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Volume: 119 No.124, October 17, 2022
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The last words 22-year-old victim said:
‘MOMMY - I GOT SHOT’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
THE distraught mother of a 22-year-old woman who was fatally shot outside an apartment complex at Red Land Acres has recalled her daughter’s final words. “‘Mommy, I got shot’,” Natanya Greene said of her
daughter Tadasha Sears who she believes was an unintended target of rival gangs. Sears, according to Ms Greene, was sitting on the porch on Friday night when shots rang out. She ran inside, realising she had been shot. Police said the incident reportedly occurred shortly after 11pm. SEE PAGE THREE
PM TO MEET RETAILERS ‘UP IN ARMS’ OVER PRICE CONTROLS By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
PRESS Secretary Clint Watson confirmed a meeting with retailers and Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis will take place tomorrow - as it was announced that no penalties would be enforced during an
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“adjustment period”. The announcement of the meeting comes after reports that food stores were said to be “up in arms” over the details of the government’s expanded price control regime amid fears it will “devastate” the industry and jobs for hundreds of workers. SEE PAGE FIVE
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
TWENTY-eight percent of Bahamians have skipped meals for lack of money or other resources, according to a recent Hands for Hunger survey. The finding represents a two percent increase this year when compared to 2021 as 26 percent of people answered ‘yes’ to a question that asked whether they were forced to skip meals because they did not have money or lacked other resources. The results further showed that 24 percent of the population worried that they would not have enough food to eat and 37 percent were unable to eat food that was neither healthy nor nutritious. Additionally, it was revealed that 20 percent of respondents had gone an entire day without eating because they could not afford food. SEE PAGE THREE
TADASHA SEARS, who had a four-year-old daughter. She died after being shot on Friday night.
1,500 SEEK JOBS AT FAIR By LETRE SWEETING lsweeting@tribunemedia.net
LABOUR director Robert Farquharson said the Labour on the Blocks 2.0 Job Fair, which had over 1,500 attendees, saw many students and the job seekers granted opportunities for employment. The department’s job fair held Saturday started at 9am at Anatol Rodgers High School. The event at the opening
THE JOB fair on Saturday. had hundreds of people in lines outside the school on Faith Avenue waiting to be let through the gates. Mr Farquharson said
yesterday that the number of persons that showed up at the job fair, which turned out to be “a huge success”, indicated the number of persons struggling in the country, especially in the communities of South Beach, Carmichael and Southern Shores. “The job fair went extremely well,” he said. “We had a little over 1,500 people show up and were registered for the job fair. SEE PAGE THREE
GB ELECTRIC TO BE 40% CHEAPER THAN NASSAU By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
GRAND Bahama’s electricity costs will be 40 percent lower than Nassau’s and the rest of The Bahamas during the 2023 summer peak after the island’s utility locked in fuel costs at 12-14 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh).
Dave McGregor, Caribbean chief operating officer for Emera, Grand Bahama Power Company’s 100 percent owner, told Tribune Business he hoped the difference in energy costs would steer investors towards the island and help revive its struggling economy. “If I were to believe the numbers we’re seeing out of BPL next summer, all things
ONE IN FOUR BAHAMIANS HAS HAD TO SKIP MEALS
being equal, we’ll be 40 percent less cost than the rest of The Bahamas,” he asserted. “I’ve seen the numbers that BPL has pushed out for next June. If they are at 27 cents per kWh, and we’re at 12-13 kWh, that’s a huge difference and I hope that helps investors decide where to invest because Grand Bahama needs it.” FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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OFF-DUTY COP SHOOTS MAN WHO ‘TRIED TO ROB HIS WIFE’ By LETRE SWEETING lsweeting@tribunemedia.net
A 38-YEAR-OLD man being electronically monitored and on bail for murder was shot dead on Saturday after he allegedly attempted to rob a woman of her car, according to police. Shortly after 8pm, police said, a woman who had just arrived at her residence on Barbados Avenue, Elizabeth Estates, was approached by a man armed with a handgun, who demanded the keys to her vehicle. The woman screamed, alerting her husband, an off-duty police officer. SEE PAGE TWO
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UNITED FRONT ON ISSUE OF MARITAL RAPE SEE PAGE EIGHT