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Volume: 122 No. 151, July 1, 2025
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DAUGHTER’S DEATH A ‘DOUBLE BLOW’ ABACO SHELTER MISSES LATEST DEADLINE BUT FINISH IN SIGHT
Ishniequa murdered just three months after cousin killed By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net JUST months after her cousin’s murder, 26-yearold Ishniequa Culmer was shot dead while spending time with a neighbourhood friend at the home where she lived and cared for her elderly grandmother— plunging her grieving family
into fresh heartbreak. The murder took place on Sunday night in the Wulff Road area - with a boy and another woman also injured in the shooting. Ishniequa’s father, Ishmael Culmer, described the loss as shocking, remembering his daughter as a loving, independent young woman
BY DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net DESPITE government promises that Abaco’s longdelayed hurricane shelter would be completed by today, officials from the Disaster Risk Management Authority (DRMA) say the facility is still unfinished. Alex Storr, the authority’s executive chairman, told The Tribune yesterday that
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CHRISTIE FAMILY GRIEVING ANOTHER TRAFFIC FATALITY By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net PHILLIPA Christie, sister of the three Christie brothers who died in a car crash last September, is now facing unimaginable grief again after her eldest son, 18-year-old Jimmy “JJ” Johnson, was killed in a traffic accident in Andros
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NHI AUTHORITY ELIMINATING 90-DAY WAIT TIME TO JOIN
on Sunday night. Jimmy’s death comes less than a year after Ms Christie lost her brothers — Philip McCarron Christie, 24, Philip D’Caprio Christie, 23, and D’Angelo Christie, 20 — in a crash on Sir Milo Butler Highway. Police said the teen died following a two-car collision SEE PAGE THREE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net ISHNIEQUA CULMER, the 26-year-old woman who was shot and killed in a neighbourhood in the Wulff Road area on Sunday night.
Moss: FNM selection of Henfield for South Beach constituency ‘hurt’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FORMER FNM Senator Jamal Moss admitted yesterday he felt “hurt” by the party’s decision to ratify Darren Henfield as the South Beach candidate, despite receiving full backing from the FNM’s South Beach Constituency Association. He said he believed he
was the best man for the job but respected the party’s choice and felt it was time to “move on”. Mr Moss, who is also the party’s national vice chairman, spoke after The Tribune reported that executives of the South Beach Constituency Association were upset with the FNM leadership for ignoring their preferred candidate. SEE PAGE FOUR
FORMER FNM senator Jamal Moss.
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THE National Health Insurance (NHI) Authority will today eliminate restrictions on Bahamians enrolling in the scheme in a move branded as “damn the torpedos” by an ex-health minister. Dr Duane Sands, the Opposition’s chairman, speaking out as the Authority removes the extra 90-day wait persons must endure before they can join NHI, challenged how the Government-funded healthcare scheme will be able to “pay for” the increased patients and associated higher costs - when it was unable to stay within its $46.2m budget for the 2024-2025 fiscal year. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS