Catastrophic Insurance to cost $3.4m
THE government’s policy from the Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility will this year cost taxpayers $3.4m.Finance Minister Peter Turnquest made the announcement yesterday as he told MPs the government also plans to establish a disaster reli
Rapist loses appeal of his conviction
THE COURT of Appeal has dashed a convicted rapist’s hopes of overturning a Supreme Court judge’s decision not to entertain his bid at challenging his life sentence because doing so would have amounted to an “abuse of the process of the court”.Appella
Health Minister leads trip to Switzerland
HEALTH minister Duane Sands led a delegation to the 71st World Health Assembly Meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, last month. In a speech on the Assembly floor, Dr Sands drew the meeting’s attention to the connectedness of natural disasters, carbon emis
Police probe suspected drowning
Police are investigating the apparent drowning of a man at the government’s dock in Abaco yesterday.ASP Terecita Pinder reported that police received a report shortly after 10am of a body discovered floating in waters in an area near the Sandy Point
Concert in aid of band director
A marching band leader on Grand Bahama who is battling health problems is the beneficiary of a fund-raising all-star gospel concert on Sunday.The One Bahamas Committee in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Youth, Sports, an
Bartender told police that tool was a firearm
A BARTENDER mistaking a wheel wrench for a firearm ultimately led to a police officer fatally shooting the man wielding it inside of a nightclub three years ago, a jury heard yesterday.Ramaeo Andrews, a Jet Ski operator, said one of the G-Spot’s bart
500 remain in shanty towns ahead of demolition
AS the July 31 eviction deadline approaches, some 500 residents are believed to remain in shanty towns set for demolition in the capital, The Tribune was told.
Davis: Taxation will drive web shops underground
AS HE urged the government to revisit the proposed tax sliding scale for web shops, Opposition Leader Philip “Brave” Davis said increasing taxes on gaming house operators provides the incentive for the numbers business to return to the “underground”.
Davis won't commit to cutting VAT
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis was noncommittal yesterday on whether a PLP administration will return the value added tax rate to 7.5 percent should the party be elected to office in the next general election.Instead, Mr Davis
Christian Council wants rethink on tax increase
BAHAMAS Christian Council President Delton Fernander wants Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis to remember his past lamentations about value added tax and to reconsider his government’s intention to increase VAT’s rate by 60 percent next month.At one poi
Breadbasket items list to include healthier goods
HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands has promised more healthy changes are on the horizon for the breadbasket list - after wide public consultation.Dr Sands underscored the Minnis administration’s commitment to fully vetting proposed changes, adding they w
Trucks may be banned from future parades
LABOUR leaders are discussing removing flatbeds and trucks from future Sir Randol Fawkes Labour Day parades in light of last week’s tragedy, Labour Minister Dion Folks said yesterday.
Foulkes: Keep MPs salaries as they are
MINISTER of Labour Dion Foulkes said the salaries for MPs should remain as they are until there is a substantial economic turnaround.
UPDATED: Shot dead as he set off for school
A seven-year-old boy about to head to his last day of school was fatally shot outside of his Piper Lane home yesterday morning after being hit by a stray bullet.
Policeman: It was my life or his
A SENIOR police officer yesterday expressed his remorse to a woman for having to kill her teenage grandson in Yellow Elder Gardens five years ago, although he added: “It was either my life or his.”
