Senate backs bid to use dormant bank funds
THE government’s bid to utilise $41.3m from dormant bank accounts to set up a disaster relief fund is one step closer to law, after the Senate yesterday voted in favour of both the Bank and Trust Companies Amendment Bill and the Central Bank of the Bahamas Amendment Bill.
DEPORTEE FLOWN BACK TO NASSAU: Govt steps in to bring Foreste home from Haiti
THE government has facilitated the return of a man who was deported in violation of a Supreme Court order, The Tribune has been told.
Minnis to face union presidents
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will conduct “head to head” talks with union leaders next week in the face of escalating labour issues, according to Labour Minister Dion Foulkes.
'End action or no new negotiation’
A MEETING between senior public doctors and Public Hospitals Authority officials fizzled yesterday after PHA officials refused to negotiate, declaring they won’t do so as long as doctors persist with their industrial action.
School in mourning as principal passes
FACULTY and students were stunned yesterday after the sudden death of Nassau Christian Academy Principal Brentford Isaacs, shortly after a morning meeting with teachers.
‘Acting Surveyor General doesn’t turn up for work’
A TOP consultant in the Office of the Prime Minister has said delays at the Office of the Surveyor General have been “unconscionable,” telling The Tribune the acting Surveyor General Thomas Ferguson “doesn’t show up to work”.
Boy on holiday bitten by shark
AN American boy thought he was going to die after he was bitten by a nurse shark off the Exuma Cays.
First onland commercial coral farm is underway in Freeport
CONSERVATION group Coral Vita officially broke ground in Freeport for the construction of the first, on-land commercial coral farm that will not only restore the country’s dying coral reefs, but will “usher in sustainable investment initiatives” on Grand Bahama.
Time to rise
WITH an extremely uneven ratio of men to women in the Cabinet with only one woman holding a ministerial post in the current government, women across the political divide on Wednesday called for more women to come forward and represent the people in politics.
Chinese make $3,000 donation to food group
THE Chinese Embassy made a generous donation of $3000 worth of food to the Bahamas Feeding Network yesterday.
95% satisfied with NHI so far
NINETY-FIVE percent of National Health Insurance beneficiaries are satisfied with their experience with the programme, according to the National Health Insurance Authority.
Henfield ‘must do more’ after anti-gay slur
ACTIVIST Erin Greene yesterday suggested parliamentarians adopt an anti-hate speech campaign after a senator used a homophobic slur on social media.
40 to be hired as part of plan to clean up Over-the-Hill
FORTY people in Centreville and Bain and Grants Town will be hired as environmental monitors for a 52-week programme to identify and help get rid of bulk waste, derelict vehicles and other environmental hazards, according to Rocky Nesbitt, the project manager of the Over-the-Hill rejuvenation initiative.
Strike action affects clinics in Grand Bahama
DOCTORS’ industrial action affected patients in Grand Bahama where about 15 to 20 patients attending clinics at the Rand Memorial Hospital yesterday morning were told that their appointments were cancelled.
PM: Patients safe in doctors’ revolt
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis is convinced doctors will not jeopardise the healthcare of patients as members of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association head into their third day of industrial action.
