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Volume: 123 No. 154, Monday, July 6, 2026
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MOM: ‘NO ANGER TOWARDS DRIVER’ of fifth victim Lightning strike triggers BPL explosion and massive outages Mother says ‘mistakes happen’
as 19-year-old set to be charged over five deaths By EARYEL BOWLEG and JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporters THE Shirley Street crash claimed a fifth life on Saturday, leaving one mother clinging to forgiveness after her 19-year-old son died in hospital while another demanded accountability after spending three agonising days in Canada trying to
confirm whether her daughter was alive or dead. Keno Gordon Jr, 19, died in the Intensive Care Unit after relatives and friends prayed for his recovery and circulated flyers appealing for blood donations. His death raised the toll from the crash at the intersection of Shirley Street FORGIVE - SEE PAGE THREE
CRASH SURVIVOR HITS $8K GOAL FOR LEG SURGERY SMOKE billows out of a building after a lightning strike at the Blue Hills Power Station led to an explosion at the location, creating a disruption on the network and interrupting power supply to multiple areas across New Providence yesterday. By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A LIGHTNING strike that triggered an explosion at Bahamas Power and Light’s Blue Hills Power Station yesterday deepened public anger over
a summer of repeated outages, leaving residents, businesses, hotels, the airport and parts of Princess Margaret Hospital grappling with disruptions as critics accused the Davis administration of failing to fix the country’s electricity crisis. Shadow Minister for Energy,
Utilities and Aviation Dr Andre Rollins accused the Davis administration of failing to provide reliable electricity, noting that Energy Minister JoBeth Coleby-Davis had recently said BPL had enough generation OUTAGE - SEE PAGE FIVE
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net THE last surviving female victim of the deadly Shirley Street crash has reached an $8,000 fundraising goal for surgery as she continues to recover from serious injuries that have kept her in hospital. Bianca Mathurin, 18, was
one of eight people in the Mazda sedan that crashed into a tree at the intersection of Shirley Street and Church Street after the 19-year-old driver reportedly lost control. The crash killed five people: Keno Gordon Jr, 19; Diamond Stubbs, 17; Betrica Brown, 18; Evalena HELP - SEE PAGE TWO
‘GOVT HEALTH INSURANCE RESUMPTION WILL BE TESTED TODAY’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A BAHAMIAN surgeon yesterday said the Government’s pledge that health insurance coverage for hundreds of public sector workers has “resumed” will be “tested” today amid assertions that premium payment arrears could be as high as $100m.
Dr Duane Sands, also the Opposition’s chairman, told Tribune Business that an open heart surgery he is due to perform today on a patient from one of the impacted government agencies has been “put back on schedule” after initially being cancelled/[postponed on Friday after it emerged that the medical coverage provided by Colina Insurance Company had been
suspended for hundreds. Public sector union leaders accused the Government of playing with the lives and health of their members, including hundreds in the uniformed security services who place themselves in potential harm’s way daily, prompting Senator Latrae Rahming, communications director SEE BUSINESS FOR STORY
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FNM Chairman Dr Duane Sands.