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Read storyA union leader for the country's public workers says the private sector needs to implement a minimum wage system that matches the government's.
John Pinder, president of the Bahamas Public Services Union, said the minimum wage of non-government workers should be the same as the $5.20 provided for public servants, $10,600 per year.
Pinder said he was concerned that contractors on major projects are able to bring in foreign workers to avoid paying minimum wage.
All companies should have to comply with a standard minimum wage, he said.
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Read storyThe Bahamas has repatriated 1,340 people since the year's start, according to the Immigration Department.
That number includes 1,204 Haitian, 75 Jamaican, 28 Cuban and 13 Dominican Republic citizens.
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Read storyTyler Perry, the star/writer/director of the Madea series, is thinking of buying an island in The Bahamas.
According to People magazine Perry is thinking of giving it to himself for his 40th birthday.
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Read storyConstruction has started on a covered seating facility for persons waiting outside the American Embassy.
The site will serve as a waiting area to customers of the embassy.
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Read storyOne of the men accused of killing Keith Carey said he was driving but did not know the plan.
In a video of accused murderer Dwight Knowles, Knowles said Jamal Glinton asked him to follow Carey from his gas station to the bank. Glinton, like Knowles, is accused of killing Carey in February of 2006.
Knowles said Glinton got out of the car, Carey fell on the steps and then he heard two gunshots. Then, he said Glinton got back in the car and told him to drive off.
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Read storyA man drove himself to the hospital after he was shot several times in the back.
The 31-year-old man said he was on Farrington Road around 2pm Wednesday when he was approached by a man he knows who then shot him in the upper back.
The man then drove his car to the hospital where he was listed in serious condition although his injuries were not life-threatening.
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Read storyA descendent of slaves from the Whylly plantation wants to do more than clean toilets at the Clifton Heritage site.
Vivian Whylly, 47, who was knighted by the Sovereign Order of Saint John of Jerusalem because of his ancestry, his historical knowledge and his dedication to protect the former plantation, said the Clifton Heritage Authority will only hire him to weed the gardens or clean toilets.
“In any other country a descendent of something like this would be looked at as something other than a problem,” Whylly said.
Whylly said William Whylly, the plantation's owner, was a loyalist who fought for slaves rights when he came to The Bahamas. He was the first chief justice and also served as attorney general, Whylly said, who uncovered a lot of information about the site through his research at the National Archives.
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Read storyPolice may soon seek international support in their search for a teacher accused of molesting two male students.
Officials are ready to charge the teacher with multiple "unnatural sexual intercourse" offenses but are not sure if he is still in The Bahamas.
Police say they know he left the island at some point but are not sure whether the suspect returned.
Police could not confirm the teacher's nationality but said he has permanent resident status. Authorities say they plan to issue a global all-points bulletin for him.
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Read storyNearly 8,000 people asked for government assistance in the last four months of 2008 compared to 960 during the same period in 2007.
During his contribution to a senate debate, Minister of Labour and Social Development, Dion Foulkes, said the government spent $857,000 in aid to citizens, including:
$500,000 to help 900 people with their Bahamas Electricity Corporation bills
$260,000 to help 430 people with rent
$50,000 in medical assistance
$47,000 on assistance with bills from the Water and Sewerage Corporation
These figures don't include assistance given in Grand Bahama or the family islands, which Foulkes said also increased
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Read storyThe Immigration Department has released some information from a recent visit to the Carmichael Road Detention Centre.
Recently, psychologist David Allen, Social Services director Melanie Zonical, Archdeacon James Palacious, Royal Bahamas Defence Force senior lieutenant Frederick Brown and director of Immigration Jack Thompson toured the facility, although their reports on the tour were not released.
The Tribune asked to tour the facility but Immigration officials refused the request.
Detainees were interviewed in the presence of their supervisors, although immigration officials say they spoke candidly.
Thompson said they are already working to implement recommendations from Dr Allen and Father Palacious including indoor games, televisions and more books.
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Read storyNational Security Minister Tommy Turnquest said former Prime Minister Perry Christie should "hang his head in shame" over what he says is a clear conflict of interest.
Turnquest was speaking about Calsey Johnson, who, as former chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas, received a commission when he recommended that the corporation invest $750,000 in pension funds in CLICO Bahamas.
It is unclear how much, if any, of the funds will be recovered.
"(Johnson) has acknowledged that he has collected a commission, and he has acknowledged that he was a part of the decision making body. Having acknowledged both of those, there is clearly a conflict," Turnquest said.
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Read storyAlthough many sectors of the country are suffering in the recent economic challenges, airlines operating in the country seem to be doing well.
Southern Air Charters, Sky Bahamas and Pineapple Air all told The Guardian that business is good. All three have regular flights from New Providence to various family islands.
Southern Air said they have seen no falloff in customers, Sky Bahamas said sales have gone up and Pineapple Air said they did feel some impact but that business is "fairly good".
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Read storyThe PLPs newest senator says the government needs to do more for Grand Bahama.
In his first speech, Dr Michael Darville said more money should be spent on training on the island. He warned that despite large investments from the Grand Bahama Port Authority, their loyalty is to their investors, who are not Bahamians.
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Read storyThe son of Chauncey Tynes Jr, who's mysterious disappearance and connections to drugs and politics have been much discussed in the last week , has called to thank the Tribune for highlighting his father's death.
Kino Tynes called the newspaper from the Turks and Caicos where he works. "“I never got to meet my dad,” he said. “I have been asking questions all the 28 years I have been alive.”
Defending its decision to publish a story that suggested former Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling may have been connected to the pilot's disappearance, The Tribune said PLP leader Perry Christie contradicted a statement he made when he was fired from Sir Lynden's cabinet in 1984.
“For the better part of this year, the extent to which commitment to service with integrity has been eroded in the Bahamas has proven the cause for concern at every level of our society.
“Indeed, it has gone beyond our national boundaries and brought our nation’s integrity into question."
Chauncey Sr, who's supcisions that his son was killed for "knowing too much" formed the basis of the controversial story, said he has no regrets about what he said.
Dr Ian Strachan, head of the English Department at the College of The Bahamas, said the issue is one that should be debated objectively and nationally.
“I think the conversation coming from the opposite end is so shrill, so angry, and condemnatory, and also so grand-standing, and even opportunistic, I don’t think it’s actually helping us have a public conversation about it," Dr Strachan said.
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Read storyProtected park has five times the average fish population
Fifty years after The Bahamas created its first national park, scientists returned to the spot that led to its creation.
Returning to Exuma allowed officials from the Bahamas National Trust, coral reef experts, botanists and scientists from the Nature Conservancy to see what has changed in half a century.
Experts found that the island is nearly exactly as it was discovered. With the exception of an out-of-control hutia population, there were many positive findings, including a healthy fish population five times the national average.
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