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Get ready for load shedding Sears: Summer outages possible as he blames previous band-aid fixes By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net WORKS and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears said there would “possibly” be more load shedding this summer. However, Bahamas Power & Light CEO Shevonn Cambridge said some recent outages have wrongly been classified as load sharing.
Their comments came after BPL confirmed on Monday that it started loadshedding exercises because of challenges to several power stations in New Providence. During an Office of the Prime Minister press briefing, Mr Sears said the generation challenges result from “band-aid” solutions to problems that require
Pinder: Govt to invest in new courts and justices
Traffic fatality claims young mechanic’s life
By Leandra Rolle Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder said government would invest in the “most transformational” change the country’s judicial system has seen since independence.
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‘Scores’ of Bahamians to get money owed to them by Govt By Leandra Rolle Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder said the Davis administration would immediately pay $10m to “scores” of Bahamians owed money for land the government took from them for public use. He suggested this is a small amount of the “tens
of millions” of dollars owed. He said that successive administrations have failed to compensate Bahamian landowners for decades, calling this “unjust”. “As colleagues would know and as I have spoken in this place and Senator Rahming was the one who brought this up over and over that the government SEE page five
New court battle begins for Four C’s boat Captain By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A YOUNG mechanic described as an “excellent employee” was killed in a horrific traffic accident in Freeport, Grand Bahama, yesterday morning. See stroy PAGE TWO. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn
‘No law broken - but not something to happen again’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net DEPUTY press secretary Keishla Adderley said no rules or laws were broken when Immigration Minister Keith Bell swore in three people as citizens at a funeral over the weekend - although it is not something “anyone would like to see happen again”.
Immigration Minister Keith Bell She said the “law is silent” on locations for
swearing-in ceremonies. “Well, let me say, for starters, there was nothing sinister, I don’t think, about the act,” she said during a press briefing at the Office of the Prime Minister. Minister Keith Bell has conceded that it was something that was unorthodox. Certainly, no rules or laws were broken in the
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The Exuma tour boat captain, whose exploding vessel killed one tourist and seriously injured four others, was yesterday ordered to face a fresh Supreme Court trial on charges of manslaughter and causing harm “by negligence”. FULL STORY - SEE Business
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