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TIME WE FACED FACTS ON DEBT Sands warns painful tax reforms can no longer be avoided By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ELIZABETH MP Dr Duane Sands said yesterday the country will have to adopt serious changes in the years ahead in response to the nation’s worsening debt crisis, noting an income tax system may even have to be implemented. While voicing his support for the 2021/2022 budget, the former Health Minister recommended the government look to tax reform strategies, public private partnerships and other
related initiatives to help chart the nation to recovery. He said losses incurred from Hurricane Dorian and now the COVID-19 pandemic have “left us in a very tight spot,” adding to the major debt issues created by past administrations over the last five decades. And with government debt set to top $10 billion by the end of the next fiscal year, Dr Sands said business can no longer return to usual in the country and further added that changes will have to be made.
AN “INEXCUSABLE” blunder by the Attorney General’s Office and its US counterparts has resulted in the Court of Appeal refusing to refreeze the alleged $1.5m proceeds from an international fraud. Appeal justice Milton
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AIRFARES SOARING FOR US FLIGHTS
THE Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association’s president yesterday voiced concerns that high airline ticket prices, especially at peak weekends and holidays, “could be a deterrent” for travel to this nation. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
SEXIST TO LANISHA? NOT BY US
SEE PAGE THREE
Evans, in a unanimous May 27, 2021, ruling backed by his two fellow justices, blasted Bahamian prosecutors for failing to resolve “inconsistency in the evidence” supporting claims against several defendants who include flamboyant “philanthropist” Rudolph Kermit King, and a local “non-profit” group. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
THE LEGACY OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT FOR OUR FUTURE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
JUDGES SLAM AG’S OFFICE ON ‘INEXCUSABLE’ ERROR By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net
ADRIANA MARIA CARO, a 22-year-old Cuban woman, who is missing.
‘ADRIANA WAS NEVER HERE - SHE DROWNED’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net IMMIGRATION officials have denied detaining a Cuban woman after the boat she was on capsized in Bahamian waters three months ago, believing her
to have died onboard the vessel along with several others. Adriana Maria Caro, 22, was said to have been onboard a Cuban vessel that was intercepted by Cuban, Bahamian, Turks Island and US Coast Guard officials in early March.
According to court documents, for some “unknown reason” there was an accident on Cay Sal Bank and the boat subsequently exploded and sank. It has been said that some 15 to 20 people died in the incident.
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DIRECTOR of Sports Tim Munnings has denied any suggestion of sexism towards former Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Lanisha Rolle from sports officials, saying it is not a practice at that ministry. SEE PAGE THREE
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PUTIN WON’T FIND BIDEN AS EASY TO HANDLE
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