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COOPER: WATER PARK NOT FINAL Govt yet to consider cruise port proposal for $35m project By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net ACTING Prime Minister Chester Cooper said discussions about a $35m water park at the Nassau Cruise Port are premature because the government has yet to consider the proposal. “In fact,” he told reporters yesterday, “there’s been no application at this point before the NEC, and therefore all conversations as it’s related thereto is rather
GB MURDER TAKES YEAR’S TALLY TO 71
premature at this stage.” Mr Cooper’s comments came after Mike Maura, the port’s CEO, told Tribune Business earlier this month that the $35m water park project would create 350 full-time jobs and should be completed within the next 18 months. He said the pool-based water park would be constructed behind the amphitheatre towards the western side of the existing property.
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net SIX people have been killed since Thursday, pushing the murder count for the year to 71. As The Tribune was going to press last night, police reported that a man had been shot dead in Yellow Jasmine Close in Grand Bahama. And on Saturday, a 24-year-old man was killed on Pinecrest Drive off East Street South. Police officers found a red Dodge Ram truck that had crashed into a home. Inside, an adult man with several gunshot wounds was dead. SEE PAGE THREE
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PRIME MINISTER FLIES TO US FOR SCIATICA TREATMENT MISS UNIVERSE By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis is seeking treatment in the United States to address compression of his sciatic nerve. The Office of the Prime Minister did not say when he would return to the
country, noting only that Chester Cooper would be acting prime minister. Health Minister Dr Michael Darville said Mr Davis had battled sciatica for a few months and suffered excruciating pain in one of his legs when he stood. SEE PAGE FIVE
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OFFICER LAUGHED AS BODY CAMERA SWITCHED ON IN POLICE SHOOTING By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
MISS Universe Sheynnis Palacios and a delegation from the Miss Universe Organization arrived in The Bahamas on July 11 for a visit to the country. The local franchisee, Miss Bahamas Universe Organization committee warmly welcomed her to our picturesque shores following her visit from Central America. See PAGES 12 and 13 for the full story.
CORRECTION
THE front page of Friday’s edition of The Tribune featured an incorrect photograph. Due to a production error, a photograph of Miss Universe at Sand Dollar Beach Resort
was incorrectly printed instead of a photograph of the Fox Hill crime scene. There was no connection between Sand Dollar Beach Resort and the crime scene, for this,
we apologise to Sand Dollar Beach Resort, Miss Universe Organization and Miss Bahamas Universe Organization for any bad publicity or damage that this may have caused.
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A FORMER police officer laughed and lamented turning on his body camera after shooting a man last year. Shando King’s camera footage was shown in the Coroner’s Court on Friday as the inquest into Valentino Johnson’s policeinvolved killing on April 16, 2023, continued. Police claim Johnson brandished a weapon and was killed after leading them on a high-speed chase from Gladstone Road to Seven Hill Road. SEE PAGE THREE