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FAMILY SHOCK OVER FATHER’S DAY DEATH Man who took early shift to spend time with kids shot dead By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net GEOVANI Rolle worked an early morning shift at Jet Nassau on Sunday because he wanted to spend that evening celebrating Father’s Day with his two children, a 12-yearold boy and a six-year-old girl.
He had planned to get them ice cream and take them to the movies, according to his sister, Melanie Rolle-Hilton. Instead, police said when Geovani, a line service supervisor, arrived at work around 6am, he was approached and shot multiple times by the occupant of SEE PAGE FIVE
OPM: CONFISCATED PLANE WILL BE REPURPOSED FOR GOVT USE By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Office of the Prime Minister clarified that police confiscated a plane that will be repurposed for official government use and refurbished for $2.5m. Before the recent budget exercise ended in the House of Assembly last Monday,
COI PROTESTS GOVT’S BPL DEAL
members of the opposition asked for details about a line item in the Ministry of Finance’s capital expenditure budget concerning $2.5m for a plane. Leon Lundy, a minister of state in the prime minister’s office, said the funds were for “the procurement of an aircraft to facilitate travel SEE PAGE THREE
LINCOLN BAIN, leader of the Coalition of Independents (COI), and supporters protesting the govt’s BPL deal outside the House of Assemby yesterday. See more pictures on PAGE TWO. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
Pintard says he would participate in INGRAHAM a debate ahead of general election RELEASED, SAYS HE ‘FEELS GOOD’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said he would participate in leadership debates before the next general election. He also confirmed his
support for term limits for the prime minister. He said the FNM’s internal caucus must discuss fixed election dates, though he would support this if flexibility to accommodate unforeseen circumstances is allowed. SEE PAGE THREE
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune News Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net FNM leader Michael Pintard.
yesterday that she and her family are now sleeping on a single mattress at a friend’s home in the same community. “I just put some bed on the floor, and all sleep in the bed,” she said, adding that the mattress is too small
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham was released from Doctor’s Hospital yesterday and told reporters he “feels good”. Mr Ingraham was admitted to the hospital on Monday for emergency brain surgery after a CT scan revealed a blood clot contributed to headaches that also affected his dexterity. Doctors said he suffered from Subacute Chronic Subdural Hematoma.
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EVICTED RESIDENTS OF SHANTY HOMES STRUGGLE By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net MONTHS after the government destroyed her home in the All Saints Way shanty town, Roselyn, a mother of six, is still struggling to find a place of her own to shelter her family.
The mother and her children, one of whom has special needs, were left homeless in January when their home was razed by demolition crews in the community. They slept on the ground after the exercise because they had nowhere to go. She told The Tribune
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