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THEY WERE JUST TRYING TO HELP Police shot cutlass wielding man they had come to assist By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A MAN who “charged at” an officer with a cutlass was fatally shot by police on Poitier Avenue and Foster Street in Chippingham yesterday. Shortly before 9am, police were alerted to a disturbance at a residence located on Poitier Avenue. “Officers were dispatched
TOURISM Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar estimates that home porting will bring 30,000 to 35,000 cruise ship guests to the Bahamas this year who will contribute $50m during their week-long stay in the country.
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and on their arrival the complainant pointed out a man to them and requested their assistance with Emergency Medical Services to get him to the hospital,” police said. “The male, who was armed with a cutlass, was asked to put down the weapon. He failed to comply with the officer’s instruction. He then charged at one of the SEE PAGE THREE
HOME PORTING WILL DELIVER EXTRA $50M
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
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Speaking during his contribution to the budget debate in the House of Assembly yesterday, Mr D’Aguilar also said cruises from South Florida will resume earlier this year than anticipated. Royal Caribbean International will operate cruises for three months. The cruises will start in Nassau. SEE PAGE FOUR
A BLAZE that erupted near the New Providence Ecology Park on Monday night is still burning but has been contained. Firefighters are continuing to monitor the fire, which started at Manpower Scrapmetal. See page two. Photo: Racardo Thomas
HIGH INFLATION TAKING ‘NEW CITIZENS SHOULD TOLL IN CONSTRUCTION WAIT TO HAVE A VOTE’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
RISING inflation poses “a very significant” threat to the speed and strength of The Bahamas’ post-COVID economic revival, a prominent economist warned yesterday, with key building material prices up by double digits. Rupert Pinder,
who lectures on economics at the University of The Bahamas, told Tribune Business that the sustained and escalating price increases being experienced in key sectors - especially construction and food - and over which this nation has little influence could undermine prospects for a faster rebound from the pandemic.
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By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
FORMER parliamentarian Loretta Butler-Turner says she believes the government should legislate “a timeframe” for naturalised Bahamians to become
participants in the nation’s electoral process. In a statement posted on her Facebook page yesterday, Mrs Butler-Turner described the right to vote “as one of the greatest rewards of citizenship.” And with the next general election to be held in SEE PAGE FIVE
BRAVE BLASTS GOVT ON DORIAN AND COVID TECH PAGE PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis accused the Minnis administration of mismanaging its Hurricane Dorian and COVID-19 response. “There’s no doubt Dorian caused terrible destruction,” he said in the House of Assembly yesterday. “It would have challenged
PLP Leader Philip Davis. any government. But this government mismanaged
Dorian from the start – their effort was bungling, ineffective, embarrassing, disrespectful, heartless. “And so Grand Bahamians and Abaconians have suffered more, it has cost us more, and the recovery is agonisingly slower. “Incompetence matters. Here it led to more tragedy,
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BEHIND IN QUANTUM COMPUTER RACE, GERMANY GETS BOOST FROM IBM
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