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• Media reports of $2.1bn venture denied • Minister admits approach over agriculture investment
PM’S UNEMPLOYMENT FEARS FOR GRAND BAHAMA
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net POLICE are investigating the murder of a 22-yearold man that took place on Monday. Shortly after 10pm, police received a report of a man being shot at Wellington Street, off Market Street. On arrival, police found the man, Reno Gilbert, with gunshot wounds. He was taken to hospital in critical condition, but later died. This killing brought the country’s homicide count to 85 for the year, according to SEE PAGE SIX
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@ tribunemedia.net
be a “good thing� for the country because Bahamians generally “lack interest� in the agriculture industry. He also admitDEPUTY ted that he told Prime Minister newly appointed Philip Brave DaChinese ambassavis stressed yesdor Paul Gomez terday that the proposal for a MINISTER of Agriculture that he could discuss the proposal partnership with and Fisheries V Alfred with “interested the Chinese for Gray. investors�. development of Both men were respondagriculture and fisheries in Andros was not before the ing to a report in The Nasgovernment for considera- sau Guardian on Tuesday, which stated that the tion. But while he later criti- government had given the cised media reports about “green light� to its embassy the proposal, Minister of in Beijing to further pursue Agriculture and Fisheries such a partnership. Despite the denials from V Alfred Gray yesterday said that such a plan could SEE PAGE SIX
MINNIS: LOCAL VENDORS WILL BE IMPACTED BY PHA’S USE OF INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURERS
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday criticised the Public Hospitals Authority for extending its recent tender exercise for the “Provision of Medicines and Related Items� to international manufacturers. Dr Minnis charged that the direct purchase of medication from manufacturers would have a destructive impact on local vendors and the industry. “The PHA wants to purchase medication directly from manufacturers, bypassing the distributors and
POLICE FIND DECOMPOSED BODY OFF CARMICHAEL ROAD By KHRISNA VIRGIL Deputy Chief Reporter kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
POLICE last night discovered a body in an “advanced� stage of decomposition and are appealing to members of the public who may have missing relatives to come forward to assist them in solving this case. The discovery was made in the area of Lazaretto Road, off Carmichael Road, around 7pm last night, police said. Head of the Central Detective Unit Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander told The Tribune that police have classified this as a sudden death, pending the results of an autopsy. He said: “Acting on information, officers went to a bushy area about 80ft off the road where they came across a body in an advanced state of decomposition. “We can’t determine if it is a male or female or if there SEE PAGE SIX
22-YEAR-OLD MAN SHOT DEAD IN YEAR’S 85TH MURDER
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PRIME Minister Perry Christie speaks at NEMA‘s head office yesterday. By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Perry Christie is concerned about what the slowdown of the tourism sector in Grand Bahama in the wake of Hurricane Matthew could mean for employment on that island. He said yesterday that the government is working to mitigate negative consequences, although it is unclear what steps could be taken to ensure that some of the biggest hotels on the island are quickly reopened and remain that way. “Memories and the Lighthouse (Pointe), they’re all closed,� Mr Christie said, referring to Grand Lucayan Resort, the 519room property consisting of the Breaker’s Cay and Lighthouse Pointe, and the 496room Memories Resort, which employs 500 people. “It appeared on the face of it that there
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was a consideration to keeping them closed for a period of at least six months,â€? Mr Christie said. “We are speaking to ‌ the owners because the hotels are directly linked firstly to a major company called Sunwing (Airlines) that has the lease of Memories and they provide aircraft that fly from Canada and from the United States of America to Grand Bahama to keep Memories filled and other hotels on the island.â€? Mr Christie said while Sunwing believes in Grand Bahama’s commercial potential, he is concerned that “any decision that could require hotels to be closed for a period of six months will mean they will have to stop all their flights going into Grand Bahama.â€? “That has enormous implications and so we are in hourly discussions with respect to this matter with a view to trying to affect a formula that will result in the bare SEE PAGE TWO
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EMPLOYEES WANT NATIONAL CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS TO INTERVENE IN OCEAN CLUB ROW By NICO SCAVELLA Tribune Staff Reporter nscavella@tribunemedia.net ANGRY hotel union members yesterday threatened to petition for the National Congress of Trade Unions Bahamas (NCTUB) to serve as their “interim� bargaining agent over their dissatisfaction with their union’s handling of the One&Only Ocean Club’s temporary closure for hurricane repair efforts. Members of the Bahamas Hotel Catering Allied Workers Union (BHSEE PAGE SIX