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JUST FEET FROM RUSHDIE ATTACK
Bahamian tells how she was witness of bid to assassinate author By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net VICTORIA Allen, wife of a noted Bahamian psychiatrist, has recounted the horrific stabbing of internationally renowned author Sir Salman Rushdie just after he took the stage at an event in upstate New York on Friday. Mrs Allen, wife of Dr David Allen, was sitting in the third row of the open air amphitheatre, just feet away and described the
very moment the event descended into shock and then some pandemonium with a few attendees openly crying and noticeably distressed. Mr Rushdie, 75, had just been introduced at the Chautauqua Institution, where he was about to be interviewed as part of a summer lecture series, when an attacker “dressed in black” lunged at him and began violently “pounding” the author.
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
COMMISSIONER of Police Clayton Fernander says if he had not been “disrupted” by a forced leave and secondment in 2019, he would have been in his retirement by now. Leaving the Royal Bahamas Police Force by way of retirement was something he was planning for.
He also revealed officers had been advised to stay away from him. The Commissioner, then an Assistant Commissioner along with then-ACP Leamond Deleveaux, now Deputy Commissioner and ACP Kendal Strachan were forced to take vacation leave in 2019. Although the former Minnis administration SEE PAGE SEVEN
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
TWO separate murders occurred within a 12-hour time frame over the weekend. The latest incident happened at around 10am on Saturday at a residence on Kenilworth Street. The victim wzs a 57-yearold man of South Beach Estates. Police said: “Preliminary reports indicate that the deceased was sitting on the front porch of his residence when he was approached and subsequently shot multiple times by two males who exited a grey Nissan Note.” SEE PAGE TWO
SCHEDULE DRAWN UP FOR CLINIC UPGRADES
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OFFICERS TOLD TO AVOID FERNANDER
WEEKEND SEES TWO MORE MEN MURDERED
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
GIVING ANIMALS A HOME THE BAHAMAS Humane Society held an adoption drive at Super Value Cable Beach at the weekend. Omar Chemaly is pictured with Copper. Photo: Austin Fernander
STEP ONE ON PATH TO CLEAN ENERGY By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
WITH the completed installation of a $5m microrenewable solar plant Ragged Island has become the first major island in the country to be 100 percent solar powered. On Friday, Bahamas Power and Light commissioned the new plant. This project began in 2019, in an effort to fulfil
THE VISIT to the solar plant on Friday by Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis. Photo: Moise Amisial the government’s commitment to have 30 percent
of the country’s energy sourced from renewable energy by the year 2030. With it being the first of its kind in The Bahamas, the solar project was said to have been recognised earlier this year by the Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum (CREF) Industry Awards as the winner of the best resilience project. In attendance at the commissioning ceremony were Prime Minister Phillip SEE PAGE THREE
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HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville says clinics around the country should experience much needed renovations by the end of the year or early next year as he continued his nationwide tour of these facilities. In the wake of Hurricane Dorian Dr Darville said it was realised that many healthcare facilities throughout the Family Islands were not capable of withstanding another catastrophic disaster. “As the (then) shadow Minister of Health when I was in the Senate we realised there were challenges from Inagua all the way to Grand Bahama,” Dr Darville said. SEE PAGE FOUR
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