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SO WHO DID KILL OFFICER PERPALL? By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net ABLE Seaman Jevon Seymour is now a free man after a Supreme Court jury yesterday found him not guilty of murdering his superior officer at Government House in 2019.
ABLE Seaman Jevon Seymour leaving court yesterday. Photo: Donovan McIntosh/Tribune Staff
Seymour was accused of fatally shooting Petty Officer Percival Perpall and attempting to kill Marine Seamen Calvin Hanna and Ellis Rahming while the three men were on duty in a guardroom on the property on April 28, 2019. SEE PAGE THREE
SYSTEM FAILURE HITS MONEY’S TIGHT - SO FREEPORT CUSTOMS MORE USING STAMPS By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
FREEPORT’S crossborder commerce was yesterday said to have been sent “back to prehistoric times” as a result of Customs’ electronic system for clearing goods being down
for ten successive days. Glennett Fowler, president of the National Import Export Association of The Bahamas, said the flow of goods had almost come to “a standstill” with companies, individuals and those involved in clearing incoming shipments forced to revert to manual processes.
Disclosing Customs hoped to restore its electronic system yesterday, but it had yet to happen, she said many businesses are no longer able to write cheques to cover payments because in the digital age they lack chequing accounts and/or bank guarantees. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net FALLOUT from the COVID-19 pandemic has caused people to tighten their purse strings, Super Value President Rupert Roberts has said, while noting “more and more”
shoppers have been relying on the store’s food stamps to shop. Mr Roberts said prices were increasing all around, including on building supplies with items like plywood seeing an exponential increase. This follows his prediction last month that
grocery and meat prices will increase by eight percent and 10-12 percent respectively by Christmas. Mr Roberts told Tribune Business that a combination of increased demand, as the Bahamian and global economies continue to reflate following SEE PAGE FIVE
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THE FIRST serious warning of hurricane season has been raised for a potential storm. See PAGE TWO.
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THE Public Hospitals Authority yesterday confirmed recent reports of an incident at the Princess Margaret Hospital that affected an infant who was injured during IV therapy. A statement from the PHA said at approximately 3am last Friday, a one-month-old male infant SEE PAGE FIVE