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Extra homes at low price

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - The government is actively pursuing development of an additional 100 low-income housing lots at a Freeport subdivision, Minister of Housing Kenneth Russell announced. He

A fond adieu to Monsieur Cash

EDITOR, The Tribune. Eric Bertram Cash gave up the ghost Friday, 3rd February, at the advanced age of 93 years. He was my modern language teacher when I attended Prince Williams School from 1977 to 1980 (Forms 1 to 3) and one of my favourite dominies. I

Two accused of murdering man struck by car

Two accused of murdering man struck by car BY DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - The murder trial of Coletor Johnson and Glinton Louis opened in the Supreme Court yesterday with testimony from eye-witnesses

Two accused of murdering man struck by car

Two accused of murdering man struck by car BY DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - The murder trial of Coletor Johnson and Glinton Louis opened in the Supreme Court yesterday with testimony from eye-witnesses

Two accused of murdering man struck by car

Two accused of murdering man struck by car BY DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - The murder trial of Coletor Johnson and Glinton Louis opened in the Supreme Court yesterday with testimony from eye-witnesses

Minister says cooling off period needed before strike is valid

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Although members of the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union have voted in favour of a strike, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said a "cooling off" period is required befor

Minister says cooling off period needed before strike is valid

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Although members of the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union have voted in favour of a strike, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said a "cooling off" period is required befor

Minister says cooling off period needed before strike is valid

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Although members of the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union have voted in favour of a strike, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said a "cooling off" period is required befor

Minister says cooling off period needed before strike is valid

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Although members of the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union have voted in favour of a strike, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said a "cooling off" period is required befor

Minister says cooling off period needed before strike is valid

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Although members of the Commonwealth Electrical Workers Union have voted in favour of a strike, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes said a "cooling off" period is required befor

Youngsters learn from their peers about leadership

Youngsters learn from their peers about leadership By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Fifteen junior high students from Grand Bahama will attend the Peer Leadership Camp in New Providence to learn about dr

PM OPENS NEW $12M A&E CENTRE

PM OPENS NEW $12M A&E CENTRE By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT: The new $12 million Accident and Emergency urgent care centre and new operating theatre and day surgical unit were officially opened by Prime Mi

You want fries with that?

EDITOR, The Tribune Re: 13 new ambulances expected by the end of next year. - The Tribune, February 9, 2012 ONE way to reduce the "possible unauthorised use of ambulances" might be to open a KFC or a McDonald's right at the ambulance depot itself. KEN

Satisfied to be a killer and not a murderer

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Lawyer Brian Hanna said Glinton Louis is satisfied with the manslaughter verdict and that jurors did not find him guilty of murder. "It was a fair verdict," Hanna said. "

A Bahamian mother in tears

EDITOR, The Tribune. THE NB-12 evening news programme reported a story on January 26, 2012 about a mother who received a notice of eviction to leave her home. The mother of three said that her home business was robbed several times, the most severe one h

Fred Mitchell, the PLP and real property taxes

EDITOR, The Tribune. On Tuesday, 22nd November, 2011, I caught the last five minutes of the NB-12 9pm programme. Fred A Mitchell, Jr, presumably in his capacity as a PLP member, was being interviewed and suggested that government needed to get creative

CLEARED OF MURDER CHARGE

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - After a week-long trial, Dareo Smith was acquitted of murder in the Supreme Court on Monday. Senior Justice Hartman Longley told Smith, 19, that he was discharged of murd

Laugh of the day

EDITOR, The Tribune. I thought your article today January 12th under local news "Kinks will be worked out at the New Magistrate's Court" was one of the funnier I have read in a while. The new complex is described as State of the Art but there are no tele

Laugh of the day

EDITOR, The Tribune. I thought your article today January 12th under local news "Kinks will be worked out at the New Magistrate's Court" was one of the funnier I have read in a while. The new complex is described as State of the Art but there are no tele

MAN JAILED FOR THREE YEARS FOR THEFTS

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - A Freeport man was sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty in the Freeport Magistrate's Court to 23 counts of stealing. Charles Symonette, 37, of Pioneer's