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HOSPITAL RATE LOW IN SURGE
Cases still soaring but officials holding their breath on admissions By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville said officials are happy that COVID-19 hospitalisation rates are low despite skyrocketing cases, adding this will affect decisions about whether additional restrictions should be introduced. “If you look at the Delta variant, if you had about 300 people infected with the Delta variant there (would be) about 10 percent who
WATER and Sewerage Corporation general manager Elwood Donaldson was scheduled to go into early retirement in late September but was asked by the Davis administration to remain with the water provider for a smooth handover to new appointees of
$25M COCAINE SMUGGLERS SAY OFFICER AIDED THEM TWO Venezuelan men who were caught trying to smuggle $25m worth of cocaine into the country last week were sentenced to five years in prison yesterday. The drug smugglers claimed a high-ranking police officer on the island was in on the scheme. SEE PAGE SEVEN
would be hospitalised,” he told reporters before a Cabinet meeting yesterday. “What we are seeing with the Omicron variant is a little bit different and so our decisions are based on the evidence that is before us.” Acknowledging The Bahamas is now in the fourth wave of the COVID19 pandemic, Dr Darville said details will soon be released about the government’s free testing project. SEE PAGE FOUR
the corporation. This was the assertion of former WSC executive chairman Adrian Gibson yesterday, as he hit back at “unfortunate” recent developments, which he described as “embarrassing” for Mr Donaldson. WSC officials said yesterday that newly appointed executive chairman SEE PAGE THREE
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By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
GIBSON JUMPS TO BACK GEN MANAGER IN PROBE By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
ALICIA WALLACE: TESTING IS KEY BUT WE NEED TO MAKE IT AFFORDABLE
THE SPIRIT WILL LIVE ON MEMBERS of the victorious Valley Boys parade during the New Year Junkanoo in 2019. On January 1 this year, a virtual Junkanoo parade will be held, and will be televised on ZNS. See PAGE TWO for the full story. Photo: Donavan McIntosh/Tribune Staff
NO MORE CHEQUES BY CLOSE OF 2024
By YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporter ykemp@tribunemedia.net
THE Central Bank of The Bahamas is looking to eliminate cheques by the end of 2024 In a release yesterday the bank said consultation has begun “on a strategy to eliminate all use of domestic cheques by the end of 2024”. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
WHAT’S REALLY GOING ON AT LOVE BEACH? By YOURI KEMP Tribune Business Reporter ykemp@tribunemedia.net RESIDENTS of Love Beach say they are in the dark over the reported approval of the controversial “The View at Love Beach” project and don’t know what exactly the government has approved. Erica Pople-Ferreira, managing partner at Ferreira and Company, who represents one of the Love
PROPOSED development plans of ‘The View at Love Beach’. Beach residents, told Tribune Business yesterday she was “not aware” that “The View at Love Beach Residences development,”
was approved and ready to commence construction within the next two weeks. Ms Pople-Ferreira said: “My earlier comments on the project still stand. Based on my previous comments, there was grave concern about the disruption to the peaceful neighbourhood, the possibility of rodents, etc… increasing and nothing would have changed. My previous comments stand. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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TECHNOLOGY - TELESCOPE LAUNCHED INTO -SPACE SEE PAGE NINE