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Immigration rules catch teen who needs US surgery By RICARDO WELLS Tribune Staff Reporter rwells@tribunemedia.net ACCESS to potentially life-saving medical treatment for a 15-year-old girl suffering from brain lesions has been blocked due to her irregular immigration status that bars her from travelling to the United States, her family says. Her mother, Ginette Caty, 34, was naturalised as a Bahamian citizen in 2013 but her daughter Taranique Thurston will have to wait until her 18th birthday before she can apply for Bahamian
citizenship. However, Ms Caty believes the life and longterm well-being of her daughter is being risked everyday she is kept away from several authorised scans and treatments at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida. Taranique has been diagnosed with a brain cyst. She was due to have treatment yesterday but it has been delayed because of her status. Jackson Memorial Hospital agreed to postpone her treatment until her travel status could be resolved. SEE PAGE THREE
HUMAN rights group Rights Bahamas yesterday castigated the government for its recent raid in shanty town communities just weeks ahead of scheduled evictions. RB President Stephanie St Fleur said the raids exposed the government’s Shanty Town Action Task Force as a smokescreen
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‘KILL COPS’ THREAT EARNS TWO YEARS PROBATION By RICARDO WELLS Tribune Staff Reporter rwells@tribunemedia.net A MAN was sentenced yesterday to two years’ probation on 16 counts of death threats issued against police in a video recording. Dinero Gray, 28, of Gamble Heights, appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney facing charges of threats of death committed on Sunday, May 27. In the video, which spread across the messaging platform WhatsApp, Gray could be heard instructing people angry with police to fire upon them “wherever”. In the closing moments of the video, Gray could be heard saying: “That’s why when you catch them out with they family going for conch salad, you bust the brains out.” SEE PAGE NINE
$20M LOAN TO HELP YOUNG UNEMPLOYED FIND WORK By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
ARRESTS OPERATION ‘JUST A SMOKESCREEN’ By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
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for the state’s unrelenting attack on communities of Haitian lineage. The Shanty Town Action Task Force held a meeting yesterday morning to discuss the impact of Wednesday morning’s raids on its efforts. One task force member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said: “We had a brief meeting about that this morning, SEE PAGE SEVEN TARANIQUE THURSTON, who needs medical treatment in the US, but cannot travel due to her irregular immigration status.
IN a bid to reduce unemployment among people between the ages of 16 and 40, the government signed a $20m loan with the Inter-American Development Bank yesterday. The flagship component of the programme is the creation of new apprenticeship opportunities for Bahamians. The existing National Training Agency preapprenticeship programme will be expanded to include 1,100 additional people. A new advanced apprenticeship programme will be created to help 1,350 people as well. The training programmes will operate through the NTA and the Bahamas Technical & Vocational Institute. SEE PAGE SIX
FRESH WATER WASH CONCH - OR CLOSE By MORGAN ADDERLEY Tribune Staff Reporter madderley@tribunemedia.net AS confirmed cases of conch poisoning continue to rise, the government intends to send inspectors out to ensure vendors selling and preparing raw conch are adhering to health regulations, including using fresh water to clean the seafood.
CONCH being prepared at Potter’s Cay. Those who do not comply with regulations face being shut down, although government officials have said
they would rather have vendors comply with the recommendations instead of being punished. While health officials are dealing with an increase of conch poisoning cases, the bacteria which causes the illness, vibrio parahaemolyticus, is becoming more resistant to antibiotics, Health Minister Dr Duane SEE PAGE FIVE
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