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Volume: 122 No. 96, April 9, 2025
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D’Aguilar: Govt should ‘stand on the side of person that is right’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A FORMER Baha Mar director yesterday urged the Government “to stand on the side of the person that is right” while demanding the project’s contractor “do the honourable thing” and pay Sarkis Izmirlian some $1.7bn. Dionisio D’Aguilar, who
sat on the project’s Board under the original developer prior to its ill-fated Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, told Tribune Business that China Construction America (CCA) and its affiliates should bring “this whole sad process” dating back almost ten years to an end rather than mount a fresh legal appeal. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
STORY ON BAHAMAS STRIPING contract ‘doesn’t add up’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE government’s explanation for why the Prime Minister intervened to place a $183m west Grand Bahama roadworks contract on hold “doesn’t cut the mustard”, the Opposition’s chairman argued yesterday. Dr Duane Sands, speaking out after the
Government confirmed a controversial contract destined for Bahamas Striping was never awarded or approved said that “the story doesn’t add up” given that IDB’s private sector financing arm was due to discuss at Board level providing $22m in financing for the project on April 29, 2025. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
BAHA Mar resort on West Bay Street in Nassau.
Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Bahamian man ‘believed to be’ wrongly police deny named in US drug trafficking case holding back INFORMATION oVer crimes By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
UNITED States federal prosecutors believe they named the wrong man in a cocaine trafficking case that has grabbed local headlines,
mistakenly identifying a Bahamian as the target in a trafficking scheme allegedly involving several Bahamians. Theodore Nathaniel Adderley, aka “Blue”, is among 11 Bahamians named in a federal
indictment unsealed last year, accusing them of playing key roles in a transnational cocaine trafficking operation that facilitated the flow of drugs into the US. SEE PAGE FIVE
‘We don’t Want Vaughn miller to run again’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net SEVERAL Golden Isles residents, including longtime Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters, say they do not want Vaughn Miller to seek re-election, citing broken promises, neglect, and a lack of youth support in the community.
Residents expressed frustration to The Trib une yesterday over what they described as years of decline and unmet expectations. They said Mr Miller, who now serves as Minister of the Environment, had been underwhelming, even when first elected under the SEE PAGE THREE
GOLDEN Isles MP Vaughn Miller.
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By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net POLICE Commissioner Shanta Knowles yesterday defended the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s public reporting practices after officials failed to include an alleged rape involving a US tourist in recent official crime reports. “We don’t hold information back from the public,” she said yesterday. “We make sure that everything that comes to our attention that is needed to be known to the public is known to the public.” SEE PAGE SEVEN