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Volume: 120 No.158, August 21, 2023
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FULL STEAM AHEAD FOR RCI PI PROJECT Environmental approval from regulators for planned beach resort By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net ROYAL Caribbean’s Bahamas chief has hailed as “a critical milestone” the environmental go-ahead for its Paradise Island beach club “that could benefit hundreds of businesses and tens of thousands of Bahamians”. Philip Simon, the Royal
Bahamas punches ticket to Olympic qualifier
Beach Club’s president and general manager for the cruise line’s Bahamas operations, told Tribune Business there “has never been any confusion” as to how important approval of its Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and related issues were to the $100m project’s ability to move forward. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
AN academic survey found that one in four married Bahamian women knew their partner was adulterous. The study by University of the Bahamas professors Dr Niambi Hall CampbellDean, William Fielding and
Virginia C Ballance also found that 13.8 per cent of married Bahamian women surveyed reported having sex against their will while 8.3 per cent said they were raped by their husbands. Additionally, 15.3 per cent of married women reported being physically harmed by their husbands, SEE PAGE FOUR
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said employee error caused the collapse of the trusses of a roof under construction at RM Bailey Senior High School nearly two weeks ago - while concerns have been raised over the contract and SEE PAGE THREE
UB STUDY FINDS 1-IN-4 WOMEN KNEW THEIR PARTNER CHEATED By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune NEws Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net
SCHOOL ROOF FAILURE ERROR OF EMPLOYEE, DAVIS SAID
NO CONCERNS ADDRESSED AS BPL UNION DEADLINE ENDS By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
DEANDRE Ayton with a two-handed slam dunk as Team Bahamas pulls off a hard fought 82-75 victory over Argentina to win the FIBA Americas Olympic Pre-Qualifying Tournament title on Sunday to earn their berth in the 2024 Olympic Games Qualifying Tournament next year. See SPORTS for story.
PM DECLINES TO CONFIRM CABINET RESHUFFLE By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis declined to say if he will shuffle his Cabinet as the administration approaches the two-year mark. Long-standing rumours of a shuffle became louder after Parliament was prorogued. In 2006, the only
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis time in a Christie administration that Parliament was
prorogued for non-election reasons, former Prime Minister Perry Christie shuffled his Cabinet. “Cabinet is an institution that carries a collective responsibility,” Mr Davis told reporters yesterday. “Where a person is in that Cabinet does not take away from that so that we have collective responsibility.
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AS a 30-day ultimatum from the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union to Bahamas Power and Light officials ends today, union president Kyle Wilson says none of their concerns were addressed. SEE PAGE FIVE
InsIght INDEPENDENT, BUT ENTANGLED IN PROTOCOLS SEE PAGE 8