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Volume: 118 No.180, August 16, 2021
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HALF OF MEDICAL STAFF STILL WON’T TAKE JAB Doctor among COVID deaths as Pfizer rollout scheduled for Thursday
By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
AN unvaccinated physician has died of COVID-19 complications, while three unvaccinated healthcare workers are currently hospitalised with the virus, according to Dr Merceline Dahl-Regis, the National COVID-19 Vaccine Consultative Committee chairperson. Dr Dahl-Regis shared the unfortunate news at
the committee’s press conference yesterday, after revealing the nation is experiencing a “significant increase” in new cases and in the number of COVID related hospitalisations and deaths, amid “increased travel to and from” the country. In view of this, she urged the public to take the jab, noting there were no deaths recorded among fully vaccinated people between the start of the Ministry of SEE PAGE FOUR
HOSPITALS SUFFER AS SICK OUT CONTINUES By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
A STAFF sick out at public hospitals in New Providence and Grand Bahama severely affected healthcare services on the islands for a fourth day, the Public Hospitals Authority said yesterday. The recent industrial action involves about 150-200 staff at Princess Margaret Hospital and
HAITI’S HEARTACHE
Grand Bahama Health Services, who did not receive honorariums for the work they did at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes amid public criticism that Health Minister Renward Wells’ driver and personal assistant received honorariums of $1,158.40, which a union leader called a “slap in the face”. Last month, the Ministry of Health announced SEE PAGE THREE
OXILIENE Morency cries out in grief after the body of her seven-year-old-daughter Esther Daniel was recovered from the rubble of their home destroyed by the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti on Saturday. See pages five and 12. (AP Photo / Joseph Odelyn)
MUM JAILED FOR FAILING SOARING LEGAL BILLS BRING TO REPORT SONS’ ABUSE DRILLING CASE TO A CLOSE By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net A MOTHER of seven who failed to report the abuse of two of her young children was on Friday sentenced to four months in prison.
Police said the 38-yearold woman, whose name has been withheld to protect the identity of her children, failed to notify officers of the abuse of her five-year-old son in July. She was arraigned with a SEE PAGE SEVEN
By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
TWO leading environmental groups have filed a Supreme Court application to discontinue a judicial review of the government’s approvals concerning Bahamas Petroleum Company’s
exploratory drilling in Bahamian waters. Earlier this year, Save the Bays and Waterkeeper Bahamas jointly launched the challenge to confirm whether BPC had received all of the necessary approvals and permits required to carry out exploratory offshore drilling. SEE BUSINESS SECTION
GRACE IS NOT EXPECTED TO BE MAJOR THREAT
By TANYA SMITH-CARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net LOCAL meteorologists are monitoring the development of Tropical Depression Grace, however, it is not expected to be a major threat to this country. The storm is expected to pass over or near Haiti tonight and will remain over that island for about 24 SEE PAGE TWO
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