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Volume: 120 No.126, July 4, 2023
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CORNISH: I’M PM IN ABACO MP says Davis is only other authority that leads the island By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net “ON Abaco, Kirk is the prime minister.” That’s the comment of North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish, who asserted his authority during an independence banquet at Faith Walks Church of God in Cooper’s Town, Abaco, on Saturday. Mr Cornish and several other Abaco residents were
BANNISTER BLAMES PLP NEGLECT FOR BPL WOES
honoured for their contributions to the island ahead of the 50th anniversary of independence. Mr Cornish expressed gratitude but emphasised his status on the island. “I did well throughout my life,” he said. “I failed in some areas, I’ll be the first to admit, but I am grateful for the fact that we thought it necessary this evening to say to Kirk Cornish, we
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER Works Minister Desmond Bannister said the protocol for maintaining Bahamas Power & Light’s Wartsila engines changed under the Davis administration –– one reason why load shedding has been needed this summer. He accused the Davis administration of neglecting BPL through inadequate investments and poor maintenance practices. SEE PAGE THREE
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GAS RETAILERS ‘NOT GONE TO SLEEP’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net BAHAMIAN petroleum retailers yesterday said they “haven’t gone to sleep” over their push for a margin increase but are willing to take a “sensible” phasedin approach that will not overly burden motorists
and the wider economy. Vasco Bastian, the Bahamas Petroleum Retailers Association’s vice-president, said the sector and its issues “haven’t gone away” amid hopes the recent decline in global oil and fuel prices could prove a “win-win” for all parties. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
HE HUGGED HIS MAN JAILED SISTER - HOURS UNLAWFULLY 8 YEARS LATER HE WAS FOR DIES AGED 59 SHOT DEAD
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter Ebowleg @tribunemedia.net
THE BODY of Garath Pyfrom is taken from the scene where it was found off Marshall Road. Photo: Austin Fernander By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net HOURS before his body was found in bushes off Marshall Road, Garath Pyfrom, 29, hugged his sister, Monalisa Johnson, tighter than usual. “He was just so happy and so loving,” she said, recalling when her brother
visited her before attending a party Sunday night. “He hugged me. He gave me this big hug, and I brushed him off. Then when I reached in my room, he hugged me again.” Ms Johnson said she asked her brother why he was so happy and he replied: “I can’t just love you, Mona?” She told him she wouldn’t
go to a pool party he planned to attend. “I told him it wasn’t sitting right with my spirit,” she said. “I said I didn’t want to go, let’s sit this one out, but he still gone.” The next morning, Ms Johnson got an ominous call from her brother’s wife that he did not return home for the night. SEE PAGE FIVE
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ATAIN Takitota, who was awarded more than $1m for being unlawfully detained in prison for eight years, the largest sum of its kind in The Bahamas, died last month at the Princess Margaret Hospital. His obituary in local newspapers said he died “peacefully” at 59. His case was often used as a benchmark for those seeking damages for poor treatment. SEE PAGE FOUR