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Volume: 112 No.170
FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2016
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Emails ‘should not have been tabled’ Speaker says court ARCHDEACON SLAMS LIGHTBOURN should ‘mind AND CALLS FOR FAMILY PLANNING its own business’ By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net HOUSE Speaker Dr Kendall Major admitted yesterday that he should not have allowed Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald to read and table the private emails of environmental action group Save The Bays in Parliament. Appearing as a guest on the 96.9 FM talk show “Morning Blend,” Dr Major said in hindsight he should have stopped Mr Fitzgerald and said in the future no emails will be read in the House of Assembly unless they are vetted. However, Dr Major reiterated that he does not believe the judiciary
should interfere with matters in Parliament and said “respectfully” the court ought to mind its own business. Earlier this month, in a landmark ruling, Supreme Court Justice Indra Charles declared that Mr Fitzgerald was not legally justified when he tabled the private emails of Save The Bays in the House of Assembly, and therefore could not be protected by parliamentary privilege. Justice Charles ruled that the Marathon MP’s actions were an infringement of the constitutional rights of the applicants and ordered Mr Fitzgerald to pay $150,000 in damages for the breach. SEE PAGE SIX
FORMER Cabinet minister George Smith said Progressive Liberal Party leadership challenger Alfred Sears should not be considered “dead in the water,” saying a leadership race is healthy for democracy. He insisted that there is a possibility some of the party’s delegates might be impressed with Mr Sears’ “fresh new ideas,” which could stimulate discussion within the PLP.
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FATHER STABBED AND LEFT TO DIE
By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net A 58-YEAR-OLD father of two became the country’s latest murder victim when he was stabbed multiple times and left to die in a public park early yesterday morning. The killing is the 65th this year and brought an end New Providence’s 41day homicide-free streak, according to The Tribune’s records. Officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit, Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander said that around 7am, a passerby was walking through Christie Park off Nassau Street when he saw the victim lying in a pool of blood. SEE PAGE THREE
ANGER AT TURNQUEST QUESTIONS OVER NHI
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net MEMBERS of Parliament engaged in a heated argument in the House of Assembly yesterday over whether the Christie administration’s National Health Insurance scheme represents a paradigm shift for healthcare or if it will mirror what is already available under the public healthcare system. Free National Movement Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest provoked the debate when he said the government is misleading Bahamians about the nature of the changes that will take place when NHI comes on stream. SEE PAGE THREE
SMITH: SEARS CAMPAIGN NOT DEAD IN THE WATER By KHRISNA VIRGIL Deputy Chief Reporter kvirgil@tribunemedia.net
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Mr Smith did not reveal yesterday which candidate he intends to support during the party’s November convention, but said those who have projected that Prime Minister Perry Christie will retain his position must provide substantial reasons for their confidence in the party leader. Since Mr Sears, a former attorney general, announced his intention to contest the PLP’s top post, high-ranking PLPs have counted him out as the underdog. SEE PAGE SIX ARCHDEACON James Palacious speaking to the press yesterday. Photo: Tim Clarke/Tribune Staff By NICO SCAVELLA dren as she wishes, and that to bring these children Tribune Staff Reporter it would be virtually impos- down here to catch hell.” nscavella@tribunemedia.net sible for any government “It is a known fact that to enforce legislation to when children are not propARCHDEACON James control “anyone’s bedroom erly cared for, you’re just Palacious said yesterday that business,” people that find recycling poverty, recycling while Montagu MP Richard themselves in dire financial mediocrity, we are recycling Lightbourn’s proposal for straits have a “responsibil- underachievement,” he state-sponsored sterilisation ity” to ensure their children said. “When are our people as an anti-crime initiative is are “able to look forward to going to stop gambling on “completely repulsive,” the a decent quality of life.” the future of our country?” country needs to engage in The Anglican archdeaArchdeacon Palacious a national family planning con also seemed to take also called on the governprogramme to prevent the exception to people having ment to adopt the practices “madness” of multiple chil- multiple children regardless of other jurisdictions to dedren being reared in unde- of whether or not they can duct money from a parent’s sirable circumstances. properly care for them, as salary that fails to pay child Archdeacon Palacious he claimed that “only poor support. said while every woman has black people believe you’re SEE PAGE FIVE a right to have as many chil- supposed to empty heaven
BISHOP: KILLING PREGNANT WOMAN SHOULD BE A DOUBLE MURDER
By NICO SCAVELLA Tribune Staff Reporter nscavella@tribunemedia.net BISHOP Simeon Hall yesterday called on parliamentarians to enact legislation that would allow persons guilty of killing pregnant women to be charged with double murder. Bishop Hall, pastor emeritus of New Covenant Baptist Church, said any assailant who kills a pregnant woman is “guilty of the death of two human beings and should be tried as such.” SEE PAGE TWO