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Volume: 118 No.225, October 19, 2021
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‘DON’T LET UP IN ENFORCING RULES’ QUEUES at the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium yesterday as people play their part in fighting COVID by lining up to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. Photo: Racardo Thomas/Tribune Staff By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net CONSULTANT Physicians Staff Association President Dr Sabriquet Pinder-Butler is concerned that enforcement of the remaining COVID-19 restrictions is on the decline.
Her comment yesterday came as she discussed the outbreak of COVID-19 on several Family Islands. She said: “As it relates to the Family Islands, I think some of the challenges we’ve had are whether persons are actually adhering to the restrictions. The other challenge we’re having
now is who is supposed to be monitoring the restrictions that we have left in place? And that’s true for Family Islands and New Providence. “I think restrictions are being enforced less. I’m not sure who is enforcing them. I think people in the general public are perhaps asking questions and I heard
that we did not have any more COVID ambassadors; I don’t know how true it is. I understand that we don’t have persons policing the streets after midnight. I don’t know because generally I’m not on the streets at that time so I don’t know if persons are showing SEE PAGE TWO
MITCHELL HITS BACK AT MINNIS ‘LESSONS WILL BE LEARNED’ OVER HANDLING OF PANDEMIC FROM ELECTION ORGANISATION PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Fred Mitchell has hit out at former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis and his criticism of the Davis administration’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, Mr Mitchell said Dr Minnis called a snap election in the middle of the “worst wave” of the pandemic and held “super spreader” rallies, adding that the former administration’s COVID-19 policies failed.
“Less than one month after the Bahamian people rejected the negligence, dismissiveness, arrogance, incompetence and poor performance of Dr Minnis and the FNM at the polls, it appears that Dr Minnis and the FNM who once shunned the media and treated the concerns of Bahamians with utter contempt and disdain, have SEE PAGE FOUR
By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net WITH some Bahamians feeling that the organisation of the recent general election was substandard, Parliamentary Commissioner Lavardo Duncanson said lessons have been learned and will be taken into consideration. As preparations are being made
for the upcoming local government election, Mr Duncanson said the Parliamentary Registration Department is currently undergoing a post mortem. He spoke to the press after conducting a tour of his department yesterday for the new Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe, QC. SEE PAGE THREE
GOLDEN GIRLS’ GIFT ALSO HELD UP BY GOVT By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net THE Golden Girls’ troubles with government gifted land have been dragging on since 2002, according to Olympian Pauline DavisThompson, who described the situation as a “secret” kept under wraps to avoid embarrassing the government. “We didn’t want the rest of the world to know,” the
THE WINNING Bahamas team in the 2000 Sidney Olympics. 2000 Sydney Olympics gold medalist told The Tribune during an emotional interview yesterday, adding meetings were held and
letters sent to “every imaginable” official. She and her former teammates Savatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Eldece Clarke have never been able to access their Tropical Gardens properties nor have they been able to get the go-ahead for the placement of infrastructure. They received their grants on June 27, 2002.
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MAN SHOT DEAD AS HE SAT IN CAR
A MAN died in hospital after he was shot while in his car yesterday morning. Shortly after 7am, police said they were alerted to gunshots in the area of Wulff Road and Market Street by ShotSpotter technology. Officers responded and on their arrival at the scene, they were told that a man and a woman were sitting in a vehicle when a gunman approached them and discharged his weapon at the car. SEE PAGE TWO
EXUMA LEFT WITH JUST ONE BANK
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
EXUMA’S Chamber of Commerce yesterday said it is aiming to engage the Government over the “devastating” impact of losing “two-thirds” of the island’s bank branches. Chamber president Pedro Rolle said it was impossible for Exuma to present itself to investors as a modern economy without sufficient access to “basic, functional commercial banking”. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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