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SANDS WARNS NEW WAVE IS ON ITS WAY
Former minister pleads with those who refuse the vaccine to take jab LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER Health Minister Dr Duane Sands yesterday cautioned local officials to “get ready” for a potential increase of COVID-19 cases, insisting a fourth wave of the disease was imminent. Speaking to The Tribune Dr Sands stressed that now is not the time for Bahamians to let their guard down despite current low case numbers. Pointing to rising infection rates in the United States and Europe, the former member of
Parliament said experience has often shown what happens to neighbouring countries “is a reasonable predictor” of what is to come here. He said: “Let me say that I am absolutely grateful for the reduction in the number of confirmed cases that we’ve recorded over the last weeks and the reduction in the number of hospitalised patients, but already I think we’re starting to see some movement in the other direction in terms of the number of cases presenting to the various facilities.” SEE PAGE FOUR
BAHAMAS Federation of Retailers co-chair Tara Morley yesterday that the Christmas shopping season will be “make or break” for many merchants, adding: “We’re just rolling with the punches.” She said that apart from COVID-19’s continued impact, the greatest challenge facing the retail sector as the festive season are the “gaps” on many shelves due
to inventory/product shortages caused by the global supply chain crisis. Describing delivery times and freight costs as “all over the place”, with the impact varying between different merchants, she added that a successful Christmas shopping season is critical to enabling Bahamian retailers to “get back on their feet” following a trying 21 months of dealing with the pandemic’s fall-out. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
- SEE PAGE EIGHT
GOLDEN GATES CHURCH ROW SIMMERS ON By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER defendants in the Golden Gates World Outreach Ministries case said the recent ruling of Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder, which was favourable to them, is still not being followed, more than a month after the judgement was handed down. In 2020, Archbishop Ros Davis announced he had appointed his son, Trent Davis, as new senior pastor of the Carmichael Road church. SEE PAGE SEVEN
CHRISTMAS ‘MAKE OR BREAK’ FOR RETAILERS By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
FRONT PORCH: WHY DON’T THE UNVACCINATED LISTEN? MORE WAVES ARE COMING
SURVIVORS RECOUNT ABUSE HELL
‘SO PROUD’
CARINA Ferguson holds her award for Entrepreneur of the Year at the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce Business Awards yesterday. Miss Ferguon, of Pure Limited, said she was “honoured and humbled” by the award. See PAGE FIVE for the full story. Photo: IsleLens Media
VACCINES WHILE YOU SHOP AT SUPERVALUE By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
SUPER Value’s principal yesterday said he will be “very disappointed if thousands” of shoppers fail to get COVID-vaccinated at two of his stores this weekend, adding: “We must get to 100 percent.” Rupert Roberts told Tribune Business that his Golden Gates outlet, as well as Quality Supermarket’s
RUPERT ROBERTS South Beach location, had partnered with the Ministry of Health, the National
Vaccination Committee and Rotarians to bring COVID vaccines closer to the people in a bid to reverse declining vaccination rates. Revealing that the initiative could extend to the 14-store chain’s other outlets if this weekend is successful, and there is a sufficient vaccine supply available, he added that he had been promoting the inoculation drive on social media. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
Nassau & Bahama Islands’ Leading Newspaper
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net DAVINA Smith was only 13 years old when she conceived a child by her molester. The now 33-year-old remembers enduring the abuse at the tender age of six. “Basically, almost every day as far back as I could remember at the age of six, he would come into the room and he would start touching me.” SEE PAGE THREE
STATESIDE FRIENDS, FOES AND GLOBAL STRATEGIES
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