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Volume: 122 No. 185, August 20, 2025
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TUC THREATENS NATIONAL STRIKE Unions targeting airport and foot of Paradise Island bridge for planned industrial action
BY ANNELIA NIXON Tribune Business Reporter anixon@tribunemedia.net INDUSTRIAL action has been pledged “in very short order” by the Trade Union Congress (TUC) - with the airport and the foot of Paradise Island
bridge to be targeted. The action comes as the TUC supports the Bahamas Taxicab Union (BTCU) and the Bahamas General Workers Union (BGWU). It follows complaints that livery drivers are being allowed to “steal” jobs from taxi drivers. The TUC includes thousands of
members in its affiliate unions. Obie Ferguson, president of the TUC, yesterday told The Tribune that there may be possible industrial action in the near future - and said it would likely take place at the airport and PI bridge.
TUC president Obie Ferguson gives remarks during a taxicab drivers meeting on Monday. Photo: Nikia Charlton
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CORONER SHOOTING RULINGS Tragedy strikes ‘discouraged some officers’ on teen’s birthday By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net POLICE Staff Association chairman Ricardo Walkes says a rise in unfavourable Coroner’s Court rulings has discouraged some officers from carrying out their mandate, adding that he supports equipping police with non-lethal weapons to reduce fatal encounters. “What it does, in my
opinion, is discourage the officers from carrying out their mandate. However, as police officers we have a mandate to carry out, and we do to the best of our abilities every day,” Mr Walkes said after meeting Commissioner of Police Shanta Knowles last month, where he voiced support for alternatives to firearms. He argued that tasers and other tools could prevent DISCOURAGED - SEE PAGE FIVE
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net JUST hours after staying up past midnight with classmates who called to celebrate his 13th birthday, Prince Chaz Wright was killed in a car crash that has devastated his family and school community. The Tabernacle Baptist Christian Academy student was a passenger in a black Chevy Impala that collided with a tractor
around 11.30am Monday on Warren Levarity Highway, near Bahama Rock. The impact left the car mangled, and firemen had to use the Jaws of Life to pull the teen from the wreckage. Prince was rushed to hospital, but he did not survive. His father and another man were also injured and remain hospitalised. School Principal Ashell Bain said the loss has shattered students, teachers, and parents. “It is really sad, I was
strachan: uB accreditation pursuit ‘most colonial thing’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
post, it alleged that officers patrolling the beach encountered a man in a navy tactical outfit and a cap embroidered with “Police”. The man allegedly identified himself using another officer’s badge number, but one of the patrol officers recognised the name and
PROFESSOR Ian Strachan, the former executive vice president (EVP) of the University of The Bahamas (UB), launched a sharp critique of the institution’s pursuit of international accreditation from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), branding it “the most colonial thing” UB could have done during The Bahamas’ 50th anniversary of independence. Dr Strachan, once shortlisted to lead UB before the board chose American academic Dr Erik Rolland in 2022, said the decision to chase foreign accreditation reflects the same anxieties that have repeatedly placed non-Bahamians at the head of the institution. His comments marked the first time he has directly hinted
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PRINCE CHAZ WRIGHT in total shock and broken when I got the news,” she told The Tribune yesterday. TRAGEDY - SEE PAGE TWO
Man charged with impersonating a policeman allegedly for several weeks By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A 20-YEAR-OLD man has pleaded not guilty to charges of falsely pretending to be a public officer and unlawfully possessing police paraphernalia. Police did not name the man, but The Tribune
understands he is James Rutherford Jr. He appeared in court on Monday. Police said the charges stem from an incident that gained traction on social media after images and claims circulated about a man pretending to be an officer at Goodman’s Bay. While police did not confirm the details of the
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