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FAMILIES STILL DEALING WITH DORIAN
...and 1,200 more victims have asked government for help
THE BOOTLE family have told of the trials they faced during Hurricane Dorian - and the struggle to adjust to get back to normal. Below, a boat washed ashore in Abaco during the storm.
By LETRE SWEETING NEARLY three years after the passing of Hurricane Dorian some victims are still trying to regain a sense of normalcy after surviving the monster storm. Joanna Bootle, a resident of Murphy Town, Abaco, said even after she and her family moved back into her home in 2020, she still gets anxiety, prays during the hurricane season and when the
weather gets bad. “Since then, we had anxiety we had to deal with and pray about. You know the anxiety attacks, sometimes if the weather gets bad and sometimes during the hurricane season, like now, you kinda get on edge, praying that we don’t receive any storms or what not,” said Mrs Bootle. SEE PAGE THREE
DEL ZOTTOS SNUBBED 3 TIMES BY IMMIGRATION By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
THE US family battling the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) has cause for further frustration - the government’s failure to process three separate permanent residency applications despite their $41m investment in this nation. The Del Zotto family, which is closing down its Gold Rock concrete manufacturing operation and all other Freeport-based business interests with the loss of 130 jobs, made its last application for such status almost three years ago under the former Minnis administration. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
HOTELS UP TO 10% HIGHER IN SLOWEST TRAVEL PERIOD By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
BAHAMIAN hotels are eyeing occupancies between five to ten percentage points higher than the norm for the industry’s slowest months, it was revealed yesterday, as it “nudges closer every day” to pre-COVID levels. Robert Sands, the Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association’s (BHTA) president, told Tribune Business the sector expects “an even better year in 2023” with business volumes presently just 10-15 percent behind those enjoyed immediately prior to the pandemic in 2019 - a record-breaking year for tourism. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
$3M MORE FOR FAMILY ISLANDS HEALTH By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net FACED with deficiencies in public healthcare in the Family Islands, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville said officials will beef up manpower resources to at least $3m. He said the government was concerned particularly with the challenges on the Family Islands, while so much of the focus will be outside of New Providence.
HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville yesterday. Photo: Austin Fernander Dr Darville said to support this, several contracts will be signed in the coming weeks to improve facilities
throughout the country. The minister was asked about improvements in the Family Islands after a serious traffic accident in Exuma on Monday night. Seven people were seriously injured. Police said shortly after 8pm, a Jeep Wrangler, occupied by five Americans, was travelling east on Queen’s Highway in the area of Flamingo Bay when it collided with a white flatbed truck
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FRONT PORCH: BENDING ARC TOWARDS JUSTICE NOT INEVITABLE
- SEE PAGE EIGHT