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Where are the ambulances? Darville denies claims of shortages - but crews say just 3 on the road By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net EMERGENCY medical staff and Health Minister Dr Michael Darville are offering starkly different accounts of the state of the country’s ambulance fleet, with frontline workers warning that a critical shortage is endangering lives,
while the minister blames staff shortages and downplays concerns about the vehicles themselves. Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) speaking to The Tribune on condition of anonymity said only three ambulances — one of them a recently acquired model — are SEE page three
Still no answer over who filed disclosures By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
NEARLY a month after the March 1 deadline passed, there is still no new timeline for public officials to file their mandatory financial disclosures — and the Public Disclosures Commission has yet to say how many officials have
complied. Bishop Victor Cooper, chairman of the commission, told The Tribune yesterday that while officials have continued submitting disclosures, he could not provide an exact number. He noted that some public officers have requested extensions. SEE page four
One of several ambulances, which were procured through an IDB loan agreement last year, seen at NEMS Headquarters as frontline workers claim only three ambulances are operational.
Teacher accused of having sex Jet ski with underage student six times operator By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A 57-year-old male teacher is accused of having sex with an underage student six times in the
past six months. John Campbell was arraigned on six counts of unlawful sexual intercourse before Assistant Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans. Prosecutors allege that
the defendant had unlawful sexual intercourse with a teenage girl, whose name is being withheld because she is a minor, on six occasions between October 1, 2024, SEE page seven
Petty says he will not seek re-election By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net NORTH Eleuthera MP Sylvanus Petty says he will not seek re-election, citing a need to “refocus, reposition and recalibrate” to prioritise his family, who he says have made great sacrifices while he served his constituents. He is the second sitting
Progressive Liberal Party MP to announce plans to leave frontline politics, following MICAL MP Basil McIntosh. Mr Petty, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly, was appointed executive chairman of the Water and Sewerage Corporation but resigned in 2023 after revelations that SEE page five
North Eleuthera MP Sylvanus Petty.
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charged with visitor’s rape By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A JET ski operator was charged yesterday with raping an American tourist near Junkanoo Beach last week Tuesday, days after the United States had warned about sexual assaults involving watercraft vendors in The Bahamas. The Tribune reported the allegation last Thursday. The matter was not reported in any of the daily police crime reports. On Sunday, police press liaison Chief SEE page three