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Melia ‘unfair’ to withhold gratuity

FORMER Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes said yesterday it is “unfair and uncaring” for the Meliá Nassau Beach resort to withhold earned gratuity payments from its workers during these “difficult economic times.”

Demand for an apology for undermining Dept of Statistics

FORMER Labour Minister Dion Foulkes yesterday demanded the government apologise for undermining the work of the Department of Statistics.

Dion Foulkes: Why I'm voting yes to national lottery

FREE National Movement veteran Dion Foulkes has announced that despite his own party’s concerns, he will vote “yes” on the national lottery referendum question.

Call for government to pay City Markets staff

FORMER Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes called on the government to pay the 356 former employees of City Markets the $4.6 million they are owed in pension benefits before the Christmas holiday.

Urban Renewal workers 'not paid since may'

GRAND Bahama Urban Renewal Workers have not been paid since May because they lack official contracts, former FNM cabinet minister Dion Foulkes claims.

Foulkes: Urban Renewal workers still not paid

TWO days after a top government official promised to deal with the lack of salary payments to Urban Renewal workers on Grand Bahama, the issue has still not been resolved according to Dion Foulkes.

FOULKES: fire davis over workers' pay

FORMER FNM cabinet minister Dion Foulkes wants Philip “Brave” Davis, Deputy Prime Minister, fired over claims that Urban Renewal workers have not been paid since May.

Foulkes says Christie is scrambling over referendum

FNM CHAIRMAN nominee Dion Foulkes said yesterday that Prime Minister Perry Christie is scrambling to make changes to the upcoming gambling referendum because he knows it will fail, if it goes through “as it is.”

Dion Foulkes: PLP has formed 'most expensive Bahamas government in history'

THE PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party (PLP) has “formed the most expensive government in the history of the Bahamas”, FNM chairman nominee, Dion Foulkes, said yesterday. He called the government’s large cabinet a “waste” of taxpayers’ money.

Foulkes: PM must demand resignation

FORMER Labour Minister Dion Foulkes has called on the Prime Minister to demand the resignation of union leader Cleola Hamilton from her role as Parliamentary Secretary.

Mitchell critcised over bridge

DION Foulkes has criticised Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell over his comments on the bridge renaming exercise, accusing the minister of “severely compromising” the concept of a Cabinet government.

'It is impossible to servce the PLP and be a loyal Junior Cabinet Minister . . . and also be faithful and loyal to the interest of nurses'

TO protect the integrity and stability of the labour movement in the Bahamas, former Labour Minister Dion Foulkes called on Cleola Hamilton to either resign from her position as a Junior Cabinet Minister or her position as President of the Nurses Union and Vice-President of the Trade Union Congress (TUC).

Dion Foulkes: 'Bahamians live better because of Hubert Ingraham'

IN THE early 1980s, in my capacity as the hotel union shop steward at the Grand Hotel, now the RUI, I sought to improve benefits and working conditions for union members.

Victimisation by the PLP

THE assertion that the FNM engaged in victimisation while in office is not true and such an allegation cannot be substantiated by the record.

Open letter to Prime Minister Perry Christie

Dear Prime Minister, The Scriptures remind us, "Whatever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto me." I appeal to you to reinstate the 80 terminated officers of the Urban Renewal Programme.

Foulkes says DNA surprised everyone

FORMER Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes said the impact of the Democratic National Alliance on Monday's election took everyone by surprise

Candidates confident in Yamacraw

Both PLP Incumbent Melanie Griffin and FNM candidate Senator Dion Foulkes are confident of their parties’ chances in Yamacraw.

Customs staff end strike ahead of tribunal

THE Customs and Immigration strike ends today and their trade dispute will be heard and tried before the Industrial Tribunal this week, according to their attorney.

Staff on strike to be prosecuted

CUSTOMS and Immigrations officers who failed to return to work "will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law", Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said yesterday.

Customs staff ignore minister's demand to return to work

FOLLOWING the Minister of Labour's demand to return to work or face consequences, customs and immigration officers are still on strike.

Foulkes fires shot across rival's bow

FNM Yamacraw candidate and Labour and Social Development Minister Dion Foulkes said the opposition is the party of "self-entitlement" and its members use politics to pursue thei

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