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Sandilands students sent home amid ongoing BPL outages

POWER outages that officials partly blamed on summer heat have continued into October, with Sandilands Primary School sending students home early yesterday because of a prolonged outage.

CC Sweeting still closed following electrical blast

TEACHERS at CC Sweeting Senior High say Monday's explosion, which left three students with burns, was the fourth fire-related incident at the school since classes resumed over the summer. They say it came after repeated warnings that the campus's power problems were becoming dangerous.

BEMU: Govt seeks legal costs despite end to strike

THE government is pressing ahead with its court case against the union representing school administrators and wants the union to pay its legal costs, even though members ended their industrial action after one day, Bahamas Educators Managerial Union president Stephen McPhee said.

Lightbourn calls unlawful suspensions a ‘technicality’

BAHAMAS Nurses Union president Muriel Lightbourn has described as a technicality the Supreme Court ruling that her suspension of two top union executives was unlawful, though the judgment found the pair were suspended without investigation or trial and denied the right to be heard.

Duncombe died before he could wear new rank

POLICE motorcyclist Steven Duncombe had been promoted to sergeant months before the crash that killed him, but never got to wear his new rank, Commissioner of Police Shanta Knowles revealed at his funeral yesterday.

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Gibson stepped aside from contract votes, court told

A FORMER Water and Sewerage Corporation board member called by Adrian Gibson's defence told the court yesterday that the former chairman stepped out of contract votes involving people close to him.

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Sweeting: Shirley Street repaving not being done for King’s visit

SHIRLEY Street's fresh asphalt is not for the King, according to Works Minister Clay Sweeting, who said the repaving the road was already part of his ministry's plans.