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‘ZERO INTENTION’ OF STEPPING DOWN Former NBA player Rick Fox urges Mitchell to focus on the real challenge facing the country: voter apathy By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net AMBASSADOR-atLarge Rick Fox said yesterday he has no plans to resign despite Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell’s call for diplomats who cannot support the government’s mandate to step aside. Speaking to The Tribune last night, Mr Fox urged Mr Mitchell to focus on the real challenge facing the country: voter apathy.
“Just as Papa gave Daddy some advice the other night, my advice to the Chairman of the PLP would be to heed the words of a man we both can agree is an astute long standing PLP Leader Sean McWeeney KC who sees what I see which is that we no longer live in a majority rule Bahamas,” he said. “We live in a minority state of mind and what we should really be focusing FOX - SEE PAGE THREE
RICK FOX
Sickle cell patient left ‘lying in urine’ overnight after surgery at PMH
RANFURLY: LACK OF DONATIONS MAY FORCE US TO CLOSE DOORS
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
A 28-YEAR-OLD sickle cell patient recovering from surgery at Princess Margaret Hospital was left lying in her own urine overnight without help from nursing staff, her family said
— an ordeal they believe has shattered trust in the nation’s primary public hospital. The incident is the latest case to put PMH’s quality of care and services in the public spotlight. The institution has legacy issues, with its head recently revealing it is short of 500 registered
nurses. Branyiell Hall, mother of a four-year-old daughter and a lifelong sickle cell patient, underwent surgery on Wednesday in the Female Medical-Surgical Ward East. Her relatives said she was weak, numb, NEGLECT - SEE PAGE FIVE
Baranyiell Hall and her mother during hospital visit.
THE decades-old Ranfurly Home orphanage is warning it may be forced to shut its doors as dwindling donations and a shrinking pool of benefactors push the institution into a severe
financial crisis. Leaders say the strain mirrors what many local NGOs face as they try to meet rising demand for help, particularly heading into the holidays. Families of All Murdered Victims (FOAM) CRISIS - SEE PAGE FOUR
Davis government defends $20m annual price tag for pay rises as unions cry foul By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Davis administration will spend $20million a year to sustain its recent civil service salary increases, a cost officials defended yesterday as unions intensified criticism that the adjustments were too small. OPM Director of
Communications Latrae Rahming said the government’s salary update was a “complex” exercise, adding that questions about the size and timing of the increases could not be answered in isolation. He also revealed that over 17,000 civil servants received their salary adjustments on Wednesday. His comments came as some
union leaders derided the adjustments as “crumbs” and others claimed certain workers received nothing. Mr Rahming said the increases varied across categories but rejected suggestions that lower-level staff benefited the least. He said those employees saw the biggest percentage SALARY - SEE PAGE FOUR
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OPM Director of Communications Latrae Rahming