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Volume: 120 No.139, July 24, 2023
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NEW CLAIMS BY FNM OVER BELL BEHAVIOUR ‘Permits given to people in custody and businesses without valid licences’ By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net A HOST of irregularities under Immigration Minister Keith Bell have been alleged by FNM leader Michael Pintard - including work permits granted to arrested individuals who had made no application, for businesses that had no licence and interventions that led to concerns being raised by Immigration
Director Keturah Ferguson. Ms Ferguson expressed deep disapproval when Keith Bell intervened to release Chinese nationals at the British Colonial Hilton in January, writing that such actions demoralised immigration officers and weakened authorities’ ability to prevent human trafficking. “I find it very disconcerting when directives of this
son ‘was at the wrong place at the wrong time’
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By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net THE father of a 22-yearold man murdered on Saturday believes his son was simply at the “wrong place at the wrong time”. Adrian Brown, Jr, was one of two people in Masons Addition killed after midnight on Saturday. Two men carrying highpowered weapons emerged from a nearby track road and shot the men on Spence Street. Brown, Jr, died on the
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bran seeks $250k in lawsuit over ‘crippling roadworks’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A FORMER Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader will this week initiate legal action against the Government over $250,000 in loss and damages his law firm suffered when it was “crippled” by the Village Road roadworks.
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Branville McCartney, the Halsbury Chambers principal, pledged to Tribune Business he will start work on his law firm’s claim once he returns from his daughter’s university graduation as he accused government ministers and officials of being “as quiet as a mouse” over his concerns.
mount horeb pastor lloyd smith dies suddenly
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By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
according to Craig Lowe, founder of the Storm Intercept Weather Network. “August, September, those are our warmest months, and those are the times when you usually have storms picking up around that time that’s like the peak of the hurricane
TRIBUTES poured in over the weekend for National Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention President Lloyd Smith, who died on Saturday. Mr Smith was the senior pastor of Mount Horeb Baptist Church. Rev Dr Philip McPhee, the acting president of the convention, said Mr Smith collapsed around noon before he was scheduled to give the eulogy at
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INSTEAD of sweating at home some families seek relief at the beach. By EARYEL BOWLEG AND PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporters SCORCHING weather sent The Bahamas to a record heat index on Saturday, with Chief Meteorological Officer Patricia Weeks warning that the heat would worsen. Ms Weeks said the heat
index –– the way the temperature feels to the human body –– was 105F to 115F in recent days. While the met office recorded maximum temperatures at 95F on Saturday, Bahamas First Alert Weather recorded temperatures in Carmichael that reached 102F –– an unofficial record for the country,
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