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Read storyPoliticians in Mexico have accused a developer in The Bahamas of exploiting 65 of its citizens.
Last week Thursday, lawmakers in Mexico requested various government agencies within Mexico to act on reports that the owners of a resort in The Bahamas have treated workers unfairly.
Mexican Senator Jose Zalvidea said that the company illegally took passports from Mexican employees.
The Senator said the resort threatened to turn workers over to Bahamian immigration authorities and that they could end up in jail.
Senator Zalvidea also suggested that workers were paid $80 a week instead of the $500 they were promised and were not allowed to leave the work area at lunchtime or after hours.
The Senate approved a request that Mexico should increase efforts to repatriate the workers.
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Read storyAt least four BEC executives have been let go in efforts to improve the corporation's efficiency.
Executive Chairman Fred Gottlieb said the Bahamas Electricity Corporation needed to be less "top-heavy as far as executives are concerned".
Gottlieb said this was something that could continue on lower levels within the company as BEC aims to be more efficient.
Minister of State for Public Utilities Phenton Neymour said the decision was made after recommendations from an independent auditor.
Former Minister of Works Bradley Roberts said the removal of the executives was a haphazard approach to BEC's financial problems.
Roberts said the corporation was in a poor financial state because it did not pass the cost of higher duty prices on oil to its customers.
The Nassau Guardian
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Read storyGRAND BAHAMA: Police Officer Pierre Martin was found guilty of accepting a bribe by a unanimous jury decision.
Martin was released on $10,000 bail and required to surrender travel documents until his sentencing in April.
The officer was convicted of accepting a bribe from Garrick Lewis in Feburay of 2007.
Martin had arrested Lewis that month and charged him with obscene language, resisting arrest and threatening to kill him (Officer Martin).
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Read storySolomon's Mines employees are worried that they may lose their jobs as they wait for late salary cheques.
An employee who called The Tribune said her salary was supposed to be paid two weeks ago and is not sure when she will be.
She said the staff is all the more upset because managers were recently given blackberry phones despite the store continually being late with salaries.
Store President Mark Finlayson told The Tribune in a previous article that the store was struggling with the lack of tourism dollars.
More recently, Finlayson told the newspaper that the store had done well in the week leading up to Valentines.
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Read storyThe College of The Bahamas may have to wait as much as ten years before it will become a University.
Education Minister Carl Bethel said it would be up to Cabinet Ministers to decide how long it would be, and that "it could be two years or it could be ten".
Bethel said the matter has not yet come before the Cabinet but that he expected it would soon.
The Nassau Guardian
