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Volume: 119 No.213, September 29, 2022
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FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE • PM says strong foundation has been laid for future progress and recovery • Points to social support, reduced duty and affordable housing • Says country was in ‘dire state’ under former administration By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis speaking in the House of Assembly yesterday. Photo: Austin Fernander
PRIME Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis said his administration has laid a strong foundation for recovery and future progress during its first year in office, while expressing confidence that it will continue to do so until all its objectives are achieved. While touting his administration’s performance, Mr Davis said while much has been accomplished by the government already, there is still more to be done. He also took shots at the former governing party’s actions
in office, saying when his administration assumed power last year it found the country in a bad state. “The country was in a dire state,” he said in the House of Assembly yesterday. “The economy was headed for a fiscal cliff. Two billion had been borrowed every year for four years, with no plausible plan for the growing debt. Hospitals remained under extreme pressure, with patients treated in parking lots, severe shortages of doctors and nurses, and regular leaks and flooding in the buildings. Schools were still going back and forth between inperson and online learning, with thousands of students not attending classes at all.” SEE PAGE THREE
WAYNE MUNROE: POLICE SHOULD BE PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY
By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said yesterday that just as others are presumed innocent until proven guilty, police should be given the same treatment. His comments came when asked to respond to concerns over the recent fatal police-involved shootings. On Monday police shot a wanted suspect dead in Gamble Heights after he allegedly pulled a gun on officers. Prior to that incident, police said a teenager allegedly involved in an armed robbery was fatally shot on Saturday after pulling a gun on officers. Mr Munroe said based SEE PAGE FOUR
FLOODING, HEAVY RAIN AND WIND HIT GRAND BAHAMA By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net GRAND Bahama experienced flooding, heavy rain, wind and thunderstorm conditions from the outer bands of powerful Hurricane Ian, which made landfall on Florida yesterday. There was also some power loss reported. The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) ordered the activation of hurricane shelters yesterday as a tropical storm warning remained in effect for the northwestern SEE PAGE TWO
FNM TO TAKE LEGAL ACTION OVER PROCUREMENT ACT By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
THE Free National Movement intends to take legal action against the Davis administration to initiate a judicial review targeting the government’s failure to follow the Public Procurement Act. FNM Leader Michael Pintard made the revelation to The Tribune yesterday as he pushed back against what he described as the government’s “flimsy”
FNM Leader Michael Pintard. excuses for not abiding by the law. Plans to take the legal route came after the FNM exhausted several avenues, including a written
communication to the prime minister and an attempt to use provisions in the Freedom of Information Act. However, the latter option yielded no results, as the FOIA’s relevant provisions have yet to be enforced. The situation was similar when the opposition attempted to use the powers of the Public Accounts Committee, with Mr Pintard telling The Tribune
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FRONT PORCH: ROOTS OF GENDER INEQUALITY AND REPRESSION
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