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A FINAL FAREWELL By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FAMILY, friends and prominent political figures yesterday paid their final respects to former Governor General and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Dion Hanna, a man who was described as a fierce patriot, brilliant scholar and “true national hero”. SEE PAGE TWO GLENYS Hanna Martin MP places flowers during yesterday’s ceremony to say farewell to her father, Arthur Dion Hanna, former Governor General and Deputy Prime Minister. Photo: Patrick Hanna/BIS
BRAVE’S PACT WITH UNIONS PROGRESS IN TALKS FOR WASN’T WHAT IT APPEARED RESOLVING BPL’S ISSUES
By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
NINE affiliates of the National Congress of Trade Unions Bahamas yesterday
denounced their president, Bernard Evans, and the signing of a memorandum of understanding with the Progressive Liberal Party. The unions said they were not involved with the
signing of the MoU, had never seen the document and were not aware of the contents of the pact with the PLP.
SEE PAGE THREE
By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net ONE week after line staff at Bahamas Power and Light walked off the
job, the union representing the workers said it is happy with the progress made on long standing issues. Bahamas Electrical Workers Union president Kyle Wilson told
The Tribune yesterday he was “truly pleased”, noting intervention from government officials that assisted in getting the ball rolling. SEE PAGE FIVE
PEOPLE WAKING UP TO COVID DANGER
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
A LOCAL religious leader on Abaco is urging Bahamians to take COVID-19 seriously after claiming to have lost over a dozen friends and other community members to the virus in the last two weeks. Abaco resident Bishop Silbert Mills described the COVID-19 situation on the island as worrisome
BISHOP SILBERT MILLS and said the recent wave of deaths there speaks to the seriousness of the disease. “We had a dozen people die in Abaco in the past two weeks and one died just within the last hour from
Green Turtle Cay,” he said. “And so this is compelling that people are now taking this seriously and they have seen so many people who could’ve been here had it not been for COVID-19.” Bishop Mills said it’s disheartening to see so many Abaconians losing their battles to COVID-19, only after having just survived the crisis of Hurricane Dorian in 2019. SEE PAGE FOUR
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