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FNM MAKES NEW IMMIGRATION CLAIM Document suggests people did not renounce nationality before citizenship awarded By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net IMMIGRATION Director Keturah Ferguson was purportedly concerned that some people became naturalised Bahamians without renouncing their citizenship, a potentially significant breach of the law. Ms Ferguson purportedly sent a July 13, 2022,
email about the matter to Permanent Secretary Cecilia Strachan, Immigration Minister Keith Bell and other top officials, according to a document Free National Movement Leader Michael Pintard released last night. Mr Pintard did not disclose the entire email chain or reveal how SEE PAGE FIVE
HOUSING DEMAND WILL SOON EXCEED SUPPLY, SAYS REALTOR By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net HOUSING demand by Bahamians will exceed the supply of new homes for at least “the next five years”, a realtor warned yesterday, thus threatening to leave multiple families with “unfulfilled dreams” of ownership. Matt Sweeting, chief
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executive at 1oak Bahamas, told Tribune Business that when he closes the sale of multifamily properties there are typically between five to seven rival purchasers who miss out even though they have submitted competitive bids that often exceed the seller’s asking price. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
ROYAL Bahamas Police Officers carry the coffin of former Police Commisioner Paul Farquharson during his state funeral yesterday. His body is expected to be laid to rest at St Mary Magdalene Anglican Church Cemetery in Glinton’s, Long Island. See PAGE TWO for more. Photo: Moise Amisial
Nurses frustrated over ‘poor’ conditions TEN JOBS TO BE HIT BY MATISSE CLOSURE By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
PRINCESS Margaret Hospital nurses, frustrated over “poor” working conditions at the facility, considered walking off the job on Wednesday. Bahamas Nurses Union (BNU) president Muriel
Lightbourn told The Tribune nurses are struggling from overcrowding, staff shortages and other conditions that have persisted for too long. She said nurses are exhausted and fed up. “They was saying that because of their working conditions, they were contemplating walking
off the job, so I went to speak with the nurses and they have a lot of concerns,” she said. “At Accident and Emergency right now, it’s overcrowding. You have almost 60 patients waiting to find a bed in the hospital and who knows when you
Ramsey, 29, a foreign service officer, and Dr Blair John, 28, a student at Saint Mary’s University, were pulled from the River Po in Turin, Italy, on June 4 and 5, 2019, after the men had been missing for several days. While the autopsy
CAFE Matisse has officially notified the minister of labour that it will close down soon, a decision that will affect at least ten employees, Minister Keith Bell said yesterday. The restaurant, which has enjoyed a fine reputation for years, draws its name from the famous French painter Henri Matisse. It specialises in Italian food. Although business at the restaurant appeared vibrant recently, especially after rumours of its
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LAW CHANGE PLAN OVER TURIN DEATHS By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said government will soon determine whether to amend the law to allow a coroner’s inquest into two Bahamian men who died suspiciously in Italy three years ago.
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