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POLICE OFFICERS BACK IN SCHOOLS
Munroe announces move after last week’s AF Adderley stabbing By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe confirmed that police officers have returned to public schools, nearly a week after concerns were reignited about school safety following last week’s stabbing at AF Adderley Junior High. According to officials, several officers were
assigned to nine different public schools in New Providence on Monday in view of the incident. Among them are AF Adderley Junior High, CH Reeves Junior High, Government High School, RM Bailey Senior High, CC Sweeting Senior High, CV Bethel Senior High School and Doris Johnson Senior High. SEE PAGE FIVE
GOVT TO PAY $177,000 TO AID STRAW VENDORS By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
GRAND Bahama Minister Ginger Moxey announced yesterday that the government will be providing monetary assistance to hurting straw vendors at Port Lucaya Marketplace and other industry workers on that island this week. She said the initiative will cost the government $177,000, with money
ACTIVIST ONE OF TWO MEN MISSING AT SEA
expected to be given out in the days ahead. Payments in the sum of $500, she said, will be made to vendors at Port Lucaya Marketplace, the Farmer’s Market located downtown, the Fish Fry site in Eight Mile Rock and workers in the harbour area. It is expected that over 300 vendors will receive monetary relief from the government, according to Ms Moxey. SEE PAGE TWO
FRIENDS and family are concerned after two men went on a boating trip on Sunday and have not been heard from since. Environmental activist Andrew Rolle, right, also known as Conchalay Conchalar, and Zephaniah Pennerman was on board the vessel, pictured, set off from Morgan’s Bluff, Andros, headed for Grand Bahama. See PAGE FOUR for the full story.
GB AIRPORT LOST OVER $8M IN TWO YEARS BEFORE PURCHASE
WSC’S $26M DEBT TO SUPPLIER TO BE COVERED BY GOVERNMENT
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
GRAND Bahama International Airport suffered an $8.129m operating loss
in the two-and-a-half years leading up to its 2021 purchase by the government, which aims to select a preferred bidder to redevelop the asset by August. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
THE government has pledged to bring the Water & Sewerage Corporation’s
record $26.4m debt owed to Consolidated Water “current”, it was revealed last night. Consolidated Watersaid it had been informed in late February of the plan. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
MORE CASH FOR JUNKANOO - AND CHANGES TOO MINISTER of Youth, Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg said it won’t be business as usual when Junkanoo parades return to Bay Street later this year, saying the government anticipates an increase in the event’s operational budget to pay for enhanced safety measures. Meanwhile, an official from the Junkanoo Corporation of New Providence said stakeholders want to see changes to the parades
MINISTER of Youth, Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg. this season, with improvements in the judging format, the handling of results and
a better spectator experience to be discussed. Mr Bowleg was asked about recommendations from Saxons leader Percy “Vola” Francis that stakeholders needed to come together to hash out measures needed at parades and Junkanoo shacks after a two-year absence. “Most definitely we can’t go back to Bay Street as things were prior to COVID, so there has to SEE PAGE FOUR
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ALICIA WALLACE: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD VIOLENCE
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