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By Allyson Maynard-Gibson, QC “In the face of the pandemic, ‘we have realized that we are in the same boat, all of us fragile and disoriented, but at the same time important and needed, all of us called to row together’, since ‘no one reaches salvation by themselves’ and no state can ensure the common good of its population if it remains isolated.” — His Holiness Pope Francis, “A Culture of Care as a Path to Peace” Wednesday, January 13, 2021 was the legally mandated Opening o...

EDITOR, The Tribune. How dare they? Talking bout there will be no Boxing Day Junkanoo Parade; talking bout there will be no New Year’s Day Junkanoo Parade. Who are these people? Don’t they know that Junkanoo is a Bahamian tradition; and a very rich one at that? Don’t they know that Bahamians have waited 12 months for the biggest entertainment extravaganza of the year? Don’t they know that I had planned to sit in Rawson Square because this is where most of the energy is exuded during the...

tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net ACTIVIST Lincoln Bain says he has filed a police complaint against a Cabinet minister, a senator and social media “trolls” over “threats” made against him. He posted a video outside the Central Detective Unit on Wednesday after he said he filed the complaint. Last night, Assistant Superintendent Audley Peters confirmed that Mr Bain had filed a complaint and said police were investigating the matter. He would not go into specifics. This comes after Mr B...

krussell@tribunemedia.net THE Progressive Liberal Party’s youth arm has called on the governing Free National Movement to condemn behaviour and claims featured in a recording recently circulated on social media revealing alleged “defamation and slander” by people purported to be FNMs. Audio of a secretly recorded conversation between several alleged members of an FNM association made the rounds yesterday revealing the purported work of the party’s “war room”. In the recording, they ...