OFFICIALS PAY TRIBUTE TO MINISTER BETTY THOMPSON

TRIBUTES were paid to the late Minister Betty Thompson, with Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis hailing her as “a mighty woman of God”.

Mr Davis said at a service at Faith United Missionary Baptist Church on March 4: “Self-confident, elegant, graceful, virtuous, wise, visionary, humble, courageous, victorious, and dedicated are just a few adjectives that come immediately to my mind when I reflect on Minister Betty,” he said, at the service held at Faith United Missionary Baptist Church.

Mourners at the funeral of Mrs Thompson, the wife of Rev Dr William Thompson, included former Governor

More Than 100 Repatriated

THE Immigration Department repatriated more than 100 migrants yesterday.

Around 8.18am, a Bahamasair chartered flight left Nassau for Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with 130 Haitians onboard. This group consisted of 116 men, 12 women and two minors.

General Dame Marguerite Pindling, former Prime Ministers Perry Christie and Dr Hubert Minnis, cabinet ministers, senior government officials, uniformed branch representatives, members of the clergy, family members and well wishers. Prime Minster Davis said that wherever she went, her smile simply “lifted going to do and we will make the public aware of that it’s at some point in short order,” he continued.

“But we have to reduce our operating costs, because we cannot continue on a 54 cents margin, where the costs of salaries have gone up 24 percent, the credit card fees, while we enjoyed it, the fact that the public is moving to the digital economy. We cannot afford those costs against a fixed margin.”

Some retailers have already decided to lay off staff, this newspaper was previously told. The BPRA president also could not say if the public can expect to see increases in fuel prices in the days ahead.

“I can’t comment on what’s going to happen and I think that happens based on the fuel that’s purchased by all of the wholesalers and importers so we would like to see if price comes down but none of us here have an impact on that save for what the duties and VAT that’s charged on fuel and whatever the price of the wholesaler obtains in the international market.” the heart and transmitted joy throughout the room. Minister Betty used those virtues to build the Kingdom of God as a role model for those she now leaves behind,” he said. “She was a mentor in the spiritual, professional and leadership realms.

The last time petroleum dealers enjoyed a margin increase was in 2011, when the Hubert Ingraham-led Free National Movement (FNM) government granted a 10 cent increase per gallon of gasoline to take it from 44 cents to 54 cents.

A 15-cent increase per gallon of diesel was also allowed. The government itself currently collects over $1.60 for every gallon of gasoline sold in The Bahamas.

“The Bahamas is richer because she was here.

At 9.52am, a Southern Air flight left for Cap Haitien, Haiti, with four Haitian nationals onboard: three men and one woman. The department’s deportation and enforcement units led both escorts. All security and health protocols were observed, the department said.