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Vessel infected with Asian insect sailed to Freeport after US ban By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net ENVIRONMENTAL activist Joseph Darville is outraged over the docking and offloading of a cargo ship allegedly laden with a shipment of wood infested with an invasive beetle that destroys crops. The “Pan Jasmine” cargo vessel is allegedly docked at Bradford Marine in Freeport. It was initially inspected by US Federal Agents near New Orleans and denied entry after the cargo of wood was
discovered infested with a type of Asian beetle that has been destroying trees in the US for about 25 years. According to reports, the ship was ordered to leave US waters and departed July 21 for Freeport, Bahamas, for disposal. Some of the shipment has already been offloaded and taken to the landfill in Freeport, according to Mr Darville, who is calling on Bahamian authorities to immediately investigate the matter.
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net COMMISSIONER of Police Paul Rolle has appealed to Bahamians to abide by health protocols during the Emancipation Day holiday weekend. He said officers will be enforcing the law as usual and stressed that bars are prohibited from operating. SEE PAGE FOUR
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BABY DIES IN POOL TRAGEDY
MINNIS WAS RIGHT - WE CAN’T HALT ECONOMY By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
BAHAMIAN businessmen yesterday voiced relief that the Prime Minister did not unveil a COVID-19 lockdown or further restrictions in his Wednesday night address, asserting: “You cannot stop the economy again.” Branville McCartney, the Halsbury Chambers law
firm principal and ex-Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader, told Tribune Business that placing the country - and especially New Providence - into 2020-style lockdowns to halt the ongoing surge in COVID-19 cases would have “wiped the economy out” just as its tourism industry was showing signs of revival. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
JUMPERS FALL SHORT BAHAMIAN high jumper Donald Thomas pictured in the men’s high jump at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo yesterday - but Thomas and compatriot Jamal Wilson were both eliminated on day one of the track and field competition, placing 25th and 32nd respectively. There was drama on the track, however, with Anthonique Strachan winning a runoff against Grand Bahamian colleague Brianne Bethel to join Shaunae Miller-Uibo and Tynia Gaither in the women’s 200m heats on Monday. See SPORTS for full coverage. Photo: Morry Gash/AP
COLLIE TOLD PAY UP REAL TAX DEBT By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
A PROMINENT Bahamian businessman has been given 60 days to pay $734,222 in outstanding real property taxes on his West
Bay Street nightclub property or see it sold by the Government. Al Collie, developer of Club Luna and the Zoo before it, yesterday failed in his bid to “stay and/or suspend” an April 9, 2019, judgment obtained against
him by the Government’s treasurer for $1.357m in unpaid real property tax and penalty surcharges owed on that parcel and another property at Elizabeth Avenue in downtown Nassau. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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A ONE-year-old child is dead after drowning in a swimming pool on Wednesday night. Police said the child was at home with relatives and wandered away from the house. “According to reports, shortly after 7pm, Wednesday the child was at home with relatives when he wandered from the house and a few minutes later was discovered at the bottom of the swimming pool,” police said in a press statement. “He was transported to hospital in serious condition and later pronounced dead.”
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