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Volume: 121 No. 224, October 16, 2024
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DAVIS: ENGINE DEAL TO BRING RELIABLE POWER ‘SuicideS more COMMONLY ARE TEENS AND young adultS’
‘Dual-fuel generators will lower emissions and reduce costs’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has announced that a power purchase agreement between Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) and Energy Bahamas Holding Limited had been finalised, a “significant step” toward ensuring reliable energy for the country.
“This agreement ensures that we can immediately enhance our energy capacity while paving the way for the transition to cleaner fuels, including electrified natural gas,” he said. “By June 2025 these dual fuel turbines will run fully on LNG, reducing emissions, reducing emissions and lowering costs while providing reliable power to behave in
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net AFTER the shocking suspected suicide of an eight-year-old boy last week, renowned psychiatrist Dr David Allen said he is aware of children aged 10 and 11 committing suicide, adding that there are more people in his outreach programmes talking about wanting to hurt themselves. “I work with a lot of suicides in my career,” he said.
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$275m Four SeaSonS condo Set TO EMPLOY OVER 200 BAHAMIANS By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration have signed a Heads of Agreement to construct what officials say will be the “largest” Four Seasons condo hotel in the Caribbean. Ground will be broken at the hotel by the end of the year.
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tripling taxeS BLAMED FOR 40% Slump in YACHT CHARTERS
The development, featuring a luxury 75-unit condo hotel, will be built on a 6.15-acre site on Paradise Island’s Casino Drive, as detailed in the project’s newly released Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). It is expected to employ 440 Bahamians during construction and over 200 once SEE PAGE SEVEN
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis shakes hands with FOCOL chairman Sir Franklyn Wilson during the commissioning ceremony of two Dual-Fuel GE turbine generators at Sun Oil headquarters yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
BNT CONCERNED OVER MISTREATMENT OF CONCH By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas National Trust (BNT) has expressed concern over reports of cruise passengers mistreating juvenile queen conchs on Princess Cays and has pledged to investigate the allegations. The issue came to light after a passenger, Heidi Havelka, contacted BNT
and several news outlets and reported witnessing multiple passengers collecting live juvenile queen conchs during an excursion on Princess Cays. In her email, Ms Havelka said passengers were “leaving them on the beach to suffocate with the intention of taking them as souvenirs” and highlighted the inadequacy of current SEE PAGE SEVEN
JUVENILE queen conch.
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By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net Bahamian marinas face “a fight to get back market share” that will take years as a study revealed more than-tripling tax rates cost this nation $90m through a 40 percent slump in foreign yacht charters. A just-released industry position paper, ‘Yachting in The Bahamas’, written by Marcel Amann, the founder of Yacht Services Bahamas, reiterated that recent tax hikes and regulatory interventions “have dampened activity” in a sector estimated to generate half a billion dollars annually for this country’s economy. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS