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Architect draws up plans for fire-hit stalls

AGRICULTURE, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs Minister Clay Sweeting said his ministry has contracted an architect to design three stalls for Potter’s Cay Dock vendors who were affected by a fire last year.

Private liabilities ‘settled’ by new financial year

ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder says private financial liabilities owed by the government should be settled going into the new fiscal year.

UB president hails graduates at Northern Campus

BAHAMAS University president Dr Rodney Smith commended the 40-plus graduates of the Class of 2022 for surviving these past years to complete their studies at UB North, while enduring the challenges caused by Hurricane Dorian and the COVID pandemic.

Legal aid project launched by Eugene Dupuch Law School

THE Eugene Dupuch Law School (EDLS) has partnered with the Attorney General’s Office, The Bahamas Bar Association and The Caribbean Agency for Justice Solutions (the Agency) to launch a Community-Based Legal Aid Project (CLAP).

Pupils stabbed in school fight

TWO students were stabbed during an argument on the AF Adderley Junior High School campus.

Thompson slams govt ‘fiscal irresponsibility’

A FORMER Cabinet minister yesterday accused the Government of “the height of fiscal irresponsibility” with the Budget’s projected deficit forecast to overshoot by some $149m targets set just four months ago.

Davis: $2bn in investments approved by government

PRIME Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis has revealed his administration has approved over $2bn in investments since assuming office last year.

Sacrilege trial hears testimony from officers

TWO OFFICERS testified in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday at a man’s ongoing sacrilege trial for breaking into a church last year.

Two accused after woman punched

TWO MEN were charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with punching a woman and stealing nearly $1,000 worth of her property.

Counselling for drugs

A MAN was ordered to attend six months of drug counselling yesterday as part of a conditional discharge.

$2,000 bail over threats

A MAN was granted $2,000 bail in Magistrate’s Court yesterday for issuing threats of harm.

GBPA: We’re ready for storm season

THE Grand Bahama Port Authority Ltd announced yesterday that it has completed a “robust and comprehensive” Storm Response Plan for the start of the new Hurricane Season.

PM pledges solar power field by next year

PRIME Minister Phiilip “Brave” Davis said yesterday the government has made a commitment to have a 60 megawatt solar power field by next year.

Change of routes in drug trafficking

NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe says officials have noticed new drug trafficking trends with smugglers using different routes than seen in past.

Doctor concerned over hospital system capacity to handle COVID rise

A senior physician says she expects increases in the COVID-19 infection rate and is fearful the hospital system is unable to deal with the infected and its regular patients at the same time.

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