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Volume: 122 No. 220, October 8, 2025
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WALKER CONFIRMED First US Ambassador to The Bahamas since 2011 approved in US Senate By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net FORMER NFL star Herschel Walker has been confirmed by the United States Senate as the next US ambassador to The Bahamas, ending a 13-year vacancy in the post. Mr Walker, 63, of Georgia, becomes the first person to hold the role since Nicole Avant’s departure in 2011. The US Embassy in Nassau confirmed the Senate’s vote, saying: “We look forward to welcoming him to US Embassy Nassau after he receives his presidential commission and is sworn
HERSCHEL Walker speaks during a campaign stop at the Governors Gun Club, December 5, 2022, in Kennesaw, Georgia. Photo: Ben Gray/AP
WALKER - SEE PAGE FIVE
FNM CANDIDATE: RESIDENTS Laroda: Bahamians need to have TRUMP HALTS WANT GENERAL ELECTION more kids to keep NIB sustainable MAIL DELIVERIES By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net BRIAN Brown, the Free National Movement’s ratified candidate for Golden Isles, says residents would prefer a full general election instead of a by-election
following the death of MP Vaughn Miller. Mr Brown, who said he has lived in the constituency for more than 23 years and ran there in the last general election, said people in the area feel overlooked under ELECTION - SEE PAGE 12
By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
Bahamians have been told: have more children. The country’s low birth rate threatens the long-term survival of the National Insurance Board, says Myles Laroda, the
Minister of Social Services, Information and Broadcasting, who warns that too few workers are contributing to sustain future pensioners. “We have a declining birth rate,” Mr Laroda said yesterday. “If you take immigration out of it, The Bahamas is far below. I think we’re talking about
two plus percent growth. We are at 1.7.” He said NIB’s sustainability depends on the number of contributors supporting each pensioner, describing six workers per retiree as “a healthy number.” When that ratio slips closer to
KIDS - SEE PAGE FOUR
Munroe: Authorities need to ‘build better mousetrap’ after recent escape By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said authorities must study how a murder suspect managed to slip away from the Magistrates’ Court last Thursday and tighten security to ensure it never happens again, comparing the process to “building a
better mousetrap.” Mr Munroe said he had not yet been briefed on the full details of the escape of 34-year-old D’Angelo Culmer, who has been on the run for nearly a week. But he said closed-circuit cameras in the court’s holding area should reveal exactly how the incident unfolded. ESCAPEE - SEE PAGE 11
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By ANNEILIA NIXON Tribune Business Reporter anixon@tribunemedia.net MAIL sent by Bahamians to the US has been halted because the Post Office’s “partner airline” is refusing to accept any outbound deliveries due to the Trump administration’s imposition of a 15 percent tariff. The Ministry of Energy and Transport, in a statement issued last night, explained what has driven the halt in US mail deliveries that has caused frustration, inconvenience and uncertainty for both Bahamians and their relatives in the US adding that the airline’s acceptance refusal came after Donald Trump, the US president, signed a late August executive order eliminating the tariff exemption for imported parcels and mail worth $800 or less. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS