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Volume: 122 No. 164, July 21, 2025
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$3.6m in damages for botched birth Doctor must pay up after child born with devastating disabilities By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A DOCTOR has been ordered to pay more than $3.6 million in damages after a botched delivery left a newborn boy with lifelong brain injuries and near-total physical disability. The payout — $3,648,239.70 — is one of the country’s largest medical negligence awards and
Politicians and pastors rivals on the court
follows Supreme Court Justice Loren Klein’s ruling that Dr Gregory Carey’s mishandling of the birth caused the child’s devastating condition. Now 12 years old, the boy is in a near-vegetative state, suffering from cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and other neurological impairments. The court heard that Dr Carey never apologised for
THE Free National Movement has rejected former MP Renward Wells as its Bamboo Town candidate and is expected to choose former Senator Heather Hunt instead, decisions that have sparked fierce backlash from the
NEGLIGENCE - SEE page seven
MURDERED - SEE page five
constituency association, which accuses party leadership of punishing supporters of former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. Members of the Bamboo Town branch say they were misled into believing Mr Wells, who served as MP from 2012 to 2021, would be renominated. They have VINDICTIVE - SEE page five
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A 32-year-old father was gunned down early on Friday while fetching water from a pump, becoming the country’s 50th murder victim for the year. Relatives identified the victim as Jimmy “Yoshi” Laureville. Loved ones gathered at the scene, devastated by the killing. The mother of his tenyear-old son, who asked not to be named, said he had visited their home just hours earlier. He had
Pintard called ‘vindictive’ as Wells rejected as candidate By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
Father of ten-year-old shot dead at water pump
Zane Lightbourne goes for a shot in a hotly contested basketball match between pastors and politicians during the annual Family Night at Kendall GL Isaacs Gym yesterday. See SPORTS for more. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
Junkanoo groups wary over proposals for new authority By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A DRAFT bill proposing the creation of a National Junkanoo Authority to oversee all Junkanoo parades nationwide is receiving mixed reactions within the Junkanoo community, with some groups rejecting the move
and others withholding judgment pending further details. If enacted, the bill would strip the Junkanoo Corporation of New Providence (JCNP) of its sole authority over parades in the capital, placing responsibility instead in the hands of a new independent body. JUNKANOO - SEE page Four
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Norman’s Cay employees stunned at mass layoffs By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net DOZENS of workers at Norman’s Cay were abruptly laid off on Friday morning in a mass termination that left stunned employees scrambling to leave the island, some with half their belongings still inside staff quarters. The Department of Labour confirmed that fewer than 40 employees, including ten foreign nationals, were let go in what officials are calling LAYOFFS - SEE page TWO