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Volume: 121 No.139, June 14, 2024
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650 JOBS TO FILL AT $290M HOSPITAL Report highlights flooding fears at planned location By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net FLOODING risks are “a great concern” for New Providence’s new $290m hospital which will need a 650-strong medical staff to care for the anticipated 400 patients it is set to house daily. The newly-released
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the proposed specialist maternal and childcare facility disclosed that “historic wellfields” are located at the Perpall Tract site, which presently “act as a natural drainage from surrounding communities”.
SWEETING: TWELVE NEW SHANTY TOWNS DISCOVERED
Mom-of-three killed in traffic accident
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net WORKS Minister Clay Sweeting said officials had discovered 12 additional shanty towns. He said they are located in Abaco, Grand Bahama, Eleuthera, Andros and New Providence. The unregulated communities were discovered as the government prepared to demolish structures in five unregulated areas in New Providence and Abaco. During his contribution
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PINTARD: MORE TOURISTS - BUT REVENUE DROPPING By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said revenue from tourism is falling despite increasing numbers of tourists. “I wanted to raise this issue because I keep hearing the chest-beating and
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the desk bamming, but how is it possible that the numbers keep going up but the revenue that trickles into society continues to decline?” he said during his contribution to the budget debate in the House of Assembly yesterday. “We continue to miss our numbers.”
PM TOUTS CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA RELATIONSHIP
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By KEILE CAMPBELL kcampell@tribunemedia.net
leaving behind a husband and three young children. Her close friend and colleague, Rodreka Brown, said the two were supposed to link at a school meeting Wednesday evening, but she could not make it because of work.
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis underlined the potential for collaboration between the Caribbean and Africa during the Afreximbank Annual Meeting (AAM) at Baha Mar yesterday. He said the blueprint for collaboration “encompasses key initiatives designed to unite our banking systems, enhance financial inclusivity and catalase economic growth across Africa and the Caribbean”. He said that a joint
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RECENT nursing school graduate Robyn Benicourt, 35-year-old mother of three, was hit by a car on Wednesday and later succumbed to her injuries. By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ROBYN Benicourt, a recent nursing school graduate, was looking forward to sitting her upcoming exams and getting registered with the Bahamas Nursing Council before she was
killed in a traffic accident Wednesday night. The 35-year-old mother was reportedly exiting a Suzuki jeep on her way to visit a relative near Minnie Street and Balfour Avenue when a passing vehicle struck her after 7pm. She later succumbed to her injuries in hospital,
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