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FORMER Democratic National Alliance leader Branville McCartney is urging the government to revisit the creation of a National Lottery as a means to assist Bahamians strug gling with the cost of living. Mr McCartney said that despite suggestions a National Lottery and web shop gaming cannot co-exist there was no doubt the former would “certainly be better” for The Bahamas as a means to redistribute monies to those with the greatest food, clothing and shelterCallingneeds.on the Davis administration to “be brave” and “take some risks” to rescue The Bahamas from its post-COVID economic and fiscal crisis, he argued the National Lottery’s pur pose would not be to erode the web shops’ profits although some observers believe there is insufficient funds to support both.

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A MALE Baha Mar employee was granted $7,000 bail in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after he was accused of indecently assaulting a female Cana dian tourist at the resort.

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PRIME Minister Phil lip “Brave” Davis said yesterday it is time for the country to “get on top” of violence and abuse in all forms, following a recent Supreme Court ruling on a divorce case involving a woman who said she felt like a “rape victim” in her marriage.Theruling was handed down by Justice J Denise Lewis-Johnson on August 29 and centres around a woman’s divorce peti tion in which she sought to end her marriage on the grounds of cruel treatment.Thewoman claimed her husband would force intercourse and made her feel like a “rape victim” throughout their marriage.While ruling that the husband was cruel for forcing his wife to have sex against her will on

The board said: “With your help, be it financial, donation of building mate rials or interior décor, and know-how, we can put these young Bahamians on the right path for a successful and productive life. “We are appealing to all members of our island com munity – corporate, private citizens, charitable organi sations, and the like. This is an incredible opportunity to Step Up for the STEP programme and play an essential role in helping to build a brighter future by empowering today’s youth.” To learn more or to find out how you can lend your support, contact the Ranfurly Home at 242-3933115, mail@ranfurlyhome. org or visit their website at www.ranfurlyhome.org .

THE Ranfurly Homes for Children is calling on Bahamians to get involved as they begin phase two construction on their Tran sitional Home Pods. The pods aim to help children as they transition from teenager to adult. The Ranfurly Home’s STEP Programme provides young Bahamians aged 18-21 years with the tools, resources, and support they need to continue to thrive as they transition into inde pendent living and learn to become productive mem bers of society. Joey Premock, president of the Ranfurly board of directors, said: “Our tran sitional home, The Step Programme is essential and vital to our young adults transitioning out of child protective facilities. Our young adults will continue to be in a safe environment being on Ranfurly’s prop erty but will allow them to integrate the skills learned while in an independ ent living situation. Our approach focuses on con tinued education, job skills, and placement, household management, financial lit eracy, meal planning and preparation, and self-care practices. This next step of living offers skill develop ment while young adults are gaining experience living a successful and independent life.”The project began in Spring 2019. Phase one was officially completed as the year ended, with the help and financial support of Bahamas Charitable Giving Foundation (BCGG), Mac Taggert Third Fund, Zonta Club of New Providence, the Giveback Girl, and manyTheothers.Giveback Girl, led by Scieska Adderley, stepped in to assist with the décor of the units. One of Ranfurly’s cur rent residents is 19-year-old Symone Mackey, who said: “When I first learned that I would be moving into the transitional home, I felt super excited and liberated, yet somewhat afraid! I was uncertain of the challenges ahead as I was now enter ing the world that seemed years and years away - the adult world. ‘Adulting’, as some may call it, is not easy as it seems. I now had new responsibilities that I had to take on, such as paying bills, finding employment, purchasing groceries, and clothing, and making my own decisions, as well as facing the repercussions, to name a few. Being given the opportunity to live in the transitional home was a blessing. Firstly, it has pro vided me with a sense of security. Knowing I have a place to stay while I save for my future took away the headache. Secondly, I had some privacy! Being in mul tiple children’s homes from the tender age of two, I was always surrounded by a lot of other kids, and having my own space where it was just me finally meant a lot. Lastly, I received immense support from the Board of Directors and Staff of The Ranfurly Home for Chil dren mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I am truly grateful.”Withphase two under way, a further four units are being built.

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CHEF EMMANUEL GIBSON, left, and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell.

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An official groundbreak ing ceremony will be held on September 22. Ranfurly hopes to raise a further $225,000 (a total of $365,000 less the residual funds previously donated) needed to complete this project successfully.

ABOUT 650 students received free breakfast at L W Young High School yes terday prepared by Manuelo’s restaurant. The event was co-sponsored by several companies including Bahamas Striping and Island Luck, according to a teacher from the school. Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell attended the event.

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The Prime Minis ter expressed similar sentiments in regard to security.“Certainly we, the Min istry of Foreign Affairs, would have put in place, asked persons to be more vigilant about their sur roundings and I think they are looking to how they could beef up their secu rity,” he Formerexplained.Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield said he knows the ministry is well disposed and capa ble of determining when people ought to return home, but emphasised that there should be a short notice to move to repatriate Bahamians home if things get to that point where the embassy staff from The Bahamas in Haiti deter mined that they are unsafe. As for any concern about the safety of diplomats in Haiti right now, Mr Davis answered: “We’re con cerned about the safety of any of our diplomats, whoever they are, but par ticularly in Haiti, because of the challenges that they’re going through now.” For his part, National Security Minister Wayne Munroe spoke about the updates made to security since coming into office when asked if his minis try was asked to intervene to further safeguard the facility.“Idon’t know the full details of that. I can say that since coming to office we were asked to upgrade the arms to the security detach ment at that embassy and we have in fact upgraded the weapons available to the security staff at that embassy,” the minister said.

