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Volume: 121 No. 219, October 8, 2024
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BAHAMIANS GET READY FOR STORM ‘A city in chaos’ Senator quits as residents brace for Florida impact after taking By JADE RUSSELL and KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporters SHORTAGES of toilet paper, empty grocery shelves, long gas station lines, and growing panic are confronting Bahamians in Florida as Hurricane Milton approaches as a giant storm. Many are bracing for what could be a catastrophic hit, with wide sections of
the Tampa Bay area under evacuation orders after the hurricane intensified into a category five storm. Felicity Clarke, 37, who has lived in Cocoa, Brevard County, Florida, for three years since moving from The Bahamas, described a city in chaos yesterday. She waited six hours in line at a designated site where sandbags were distributed,
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By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net SHEVONN Cambridge is out as Bahamas Power and Light’s CEO. It was unclear up to press time whether he resigned or was fired. However, two sources confirmed his departure, which comes more than two years after he was appointed to the post. His exit comes at a sensitive and critical time for
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HENFIELD CALLS FOR DEATH PENALTY TO BE ENFORCED By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FNM Senator Darren Henfield has called on the country to “take the bull by the horns” and enforce the death penalty, advocating for the Court of Appeal to replace the Privy Council as the ultimate authority in such cases.
CAMBRIDGE OUT AS BPL CEO AFTER TWO YEARS
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He voiced his support for capital punishment and the removal of the UK-based Privy Council as the highest appellate court for murder convicts while condemning recent violent crimes, including the murders of two men in front of their children. “How you can just walk
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QUINTON Lightbourne resigned as a senator yesterday, a decision that came after he recently relocated for a position with Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in Washington, DC. The Progressive Liberal Party announced Ja’Ann Major as his replacement in Senate. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Mr Lightbourne’s deci- constituency on July 1. Tribune Staff Reporter sion came after he relocated Mr Lightbourne lmunnings@tribunemedia.net to Washington, DC, for announced that his a position with the Inter- resignation was effecQUINTON Lightbourne American Development tive immediately in the resigned as a senator yes- Bank (IDB). A former Senate yesterday. He terday, and the Progressive chairman of the Bahamas expressed gratitude for the Liberal Party announced Development Bank, he opportunity to serve his that Ja’Ann Michella Major was appointed the alter- country and highlighted his has been appointed to the nate executive director Senate to fill the vacancy. for the IDB’s Caribbean SEE PAGE THREE
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