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HEALTH TRAVEL VISA HALTED FOR LOCALS By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net BEGINNING on Monday, citizens and residents of The Bahamas will no longer need a travel health visa to come home from abroad, Tourism, Investments and Aviation Minister Chester Cooper announced yesterday. He said despite this change, testing requirements will remain in place and visitors with citizenship in other jurisdictions will still need a travel health visa to enter the country. The move was welcomed by Health
Minister Dr Michael Darville. He told reporters following a tour of Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre that due to “so much complications” with the visa application process, the government decided to do away with the requirement for Bahamians. Mr Cooper said revoking the requirement was a campaign promise by the Progressive Liberal Party now fulfilled. The health visa was implemented in November 2020 and had a fee attached in order to be obtained. SEE PAGE FOUR
THE Ministry of Health and Wellness as of yesterday rolled out the first phase of its COVID-19 booster shot campaign, meaning people 60 and older can now receive a third jab, according to Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville. The first phase is for people 60 and older who received Pfizer or AstraZeneca second doses six months ago and the
MITCHELL TURNS ON ‘SLOW’ CIVIL SERVANTS FOREIGN Affairs and Public Service Minister Fred Mitchell has lamented the slow response of certain civil servants to instructions given by the new government. Mr Mitchell, who is also the chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party, made the remarks yesterday, saying the government system’s response is like a “slow march into hell”. SEE PAGE THREE
Johnson & Johnson oneshot jab two months ago. The announcement came as the minister also announced The Bahamas would remove travel restrictions on African countries imposed last month after the Omicron variant was identified there. Dr Darville said the decision to remove the restrictions on the African nations came due to the “pervasiveness of the Omicron variant” and its purported milder nature. SEE PAGE FOUR
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By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net
... AS PHASED BOOSTER ROLLOUT IS UNDERWAY By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
FRONT PORCH: WHAT’S OUR APPETITE FOR A REPUBLIC?
CHRISTMAS TREE IS ON POINT WHITLEY Albury dances during the ceremony marking the lighting of the Christmas tree in Rawson Square last night. See PAGE TWO for more photographs. Photo: Racardo Thomas/Tribune Staff
BAIN ORDERED TO PAY BACK WOMAN’S $60K By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE Supreme Court has ordered Coalition of Independents leader Lincoln Bain to pay $64,000 to a woman after finding he did not invest or return the money she wanted him to hold in a trust for her for three years. In deciding the case, Justice Cheryl GrantThompson found that a witness Mr Bain brought
LINCOLN BAIN was not credible after the man testified that he had forged Mr Bain’s signature on the agreements
solidifying the transaction between Mr Bain and the plaintiff. “I am of the view that the allegation of forgery was a story that was made up in an attempt to discredit the documents produced by the plaintiff,” she noted. Zinnia Rolle, the plaintiff, claimed two agreements were breached, one dated April 20, 2010 and another executed on April 23, 2010.
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WHITE MAY STAND FOR DEPUTY ROLE
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
ST Anne’s MP Adrian White says he is considering running for deputy leader of the Free National Movement. The FNM, which elected Marco City MP Michael Pintard as its leader at a one-day convention in late November, will host a convention in February 2022 to elect people for a range of other posts, including deputy leader and chairman of the party. SEE PAGE THREE
STATESIDE - GAME’S BEGUN BEFORE VOTES ARE CAST
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