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New prison cost rises by $50m
Changed proposal sees price more than double for correctional facility By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration has expanded its construction plans for the Bahamas Department of Corrections, moving from just a $40m highmedium security facility to what National Security Minister Wayne Munroe said would be a $90m “correctional institution, administrative, housing
and medical facility”. He said the current maximum security section of the prison will close and the medium security section will be converted into a Bahamas Technical & Vocational Institute (BTVI) classroom block for inmates. Meanwhile, the new $100k juvenile facility and the intake/remand section of the prison will remain open.
IMMIGRATION Minister Keith Bell said the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees does not fully understand this country’s process for dealing with asylum-seekers. The Commissioner has urged The Bahamas not to detain asylum-seekers and to find alternative ways of accommodating them. In a report the body
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By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net PETER Nygard’s lawyers expressed concerns for his health and safety while urging appellate judges in Canada to quash an order to extradite the former fashion mogul to the United States to face sex trafficking and racketeering charges. The hearing before the Manitoba Court of Appeal took place on Wednesday. Nygard, 81, was arrested in Winnipeg in December 2020 after US authorities charged him with sex trafficking and racketeering offences allegedly springing
Environment activists to press RCI on beach resort
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drafted before the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) reviews our human rights record tomorrow, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the government should detain asylum-seekers and refugees only under “circumstances where it is necessary, reasonable, and proportionate to the legitimate purpose achieved and justified by international law”.
Lawyers for Nygard seek to avoid US extradition
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By LETRE SWEETING Tribune Staff Reporter lsweeting@tribunemedia.net
Bell says UN doesn’t fully understand asylum process By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
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All smiles for new recruits A smile on the face of one of the new recruits to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services yesterday as 100 trainee correctional officers were recruited to the facility. See PAGE TWO for more photographs. Photo: Austin Fernander
THE public consultation process for Royal Caribbean International’s proposed Paradise Island Beach Club project will reopen next month, allowing people to hear how the cruise lines will address their concerns. Dr Rhianna NeelyMurphy, director of the Department of Environmental Planning and Protection, confirmed yesterday that environmentalists would have the chance to press the cruise line about its plans separately. SEE page three
Bethel to be paid seven years pension by NIB By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net The National Insurance Board (NIB) has been ordered to pay a former director almost seven years’ worth of pension payouts after losing a legal battle over her due retirement benefits. Justice Diane Stewart, in an April 28, 2023, ruling found that NIB “negligently misrepresented” to
Former NIB director Rowena Bethel Rowena Bethel that she could participate in its staff pension plan as “an
inducement” to encourage her to sign a three-year contract to become its most senior executive in July 2013. The verdict recorded how Ms Bethel “made clear” to ex-prime minister Perry Christie, and then-minister responsible for NIB, Shane Gibson, that taking the top job at the social security system depended on her receiving an NIB pension. FULL STORY - See Business
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