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Volume: 121 No.146, June 25, 2024
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‘FAILURE TO PROBE CORRUPTION CLAIM’ Bahamas keeps tier 1 rank - but concerns on ‘I WILL ALWAYS BE immigration allegations A JUDGE AT HEART’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net THE United States said The Bahamas has failed to investigate corruption allegations against immigration officers at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre and did not proactively screen for human trafficking among vulnerable
communities in 2023. However, The Bahamas remains one of only 30 countries with a Tier 1 ranking in the US Trafficking in Persons Report, signifying the country continues to meet minimum standards for eliminating trafficking and that the government demonstrates serious and
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunmedia.net NALINI Bethel, the chairperson of the National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD), said no one has ever been prosecuted under the Persons with Disabilities Act, a law passed in 2014 to equalise opportunities for people with disabilities and eliminate discrimination against them. The lack of prosecutions shows the law has not been adequately enforced, said Erin Brown, a noted disability rights advocate and NCPD commissioner. She believes the main reason is that many lawyers do not want to represent someone with disabilities. Ms Bethel told The Tribune that 14 adjustment orders have been
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<9NAK GHLAEAKLA; BG:D=KK FME:=JK OADD ?G <GOF By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ALTHOUGH the latest unemployment figures suggest the country is still struggling to get the rate where it was before the 2008 recession, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said he is encouraged by the latest figures and is not
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concerned that the increasing National Insurance Board contribution rate would worsen the problem. He expressed optimism that jobless numbers will decrease in the “next two months or so” and said he is excited about what the future holds for job seekers. The Bahamas National
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OUTGOING Court of Appeal President Sir Michael Barnett speaks during a special Court of Appeal sitting at the British Colonial Hotel where it was announced that Justice Jon Isaacs will succeed Sir Michael as Court of Appeal president yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff By LEANDRA ROLLE including current and and reform laws in the Tribune Chief Reporter retired judges, gathered at Bahamas. lrolle@tribunemedia.net the British Colonial hotel to “I am and will always be bid farewell to the outgoing a judge at heart,” he said SIR Michael Barnett offi- Court of Appeal president during the ceremony. “My cially retired as Court of and former chief justice telephone number will not Appeal president yesterday, during a special sitting. change. You can always call with Justice Jon Isaacs set Sir Michael will become to discuss issues, confident to replace him. the country’s new law that by doing so, I will no Government officials, reform commissioner, lawyers and judicial officers, leading efforts to review SEE PAGE TWO
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