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Volume: 120 No.162, August 25, 2023
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MARIJUANA LEGAL PLANS REVEALED Bills would ease restricitons on religion and medicine use - but recreation ‘an offence’ By LETRE SWEETING Tribune Staff Reporter lsweeting@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration released a compendium of bills that would transform cannabis use in The Bahamas from a strictly illegal activity to an industry regulated for medical, recreational, religious and scientific research purposes. Officials discussed the long-anticipated proposal during yesterday’s briefing
BPl staff on work to rule AS ISSUES unresolved
at the Office of the Prime Minister. People caught with less than 30 grams of the substance would face a $250 fixed penalty, which would not appear on their criminal record if paid in time. Those found with more than five hundred grams of dried cannabis would be presumed to possess the substance intending to supply it to others and could
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net BAHAMAS Power and Light workers have gone on work-to-rule, raising questions about how the company would function in emergencies. BPL executives expressed disappointment yesterday in the actions of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU), which represents line staff who are aggrieved by purportedly unresolved workplace issues. BEWU president Kyle
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EXUMA OIL SPILL SETTLEMENT ‘confidential’, says Pinder By LETRE SWEETING Tribune Staff Reporter lsweeting@tribunemedia.net ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder said he would not reveal how much the government fined Sun Oil Limited for an oil spill in Exuma last year. “I don’t disclose confidential settlements at the Office of the Attorney General, you know that,”
he told reporters during an Office of the Prime Minister briefing yesterday. It had not been publicly known until Mr Pinder’s comment yesterday that the fine was part of a confidential settlement. In April, he said he could not disclose the fine because one had not as yet been finalised. SEE PAGE FIVE
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serial GroPer falsely Blamed of attemPtinG to aBduct Girl
Jean Rony - famed for legal fight to stay in nation - is stabbed to death By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net JEAN Rony JeanCharles, the soft-spoken, Bahamas-born child of Haitian parents whose legal case became a flashpoint in the fight about citizenship and immigration practices, was killed on Wednesday
night, according to his family and lawyers. Relatives who visited the Central Detective Unit yesterday said he was stabbed. Police officers, however, declined to confirm he was killed, saying their identification process won’t be completed until this morning. “It is with great sadness
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net
that we attempt to come to terms with the senseless death of Jean Rony JeanCharles, whose resolute fight for justice became a beacon of hope for so many young people facing discrimination and brutality because of their ethnic background,” Human Rights Bahamas, the Fred
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POLICE took Sidney Cooper, a serial groper whose prison release authorities publicised, into custody for his own protection yesterday after he was wrongfully accused of trying to abduct a 12-yearold girl. “Residents, assuming the culprit was Sidney Cooper, converged at his residence on Fifth Street, Coconut Grove, armed with rocks, bottles and cutlass,” police said in a statement advising SEE PAGE TEN