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Volume: 121 No.207, September 20, 2024
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PM: ‘PUBLIC COST’ FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCING FernAnDer: Police Probe to comPlete by yeAr’s enD
Despite election pledge, Davis plays down talk of funding legislation By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said regulating campaign finance is fraught with “difficulties”, partly because it could require that public funds be used to finance political campaigns. “You will find the alternative to campaign financing and regulating it is
a requirement that perhaps the public purse should fund election campaigns,” he told reporters when asked about his administration’s failure to advance various progressive matters outlined in the PLP’s Blueprint for Change. “If you check and benchmark where campaign financing is the law in various countries, you’ll find
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said the police corruption probe triggered by leaked voice notes is expected to be completed by the end of the year. He also confirmed foreign investigators had not arrived in the country. During his appearance on ZNS’s new show, The Rundown, hosted by Clint Watson, Commissioner Fernander sought to clarify details after announcing last month that no further
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lucAyAn sAle to concluDe in two weeks, sAys DAvis By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said the government should be closing arrangements for the sale of the Grand Lucayan Resort “within the next two weeks or so”. He updated reporters at the Office of the Prime Minister’s press briefing, saying officials had
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“intense discussions” with an intended buyer. “The issue for us, of course, is to ensure that we just don’t sell for selling sake or to tick a box,” he said. “We want a worldclass brand name to be associated with reopening, and I’m hopeful and I’m encouraged that we will have that and within the next two weeks or so, SEE PAGE THREE
bAnk orDereD to hAnD over $63,000 From ex-mP’s Account PRIME Minster Davis addressing the press at the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
of a 350-room luxury hotel at the Melia Nassau Beach site, which has been closed since 2021. Mr D’Aguilar said increasing room inventory could address concerns about tourism revenue. He said 600 rooms at Atlantis have been unused for some time. It is unclear which rooms he was referring
A BISX-listed bank has been ordered to hand over $63,000 from accounts belonging to an ex-MP and Supreme Court judge to help repay a multi-million dollar debt owed to a US investor. Deborah Fraser, the acting chief justice, in a September 11, 2024, verdict ruled that a “third party debt order” be made final and CIBC Caribbean (Bahamas) must pay this sum to Dr Paul Fuchs from accounts beneficially owned by Elliott Lockhart KC, his law firm and another entity the latter is affiliated with.
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D’AguilAr: Push AtlAntis to oPen more rooms By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net FORMER Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said the government should pressure Atlantis to reopen hundreds of its vacant hotel rooms, which he said have been left “dead in the water”. Mr D’Aguilar’s comments came after the government signed a Heads
FORMER Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar of Agreement with Baha Mar for the development
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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