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HERE WE GO AGAIN Beach vendors’ fury as owners move to close off their access By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net CABBAGE Beach vendors were irate and shocked yesterday to see the Paradise Island beach entrance locked and their items relocated when they showed up on site in preparation for their return to work next month. The angry group took action and eventually opened the locked gates. Persons were seen taking the moved possessions from across the street back onto the beach.
Some claimed their items had been damaged by whoever moved them off the beach. They questioned where Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis was, noting that he protested against a similar situation while in opposition in 2016. When contacted yesterday, Minister of Tourism Dionisio D’Aguilar said he was “blindsided” by the move. He said he personally called the entity that owns the property — Access Industries — and was told SEE PAGES TWO & THREE
UNION’S CHALLENGE ON BPL BLACKOUT By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net
THE union responsible for line staff at Bahamas Power and Light is accusing executive management of not being accountable to its consumers and employees, saying these are the worst times it has ever seen. The capital and Family Islands alike have been plagued with frequent power outages recently. Some frustrated consumers feel no substantial reasons are given for these outages by BPL.
Kyle Wilson, president of Bahamas Electrical Workers Union, told The Tribune that Wartsila, a company working with BPL to maintain power supplies, is mostly at fault for recurring power outages, but he feels management will not hold that company accountable. “From day one, when the two engines burned down at Clifton Pier, no one has been made accountable and we’ve never been given a full breakdown of the investigation,” the union chief said. SEE PAGE 11
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POLICE at the scene yesterday after Cabbage Beach vendors discovered the entrance locked and their items relocated. Photo: Donovan McIntosh/Tribune Staff
‘FARM THIEVES NEED VOTERS DIVIDED OVER A TOUGHER PENALTY’ McALPINE CANDIDACY By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net SOCIAL Services Minister Frankie Campbell said yesterday he believes there should be tougher penalties for people who steal from farmers, saying the issue is a vexing problem in his constituency that needs to be addressed. Mr Campbell told MPs that since being elected to
represent Southern Shores, he has received increasing complaints from residents about their food crops being raided and stolen by thieves. He said it’s unfair for people who choose not to work to take the bread out of the mouths of hardworking Bahamians, who are trying to make ends meet. SEE PAGE THREE
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net PINERIDGE residents expressed mixed feelings about supporting area MP Rev Frederick McAlpine as an independent candidate in the next general election. Mr McAlpine, who won under the Free National Movement in 2017, has not yet received a nomination
to represent the constituency in the 2022 election. In 2019, the outspoken parliamentarian broke ranks with the FNM after he voted against the increase of VAT from 7.5 to 12 percent. Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis then fired Mr McAlpine as chairman of the Bahamas Hotel Corporation. SEE PAGE FIVE
PLANE COULDN’T CARRY OBESE COVID VICTIM FRONT PORCH By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
RELATIVES of a Bimini woman who died from COVID-19 earlier this week say they believe their loved one could have survived the deadly virus if she had been evacuated to Nassau sooner. Christal Saunders, 38, died on June 14 after a rapid antigen test diagnosed her with the virus
CHRISTAL SAUNDERS several days earlier. She is the country’s latest victim to have died from COVID-19.
Her sister, Christie Saunders, told The Tribune yesterday the family is not certain where she contracted the virus, but noted she started experiencing flu-like symptoms sometime last week. Ms Saunders said her sister’s worsening symptoms eventually drove her to the clinic to get answers, where she was eventually diagnosed with the infection. SEE PAGE FOUR
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