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VOLUME:116 No.270, DECEMBER 19TH, 2018
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ALICIA WALLACE: ITâS NOT HOW WE DRESS, ITâS THE BULLIES
Crime downâs a fairytale - killers have no fear ⢠Couple slain as they arrive home ⢠Man found shot dead in GB residence with a mother dead at her door and a daddy shot behind a (car) wheel.â Asking not to be A MAN and a woman named or photowere shot dead in the graphed, that resident, Joanâs Heights area who has called the comearly yesterday morn- munity home for nearly ing, marking the third two decades, said somedouble homicide in New thing urgently needed Providence this month. to be done to âhelp the The incicrazy energyâ dent, which around the some neighcountry. bours specuHe spoke lated was to The Triba âtargetune a short ted crime,â distance away occurred from where just after the couple midnight on was fatally Tuesday. shot. âWe The live in a cold violent world. KillJAMES JOHNSON occurrence ers donât have has left the community fear no more. The killshocked, with one resi- ers go after who they dent telling The Tribune: want with no fear of the âNever mind this fair- (police). Understand ytale about crime being me, they got taken out down, a young family right at the door. (has been) ripped apart SEE PAGE THREE By RICARDO WELLS Tribune Staff Reporter rwells@tribunemedia.net
VICTIM: Kevisha Kerika Richards, a 23-year-old mother of two.
$80K DOCTORS HAD POACHER SENTENCES âGENEROUSâ OFFER âCAUSE OF CONCERNâ
By KHRISNA RUSSELL Deputy Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
AS HE pointed to the use of taxpayer dollars to fund tuition costs of young doctors, Health Minister Dr Duane Sands suggested the Bahamas Doctors Unionâs strike vote had gone against the expectations of Bahamians who will inevitably suffer inconvenience from any form of industrial action BDU might stage. In a move seen by officials as an attempt to force the Public Hospitals Authority to act quickly, Labour director John Pinder confirmed yesterday 99.9 percent of doctors voted in support of a strike, but he questioned if BDU was on the right track. The union is arguing PHA owes
them holiday and overtime pay, Mr Pinder said, adding discussions over the issue had been going well. However, he said the issue is the union lacks the evidence to their claims. He said PHA advanced a proposal to the union despite the lack of proof, but it was rejected. The union, he said, should have then made a counter proposal, but he was unsure if this happened. When he spoke to the issue outside Cabinet yesterday morning, Dr Sands said he believed the offer put forward by the PHA was âgenerousâ. âItâs difficult to call doctors a part of the working class and I think this discussion really gets at the SEE PAGE SIX
By KHRISNA RUSSELL Deputy Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
OFFICIALS from the Dominican Republic are concerned about lengthy prison sentences given to fishermen found guilty of poaching in Bahamian waters, Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield revealed yesterday. The concern was raised in a recent meeting between The Bahamas government and a delegation from the Dominican Republic when they also made commitments to assist in discouraging the practice of illegal fishing in Bahamian waters. The officials further pledged, among other things, to install indicators in fishing vessels coming
MISSING MARVIN - WE DONâT HAVE HIM By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
POLICE Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said nobody named Marvin Pratt was recently arrested or is in police custody, despite claims he was taken into custody weeks ago and has not been seen since. Mr Prattâs family said he went missing 15 days ago. Their neighbour, Rose Francis, 55, insists she saw
MISSING: Marvin Pratt four police officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit arrest him on Holly
Hock Road and put him in a police vehicle. Over the weekend, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander promised a full-scale investigation to determine if Mr Pratt, 40, was indeed arrested. Commissioner Ferguson said yesterday: âWe have nobody who was arrested by that name.â He said a missing person report was filed with police,
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out of that country to better monitor their movements. This comes after the Royal Bahamas Defence Force - for the second time in a week - arrested a group of Dominican fishermen for illegally operating in Bahamians seas. Two Dominican small, go-fast type boats were apprehended at 11am on Monday just off North East Point, Inagua by the RBDF while on routine patrol. On board were seven Dominican fishermen along with several air compressors and containers of gasoline. A week ago, on December 11, another seven Dominican fishermen were arrested by the RBDF off Inagua. They have since been charged before the SEE PAGE SEVEN
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