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Volume: 121 No.79, March 14, 2024
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TROOPS TO HAITI PLAN ON HOLD AMID CHAOS Munroe says deployment uncertain with absence of leadership in nation By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said the future of the proposed multinational security mission to Haiti –– which Royal Bahamas Defence Force officers have been preparing for months –– is uncertain after Kenya halted its plans to lead the mission. Kenya’s plan to lead
the UN-authorised mission faced a significant hurdle in January when a top court ruled it unconstitutional. Now, after Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry said he would resign once a presidential council is created, Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Koriri Sing’oei said on Tuesday that deploying officers to Haiti had been put on hold.
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GOVT FORMING CONTINGENCY PLAN TO REPATRIATE HAITIANS By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net ACTING Immigration Director William Pratt said officials are working on a contingency plan to repatriate Haitian migrants to Haiti now that many airlines, including Bahamasair, have halted flights there. His comment yesterday
came after the Royal Bahamas Defence Force apprehended at least 247 people in recent days, first in waters off Turks and Caicos Islands, then near Inagua. “We are working on a contingency plan to deal with it, so hopefully, if everything comes through, SEE PAGE FIVE
A BANNER is placed in front of a venodrs shop at Arawak Cay yesterday at a press call about the One Choice Campaign. See story on PAGE 13. Photo: Dante Carrer
Reid says new monitor company’s OFFICER WHO ankle bracelet is ‘tamper-proof’ BRANDISHED By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net MINISTRY of National Security consultant Carlos Reid said people on bail would be outfitted with
“tamper-free” devices when Migrafill Electronic Security takes over the service. National Security Minister Wayne Munroe told The Tribune on Monday that the government has cancelled its electronic monitoring
service contract with Metro Security Solutions and selected the previous service provider, Migrafill, to monitor people on bail. Mr Reid, a vocal critic of SEE PAGE FOUR
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder
in enough carbon to be valued at $100 per hectare, according to Mr Pinder. While this is higher than current estimates of the price of a carbon credit, which fluctuates according to market prices from buyers, there are a number of factors that could lead to a higher price for Bahamian credits, he said.
A POLICE officer who allegedly brandished a weapon in public was interdicted from the police force yesterday. Constable Dreyson Henfield, who The Tribune understands is the son of Free National Movement Senator Darren Henfield, allegedly brandished a firearm on Tuesday at a business establishment on Cowpen Road and was subsequently arrested. An off-duty officer reportedly
waters. Seagrass could lock
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AG: ‘POTENTIAL $900M PER YEAR IN CARBON CREDITS’ THE potential revenue from carbon credits for The Bahamas could reach as much as $900m a year, according to Attorney General Ryan Pinder at yesterday’s RF Outlook 2024. The projections are based on hoped-for estimates of what the sale price of a carbon credit would be, drawn from the importance of seagrass in Bahamian
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