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Volume: 122 No. 23, December 23, 2024
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CCA FILES IN US FOR BANKRUPTCY ...but resorts in The Bahamas not part of legal bid By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net TWO Nassau resorts, and their Bahamian holding entities, are not caught by yesterday’s “last resort” bid from Baha Mar’s contractor to protect its US arm from Sarkis Izmirlian’s “crippling” $1.6bn damages win. CCA Construction Inc,
the contractor’s New Jersey-based entity, confirmed it had sought Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US legal system to safeguard its assets and business from any attempt by Baha Mar’s original developer to enforce his near-total New York State Supreme Court triumph by seizing their SEE PAGE FIVE
PM: ONGOING UNION DISPUTES are ‘very simple matters’ By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has downplayed ongoing union disputes, describing them as “minor” and suggesting they could be resolved through dialogue at the negotiating table. Mr Davis questioned
the need for unions to escalate their concerns and expressed confidence that the disputes can be addressed without drastic action. Trade Union Congress (TUC) President Obie Ferguson has said 14 unions under his leadership have obtained strike certificates SEE PAGE THREE
AN EMOTIONAL scene on Bernard Road where four persons were shot inside a barber shop resulting in the death of two men and a woman and a child be injured on Saturday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Frustration and grief as two men Cousin Claims killed and three bystanders injured GIBSON POSING A THREAT TO her safety By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
TWO suspects were taken into custody as police investigated a Saturday morning shooting
at a barber shop on Bernard Road that left two men dead and three others injured, including a sevenyear-old boy. Chief Superintendent of Police Stephen Maycock, the officer in charge of the
Fox Hill Division, confirmed the arrests and the recovery of a dark-coloured Honda Accord believed to have been connected to the crime during a press SEE PAGE SEVEN
‘Daughter may never walk again after being beaten in the street’ By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net THE mother of a woman brutally attacked by an unknown man last week fears her daughter may never walk again after both of her legs were broken by the vicious assault. Louise King-Brice, 63, lamented to The Tribune
LATASHA Rolle.
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
Rolle, 44, was “beaten like a dog” without reason in an incident that was captured on camera and went viral. Ms Rolle, a chef at Margaritaville on Paradise Island, sometimes used the bus to get to work. But last Tuesday, while heading to work, her quick stop at the bank after stepping
LONG Island MP Adrian Gibson, who is on trial for allegedly failing to disclose personal interests in Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) contracts, was accused by his cousin, Rashae Gibson, of posing a threat to her safety. She testified on Friday that she hired security because she feared he might harm her during the proceedings. Defence attorney Geoffrey Farquharson questioned why
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that her daughter, Latasha
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