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Volume: 122 No. 225, October 16, 2025
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SIX SCHOOLS CLOSE AS UNIONS PROTEST Teachers and public service workers march over pay adjustments By EARYEL BOWLEG AND DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Staff Reporters MORE than a thousand teachers failed to report to work yesterday, forcing six public schools to close early after Bahamas Union of Teachers President Belinda Wilson called for nationwide industrial action in a fight with the government over pay adjustments. Education Director Dominique
McCartney-Russell said 1,135 of the 3,186 teachers employed in the public system were absent — about 36 percent of the workforce. Most of the absentees were in New Providence, where 816 teachers did not report for duty. She described the figure as unusually high but could not say whether there would be repercussions. Government officials had PROTEST - SEE PAGE FOUR
DAUGHTER FINDS NOTE LEFT BY MOM WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net EIGHTEEN-year-old Emmanuela Polidor yesterday revealed that her mother left behind a note before taking her life inside a Rasta Camp off Fire Trail Road on October 9. She said her mother,
Ketlyne Ferdinand, 34, gave her a purse with the note inside. “When I saw the note I was really hurt,” she said. “Because ain’t nobody could be mentally prepared for a sudden death like that, especially someone you close with.” She said she visited her SUICIDE - SEE PAGE 13
BUT president Belinda Wilson and BPSU president Kimsley Ferguson outside Parliament as Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis walks past appearing to not acknowledge them during a protest yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Rick Fox ‘would renounce Canadian SEBAS TO GET citizenship’ for local political stage NOMINATION, ACCORDING TO NEWS STATION By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
FORMER NBA player Rick Fox says he would have no hesitation giving up his Canadian citizenship
if he decided to enter frontline politics. Mr Fox, born in Canada to Bahamian father Ulrick Fox Sr and an Italian mother, sparked public interest about his eligibility after hinting on Facebook
that he could run for office. Asked by The Tribune if he would renounce his Canadian citizenship if he joined frontline politics, Mr Fox said: “I don’t have to FOX - SEE PAGE THREE
TRIBUNE PRESIDENT INTERVIEWS FOR MICAL SEAT By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net CHANTS of “We want Robert!” echoed outside the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) headquarters yesterday as dozens of residents from the MICAL constituency descended on New Providence to throw their support behind Robert Dupuch-Carron, founder of
the Bahamas Aviation Climate and Severe Weather Networks Ltd (BACSWN) and president of The Tribune Media Group, who was interviewed by the PLP’s candidates committee. Waving placards and dressed in PLP gold, supporters from Mayaguana, Acklins, Inagua, and Crooked Island gathered in CARRON - SEE PAGE THREE
ROBERT Dupuch-Carron outside PLP headquarters yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
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ISLAND Luck CEO Sebas Bastian has been selected by the Progressive Liberal Party’s Candidates Committee to run in the Fort Charlotte constituency in the next general election, according to Eyewitness News, the media company he controls. However, The Tribune’s sources had not confirmed this up to press time last night. Those chosen by the PLP’s candidates committee must be ratified by the party’s National General Council. Some are expected to be ratified tonight. SEBAS - SEE PAGE THREE