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ATLANTIS WORKERS STILL HAVE TO PAY UP Unvaccinated staff must cover cost despite Bell claim By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net ATLANTIS has maintained its position that unvaccinated employees are financially responsible for their weekly rapid antigen tests despite a recent announcement from a government minister that the resort had agreed to hold off on the policy. A spokesperson for the mega resort yesterday told The Tribune the policy took effect on October 1. “Atlantis has not changed its stance as it relates to non-vaccinated team members,” a brief statement
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net SOCIAL Services and Urban Development Minister Obie Wilchcombe said yesterday that some 4,000 Bahamians who were receiving assistance from the government’s national food distribution programme have now been added to his ministry’s aid list since the food initiative ended.
FNM: PM SHOULD BE CONDEMNED FOR FOX SUPPORT
SWEETING HAS PLANS TO MAKE SECTORS ‘SEXY’
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According to Mr Wilchcombe, those numbers are expected to increase in the coming days as some 18,000 households were being assisted in the programme in its final phase. To meet the demand, he said officials are working to introduce a new food programme to replace the former one, which officially ended earlier this week. SEE PAGE FOUR
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By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE Free National Movement has called comments by Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis regarding his support for a United States court to terminate criminal proceedings against Island Luck co-founder Adrian Fox “astonishing and reprehensible”. In a statement issued yesterday, the opposition party said the “prime minister’s arrogant attitude to human trafficking should be condemned”. SEE PAGE FIVE
from the Paradise Island resort noted. “As of October 1, all non-vaccinated team members are now financially responsible for their rapid antigen test.” Labour and Immigration Minister Keith Bell told reporters less than a week ago that Atlantis had agreed to “hold off” on implementing its COVID19 vaccination policy for unvaccinated staff after several discussions were held between labour officials and resort executives on the new rule. However this is not the case.
4,000 MORE SEEK HELP FROM GOVT AFTER FOOD AID ENDS
ALICIA WALLACE: TOO MANY CASES WHERE WOMEN ARE BEING KILLED
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
DAD SHOT DEAD IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY A BODY is taken from the scene in Apache Alley off Kemp Road last night, after a father was killed and his daughter injured as shots were fired into a car containing both them and their mother. See PAGE TWO for the full story. Photo: Racardo Thomas/Tribune Staff
DEVEAUX LIKELY FOR SPEAKER ROLE By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net PATRICIA Deveaux, Sylvanus Petty, LaShell Adderley and Barry Griffin are expected to be elected to senior House of Assembly and Senate roles today when the new parliamentary session begins. The Tribune understands that Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis told members of the Progressive
PATRICIA DEVEAUX Liberal Party’s parliamentary caucus Monday night that he wants Ms Deveaux,
the MP-elect for Bamboo Town, to be elected Speaker of the House; Mr Petty, the MP-elect for North Eleuthera, to be deputy Speaker of the House; Ms Adderley to be president of the Senate and for Mr Griffin to be vice-president of the Senate. Ms Deveaux would be the second female Speaker of the House in Bahamian history, following Italia Johnson. SEE PAGE THREE
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A CABINET minister says The Bahamas has done a poor job in making the agriculture and fisheries industries “sexy” enough to attract investment. Clay Sweeting, Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island affairs, said one of his goals was to make the two sectors “more appealing” so more Bahamians will be willing to invest. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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