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‘GIVE US ANSWERS ON FREEPORT PLAN’ GB licensees are unhappy with lack of clarity on future By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration does not recognise the Freeport Licensees Association, a group seeking to meet Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis that criticised his Monday speech to the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce for
lacking “critical details”. After the association released a statement yesterday, Latrae Rahming, director of communications in the Office of the Prime Minister, said: “The government of The Bahamas does not respond to unsigned statements.” Mr Davis’ hard-hitting
MP RAPE TRIAL EXPECTED TO RESUME AGAIN IN OCTOBER
Junkyard inferno
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net THE rape trial of North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish will begin again on October 21. The jury in the case was dismissed last week after Justice Renae McKay learned that a juror had a close connection with the leader of the opposition, Michael Pintard. The complainant gave
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PASSPORT ACT BRINGS PROTOCOLS FOR CHILDREN OF BAHAMIAN MEN By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE long-awaited protocols for many affected by last year’s landmark Privy Council citizenship ruling –– which established that children born to Bahamian men are entitled to citizenship regardless of their mother’s nationality –– were tabled in the House
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of Assembly yesterday in a bill to amend the Passport Act. People affected by the ruling whose father is identified on their birth certificate can already apply to the Passport Office for a passport. Those whose father is not identified on their birth certificate must take a DNA SEE PAGE FOUR
EX-MINISTER: ‘NOTHING TO DO WITH’ DEAD DOLPHINS FIRE personnel fight a blaze that erupted at a scrap yard off Joe Farrignton Road yesterday impacting the neighbourhood with heavy smoke. See PAGE THREE for story. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
foster homes that I’m personally aware of involving children whose mother had the baby at the hospital and just never returned,” he said. “And I know of at least two situations where a child has been placed in very loving homes, and so my advice to young ladies out there if they feel that they’re in a difficult
AN ex-Cabinet minister yesterday blamed US bankruptcy trustees for the plight of Blackbeard’s Cay’s dolphins as he had agreed to care being provided prior to their potential sale. Damian Gomez KC, former minister of state for legal affairs, told Tribune Business he has “nothing to do” with the eight previous dolphin fatalities or conditions that the five survivors are enduring at the abandoned tourism project off New Providence’s north coast.
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WE WILL INVESTIGATE DUMPED FETUS, SAYS LARODA By KEILE CAMPBELL kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
THE Ministry of Social Services will investigate the case of a baby found in a garbage disposal in a bathroom at Rubis Gas Station on Gladstone Road. Police have a 24-year-old woman in custody after the incident, but Social Services Minister Myles Laroda said his ministry will do its own investigation.
SOCIAL Services Myles Laroda
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“I could tell you of adoptions, I could tell you of
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