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From left, East Grand Bahama MP Peter Turnquest; Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) Managing Director Catherine Weech; Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction Iram Lewis; Governor- General C A Smith and his wife, Lady Smith; West Grand Bahama and Bimini MP Pakesia Parker-Edgecombe; and Grand Bahama Health Services Administrator Sharon Williams, during a tour of Rand Memorial Hospital on Thursday, December 17, 2020. (BIS PHOTO/LISA DAVIS) FREEPORT, BAHAMAS — Governor General C A Smith and his wife, Lady Smith, were escorted on a tour of the newly renov...

East Grand Bahama MP Peter Turnquest. NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The government’s compendium of amendments for the regulation of the country’s fisheries resources may be “discriminatory” to Bahamian women, warned East Grand Bahama MP Peter Turnquest yesterday. Turnquest made the comment at the top of the debate in Parliament on the Fisheries Bill, 2020. The bill would repeal the current Fisheries Resources (Jurisdiction and Conservation) Act, 1977, and seeks to prevent individuals who are not citizens of The Bahamas from engaging in commercial fishing. The debate also centered on the...

rrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest has criticised as discriminatory a provision in a new Bill that would prevent foreigners from engaging in commercial fishing in The Bahamas. Mr Turnquest’s comment in the House of Assembly yesterday followed the contribution of Marco City MP Michael Pintard concerning the new Fisheries Bill 2020, which will replace the Fisheries Resources (Jurisdiction and Conservation) Act, 1977 when passed. A key provision of the bill says: “No person shall engage in fishing, or be employed on a commercial fishi...

EDITOR, The Tribune. Following is a contribution by a Bahamian citizen concerning proposed oil drilling in The Bahamas. It brings to light what is happening in The Bahamas. I agree with its contents and wanted to share it with you. Please read it and demand that your representative do something about it. Remember, this is our country that God gave us to hand onto our children. CONCERNED CITIZEN Government enacted lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic have forced Bahamians to stay home, crushed the economy, and destroyed Bahamian businesses. Meanwhile, Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) - which ...

Kwasi Thompson. (FILE PHOTO) NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Dr Hubert Minnis will table the 2020 Fiscal Strategy Report (FSR) during Wednesday’s sitting of the House of Assembly, according to a Ministry of Finance statement issued yesterday. The statement noted the government is usually required to present the FSR in the House of Assembly by the third Wednesday in November, but that “given the unprecedented times, the government decided to take extra diligence in crafting its strategies, making use of the most current fiscal information about the planned...