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UPDATED: Five escaped Cuban men taken into custody

FIVE Cuban men escaped from the Immigration Detention Centre on Carmichael Road on Saturday night, it was reported as The Tribune was going to press.

Pregnant women among ten migrants rescued from overturned vessel

THE US Coast Guard rescued ten people, including two pregnant women, who were sitting on an overturned vessel in waters near Freeport on Saturday.

Panama Papers ‘have undermined country’

PRIME Minister Perry Christie said the massive leak of confidential offshore documents, known as the “Panama Papers”, has further undermined the embattled financial services industry of the country and wider region.

Government ‘did not pay for centre’s completion’

PRIME Minister Perry Christie yesterday clarified that the government did not fund the completion of the Baha Mar convention centre.

Two men killed in weekend shootings

POLICE are asking for the public’s assistance in solving a number of shootings over the weekend that claimed two lives and left several others in hospital.

VIDEO: Hundreds march for the right to breathe

HUNDREDS of disgruntled residents, some with their children, marched outside the grounds of the Baha Mar Convention Centre yesterday armed with placards reading “I can’t breathe” and “Too Young To Die” in protest of recurring fires at the New Providence landfill.

Equality vote date to be June 7

PRIME Minister Perry Christie yesterday declared that the time had come for men and women in the country to enjoy the same rights in the Constitution as he announced that the gender equality referendum will be held on June 7.

Halkitis named chairman of governors at IDB

MINISTER of State for Finance Michael Halkitis has been elected chairman of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC).

PM meets with Chinese bankers over Baha Mar

THE shuttered $3.5bn mega resort on Cable Beach continues to be a major challenge as the government pushes for greater urgency from its Chinese financiers the EXIM Bank, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday.

Mitchell defends bishop named in connection with investment fund

FOX Hill MP Fred Mitchell yesterday said it was unfair the late Bishop Solomon Humes had become “unfairly mixed up” in the international scandal wrought by the Panama Papers.

Flowers: No bid to shut down Island Luck game

CEO and President of the FML Group of Companies Craig Flowers yesterday said reports that he and other web shop operators are trying to shut down the new Quick Draw game launched by rival Island Luck are not true.

Two men dead, five people in hospital after weekend shootings spree

FOUR separate shooting incidents in New Providence between Friday night and Saturday afternoon have left two men dead and five people in hospital, police have reported.

Five Haitians arrested over huge cocaine seizure in Inagua

POLICE have taken five Haitian men into custody following a major drug bust in Inagua on Saturday evening.

FNM Deputy: Carnival too expensive, focused on foreign artists

FREE National Movement (FNM) Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest is unimpressed with the government's management of the country's second Junkanoo Carnival event, calling it too expensive and too focused on foreign artists at the expense of local ones.

US Embassy issues warning over landfill protest

DESPITE its stated peaceful, non-political aims, the Raising Awareness of the Bahamas Landfill (RABL) demonstration scheduled for Sunday afternoon has raised concerns as the United States Embassy in Nassau has told its citizens to avoid the protest.

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