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Volume: 119 No.205, September 16, 2022
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DIVIDED RESPONSE OVER RAPE LAWS
DIANE PHILLIPS:
THE LONG ROAD HOME FOR RICK FOX
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One pastor calls Bill ‘demonic’ in day of consultation By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A DRAFT amendment to the Sexual Offences Act that seeks to criminalise marital rape and re-define what consent is, among other terms, was met with mixed reactions from religious leaders yesterday - with one pastor calling it “the most wickedest and demonic bill” in the country’s history. The proposed Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act was presented during
the Ministry of Social Services and Department of Gender and Family Affairs’ sexual offences legislation one-day symposium at Superclubs Breezes. The draft legislation repeals Section 3 of the current act that defines rape, adding a new definition of rape that recognises the act within a marriage, and amends Section 2 to redefine what consent and indecent assault is. Under the proposed bill, rape is redefined as “the
JAILED FOR STEALING $6 OF HOT DOG BUNS FROM CHURCH By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A MAN was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after admitting to breaking into a church and stealing food. Elkeno Wallace, 41, faced Magistrate Samuel McKinney on charges of shop-breaking and stealing from a place of worship. On September 13,
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Wallace broke into the East Street Gospel Chapel through a southern window. Once inside he went to the kitchen of the church’s auditorium where he stole $6 worth of hot dog buns. Once police arrived on the scene, after a deacon alerted them to the break in, they arrested Wallace who admitted to the offence. Wallace explained to officers that he was starving. SEE PAGE SEVEN
YUKAN Simms receives the keys to a new home yesterday - one of six government and essential workers to be presented with keys to new homes in the Pinecrest subdivision. He was presented the keys by, from left, Antoinette Thompson, permanent secretary in the Department of Housing; South Beach MP Bacchus Rolle (back); Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis; and Minister of Transport and Housing JoBeth Coleby-Davis. Photo: Austin Fernander
SEVEN-DAY EXTENSION GIVEN ‘WE MUST BREAK CYCLE OF FOR GRAND LUCAYAN DEAL DEFICIT AND LOW GROWTH’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Grand Lucayan’s Board was last night said to have granted the resort’s prospective purchaser a further seven-day extension so that it could assess “outstanding matters” relating to the $100m deal.
Lucayan Renewal Holdings granted the week-long extension to September 22 at Electra America Hospitality Group’s request as the previous deadline to complete due diligence on the two sides’ agreement expired yesterday. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
TROPICAL STORM FIONA
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A CABINET minister yesterday warned The Bahamas “has to break free from this cycle” of $500mplus fiscal deficits and economic growth that has barely averaged 1 percent for the past 30 years.
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Michael Halkitis, minister of economic affairs, told the Abaco Business Outlook conference that the COVID-19 pandemic had merely “ripped the covers off, and exposed, the problems that have been plaguing our economy for decades”. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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