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Volume: 122 No. 92, April 3, 2025
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NO ROOM FOR MINNIS Former-PM and Gibson denied nominations By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard has told former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis that he will not be renominated in the Killarney constituency, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The Tribune also understands that the FNM will not renominate Adrian Gibson in Long Island, though it was unclear up to press time whether Mr Gibson had been directly informed. The determination that three sitting MPs will not be renominated signals
PRESIDENT Donald Trump departs after signing an executive order at an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House yesterday in Washington. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net POLYMERS International’s top executive yesterday asserted “it’s not going to come to that” when asked if the new US 10 percent tariff on Bahamian exports, plus the Chinese ship fee, could end its presence in Freeport. Greg Ebelhar, the Freeport-based manufacturer’s chief operating officer, told Tribune Business that while it was still assessing the impact of President Donald Trump’s tariff announcement it has “bigger fish to fry” with the US over the proposed $1m fee per port call is is threatening to impose on Chinese-made vessels. Tropical Shipping, which has previously warned the Chinese-made ship fee threatens its very survival by potentially adding $585m in annual port-related charges, is the carrier that transports Polymers International’s expanded polystyrene (EPS) product to the US, its largest export market.
FORMER PRIME MINISTER DR HUBERT MINNIS
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...WHILE LEWIS EXITS FNM AND JOINS WITH COALITION By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter and DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter CENTRAL Grand Bahama MP Iram Lewis’s unexpected resignation from the Free National Movement — after anticipating he would not be renominated — has set the stage for a political
TRUMP HITS THE BAHAMAS WITH 10 PERCENT TARIFF
showdown in a constituency long considered a safe FNM seat. The move caught many by surprise, especially given Mr Lewis’s recent public appearances alongside FNM Leader Michael Pintard, which had suggested continued alignment with the party’s leadership.
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CENTRAL Grand Bahama MP Iram Lewis. Photos: Dante Carrer/ Tribune Staff
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Visitor reportedly raped by jet ski operator at Junkanoo Beach By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net TWO days after the United States strengthened its advisory involving jet ski use in The Bahamas because of sexual assaults, a female Carnival Cruise Line passenger reported being raped by a jet ski operator off Junkanoo Beach. Police have not publicly reported the incident, which The
EX-HUSBAND TO BE REPAID $21,600 AFTER TEST SHOWS CHILD WAS NOT HIS By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
Tribune understands was said to have occurred on Tuesday. Crimes involving US citizens must be reported to the US Embassy. On Sunday, the US Department of State updated its travel advisory, warning that boating in The Bahamas is poorly regulated, resulting in injuries and deaths. It also cited reports of sexual assaults by jet ski operators. As a result, US
A WOMAN has been ordered to compensate her ex-husband $21,600 after the Supreme Court ruled in his favour when it was revealed that the couple’s youngest child was not biologically his. Justice Juanita Denise Lewis-Johnson issued the ruling after a 47-year-old man — whose name is being withheld to protect the identity of minors — filed a civil suit against his ex-wife. The man, referred to as the petitioner, said hat he married the woman, the respondent, on June 17, 2001. He claimed that after their marriage, the respondent managed his finances and opened a
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