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Volume: 123 No. 181, Friday, August 14, 2026
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$20M OVERTIME ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ Review of BPL reveals unusual patterns and anomalies in after-hours working practices By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net ABOUT $20m a year has been spent on overtime at Bahamas Power and Light, the Davis administration confirmed yesterday, calling the level “unacceptable” and “unsustainable” after a review identified what it
described as unusual patterns and anomalies in overtime practices. The disclosure followed The Tribune’s exclusive report on internal BPL records showing that three employees in the fuel and performance department collectively received more OVERTIME - SEE PAGE THREE
Ex-CEO: BPL overtime payouts ‘off the charts’ - see BUSINESS
More than 1,400 apply for school uniform help By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net MORE than 1,400 people in New Providence and Grand Bahama have sought government assistance to buy school uniforms ahead of the new academic year,
with Social Services Minister Barbara Cartwright saying demand for the programme has increased. Officials said 1,409 people have applied for assistance across the two islands, although they did HELP - SEE PAGE FIVE
A MOTHER returning home from work and shopping finds house on Johnson Road ablaze on Wednesday. Photo: Shawn Hanna
Mother meets house in flames By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A JOHNSON Road mother of two returned home from work and backto-school shopping on Wednesday to find the house where her family had lived since 2019 badly damaged
by fire, leaving them temporarily displaced. Diana Desir lived in the three-bedroom home with her boyfriend, their one- and two-year-old children and her boyfriend’s mother. Ms Desir was at work when the fire occurred. Her boyfriend’s mother and two nieces were inside the house
at the time. She said she could not say what caused the fire or exactly when it started. According to Ms Desir, her boyfriend’s mother was sitting on a couch in the front room when FIRE - SEE PAGE TWO
Bar Association and AG clash over court power outages By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas Bar Association has called for a clear, credible and time-bound plan to end persistent power disruptions affecting the courts, while Attorney General Wayne Munroe has insisted the Court Services
Council must mitigate outages just as hospitals, prisons and businesses do. The clash follows several days of power-related disruptions at court facilities in New Providence, with the Bar arguing that backup measures do not address the underlying electricity problem, and Mr Munroe maintaining that the
Judiciary must find ways to continue operating during outages. In a statement yesterday, the Bar said Mr Munroe’s response failed to explain what was being done to resolve the problem in the medium and long term. “The Court is not ‘an CLASH - SEE PAGE FOUR
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