from Freeport, as well as during one summer when she and her siblings stayed with him in Freeport. The victim recalled being awakened in the middle of the night by her father, who engaged in oral sex with her. After enduring years
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flight attendent $100k sMuggling claiM probed BAHAMASAIR is investigating claims that a female flight attendant smuggled $100,000, which was later allegedly seized at Hugo Chavez Cap-Haïtien International Airport. The Haitian Times reported that agents from Haiti’s Brigade for the Fight Against Drug Trafficking (BLTS) intercepted the money from a Bahamasair
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flight on March 1. Haitian authorities allegedly arrested two suspects, Lucken Clervilus and Erilène Bernadin, in connection with the case. However, the flight attendant who reportedly handed Mr Clervilus the bag of cash avoided arrest for questioning by quickly SEE PAGE SEVEN
REMINDER PERFORMERS on the beach at sunset ahead of the Iconique ballet performance at Old Fort Bay this weekend. The event, organised by the Covent Garden Dance Company, will be held tonight and tomorrow. See page 15 for more. Photo: Courtesy of Covent Garden Dance Company
Minnis blasts ‘$1bn’ Moorings Monopoly By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net AN ex-prime minister yesterday accused the Government of handing a $1bn monopoly to well-connected insiders as he called for the Bahamas Moorings deal be probed by a newly-established corruption watchdog. Dr Hubert Minnis,
following his mid-year Budget address in the House of Assembly, told Tribune Business his administration had estimated that a properly managed and maintained nationwide moorings and anchorage system could generate as much as $50m per year in revenue. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis
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