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Volume: 120 No.159, August 22, 2023
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PARENTS ACCUSED IN GIRL’S RAPE CASE Mother charged with causing harm to daughter by committing abortion By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A MOTHER was charged yesterday with causing harm to her underaged daughter for the purpose of committing an abortion while her husband was charged with having sexual relations with the young girl. National Security
rci: hold Us to same standards as atlantis
Drowning victim had ‘shark bites’
Minister Wayne Munroe alluded to the case last week, sparking debate about the status quo on abortion in The Bahamas, which is illegal in all cases except to save the mother’s life. Magistrate Shaka Serville charged a 45-year-old man, whose name is being withheld to protect the
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net ROYAL Caribbean asserts it would be “highly inappropriate” to hold it to a higher standard than Atlantis and other developers with its Bahamian head optimistic there will be no “conflict” with the Paradise Island mega resort. Philip Simon, the Royal Beach Club’s president and general manager for the cruise line’s Bahamas operations, told Tribune Business that “fostering an atmosphere of collaboration” on Paradise Island will “bode very well for the future.”
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‘UB stUdy highlights need to criminalise marital rape’ By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A STUDY highlighting the threats married women face emphasises the need to criminalise marital rape, women’s rights advocate Marion Bethel said yesterday. Mrs Bethel, the vice chairperson and
rapporteur of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), spoke to The Tribune following the publication of research by University of The Bahamas professors, which showed that married women surveyed were more likely to have SEE PAGE THREE
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POLICE are investigating the possible drowning of a man on Saunders Beach yesterday in an incident where the victim also showed signs of having been bitten by a shark. See PAGE FIVE for story. Photo: Moise Amisial
plp sUpporters disrUpt candidate’s annoUncement By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party supporters disrupted Terneille Burrows when she announced she would run for office in the Elizabeth constituency in the 2026 general election, saying she should “get out”. Dressed in PLP paraphernalia, including
TERNEILLE BURROWS “Elizabeth Matters” shirts, a group of people
domes to Be repUrposed, ‘not sUitaBle for hUmans’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
who support Elizabeth MP Jobeth Colbey-Davis surrounded Ms Burrows as she spoke to the press on Elizabeth Estates Park. One PLP supporter told Ms Burrows to “find somewhere else to go and run”. However, Ms Burrows, who ran in the 2017 general election, said she would not be intimidated. She said the recent
DISASTER Reconstruction Authority executive chairman Alex Storr said the authority no longer supports using domes as temporary homes, finding the structures unsuitable for “human occupation”. The Minnis administration spent more than $6m on nearly 200 domes after Hurricane Dorian in 2019. However, not all domes were erected, and some
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