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Volume: 119 No.198, September 7, 2022
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US TOURIST KILLED IN SHARK ATTACK By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@ tribunemedia.net AN American woman died after a shark attack while snorkelling with family near Green Cay yesterday. The woman was brought to Montagu Beach after the attack, but was pronounced dead at the scene. At Montagu Beach, press liaison officer Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings told reporters that shortly after 2pm police received reports of a shark attack near Green Cay. “Information is that a family from Pennsylvania came in this morning via cruise ship, they booked a tour with a local company that took them to Green Cay, about a half mile just northwest of Rose Island,” she said
at the Montagu docking ramp yesterday. According to CSP Skippings, Green Cay is known for snorkelling excursions, however the beach has been temporarily closed by officials for such operations. A source said the victim and their family were passengers on board the Harmony of the Seas cruise ship. CSP Skippings said the family was reportedly snorkelling in the ocean when family members observed a bull shark attacking the victim. “The family was reportedly snorkelling in waters and that area is known for visitors to snorkel. It is further reported that family members observed a bull shark attacking the female,” said CSP Skippings. SEE PAGE THREE
GOVT REJECTS $100K-A-WEEK MINING PLAN FOR ANDROS By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE government has rejected the North Andros mining and land reclamation project proposed by the Symonette Group’s principal that would have created an initial 160 jobs and extra $100,090 per week spending impact. Phylicia Hanna-Woods, the government’s director of investments, informed the Bahamian attorney for Cameron Symonette and his business partner, Ted Baker, on August 30 that the Davis administration’s National Economic Council had “refused” to grant the necessary approvals for the project to move forward. No reasons for the decision were provided in the short three-paragraph letter. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
...BUT HOUSING SCHEME COULD BRING 300 JOBS A BODY is taken from Montagu Beach yesterday after a shark attack near Green Cay. The victim was reportedly a US tourist from Pennsylvania travelling on board the Harmony of the Seas cruise ship. Photo: Austin Fernander
MAN SHOT DEAD AS HE CHECKED ON BREAK-IN By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net NEW Providence police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead early yesterday. The incident occurred sometime around 2.30am at Douglas Road, Gambier Village. According to initial police reports, the deceased was at home when he was alerted that someone was attempting to break into the residence. The deceased reportedly went outside to check and was shot multiple times. Yesterday, The Tribune spoke to some of the
THE SCENE of the country’s latest homicide in Gambier Village yesterday. Photo: Austin Fernander neighbours who described the victim as someone who stayed to himself and did not mix with others. “He would go to work then home, he wouldn’t talk
or mix with anyone,” one neighbour said. Another neighbour noted the victim had moved into the area about two years ago and was just renting a place to stay. When asked if the deceased was with anyone when the shooting occurred, a third neighbour said they believed the victim’s girlfriend was on the scene, but left shortly after the incident. This comes after 29-yearold Olympian Shavez Hart was shot dead in Abaco on Saturday. Yesterday would have been Hart’s 30th birthday. SEE PAGE TWO
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A BAHAMIAN businessman is teaming with Albany’s developer and two UK investors for a $62.788m “mixed-use” residential and light industrial development in south-west New Providence that will create up to 300 full-time jobs. Robert Myers, who is the Organisation for Responsible Governance’s (ORG) principal, has partnered with Lyford Cay-based billionaire Joe Lewis and his fellow Albany investors to help solve what he yesterday told Tribune Business is “a desperate need” for quality middle income housing in that part of the island. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
‘CREATE TASK FORCE FOR ABACO SHANTY TOWNS’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net NORTH Abaco MP Kirk Cornish wants government to create a special task force to deal with unregulated shanty towns on Abaco due to an increasing number of illegal communities
springing up on the island. Speaking to The Tribune yesterday, Mr Cornish said the number of reports he has received about growing shanty town communities on the island were alarming. He said some people were just squatting on properties illegally, while others
were renting it from Bahamians granted Crown land by the government. He was contacted after sources told this newspaper that the Davis administration was mobilising a task force to soon deal with the issue.
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