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Volume: 118 No.166, July 26, 2021
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As hospitals buckle under surge of cases, mandatory vaccines meet opposition By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net CHIEF Medical Officer Dr Pearl McMillan’s assertion that mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers is under consideration was yesterday criticised even though vaccine hesitancy particularly among medical workers continues to be a challenge. Many in the sector remain hesitant to receive the shot at a time when 93 people are in hospital battling COVID-19 and cases are surging across the country.
The resurgence has led to a strain on public health facilities and the reimposition of harsher restrictions in New Providence, Grand Bahama along with North and Central Eleuthera, including Harbour Island. As a result, recommendations have been put forward to consider making vaccinations mandatory for healthcare workers, Dr McMillan said Friday. “I do not have the exact percentage, but we recognise the need for that grouping to be on board with vaccinations and in SEE PAGE THREE
NATIONAL ADDRESS TO DETAIL NEW MEASURES PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis is expected to address the country at 8pm Wednesday regarding his administration’s continued fight against COVID-19. Dr Minnis will announce a series of measures to assist with care of people in hospital with COVID-19, steps to limit the further spread of the virus and an update on the country’s efforts to secure more vaccines. The announcement comes as two additional deaths, and 100 new cases of the virus were recorded Friday.
The fatalities, a 66-yearold man and a 44-year-old man, who were residents of New Providence. There have now been 282 deaths because of COVID-19. Eighty of the new virus cases were in New Providence, seven in Grand Bahama and Abaco had five. Bimini & Cat Cay recorded four new cases while Eleuthera and Exuma both recorded two new cases each. SEE PAGE THREE
DANCING DEANDRE BAHAMIAN basketball star Deandre Ayton of the Phoenix Suns returned home on Friday after playing in the 2021 NBA championship finals - complete with a Junkanoo welcome. Photo: Kemuel Stubbs/BIS
WATCHDOG ORDERS TV AD TO BE PULLED THE Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority has ordered Cable Bahamas Limited to immediately cease and desist from broadcasting a political advertisement of Progressive Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis. In a letter dated July 23,
URCA’s CEO J Carlton Smith said the authority had opened a full investigation into a complaint lodged regarding the ad referring to the PLP and its leader. The probe falls in line with the watchdog’s content code. SEE PAGE FOUR
COURT AWARDS EX-PLP MP PINDER JUST $1,900 By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net AN EX-PLP MP has won just two percent of his $84,420 legal claim against the Government for what he described as “the most humiliating episode of my professional career”.
Former Marathon MP Ron Pinder also slammed a civil service appointments culture used “to play games with people’s lives” when giving evidence before the Industrial Tribunal to support his wrongful and/or unfair dismissal claim. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
WAS SAMMY SHOT BY MISTAKE? MORE BPL By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net THE former girlfriend of a man who was shot and killed in the Carmichael area on Friday night believes he was a victim of mistaken identity. While officials have not yet released the man’s name, Magalie Petit-Blanc, the mother of the victim’s
SAMMY PIERRE two-year-old child, said he is 23-year-old Sammy Pierre.
His death has shocked everyone who knew him, she said. Police said they were called to a shooting incident that occurred on Montgomery Avenue, Flamingo Gardens shortly after 10pm Friday. Upon their arrival, they found an unresponsive adult male lying on the
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BLACKOUT MISERY BAHAMAS Power and Light Company has blamed an issue at its Blue Hills station for an electricity outage that hit numerous communities yesterday. SEE PAGE FIVE