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Volume: 122 No. 152, July 2, 2025
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FAMILY HOMELESS AFTER ARSON ATTACK Blaze suspected to have started in garage spread quickly destroying home By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net TEARS streamed down Janet Dorsett’s face as she clutched her loved ones in front of the charred remains of her family’s 25-year-old Coral Heights West home, destroyed in a suspected
arson attack yesterday. Mrs Dorsett and her family were asleep when they were awakened by the sound of a car alarm on one of her daughter’s vehicles. The noise prompted her to go downstairs to check, but she was unprepared SEE PAGE THREE
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20-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE FOR Snorkelling tourist injured after he SUPER VALUE RAPE OF 23-YEAR-OLD WOMAN was struck by boat while in Exuma HIT BY 29% By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A 38-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for raping a 23-yearold woman at South Beach Canals in 2023. Jason Ferguson was sentenced by Justice Franklyn Williams after a nine-member jury unanimously found
him guilty of the offence on February 18. The attack reportedly occurred after Ferguson attended a late-night party at Envy Sporting Lounge on January 2 2023. Later that night, while driving with the complainant and two mutual friends, the men got out during an SEE PAGE SEVEN
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By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net AN AMERICAN tourist screamed in agony after he was struck by a passing boat while snorkelling in Exuma, leaving the victim with horrifying injuries, according to a bystander. “You had skin and flesh SEE PAGE FIVE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
BOATING accident victim being taken to Exuma clinic in the back of a truck.
FNM Fox Hill candidate claims office break-in was ‘politically motivated’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net DR Nicholas Fox, the Free National Movement’s newly ratified candidate for Fox Hill, says his medical office was broken into and vandalised in what he believes may be a politically motivated act — one he says sets a troubling tone
for the upcoming election season. Surveillance footage obtained by The Tribune shows an intruder scaling the roof of the Medi-Centre branch on Collins Avenue early Monday, cutting a hole in the ceiling and dropping into the clinic. Staff discovered the break-in that same SEE PAGE THREE
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SUPER Value’s president yesterday revealed the supermarket group has suffered “a big blow” after its overall light bill increased by 29.3 percent month-onmonth and costs at some locations doubled. Debra Symonette pledged to Tribune Business that the 13-store chain will not increase consumer prices despite sustaining a $74,000 rise in energy costs following the unexpected and unwelcome increase in Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) bills that is hitting the private sector as well as residential consumers. While Super Value’s business-wide solar power roll-out has enabled it to contain the impact, she FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS