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TRAVEL BUDGET SOARS FOR GOVT By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
THE government’s travel spending yesterday ignited further Opposition attacks after it was revealed that the total $11.8m outlay for the 2021-2022 fiscal year exceeded Budget allocations by 11.1 percent. Kwasi Thompson, former Minister of State for Finance in the Minnis administration, questioned why such funds had not been put to better use. The details were contained in the Ministry of Finance’s just released
report for the 2021-2022 full fiscal year and the fourth quarter, which revealed that travel-related spending and subsistence payments by the government had increased by more than two-thirds year-over-year. “Outlays for travel and subsistence grew by $4.7m (66.7 percent) to $11.8m, and exceeded the Budget target by 11.1 percent. Air transportation, inclusive of domestic and international travel, and the repatriation of the ill grew by $2.2m and $0.8m, respectively,” the report said.
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SALARY AND HEALTHCARE BOOST IN TEACHERS DEAL By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
THE government and the Bahamas Union of Teachers signed an industrial agreement yesterday that includes salary and increment increases as well as expanded health insurance coverage. However, the union’s president said while her members are pleased the deal has been inked, the retention bonus is “insufficient”.
TEACHERS WALK OUT AT THELMA GIBSON
Belinda Wilson spoke after the union and the government signed the agreement — which had been outstanding for three years — at the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday. The last agreement expired on June 30, 2018. “And I must say that we agreed to a three-year agreement from 2022 to 2025 and we did that really unwillingly, but to move things forward,” the BUT president said. SEE PAGE THREE
TEACHERS at Thelma Gibson Primary School walked out of classes yesterday in anger after an alleged altercation between the school’s principal and a teacher a day earlier. See PAGE TWO for the full story. Photo: Austin Fernander
CITY MARKET PENSIONERS FACE HANCHELL: WIVES DO NOT FRESH BLOW IN SALE COLLAPSE HAVE RIGHT TO WITHHOLD SEX By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
HUNDREDS of City Markets pensioners were yesterday dealt a new blow after efforts to solve the legal quagmire blocking AML Foods’ $3.36m purchase of its former head
office failed despite the latter “giving it a real go”. Gavin Watchorn, the group’s president and chief executive, said it had to “move on” from its attempt to acquire the property after a proposed settlement did not receive unanimous acceptance. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net
BISHOP Walter Hanchell of Great Commission Ministries recently called marital rape a “nonissue” as he argued a woman does not have the right to withhold sex from her husband “except for
prayer and fasting.” Bishop Hanchell made his comments on his Facebook page on Monday, which shared his strong views on marital rape. His comments were criticised by a local activist yesterday, who said his views were “disgusting, SEE PAGE FIVE
$928,500 SEED MONEY FOR JUNKANOO By LETRE SWEETING
GOVERNMENT will be granting $928,500 in seed funding to Junkanoo groups for them to make a comeback on Bay Street after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Representatives of more than 30 Junkanoo groups gathered at the Ministry of Youth Sports and Culture on University Boulevard yesterday where they signed contracts to receive
MEMBERS of the Valley Boys group on New Year’s Day in 2019. seed funding from the government for this year’s Junkanoo parades on Bay Street. About $30,000 will be going to seven A groups;
$15,000 to 17 B groups, $1,500 to 21 D groups and $2,000 to 19 F or Fun category groups. Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Mario Bowleg said beginning yesterday, groups will start receiving the seed funding in preparation for the upcoming parades. “Beginning today, the government of The Bahamas and my ministry will officially present groups SEE PAGE FOUR
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