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PHARMACIES CLOSE DOORS
...and retailers ignore deadline as price control row escalates By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE government was last night facing an open revolt after private pharmacies were urged to “temporarily” close today due to the failure to resolve the price control expansion dispute by the November 1 deadline. Shantia McBride, the Bahamas Pharmaceutical Association’s (BPA) president, yesterday advised
members that the standmeant it was in “the best interest” of pharmacies to close their doors from today. There was no indication how long “temporarily” means. Meanwhile, food retailers are not implementing proposed price controls by today’s deadline - and would not rule out closing their doors too if price control inspectors this morning descend and dish out fines for infractions. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO BAHAMIAN HAS GONE BEFORE
HOSPITAL ALERT OVER RISE IN KIDS’ RESPIRATORY ILLNESS By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
PRINCESS Margaret Hospital is making the necessary adjustments to accommodate the rise in respiratory illnesses among children, hospital administrator Mary Lightbourne-Walker said. She said the number of children admitted to the
hospital on average has “tripled” because of the respiratory illness. In a statement released earlier this month, the Public Hospitals Authority said that there has been a “sharp” rise in respiratory illnesses following the reopening of school. SEE PAGE FOUR
BAHAMIAN-American Aisha Bowe will make history when she boards an upcoming Blue Origin flight that will go into space. She will be the first Bahamian to do so - and the sixth black woman on board a launch leaving Earth’s atmosphere. See WOMAN section inside for the full story.
MINNIS: CRIME CONSULTANTS FAILING By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday criticised the Ministry of National Security’s consultants on their “ineffective” performance in helping to address the country’s crime problem, saying the workers are “receiving the people’s money” but are not producing the desired results. Dr Minnis also accused
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. the Davis administration of not having a workable plan to deal with the nation’s rising crime and said at
this rate, this year’s murder count will no doubt outpace last year’s tally of 119. “It will surpass last year’s numbers. That’s not a debate,” the Killarney MP told The Tribune yesterday. “But I would say that the PLP has failed to deliver a crime plan that works. Killings continue. New Providence is becoming increasingly lawless, but we have a lawless government.”
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WOMAN GOT A CALL TO COME OUTSIDE - THEN WAS SHOT DEAD By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A WOMAN in her 40s was fatally shot after she was prompted to come outside of her home by a phone call early yesterday morning, police said. She has been identified by relatives as 42-year-old Patrice Sawyer. According to Chief Superintendent Michael Johnson, sometime after 5am police received information about the incident. “Upon the officers’ arrival, they met the lifeless body of a female just on the outside of her residence, with apparent gunshot wounds to the upper extremities,” he told reporters at the scene. “The information thus far that we’re working with is that sometime after five, we believe that she was summoned outside by a SEE PAGE THREE
MURDERED JUST MINUTES AFTER LEAVING HOUSE PORCH By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net
LAKEITHRA Russell was shot dead minutes after stepping off her mother’s porch to walk to a relative’s house who lived down the street. A relative of the 27-yearold woman who was shot and killed on Sunday said Ms Stubbs had spent her last moments with her family. “She didn’t know when she stepped off her mother’s porch that would have been the last time,” the relative said. SEE PAGE THREE
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