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Police review file in MP rape claim COP says officers are ‘dotting the I’s and crossing the T’s’ By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net FIVE weeks after a woman filed a complaint accusing an elected official of rape and abuse, Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander said officers are still scrutinising the investigation file. He said when their review is finished, they will consult the Office of the Director of
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Public Prosecutions (DPP) on what to do next. Police officials have been silent and hard to reach to discuss the matter recently. However, Commissioner Fernander told The Tribune yesterday: “We are still tidying.” “Grand Bahama was viewing the file,” he added. “Now it is here, so we are going now to view it and
Government loans to state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and agencies neartripled during the first nine months of the current fiscal year to enable Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) to pay off its fuel bill arrears. Simon Wilson, the Ministry of Finance’s financial secretary, yesterday confirmed the $80m increase in such “bilateral loans” during
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said it was the Minnis administration that initially awarded a no-bid, multimillion dollar contract to Walker’s Industries to build a high-medium security facility at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDOCS). “I met Walker’s engaged,” he said yesterday. “Perhaps you should call Marvin Dames.” Under the current legal regime, failing to open
Praise and warning for new centre for juveniles
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the three months to endMarch 2023, which took the nine-month jump to $110m, represented financial support to the state-owned electrical utility to pay-off outstanding debts. “You’re correct. That’s BPL,” he replied, when asked about the figures, which were contained in the Ministry of Finance’s latest quarterly public debt statistical bulletin for the quarter to end-March.
Munroe says new Prison contract is FNM holdover
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By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net
Govt’s support for BPL hits $110m in 9 months By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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Olympic bronze-medalist Megan Tapper runs strong towards the finish line for first place in the women’s 100m hurdles finals at the New Life Invitational event in Grand Bahama. See SPORTS for full coverage from the Tribune team in Grand Bahama. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn
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FTX Bahamas says US broke ‘every single pledge’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
FTX’s Bahamian liquidators have accused their US adversaries of “breaching every single” co-operation pledge in just four short months as they urged the Supreme Court to “sort it out” with Delaware. Brian Simms KC, the Lennox Paton senior partner, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) accounting duo, Kevin Cambridge and Peter
FTX US chief, John Ray Greaves, in their May 12, 2023, court filings argued that Sir Ian Winder and Judge John Dorsey, his Delaware Bankruptcy Court
counterpart, needed to take over relations between the two jurisdictions as the prospect of improved cooperation from FTX US chief, John Ray, and his team was “a dim one at best”. The Bahamian joint provisional liquidators warned there was “a very high risk of duplicative, never-ending litigation” unless the two courts - and their respective judges - work out a cross-border cooperation protocol. FULL Story - see business
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THE new juvenile detention centre at the Bahamas Department of Corrections has drawn praise from a leading juvenile rights expert and warnings about how the facility could impede progress for youth in conflict with the law. Senior corrections and Cabinet officials joined National Security Minister Wayne Munroe to open the facility last week. However, attorney Tavarrie Smith, who toured the facility with them, highlighted what he called several critical SEE page three
MALCOLM Strachan Is it too much to hope that all Bahamians are treated equally? PAGE 11