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PI resort settles over winding-up petition
PI resort settles over winding-up petition By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Paradise Island-based Club Land'Or resort has moved to settle a legal dispute with a former Bahamian employee creditor, Tribune Busi
Crime, overpayments and shoddy work blamed as construction costs triple
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Staff Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net CONSTRUCTION costs for a government complex skyrocketed to more than triple the initially contracted sum as a result of "defective work", overpayments, and suspected criminal activity, a
PI resort settles credit union debt
PI resort settles credit union debt By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Paradise Island-based Club Land'Or resort has moved to settle its debt with another creditor, a credit union executive yesterday confirming
PM: FNM delivering on urban renewal
PM: FNM delivering on urban renewal By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Hubert Ingraham last night said the Free National Movement is delivering Bahamians a better new version of Urban Renewal than the upgra
Mourning for 'plait lady'
Mourning for 'plait lady' By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Staff Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net ANDROSIANS mourned the loss of their beloved matriarch, Omelia Marshall, this weekend. The recipient of numerous tourism honours, including a Cacique award, f
Mourning for 'plait lady'
Mourning for 'plait lady' By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Staff Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net ANDROSIANS mourned the loss of their beloved matriarch, Omelia Marshall, this weekend. The recipient of numerous tourism honours, including a Cacique award, f
Delay over $100 millionfraud ruling
Delay over $100 millionfraud ruling By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net A MAGISTRATE delayed her ruling in a $100 million attempted fraud case yesterday to inquire from Supt Elliston Rahming why prison officers disobeyed
Groups join community gardening scheme
Groups join community gardening scheme By Gladstone Thurston Bahamas Information Services NEW Providence's Urban Renewal Centres, primary schools and youth clubs have joined in the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources' community gardening initi
Groups join community gardening scheme
Groups join community gardening scheme By Gladstone Thurston Bahamas Information Services NEW Providence's Urban Renewal Centres, primary schools and youth clubs have joined in the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources' community gardening initi
Groups join community gardening scheme
Groups join community gardening scheme By Gladstone Thurston Bahamas Information Services NEW Providence's Urban Renewal Centres, primary schools and youth clubs have joined in the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources' community gardening initi
Mourning for 'plait lady'
Mourning for 'plait lady' By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Staff Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net ANDROSIANS mourned the loss of their beloved matriarch, Omelia Marshall, this weekend. The recipient of numerous tourism honours, including a Cacique award, f
Boy, 16, denied bail in murder case
Boy, 16, denied bail in murder case By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net TWO men and a juvenile were remanded to prison yesterday after being arraigned in connection with two homicides. In the first of three arraignments be
CRIME BRIEFS
SIX people are recovering in hospital after three separate weekend shootings. A 28-year-old resident of Amos Ferguson Street became the first shooting victim after he was gunned down at Union Village, off Wulff Road, sometime around 1am Saturday. The vict
DEDICATED TO FIGHTING CANCER
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Staff Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net CANCER advocate and survivor Stephanie Siegel will stop at nothing to lower the alarmingly high incidence of breast cancer in the Bahamas. The wife of former US Ambassador to the Bahamas
DEDICATED TO FIGHTING CANCER
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Staff Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net CANCER advocate and survivor Stephanie Siegel will stop at nothing to lower the alarmingly high incidence of breast cancer in the Bahamas. The wife of former US Ambassador to the Bahamas
Murder trial jury split
Murder trial jury split By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net A HUNG jury has left the case of a man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a woman nearly two years ago open for retrial. The Supreme Court murder trial of
NO BAIL FOR VIOLENT CRIME SUSPECTS
NO BAIL FOR VIOLENT CRIME SUSPECTS By LAMECH JOHNSON ljohnson@tribunemedia.net THREE men, two charged with murder and the other attempted murder, are behind bars at Her Majesty's Prison waiting to be brought before the courts in the next three months. T