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BPL ‘HAS 14 DAYS’ Company told that it must solve issues or face union wrath By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net BAHAMAS Power and Light employees demonstrated outside the company’s headquarters yesterday, with the union representing line staff at the utility provider saying it is giving management 14 days to resolve all outstanding matters or face its “wrath”. Yesterday at 9am, dozens of BPL staff walked off the job in a show of solidarity against executive management. According to Bahamas Electrical Workers Union President Kyle Wilson, management has
disrespected and mistreated staff. He also claimed management has violated the industrial agreement between the company and the union. The union members said “enough is enough” and called upon the government to do something about their plight. “Try us, try the union and see if we joking,” Mr Wilson said yesterday. He said options on the table for the union include seeking remedy at the Industrial Tribunal, the Supreme Court or industrial action. SEE PAGES TWO & THREE
AG’S OFFICE SEEKS STAY ON CITIZENSHIP RULING By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE Office of the Attorney General on Friday filed documents asking the Court of Appeal to stay Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder’s consequential ruling on citizenship rights and to grant leave for the ruling to be appealed to the Privy Council. Kingsley Smith, a lawyer at the Office of the Attorney General, filed an affidavit in support of the application for leave. This comes after the Court of Appeal, in a three
to two decision last week, affirmed Justice Winder’s ruling that children born in the Bahamas out of wedlock to Bahamian men are citizens at birth, regardless of the nationality of their mother. It is thought that if the ruling stands, it will have major implications for access to citizenship in the Bahamas and could affect the status of thousands of people. Last week, Attorney General Carl Bethel said people turned up to the Parliamentary Registration SEE PAGE SEVEN
THE PROTEST outside Bahamas Power and Light yesterday.
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$1 TO BUY - BUT AIRPORT TOURISM SURGE WILL SEE NEEDS $200M INVESTMENT ATLANTIS 90 PERCENT FULL By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
A $200M INVESTMENT is required for the “comprehensive redevelopment” of a Grand Bahama International Airport that lost more than $13m in the two-and-a-half years before
the government acquired it. The extent of the potential liabilities facing Bahamian taxpayers as a result of that purchase, for just $1, was fully exposed during yesterday’s briefing for private sector groups interested in bidding on public-private partnerships. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
By YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporter ykemp@tribunemedia.net
ATLANTIS will operate at “close to 90 percent occupancy” over the next few weeks, said president and managing director Audrey Oswell yesterday, with all properties apart from the
Beach Towers having reopened post-COVID. Ms Oswell said the resort is currently at 75 percent. She added: “All of the resort, with the exception of Beach, is now open and we expect to run close to 90 percent occupancy over the next few weeks.” FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
POLICE HUNT FOR IDENTITY OF STABBING VICTIM By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A MAN was found dead with injuries consistent with stab wounds yesterday morning off Prince Charles Drive. Head of the Criminal Investigations Department, Chief Superintendent Shanta Knowles said shortly
after 7am (and) dispolice covered the received male who had reports that injuries to an unresponthe body and sive male was later he was found in the pronounced community deceased,” just off Pine A BODY being removed from she said. Barren Road. the scene yesterday. Asked if “Officthere was ers and medical personnel anything to suggest if the responded to this location individual was homeless,
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she said: “We don’t want to say that he’s a vagrant. We believe that he lives in this community and so that’s the reason for us having our officers on the ground so that we can possibly find relatives who can eventually make a positive identification.” “We suspect that the SEE PAGE THREE