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GRID HANDOVER FOR 40 PERCENT Electric network to be exchanged for share in private company By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE government is set to hand over New Providence’s electricity grid to a private company in return for a 40 percent ownership interest in that entity, Tribune Business can reveal. Multiple sources yesterday told this newspaper that the plans to overhaul Bahamas Power & Light’s transmission and distribution network involve the creation of a new entity
called Bahamas Grid Company. This will be structured as a public-private partnership (PPP) 60 percent majority-owned by private investors. The government, which will own the remaining 40 percent, will gain its equity ownership interest by transferring BPL’s New Providence electricity grid which includes sub-stations, transformers, poles and wires - to Bahamas Grid Company. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
‘WILSON SHOULD BE FIRED’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis argued that Financial Secretary Simon Wilson should be fired because of his recent altercation with a reporter at the Office of the Prime Minister. “In our nation reeling with so much crime and violence, the financial secretary’s abusive behaviour
MINNIS WANTS ANSWERS ON CUSTOMS SMUGGLING
TOUCHDOWN FROM AFRICA
ETHIOPIAN Airlines flight 8396, the first Ethiopian Airline aircraft to land in The Bahamas, arrives at Jet Aviation in Nassau yesterday. The airline arrived for the Afrexim Bank meetings in Nassau this week. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
MURDER RULING THROWN OUT OVER ‘TENUOUS’ Eleuthera misses Rolle, not just the Wemyss Bight CONVICTION community.
Friends mourn conch stand vendor killed in boat crash SEE BUSINESS
sent a terrible message,” he said during his contribution to the budget debate in the House of Assembly. SEE PAGE THREE
By KEILE CAMPBELL kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
LUKE Rolle, one of two men killed when his boat hit a reef near Rose Island on Friday, owned and operated a popular conch stand in Eleuthera. His friends and family are now coming together to keep his business alive. Jamal Williams-Gardiner, a close friend who helped
LUKE ROLLE with McGuiver’s Conch Stand, said the entire
He called him a “nice man to work with”. “If you mad, just go there, he’ll have you happy, and he’s one way all the time,” he said. “I go there, help him out with the conch, skin the conch for him, trap it out, jook it out,
Robert Goldstein reportedly told the 82-year-old: “You’re not a doctor. I know it would be uncomfortable for you, but you were here in the courthouse, every single day, during the trial.
A MAN who was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for allegedly killing an American sailor in 2013 had his murder conviction quashed yesterday after the Privy Council ruled that evidence in the case was “so tenuous as to be incapable of supporting a safe conviction for murder”. The Privy Council also ruled against a murder retrial, though it recommended that the case be remitted to the Court of Appeal for consideration of retrial for a manslaughter charge.
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NYGARD: I COULD DIE IF I GO TO COURT By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
PETER Nygard is struggling to find legal representation in Canada two weeks before he is sentenced for sexually
assaulting five women between 1988 and 2005. During a hearing on Monday, he told a judge that appearing in person for the sentencing hearings could be life-threatening because he is ill. Superior Court Justice
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
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