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TROOPS READY TO GO TO HAITI PM: Bahamas will abide by CARICOM deployment decision By LEANDRA ROLLE and EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporters PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis says if CARICOM decides that the Haitian situation requires the deployment of security troops, then The Bahamas “will abide by the outcome” of the organisation’s resolution. Once that decision is made in collaboration with the United Nations, National Security Minister Wayne Munroe said
the country will be “ready, willing and able to deploy” Royal Bahamas Defence Force marines to the troubled state. Yesterday, the Prime Minister further called on Bahamians to be vigilant in protecting the country’s borders amid worsening conditions in Haiti. Not only is that country facing a serious social crisis, but there is also both a crime and economic crisis ongoing.
BY EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Michael Halkitis said the government does not believe the country is in a recession, as he pointed to being in the midst of a “very strong rebound in the economy” led by tourism. He said officials in
finance remained “cautiously optimistic”. “My take is we don’t claim it,” he said. “We don’t claim recession, all right. There are different opinions. “Some people think we’re already in it. Some economists says that, you know, it’s going to happen.” SEE PAGE FIVE
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
A FATHER was yesterday unanimously found guilty of two counts of incest for forcefully having sexual relations with his now adult daughter when she was still a teenager. The 48-year-old man, represented by Murrio Ducille, KC, returned to court for the summation of his incest trial before Justice Guillimina Archer-Minns. In the Justice’s summing up, it was said that the accused sexually abused his daughter twice, once in 2015 and again in 2016 when she was 15 and 16 years old. She also said that the prosecution’s case stood or fell on the evidence of the complainant. SEE PAGE SEVEN
RETAILER ISSUES MAY BE ‘RESOLVED BY FRIDAY’
SEE PAGE THREE
HALKITIS: COUNTRY IS NOT IN RECESSION
FATHER GUILTY OF INCEST
BY EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
OUR NEW DIPLOMATS THE NEW group of diplomats appointed yesterday alongside Governor General CA Smith, Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and his wife Ann Marie, and Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell (back row). Seated are Sharon Wilson, left, the new ambassador to the United Mexican States; and Cheryl Bazard, ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium. Second row, from left, Paul Rolle, ambassador to the International Maritime Organisation; Cedric Scott, ambassador to Japan; Anthony Ferguson, ambassador to New Zealand; and V Alfred Gray, High Commissioner to Canada. See PAGE TWO for the full story. Photo: Moise Amisial
ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Michael Halkitis said he hopes that all issues between government and retailers are resolved by Friday. The minister gave details of a meeting held with Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and the retailers on Monday night. Mr Halkitis described the meeting as “cordial”, but made it clear officials were “not delaying the roll out at all” of the new price control measures. SEE PAGE FIVE
WATSON: I WAS WRONG AND I’M SORRY AFTER receiving immense backlash, press secretary Clint Watson was forced to backtrack on comments he made relating to women’s rights groups being “quiet” when it comes to advocacy to criminalise marital rape. In a statement yesterday, Mr Watson said his comments were “inaccurate.”. “I sincerely apologise. I should have been more aware of their active involvement in the
PRESS secretary Clint Watson. consultation process,” the statement said further. “The Attorney General has briefed me on the ongoing stakeholder meetings
regarding draft legislation. “The consultations are being led by the Department of Gender Affairs in the Ministry of Social Services, supported by the Office of the Attorney General. “This issue is deeply felt around The Bahamas. We all want to see Bahamians participate in the ongoing national dialogue regarding protection of women in our country.” SEE PAGE FOUR
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