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ATLANTIS 6,000 BACK AT WORK
Staff return to full hours as surge in bookings arrives By YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporter ykemp@tribunemedia.net
ATLANTIS Paradise Island has 6,000 staff members back to work for the holidays as the resort is reporting full occupancy well into the New Year. Audrey Oswell, president of Atlantis, told Tribune Business yesterday the resort will be booked to capacity straight into early next year as
the resort’s promotional events are having a lot to do with this. Ms Oswell said: “We are all set for the holidays and business is doing very well. We’re happy to report that we’re on full occupancy and we have been for about two weeks now, and looking forward to Christmas and New Year’s we will be full straight through to the beginning of next year.”
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis will give a “national update” on Thursday on the government’s response to the fight against COVID-19. According to Latrae Rahming, the director of communication at the Office of the Prime
SUSPECT SHOT BY POLICE IS DEAD
A MAN who was shot by police on Saturday has died in hospital. Police initially reported on Saturday that officers were called to an apartment complex on Bowe Avenue, Montel Heights shortly after 10am, for a man who was said to be in possession of a gun. “On the arrival of the first responding officer, the suspect was identified,” police said. SEE PAGE FOUR
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Minister, Mr Davis was briefed on the situation by the COVID-19 Task Force yesterday morning - and will give the Thursday update to the nation at 11am. The move comes as the omicron variant continues to spark outbreaks around the world and the country experiences an increase in cases. SEE PAGE THREE
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By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
DAVIS TO ADDRESS COVID CONCERNS By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
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ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL CLAYTON Fernander being sworn in by Governor General Sir Cornelius A Smith yesterday as Deputy Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force - more than two years after he and several other senior officers were controversially ordered to take vacation leave and were then given assignments at government ministries they thought were beneath their roles and experience. See PAGE TWO for the full story. Photo: BIS
MUM-OF-TWO DIES IN HEAD ON CRASH By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
A FAMILY has been left devastated after a young single mother was killed in a head on collision in Abaco on Sunday. The victim has been identified by family as 23-year-old Danielle Mackey, a mother of two boys. Assistant Superintendent of Police Stephen
DANIELLE MACKEY Rolle said shortly after 11pm on Sunday police
received a report of a twocar, head-on collision at S C Bootle Highway, in the area of Bahamas Power and Light. Police at the Marsh Harbour Police Station went to the scene to investigate and discovered a silver coloured Honda Fit, driven by a man, engulfed in flames. He said the vehicle was travelling east on the highway.
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CDC LOWERS OUR TRAVEL RISK RATING THE United States’ Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has lowered The Bahamas’ COVID19 Travel Risk Advisory Rating from level three to level two, according to the Ministry of Health and Wellness. SEE PAGE THREE
PETER YOUNG: HOW LONG CAN BORIS SURVIVE?
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