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Volume: 119 No.233, October 28, 2022
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RETAILERS OFFER ‘FREE FOOD’ PLAN
Businesses counter government proposals over price controls By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net BAHAMIAN food retailers have proposed a joint venture with the Ministry of Social Services where they will provide a ten per cent ‘free’ food top-up targeted at “the most vulnerable among our Bahamian brothers and sisters”. The Retail Grocers Association, which represents 130 food merchants across The Bahamas, proposed the “temporary public-private partnership” focused solely on consumers using government food stamps as their alternative to the major
expansion of the price control regime that is set to take effect on November 1. The association also offered further alternatives. These include a drastically slimmed-down price control expansion to just 20 items, as opposed to the government’s 38 categories, with higher mark-ups for Family Island retailers and perishable products which have a shorter shelf-life and go bad much quicker. And the government was also urged to eliminate VAT on “breadbasket” food products regardless of which option it selected. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
‘PM AND SEARS SHOULD HAVE KNOWN COST OF HEDGE DELAY’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE Opposition’s leader yesterday charged that key policymakers in the Davis administration were given “sufficient meat” to understand the fall-out if the trades underpinning Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) fuel hedge were not executed.
Michael Pintard told Tribune Business he “does not believe for a moment” that Alfred Sears, minister of works and utilities, and Prime Minister Philip Davis KC were unaware of the multi-million cost burden that could be inflicted upon BPL consumers if the hedging strategy unravelled. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
HOW MUCH DID BERMUDA TRIP COST? SORRY, WE DON’T KNOW By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net PRESS secretary Clint Watson admitted yesterday that the full cost of Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis’ trip to Bermuda last week is still not known and he was unable to say how much money was spent on hotel accommodations, transportation, food, per diem and other trip-related elements. However, he was adamant Mr Davis wanted to maintain a level of transparency over the controversial trip. Mr Watson also refused to say who gave authorisation for public funds to SEE PAGE THREE
70 PEOPLE TO TRAVEL TO CLIMATE CONFERENCE By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
CELEBRATING RISING STARS MEMBERS of the Urban Renewal Band performing at the National Youth Awards on Wednesday. The event saw awards presented to young people in a range of categories - from sport and religition to entrepreneurship and the environment. See PAGE TWO for more. Photo: Austin Fernander
‘WE NEED JUSTICE OVER PRISON DEATH’ By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net A RELATIVE of a mentally ill man who died in hospital this week, two weeks after a prison fight, is calling for justice and accused correctional officers of not paying attention to the inmates the night the attack occurred. The relative also feels the deceased should not have been sent to the Bahamas Department
KENSEY COOPER of Correctional Services due to his mental health
challenges, but should have been sent to Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre for help instead. Officials at the prison say an investigation is underway into the incident. The inmate, Kensey Cooper, died in hospital on Tuesday. He had been in a fight at the prison on October 10 which left him with injuries. He was being held on a stealing charge. SEE PAGE TEN
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CLIMATE financing will top the list of priorities for The Bahamas when a 70-person delegation attends COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt next week. An official in the Office of the Prime Minister said the government is only paying for its technical members to attend the event, saying some others who are going are funded by the private sector. The 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place from November 6 to 18. SEE PAGE FIVE
DIANE PHILLIPS:
SPEAKING UP FOR JUSTICE
SEE PAGE NINE