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Volume: 121 No.127, May 28, 2024
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‘CUT TAXES’ PLEA FROM BUSINESS Davis Budget speech ‘to foreshadow’ plans for reform of BPL By EARYEL BOWLEG AND LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporters THE business community hopes Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis will reduce taxes, simplify the tax code and improve the ease of doing business when he reveals the budget for the next fiscal year on Wednesday, according to
the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) chairman Timothy Ingraham. “It’s still difficult,” he told reporters yesterday, “to open bank accounts of your business in this country. It’s still difficult to get your business licence sorted out SEE PAGE THREE
AIRLINE TICKET CHANGE FEES WAIVED FOR UB GRADUATION By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net BAHAMASAIR will waive ticket change penalties for those travelling to New Providence for the University of The Bahamas’ upcoming graduation ceremony after changes in the time and location of the event prompted uproar
from the graduating class. The graduation ceremony was initially scheduled for 6pm on May 30 at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium. Students recently learned that the ceremony will instead take place at the Atlantis Ballroom at 2pm. The class of spring 2024 has over 600 SEE PAGE FIVE
PICTURED are award-winning filmmaker, philanthropist, and activist Abigail E Disney (left), valedictorian Rhema Mills (centre), and Brooklyn College president Michelle J Anderson.
From surviving Dorian in Abaco to valedictorian of Brooklyn College By KEILE CAMPBELL kcampbell@tribunemedia.net FROM surviving Hurricane Dorian to becoming the first black valedictorian of Brooklyn College, Rhema Mills’
story is not conventional or straightforward. When she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Health and Nutrition Sciences, it represented the peak of a journey that was interrupted by Hurricane
Dorian. The hurricane destroyed her family’s business and prompted her to leave her “dream” school, New York University, because of the sudden SEE PAGE FIVE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
RASHAE GIBSON, Adrian Gibson’s cousin.
Damian Gomez, crossexamined her yesterday. The witness replied “yes” when Mr Gomez said: “I put it to you that Mr Adrian Gibson told you that he felt that Mrs Alexandria Mackey had framed him.” Ms Gibson had previously testified about a series of text conversations she and Mr Gibson had
ABACO’S Chamber of Commerce president is warning “we are all at risk” as she urged the Government to clarify if it has selected a private operator to take over Marsh Harbour’s commercial shipping port. She said the island will likely be without a properly-functioning shipping port for six to seven years post-Dorian as she voiced fears that, in its present condition, “we are nowhere near to passing” international security standards.
when Mr Gibson’s lawyer,
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COUSIN TESTIFIES GIBSON SAID HE FELT ‘FRAMED’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net LONG Island MP Adrian Gibson reportedly believed his ex-fiancée framed and threw him “under the bus” by blaming alleged criminal activities at the Water and Sewerage Corporation on him. Mr Gibson’s cousin, Rashae Gibson, said this
‘WE ARE ALL AT RISK’ OVER ABACO PORT UNCERTAINTY
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