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‘ABUSER STALKING ME FROM PRISON’ Victim urged forum to ‘note red flags, they only get worse’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net TWO years after a video of Petra Curry’s boyfriend running her over with his car while she held their daughter went viral, Ms Curry said she and her children are still suffering the consequences of the attempted murder
–– and her abuser is allegedly still contacting her from jail. Ray Sands, 34, beat and ran over Ms Curry with his car on Key West Street on November 15, 2021. The disturbing video of the attack sparked calls to address violence against women and children. SEE PAGE FIVE
LIGHTNING STRIKE AT SCHOOL IN GB SENDS STUDENTS TO HOSPITAL By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net EIGHT students and a teacher were taken to the Rand Memorial Hospital yesterday after lightning struck the Bishop Michael Eldon School. Lightning hit a tree on the school campus shortly after 9am, travelled underground
and hit a concrete pavement where several students were standing. Emergency Medical Services initially transported four students who were injured by flying debris. Small rocks were embedded under a student’s skin, according to school SEE PAGE THREE
THE SCENE on Augusta St near Ferguson St where two men were shot. One of the men was transported to hospital while the other died at the scene. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Two shot while in a vehicle on MOTHER OF Ferguson Street, one man dead SUSPECTED SUICIDE VICTIM SPEAKS OUT By KEILE CAMPBELL kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
A 22-YEAR-OLD man on bail was murdered yesterday, the 51st murder of the year. A 28-year-old man who
was with him was shot and taken to the hospital. Two men were reportedly inside a silver coloured Suzuki Solio travelling east on Ferguson Street when they were obstructed by the driver of a small grey
Japanese vehicle as they approached the intersection of Rupert Dean Lane. Three masked men –– two armed with handguns and one wielding a SEE PAGE THREE
‘THERE’S NO HOSPITAL WITHOUT PYSICIANS” By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
MORE than half of surveyed doctors feel the new $290m hospital is not “fiscally sound”, the Medical Association of The Bahamas (MAB) president said yesterday, as she warned: “There’s no hospital without the physicians.” Dr Gemma Rolle,
DR GEMMA ROLLE, president of Medical Assoc. of The Bahamas. unveiling
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feedback from Association members, told Tribune Business there were multiple unanswered questions over the proposed project including why the Government is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into “a brand new, state-of-theart hospital when we cannot even utilise what we have now”. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunmedia.net THE mother of Destiny Hamilton, an Instagram influencer found dead in Abaco with a laceration to her wrist, said “unauthorised statements” have been made about her daughter. Gladys Hamilton’s statement yesterday came after SEE PAGE THREE
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