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CHRISTMAS SHOWDOWN
‘GOVT OWES TEACHERS $1.5M BACK PAYMENTS’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
BAHAMAS Union of Teachers president Belinda Wilson said some teachers in her union are owed an estimated $1.5m in back pay from the government. She said some people were owed pay going back 20 years. During a union press conference yesterday, the conversation about the public service backlog and teachers receiving compensation was brought up. SEE PAGE FOUR
Roberts: Price Control backed off after festive season shutdown threat By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net SUPER Value’s principal yesterday disclosed Price Control “backed off” seizing vast quantities of product when warned of pre-Christmas store shutdowns, telling the Government: “We don’t want war, and you don’t want war.” Rupert Roberts told Tribune Business the Government’s inspectors had initially sought to confiscate all merchandise in 19 mostly pharmaceutical product lines from his
Golden Gates store to check for potential violations of price-controlled margins and mark-ups implemented more than one month ago. However, after taking legal advice from John Bostwick, attorney for the Retail Grocers Association (RGA), the Super Value chief said Price Control officials relented - and took just two samples of each item - after he warned that the group’s 130 food merchants would “close our stores and stay closed until Christmas” over the unwarranted mass product seizure. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
SWEETING SPEAKS OUT OVER ELEUTHERA WATER PROBLEMS By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
MEMBER of Parliament for Central and South Eleuthera Clay Sweeting said the disruption of water supply on the island is “unacceptable
and extremely frustrating” - including expressing disappointment to colleagues. Yesterday, Mr Sweeting, who is the Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs, SEE PAGE FIVE
SANTA HAS COME TO TOWN SANTA Claus at the lighting of the Urban Renewal Christmas tree yesterday. See PAGE TWO for more pictures. Photo: Moise Amisial
MITCHELL HIGHLIGHTS NEED TO ‘NOT THE END’ FOR GOMEZ IN BANK OF THE BAHAMAS FIGHT TACKLE ISSUES FACING HAITI By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell is of the view that Haiti continues to suffer social and economic depression because
it “struck the first blow for freedom back in 1804” for oppressed black nations. He urged regional counterparts to help them resolve their problems. In Barbados yesterday SEE PAGE TEN
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Cabinet minister Damian Gomez yesterday warned “it’s not the end” after an appeal against the dismissal of
a $6m default judgment against Bank of the Bahamas was withdrawn. Mr Gomez said companies to which he is linked are moving to “reinstate” the Court of Appeal action. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
PINTARD ‘NOT SURPRISED’ AT MARIJUANA DELAY By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard said he is not surprised that the Davis administration has delayed presenting marijuana legalisation to Parliament. On Monday, Attorney General Ryan Pinder said that it is “not likely” the government will present the marijuana legalisation to Parliament before the end of the year as promised.
FNM leader Michael Pintard. Mr Pinder noted that the government is still working on the proposed legislation, however, he was unable to
give a definite timeline. In response to these comments, Mr Pintard urged the government to “pivot” from their agenda, in an effort to address “urgent” matters which affect the Bahamian people. While acknowledging the delay due to “technical details”, Mr Pintard said the government has neglected to have “meaningful” discussion with members of the public in regard to their intentions SEE PAGE THREE
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