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UNION LEADERS SIGN UP TO PLP Party pledges it will resolve issues and raise minimum wage By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net UNION leaders representing more than 200,000 workers in The Bahamas yesterday rejoiced in the possibility of the Progressive Liberal Party becoming the next government following the impending general election. In anticipation of a PLP electoral win, the umbrella unions — National Congress of Trade Unions Bahamas and Trade Union Congress — signed a memorandum of understanding
committing the PLP to ensuring that long-standing union issues are resolved and the function of the united unions continues in the best interest of workers. What is disclosed in this pact the unions made with the PLP has not been detailed to the media as it is pending final ratification by the PLP’s leadership council, however Mr Davis assured attendees yesterday that the document has his full support and he sees no difficulties in having it pass his leadership council.
A SIGNIFICANT increase in deaths is overwhelming and distressing funeral home workers, according to Funeral Directors Association President Kirsch Ferguson.
1,500 APPLY FOR PM’S HOUSING INITIATIVE
MAN SHOT DEAD NEAR WULFF RD
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The obituary section of the dailies helps illustrate the point: the standard obituary section of The Tribune is a maximum 48 pages, but an unprecedented 12 additional pages are being published in the main section of the paper today. SEE PAGE FOUR
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ABOUT 1,500 applications have been received for housing lots in the government’s Prospect Ridge community for young professionals. The six-week application period opened on July 1 and closed on August 16. According to the Committee for the Development of Communities for Young Professionals, applications were submitted through the MyGateway portal and were received primarily from New Providence residents as well as a small number of Family Island residents. SEE PAGE FIVE
FUNERAL HOMES ‘OVERWHELMED’ By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
FRONT PORCH: MOULTRIE’S GRAND FARCE AND THE CARNIVAL OF EGOTISM
PLP leader Philip “Brave” Davis with union leaders yesterday in this image provided by the PLP.
NYGARD SUFFERS NEW COURT DEFEAT By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has dismissed a complaint by Peter Nygard made under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) Act in the United States. Nygard was charged in December with sex trafficking and racketeering
PETER NYGARD offences when the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York alleged that he showed a pattern of
criminal conduct involving at least dozens of victims in the United States, The Bahamas and Canada over several decades. Nygard’s complaint under RICO alleged that Louis Bacon, his longtime Lyford Cay foe, planned to destroy him and businesses associated with him. His first amended complaint alleged that the “plaintiff’s claims against SEE PAGE SEVEN
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POLICE are investigating the latest murder in New Providence. Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters said police were alerted to the crime shortly before 5pm yesterday. The killing happened on Quintine Alley and Wulff Road. “On arrival of the officers, they were informed of a shooting that occurred where a patron of a business establishment walked SEE PAGE TWO
STATESIDE: CHANGING FACES OF TODAY’S AMERICA - SEE PAGE NINE