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Volume: 120 No.53, March 17, 2023
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MINISTER STILL NO TO RCI DEAL
Hanna Martin has not changed view on $110m beach club By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin revealed yesterday her views have not changed on Royal Caribbean International’s $110m project for Paradise Island, saying she did not support it during the Minnis administration and her opinion remains the same. The Tribune asked Mrs Hanna Martin about her past objections to the
project on the sidelines of an event yesterday. While in opposition in 2021, Mrs Hanna-Martin called the proposal “harebrained”. She hit out at the Minnis administration for “kicking a Bahamian developer to the curb” in favour of the cruise line. However, it was recently announced that the revised proposal was approved by the Davis administration, and developers are expected to break ground
DISCUSSIONS on the proposed Sexual Offences Act continue with State Minister Lisa Rahming indicating it is not a matter of “if” but “when the act will be passed. Yesterday evening, officials from various agencies and organisations took part in a forum on marital
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net.
BAHAMIAN entrepreneur Toby Smith said yesterday he still wants to move forward with his Paradise Island lighthouse project despite the ongoing challenges he has faced. Mr Smith, the principal behind the $3m Paradise Island Lighthouse & Beach Club project, made his comments when asked about the government’s approval of Royal Caribbean International’s $110m development on Paradise Island.
SOME MPS HAVE NOT YET DISCLOSED By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
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rape and the proposed amendment to the Sexual Offences Act. The discussion was jointly hosted by the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, the Department of Gender and Family Affairs and The University of The Bahamas (UB), where the discussion was held. Ms Rahming announced her advocacy for the
SMITH STILL PURSUING PI LIGHTHOUSE PROJECT
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‘WHEN NOT IF’ ON MARITAL RAPE LAW By LETRE SWEETING Tribune Staff Reporter lsweeting@tribunemedia.net
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MINISTER of Education Glenys Hanna Martin said yesterday that her opinion on the Royal Caribbean Paradise Island Beach Club deal has not changed. Photo: Austin Fernander
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TWO weeks after the March 1 deadline, Public Disclosure Commission chairman Bishop Victor Cooper said officials are still waiting for some parliamentarians to complete their filings. The chairman told The Tribune on March 2 that about ten percent of members of Parliament did not meet the March 1 deadline. When contacted yesterday for an update, he said: “Basically, the count is the same and so we’re just waiting for the rest of them to complete their (filings).” SEE PAGE FIVE
GB AIRPORT $200M REDEVELOPMENT A ‘LIFELINE’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A PROMINENT Freeport attorney yesterday hailed the “lifeline” provided by Grand Bahama airport’s imminent $200m redevelopment, saying: “We’d be doubly dead in the water without it.” Terence Gape, a partner with the Dupuch & Turnquest law firm, told Tribune Business that numerous
MINISTER of Tourism and Aviation Chester Cooper multi-million dollar investment projects targeted at the island were reluctant to proceed without the security
of knowing there would be an airport capable of facilitating the necessary airlift and customer access. Speaking after Chester Cooper, deputy prime minster and minister of tourism, investments and aviation, confirmed that a Bahamian investor group and their international partners will invest $200m to transform Dorian-devastated Grand Bahama International FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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NEW MOORING HOTSPOT AT MONTAGU, BUT ARE THERE PLANS TO ACCOMMODATE?
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