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Volume: 122 No. 221, October 9, 2025
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GOVT PARADE MOVE ‘TO COST JCNP $1M’ Decision to strip control over this year’s events called ‘deeply unfair’ By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Junkanoo Corporation of New Providence (JCNP) says the government’s decision to strip it of control over this year’s Boxing Day and New Year’s Day parades will cost it nearly $1m in losses and damages, a move it calls deeply unfair after decades of partnership.
In a sharply worded letter to Youth, Sports and Culture Minister Mario Bowleg, dated October 6, JCNP Chairman Dion Miller said the ministry’s action jeopardises major sponsorship deals with ALIV and Commonwealth Brewery and leaves the organisation no choice but to plan its own private parades. UNFAIR - SEE PAGE THREE
PINTARD DEFLECTS ON WHETHER FNM WILL CONTEST BY-ELECTION By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net FREE National Movement Leader Michael Pintard has avoided saying whether the Free National Movement would participate in a Golden Isles by-election. FNM leader Michael Pintard.
DEFLECT - SEE PAGE SEVEN
PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis stands between union leaders Belinda Wilson (left) and Kimsley Ferguson (right) after public servants marched on Bay Street yesterday demanding delayed or omitted pay increases among other issues. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Davis pledges pay ‘before Christmas’ after public servants marched on House of Assembly By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net MORE than a hundred public servants marched on the House of Assembly yesterday over delayed or
omitted salary increases, pressing up to police barricades before Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis emerged and told them: “You will be paid before Christmas.” Chanting “we want our
money right now,” members of the Bahamas Public Services Union and the Bahamas Union of Teachers moved through Bay Street, with some teachers reporting late to work in solidarity.
An audio clip circulating beforehand alleged the union acted over widening disparities between senior administrative officers, such as permanent secretaries, MARCH - SEE PAGE FOUR
Sarkis fight for proof of UNIONS ALLEGING BTC CELLULAR British Colonial wind-up network ‘migrated’ overseas By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net BAHA Mar’s contractor is fighting Sarkis Izmirlian’s attempt to use a report filed with the New Jersey bankruptcy court in his Bahamian legal bid to wind-up its two Nassau-based resorts. China State Construction and Engineering (CSCEC)
Holding Company, the parent entity for CCA Inc, is arguing that the report compiled by the latter’s “special” Chapter 11 bankruptcy committee contains “confidential commercial information” that Baha Mar’s original developer must be prohibited from using in his ongoing Supreme Court fight. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) two trade unions yesterday accused the carrier of “migrating” its cell phone network to “foreign jurisdictions” with recent firings “the final straw”. The BCPMU and
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BCPOU, in a joint statement, alleged that foreign engineers were coming in without the necessary work permits to effect the network switch while also asserting that contract workers were increasingly replacing full-time staff as part of “union-busting” tactics. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS