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Volume: 123 No. 193, Wednesday, September 2, 2026
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SUPREME COURT PUTS BAN ON CONTINUED SCHOOL STRIKES Hours after 40,000 students were sent home, court orders administrators back to work !"#='>+'#:%?@!'++ ,(>!)8'#*,%AA# ('@9(,'( /0-+1($!!% &"'()*$+$,'-.*$& FORTY thousand students across The Bahamas were dismissed at noon yesterday after more than 90 percent of the country’s school administrators joined rare industrial action at the start of the new school term — but hours
later the Supreme Court ordered union members back to work and barred them from continuing the strike. Justice Darron Ellis granted an interim injunction sought by the Minister of Education and the Attorney General against the Bahamas Educators Managerial Union, restraining BEMU, its officers and members from taking part in any strike or other
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industrial action. The order also requires any BEMU officer or member employed by the Ministry of Education to return to his or her designated workplace when scheduled and prohibits members from taking sick leave without a valid sick certificate. Union officials and members are also prohibited from inducing, inciting or SCHOOL- SEE PAGE THREE
FORTY thousand students across The Bahamas were dismissed at noon yesterday after more than 90 per cent of the country’s school administrators took industrial action.
Student shot during Abaco murder was buying a drink, says his pastor !"#+'%8&(%#(9++' ,-./012#:;.2<#(267-32!"#!!$%&"'()*$+$,'-.*$& A 14-year-old Abaco student shot in the leg during Monday’s daylight killing of Warren “Spy” Ellis was simply leaving an auto parts store after buying a drink when gunmen opened fire, his pastor said yesterday. The Patrick J Bethel High School eighth-grader
GOLDEN MOMENT - Timothy Munnings did it again and returns home from the World Masters Athletics Championships with another gold medal - SEE SPORT
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Remembering Hurricane Dorian !"#$%&'#()**'++ ,-./012#*345#(267-32jrussell@tribunemedia.net SEVEN years after Hurricane Dorian became the strongest hurricane in modern records to make landfall in The Bahamas, officials gathered yesterday to remember the people killed in the catastrophe and the families still living with its consequences.
A moment of silence was observed outside the Office of the Prime Minister on the anniversary of the Category Five storm, which devastated Abaco and Grand Bahama after making landfall on September 1, 2019. Dorian struck Great Abaco with estimated winds of 185mph before crawling across the northwestern Bahamas. The
PRIME Minister Philip Davis, far left, and other government officials in prayer. National Hurricane Center later described it as the strongest hurricane in modern records to make landfall in the country, while warnings at the time
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forecast storm surge of 18 to 23 feet and wind gusts exceeding 200mph. Its slow movement compounded DORIAN - SEE PAGE TWO