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Volume: 120 No.160, August 23, 2023
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PM: ABORTION IS PERSONAL CHOICE In the case of rape it’s a ‘medical matter’ Davis ‘would have to consider’ By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said he believes abortion is a personal choice. He said changing the law so someone who is raped can get an abortion is a “medical matter” he “would have to consider”. Abortion in The Bahamas is currently illegal in
all cases except to save a mother’s life, although underground activity exists. National Security Minister Wayne Munroe revealed last week that a woman gave abortion pills to her 11-year-old daughter after the girl’s stepfather allegedly raped her. The mother was charged with various offences this week, including causing harm for the
fnM Leader accuses PM of ‘Mistruths’ on roof coLLaPse
Agony for Gardiner
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net FREE National Movement Leader Michael Pintard accused Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis of an “astounding collection of mistruths and deflections” related to the partial collapse of a structure under construction at
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Lawyer’s ‘disservice’ in azario finding chaLLenge By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A JUDGE told the lawyer representing the officers who killed Azario Major that he was doing his clients a “disservice” by insisting the inquest finding should be quashed because the coroner did not consider his constitutional motion claiming that
ftX Liquidators aiM to resoLve disPutes under new Mediator
pretrial publicity prevented a fair inquiry. Supreme Court Justice Franklyn Williams told the lawyer, Keevon Maynard, there was no precedent for his appeal of the Coroner’s Court inquiry. A jury returned a homicide by manslaughter ruling in May after four officers killed Major in 2021. SEE PAGE FIVE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
AN AGONISING moment for Steven Gardiner as he pulls up with a season-ending injury in a Men’s 400-meters semifinal during the World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. See SPORTS for more. Photo: Petr David Josek/AP
FTX’S Bahamian liquidators will aim to resolve multiple disputes with their US counterparts when mediation begins next month following the appointment of a retired US judge to act as referee. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
cooPer assures ‘no fyre festivaL’ coMing here By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net AS the Fyre Festival makes international headlines over a potential reboot, Tourism Minister Chester Cooper gave an assurance yesterday that the event would never be approved again in The Bahamas.
BILLY MCFARLAND Billy McFarland, the infamous organiser of the
doomed festival, announced in a YouTube video that Fyre Festival II would be relaunched at a Caribbean destination next year, with events planned worldwide. According to the event’s website, tickets range from $799-$7,999. “This is a big day because as of right now, Fyre
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