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Doctor told to pay damages after wrong ovary removed By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net A DOCTOR must pay damages after removing the wrong ovary from a woman. Justice Indra Charles ruled that Dr Raleigh Butler removed Marsha Stuart’s right ovary when he was supposed to remove her left one. “There is no doubt in my mind that Dr Butler is an outstanding gynecologic oncologist but, unfortunately, he removed the wrong ovary,” she wrote in a recent judgment. “This was not an error of judgment but was of such a
CSP Skippings says ‘we are actually waging war to take back this Bahamas’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net THREE people are in custody after an islandwide search following the shooting of a police officer in his face yesterday morning. The incident took place during a routine patrol of
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injunction over city market fund
Robinson Road. Officers with Operation Ceasefire were patrolling the area when they saw three men speeding west in a black Nissan Note. When they signalled with their lights for the vehicle to stop, a passenger in the back seat of the
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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Straw vendors struggle with full-time schedule By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net TWO weeks after vendors returned to full-time work at the Nassau Straw Market, some say they are struggling to make as much money as they did on the previous rotational system. After the government
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amended vendors’ work schedules in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, some found they preferred the rotational shift. As a result, they recently protested the government’s decision to restart full-time work schedules on March 13. Under the rotation system, vendors worked
A SWAT officer stands guard at the scene where a fellow officer was shot in the face. Photo: Moise Amisial
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The Supreme Court has upheld an injunction seeking to preserve $2.288m for the benefit of City Markets pensioners even though 75 percent of this sum may already have been paid out to “third parties”. Justice Diane Stewart, in a March 27 verdict, ruled there were strong reasons to maintain such protection because this is the best source for hundreds of the defunct supermarket chain’s long-suffering pension beneficiaries to recover some of their retirement savings more than a decade after its collapse. FULL Story - see business
Trans-activist backs BUT president’s comment
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
A TRANSGENDER activist is defending Bahamas Union of Teachers President Belinda Wilson for saying schools should educate students about transgenderism. Mrs Wilson made the comment at a Rotary Club of West Nassau meeting last Thursday. Her comments aired on
Alexus D’Marco an Our News broadcast, sparking debate on social media. “I think that it would be wise for a component of
transgender, various different family compositions (to be included in schools),” she said. “It needs to be addressed. Not addressed that you would be pushing an agenda or you would be taking a side or position, but students need to be aware of what is happening in that vein because remember, we are preparing them for the world.” Alexus D’Marco, founder
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ALICIA WALLACE:
gender-based violence is a public health crisis that needs to be addressed - See page eight