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Committee looking at ways to stop govt liability for brutality By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net A CABINET sub-committee will recommend how the government can stop incurring liabilities from court cases involving brutality from uniformed officers, with taxpayers presently on the hook for millions in damages and costs. Latrae Rahming, director of communications in the Office of the Prime Minister, said the Minnis administration’s pre-election fiscal report did not
account for $13m in liabilities from court judgments. He said the Davis administration is “very concerned” about the mounting legal expenses. The Office of the Attorney General,” he said yesterday, “has undertaken an exercise to identify categories where we are seeing material, and in instances, recurring damages against the government and to propose a way forward and a strategy aimed at minimising these instances”. SEE PAGE FIVE
Notable appointments include North Eleuthera MP Sylvanus Petty, who was named chairman of Water and Sewerage Corporation; Mount Moriah MP McKell Bonaby as executive chairman of Public Beaches and Parks Authority; Senator James Turner-Rolle, chairman of the Hotel Corporation of The Bahamas and Senator Quinton Lightbourne as chairman of the Bahamas Development Bank. SEE PAGE THREE
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$1BN DIFFERENCE IN FISCAL STATE? IT IS WHAT IT IS
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis yesterday responded to assertions made by his predecessor regarding his administration’s findings on the government’s fiscal position, insisting that a $1bn discrepancy in government liabilities that was uncovered is exactly “what it is”. Mr Davis spoke to reporters a day after he revealed in the House of Assembly that his administration had discovered a $1bn difference in the former Free National Movement government’s pre-election report and the country’s actual liabilities. SEE PAGE THREE
FIRST ROUND OF BOARD APPOINTMENTS REVEALED By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration has appointed 19 Bahamians to various public board positions and is expected to meet today to finalise the remaining government appointments. Press Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister Clint Watson announced the first list of board appointments during a press briefing yesterday.
NAUGHTY: POLITICAL VIEW FROM THE NEXT GENERATION
FROM DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER TO DEPUTY GOVERNOR GENERAL FOR ‘MOTHER’ PRATT FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia “Mother” Pratt was sworn in as deputy to Governor General CA Smith yesterday while he is out of the country for a few days. See PAGE TWO for the full story. Photo: Letisha Henderson/BIS
VAT INCREASE ON BREADBASKET ‘BEST PRACTICE’
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net ECONOMIC Affairs Michael Halkitis defended the anticipated increase of value added tax on breadbasket items, saying it follows expert advice and best practices around the world. SEE PAGE THREE
‘COVID BUBBLE’ PLAN SUGGESTED FOR EVENTS By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville suggested officials are considering creating vaccination bubbles for some events, though plans for this have not been finalised as yet. “We are now in Cabinet finalising the two pieces of regulations under the current Health Management Act which will guide us on how we put new rules in
MINISTER of Health and Wellness Michael Darville. place because we’ve made it very clear that on the 13th of November the emergency orders will fall away and we would have to have
legislation in place,” he said during an Office of the Prime Minister’s briefing yesterday. “Now, this has been brought up because there’s some events that are coming to the country, sporting events, and we know from other parts of the world they can create a bubble and so our team is looking at ways how we can create a similar environment for these types of events. SEE PAGE FOUR
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DIANE PHILLIPS: FROM HERE TO GLASGOW IN CLIMATE FIGHT
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