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FBI JOINS POLICE’S VOICE NOTE PROBE ...but UK crime agency expected mid-August still has not arrived By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has joined a police corruption probe sparked by voice notes that leaked in July, according to Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander. His revelation to The
Tribune yesterday came after he said earlier this month that senior United Kingdom National Crime Agency members would arrive in the country to help oversee aspects of the probe. The investigators were expected to arrive in The Bahamas on August 14 but did not do so as SEE PAGE THREE
LABOUR RECEIVES COMPLAINTS OVER SENIOR FOREIGN WORKERS By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net LABOUR Director Howard Thompson said his department has received increasing complaints from employees about poor treatment from senior foreign workers. He said some of the complaints have been about
sexual harassment and racist comments. He told The Tribune yesterday: “Let me hasten to be clear on something, there are many number of foreigners working in The Bahamas, many of whom are good, decent, law and policy abiding workers, and they truly do add value to SEE PAGE SEVEN
THE SCENE on an unnamed road opposite Ramsey Street off Carmichael Road where a man was shot and killed yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Man shot and killed during attempted CRUMBLING robbery at a scrap yard in Carmichael bridge threat TO $18M GB RESORT SALE By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
A MAN was shot and killed yesterday at a scrap metal yard off Carmichael Road during an attempted
robbery. Superintendent Deno Josey, officer in charge of Western Police Station, said police received information about gunshots around 12.30pm in the area west of the Pond Wash on
Carmichael Road. Officers found a man lying on the ground in the scrap metal yard. A white hatchback vehicle reportedly approached SEE PAGE TWO
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
Pintard: ‘We’ll share our donors, Will you?’
FNM LEADER MICHAEL PINTARD
the table,” he said during a press conference yesterday. “Are you willing to lay yours?” “Are you willing to answer whether or not most of the major companies that are presently engaged by this government, that your administration has received contributions from?”
THE $18m sale of a Grand Bahama resort is threatened by the “dilapidated and dangerous” bridge that represents the sole transport link to “mainland” Freeport for itself and multiple other businesses. Attorneys warned Ian Rolle, GBPA president, in a letter that failure to properly maintain the crumbling Taino Bridge could spark legal action.
the list of our donors on
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By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net MICHAEL Pintard said the Free National Movement is willing to disclose its financial donors if Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis is willing to do the same for the Progressive Liberal Party. “We are willing to lay
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