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Volume: 122 No. 99, April 14, 2025
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MINNIS WON’T RULE OUT ELECTION BID KILLED 242 to MAN JUST WEEKS outer FROM BIRTH OF space SECOND CHILD
Former PM hits out at FNM over selection process By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis hit back at the Free National Movement’s decision to drop him as its candidate for Killarney, calling the process “deeply unfortunate” and suggesting he has not ruled out seeking
to serve the constituency again — though not necessarily on the FNM’s ticket. In a statement that signalled frustration with party leadership and left questions swirling about his political future, Dr Minnis said the way the FNM announced his exclusion from the upcoming
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
THIRTY-year-old Leonard Symonette was just weeks away from welcoming his second child when he was shot and killed early Friday morning — a tragedy that has shattered his family. A construction worker with dreams of having 15 children, he saw fatherhood as central to his life’s purpose. Relatives said he already had a one-year-old daughter and was eager to expand his family.
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FAMILY WANTS INDEPENDENT AUTOPSY AFTER BEACH DEATH By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net THE family of a 23-yearold American tourist found dead on a Paradise Island beach doubts police claims he drowned and has commissioned an independent autopsy, calling his death “suspicious”. The Royal Bahamas
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Police Force issued a press release on Wednesday identifying Dinari McAlmont of Bowie, Maryland, as the man found unresponsive on the beach early Saturday, April 5. His mother, Michelle Bacchus-McAlmont, said during a press conference on Friday that the state
IMF: ENERGY REFORM MAY GIVE 0.5% GDP BOOST
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By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
is from Andros, while her mother, Forester Bowe, is from Exuma. She has credited her grandfather, Forrester Bowe, with helping fund a NASA internship that set her on the path toward a career in space exploration. In 2012, she told The
THE Davis administration’s proposed energy sector reforms could boost GDP growth by 0.5 percentage points by 2035 if successfully implemented, while also cutting emissions and lowering electricity costs for low-income households, according to a new International Monetary Fund report. The study — authored by Beatriz Garcia-Nunes, Shane Lowe and Jose Luis Saboin Garcia — supports
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BAHAMIAN-American aerospace engineer Aisha Bowe is ready to make history once again and become the first Bahamian to go to space as she will be on board Amazon’s Blue Origin which is scheduled to launch at 9:30am this morning. AISHA BOWE is set to make history today as the first Bahamian to travel to space, joining the crew of Blue Origin’s latest mission under its New Shepard programme. Bowe, an aerospace engineer and entrepreneur with Bahamian roots, is among a six-member, all-female crew scheduled to launch
from Texas at 9.30am. The suborbital flight will carry its passengers more than 62 miles above the Earth’s surface — past the internationally recognised boundary of outer space. Born in Michigan to Bahamian parents, Bowe has long embraced her cultural heritage. Her father, Glenroy Anthony Bowe,
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