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Men face court accused of separate murders

TWO men were remanded to prison yesterday after being charged separately in connection with two murders that recently occurred in the capital.

Help to rebuild by picking up the phone

VIEWERS will see one of the greatest expressions of unity in the country’s history as the Rebuild Bahamas telethon gets underway today.

Experts tell govt nation needs network of radars

TRANSPORT and Aviation Minister Glenys Hanna Martin yesterday said the government is “actively considering” enhancing the capacity of the Department of Meteorology.

Church needs help if it is to raise funds needed for repairs

AS residents in Crooked Island continue to piece their lives back together in the wake of Hurricane Joaquin, one local pastor said the $20,000 needed to repair her church in Colonel Hill is “truly out of our reach”.

School lunch vendors claim victimisation

TWELVE of the 14 school lunch vendors under contract with the Department of Social Services in Grand Bahama are claiming that they were victimised after their services were abruptly terminated without proper notice on Friday.

Emergency landing by American Airlines

AN American Airlines flight en route from Puerto Rico to Miami had to make an emergency landing at the Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau on Saturday, aviation officials confirmed.

Crooked Island devastation 'on a Biblical scale'

“Never in my forty-four years of life have I seen such devastation, it is on a Biblical scale…it is a true miracle that no lives were lost, every single person I have met has a testimony that tears, tears…” was the response given by former Senator John Bostwick II to members of The Tribune news team while on site in Crooked Island over the weekend.

Minnis wants transparency over NHI introduction

FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday renewed calls for greater transparency in the government’s proposed roll-out of National Health Insurance.

More than 2,000 pounds of marijuana seized by police

FOUR men are in police custody after being detained following the seizure of 62 bales of what is suspected to be marijuana in the area of South Andros on Saturday.

One in ten long island homes assessed so far are ‘completely destroyed’

MORE than one tenth of the homes assessed by teams dispatched by the National Emergency Management Agency in Long Island have been rendered “completely destroyed” in the wake of Hurricane Joaquin.

Roberts blames Izmirlian for layoffs by liquidators

PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday shot down suggestions that the Christie administration was to blame for the more than 2,000 redundancies at Baha Mar last week.

‘Don’t play politics over Baha Mar’

ATTORNEY General Allyson Maynard-Gibson yesterday fired back at the Official Opposition over its accusations that the government was to blame for the more than 2,000 jobs lost at Baha Mar.

Maurice Glinton, QC, fined $15,000 for contempt

MAURICE Glinton, QC, was fined $15,000 on Monday morning for his words and actions during an extradition appeal that he contended were not contemptuous.

Met office says logs show radar was working

THE Department of Meteorology yesterday released computer server verification logs indicating that its Doppler weather radar was operational throughout the period that Hurricane Joaquin formed and subsequently ravaged the southern Bahamas.

10,000 gallons of fuel feared spilled in Crooked Island

A BEC official on Crooked Island has estimated that some 10,000 gallons of fuel may have spilled when Hurricane Joaquin dislodged two 25,000-gallon tanks as it churned through the island.

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