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Volume: 123 No. 168, Monday, July 27, 2026
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TEARFUL FUNERAL FOR STANIA AND DIAMOND Joint funeral held for two teens killed in traffic accident on Shirley Street By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net GRIEF swept across Cat Island at the weekend as hundreds of mourners gathered to bury Stania Webb and Diamond Stubbs, two promising young women killed in the deadliest traffic accident recorded in The Bahamas in at least 20 years. The friends were laid to
rest side by side at Smith’s Bay Public Cemetery on Saturday, nearly a month after the June 28 Shirley Street crash claimed their lives and those of Bertrica Brown, 18; Evalena “Lilly” Johnson, 19; and Keno Gordon Jr, 19. Their funeral capped an anguished homecoming that began on Friday when their bodies were flown FUNERAL - SEE PAGE THREE
GRIEVING family and friends pay emotional farewell to Stania Webb and Diamond Stubbs at a funeral for two of five teens killed in a car crash on Shirley Street on June 28. Photo: Yontalay Bowe-Kirkendall
‘BUSINESS AS USUAL’ FOR Govt seeks US tariff WIDESPREAD BPL BLACKOUTS APPLEBEES AND FUSION exemption for seafood SPARK ANGER ACROSS ISLANDS By ANNELIA NIXON and NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Reporters BOTH Applebees Bahamas and Fusion Superplex yesterday asserted it is “business as usual” following the restaurant’s temporary closure late last week that sparked much
social media commentary. A spokesman for Applebees and its franchise holder, Caribbean Dining, yesterday confirmed the restaurant had re-opened at the entertainment complex located at the junction of Gladstone Road and JFK Drive. SEE BUSINESS FOR STORY
THE Davis administration is seeking an exemption from a new 12.5 percent United States tariff for Bahamian crawfish and stone crab exports, warning the duty has struck the country’s fisheries industry days before the lucrative crawfish season opens. Agriculture and Marine
Resources Minister Jomo Campbell said the government is also moving to strengthen The Bahamas’ prohibition on forced-labour goods and will dispatch officials to work directly with seafood processors and exporters as TARIFFS - SEE PAGE FIVE
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net POWER outages stretching for hours disrupted homes and businesses across Abaco and New Providence over the weekend, forcing some companies to close,
threatening refrigerated goods and prompting renewed complaints about the reliability of Bahamas Power and Light’s electricity supply. Residents in parts of Abaco said the latest round of disruptions began as OUTAGES - SEE PAGE FIVE
Newly renovated PMH A&E floods after heavy rainstorm By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net THE newly renovated Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department at Princess Margaret Hospital experienced localized flooding on Sunday following severe thunderstorms and heavy rainfall across New Providence, with water entering the facility through the ambulance bay doors.
The flooding occurred weeks after Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville announced that the long-delayed A&E renovation project had been completed and the department was fully operational. Videos and photographs circulated on social media showing standing water inside sections of the department, including areas where FLOODING - SEE PAGE FOUR
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PMH experiences flooding during a heavy downpour yesterday.