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Volume: 122 No. 142, June 18, 2025
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CHILD DIES IN HOUSE BLAZE Three other children also severly burned as fire engulfed room By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A MOTHER’S desperate decision to leave her four young children in the care of a relative ended in heartbreak after a fire tore
through a room of their Rupert Dean Lane home, leaving one child dead and three others critically injured. The children, all under the age of six, suffered severe burns when a bedroom they were in caught
fire. The relative tasked with watching them had allegedly fallen asleep and awoke to find the room engulfed in flames. The incident has left the tight-knit community SEE PAGE TWO
THE RESIDENCE on Rupert Dean Lane where a five-year-old boy succumbed to injuries sustained in a fire that left three other young children severely burned yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
DAD DONATING KIDNEY TO SON Ministry shifts focus away from LOCALS URGED in Bahamas’ first transplant Cuba to supply needed teachers TAKE ADVANTAGE By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A GROUNDBREAKING kidney transplant is set to take place today at Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH), where a father will donate a kidney to his son, who suffers from end-stage renal disease. The operation marks
the country’s first-ever living donor transplant under the Public Hospitals Authority’s (PHA) newly launched Renal Transplant Programme. The names of the father and son have been withheld for privacy reasons. The son has reportedly been on dialysis for the past
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE Ministry of Education has paused its plan to recruit more than 70 teachers from Cuba, redirecting efforts toward hiring educators from the United States, Canada, and locally retired professionals to fill
upcoming vacancies. The shift follows comments by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville, who recently said that the government is suspending recruitment agreements with Cuba pending discussions with US officials. Education director Dominique McCartney-Russell confirmed the hold and
the expanded recruitment strategy in an interview with The Tribune yesterday. She said the ministry has advertised locally and is “recruiting far and wide” to ensure schools are adequately staffed for the coming academic year. “We’re also going to SEE PAGE THREE
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Sands: Public health concern as only two ambulances operational By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ONLY two ambulances are reportedly operational in New Providence — a situation former Health Minister Dr Duane Sands called unacceptable, saying it exposes the false narrative being told about the state of public healthcare in the country.
“If you are sick, you’re having a heart attack, stroke, been shot, God help you right now, because EMS has been allowed to deteriorate to a point that is thoroughly unacceptable in New Providence,” Dr Sands told The Tribune yesterday. His concerns were echoed by National Emergency Medical Services SEE PAGE TWO
FNM chairman Dr Duane Sands.
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By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas must “take advantage” of the momentum generated by the launch of its largestever $1.067bn foreign currency bond issue to global investors, a wellknown businessman urged yesterday. Sir Franklyn Wilson, the Arawak Homes and Sunshine Holdings chairman, told Tribune Business that this nation’s sovereign debt finance raise is “a significant event for the country” given that it will gauge capital markets confidence in the credibility and integrity of the Davis administration’s fiscal and economic revival strategy, while conceding that The Bahamas is “not out of the woods” from a long-term perspective. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS