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CEASE AND DESIST Judge delivers damning ruling on govt’s shanty town demolition actions By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE government was banned yesterday from further demolishing shanty town structures across Abaco after a Supreme Court judge rejected its bid to have the island’s shanty towns removed as beneficiaries of a standing injunction centred on demolition of unregulated communities. In her ruling yesterday, Supreme Court Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson ordered that her standing injunction, which prohibits the government from evicting shanty town residents and disconnecting services in their communities, be extended to include all unregulated communities in Abaco. She also ordered the government to “cease and desist” from “any
further interference” with the respective communities until the outcome of the pending judicial review and also admonished officials for moving to demolish the structures without first getting approval from the court. Her ruling came weeks after the government launched a joint sting operation on the remaining shanty towns in Abaco and began demolishing newly built structures. Many of the unregulated communities on the island were destroyed by Hurricane Dorian and later cleared by the government in the aftermath of the storm. Yesterday, Justice Grant-Thompson said the decision to clear and remove shanty town homes after the storm casts the allusion of an “act first” and “ask questions SEE PAGE THREE
‘THEY HAVE RIGHTS TOO’ DEMOLITION work taking place recently in The Farm shanty town in Abaco - but a court injunction has now been extended to cover the island and bring a halt to shanty town clearances there.
PORT AUTH. TABLES PLAN CAT ISLANDERS UNHAPPY TO REVITALISE FREEPORT WITH ‘EXTRA’ LOCKDOWN By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
A PROMINENT attorney yesterday charged that “the ball is in the Government’s court” after it was presented with a ‘road map’ for reviving Freeport and the wider Bahamian economy via “a radically different approach”.
Robert Adams, who heads the Revitalization and Economic Expansion of Freeport (REEF) committee, said “the road to the turnaround of our national economy lies through Freeport” as he unveiled the body’s final “vision” for achieving the city’s rebirth together with specific actions, steps and timelines. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net SOME Cat Island residents are up in arms about the extension to the current COVID-19 lockdown for their community, saying it is unnecessarily excessive. On Sunday, the Office of
the Prime Minister issued a statement stating that north and central Andros and Cat Island will remain under lockdown for an additional seven days until 5am Monday, June 14. The statement read: “North Andros, Central Andros and Cat Island will remain under lockdown for SEE PAGE FOUR
SAVE THE BAYS QUESTIONS CRUISE LINE’S PI PROJECT By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net ENVIRONMENTAL activists yesterday challenged the government on whether it is breaching its obligation to use Crown Land in the Bahamian people’s best interests with the Paradise Island lease to Royal Caribbean. Joe Darville, Save the
US VACCINES HEADED OUR WAY By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Darren Henfield said he is optimistic The Bahamas will receive vaccines from the United States, suggesting the country will be among the first to do so. Last week, the Biden administration removed Defence Production Act priority
RESTRICTIONS on sales of Novavax, Sanofi and OxfordAstraZeneca vaccines have been lifted. ratings on Oxford-AstraZeneca, Novavax and
Sanofi vaccines, allowing companies to make their own decision as to whom to sell their vaccines. The US government will share most of its donated COVID-19 vaccines through COVAX, the World Health Organisation-led programme from which The Bahamas has already received tens of thousands of vaccine doses. SEE PAGE FOUR
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Bays’ chairman, in a statement said the cruise line’s $110m Royal Beach Club was seemingly not in the interests of Bahamian entrepreneurs and other cruise-reliant industries given that it will suck “thousands of passengers” away from downtown Nassau when it opens in January 2023. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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