The matter has been reported to the police in Haiti and is being investigated.Askedif there are any plans to evacuate any offi cials, the prime minister replied: “We have indicated to any of our officials that if they wish to, to return home or withdraw – they have that option but today we have not heard of anyone who’s embraced thatTheoption.”ministry noted that the embassy will continue to monitor this situation along with the general security situation in the Port-auPrince area and “advise the ministry accordingly on recommended courses of action to take.”

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numerous occasions, it was found that “there is no rape in marriage” under Baha mian law. Yesterday, Mr Davis was asked to comment on the judgement and renewed calls for his government to address the issue of marital rape.“Idon’t quite follow that ruling,” the prime minis ter responded. “First of all, violence is violence. I don’t like describing rape at all. I think marital is descriptive that that detracts from the substance of what rape is all about.“Rape is a violation of someone’s body without theirTheconsent.”PrimeMinister then later said he found the ruling curious since rape is physical abuse, which could be used as a ground for divorce.Headded: “It’s curious that the judge can say that a woman who claims that she was raped by a husband cannot use that as a ground for divorce when physical abuse could be and rape is physical abuse.” Mr Davis has previ ously said that addressing the issue of marital rape is not a priority item for his administration.SocialServices Minister Obie Wilchcombe recently acknowledged that while the matter is not a major focus for the government, it is something they will have to deal with eventually. This comes as Mr Wilch combe prepares to meet with church leaders this month to discuss the con troversial topic. Asked yesterday if he supported Mr Wilch combe’s comments, the prime minister replied that it was time for the country to get on top of violence and abuse in all forms. “It’s time to get on top of violence and abuse in all its forms,” Mr Davis said. “It’s become too prevalent in our society. We’re becoming too anti-social, relationships are being stretched by reasons of egos and personalities and all the external issues that impact relationships. “And we need to be able to address those by getting to the root causes of why people act in the way they do. We need to speak to and again, the challenges that we are facing, the soci etal issues that we face to drive people to do things. “We have to get to those. We need to talk to our young men, talk to our young women and talk to our people about what is right and wrong. Civility has to be returned to our society.”Lastweek, police officials revealed statistics showing a rise in reported rapes. Between January 1 and August 23, there were 51 reported rape incidents, up three from the 48 incidents that were recorded for the entire year of 2021. Police said they have also recorded 69 cases of inde cent assault, ten reported incidents of incest and more than 60 cases of unlawful sexual intercourse so far for theWhileyear. commenting on the statistics yesterday, National Security Minister Wayne Munroe said it is time for people to under stand that “you don’t fool with little children and that you don’t force yourself on people period.” Mr Munroe added: “So, we encourage everyone to stop this behaviour. The police are taking a focused approach on it and, as I say, we encourage everyone to co-operate with them in this effort.”

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PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said no Bahamian official at the embassy in Haiti has embraced the option to return home after the reported kidnapping of a local staff member. He added that they are concerned about the safety of any of their diplo mats, “whoever they are”, but particularly in Haiti, because of the challenges experienced in that country.

Mr Davis was asked questions surrounding the incident, which the Minis try of Foreign Affairs said took place around 6am Sep tember 1 in the employee’s neighbourhood.Theministry noted in a press release that it received communication from the embassy in Port-au-Prince advising of the apparent kidnapping of a member of its locally employed staff.

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Dr Rob erts earned his medical degree from the Univer sity of the West Indies. He completed a fellowship in Clinical Renal Transplanta tion as the Victoria General Hospital’s first Transplant Fellow (1986/1987). In 1996, Robin Roberts performed the first kidney transplant in The Bahamas. In July 2017, Dr Roberts was appointed as the first chairman of the National Health Insurance Author ity Board, entrusted with the responsibility of estab lishing and implementing a National Health Insur ance programme for The Bahamas. In 2021, he was appointed deputy chairman. Some 130,000 Bahamians are enrolled in the National Health Insurance Primary care program to date, in pursuit of Universal Health Coverage.DrRoberts counts among his numerous awards the Distinguished Career Award of the Caribbean Urological Association. He was also conferred a Fel lowship from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in June 2018.

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His tertiary studies were launched when he was awarded a Canadian Com monwealth Scholarship in 1971 to pursue an honours degree in biochemistry at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, from which insti tution he graduated with first-class honours and the universitySubsequently,medal.

You could save a life - be on watch for suicide risk

AFTER two suspected suicides in two days, health officials are calling for the public to be on the look out for the signs of suicidal behaviour in an effort to prevent future incidents. In the last month, there have reportedly been four cases of suspected suicide with all four of the male victims reportedly using various materials to hang themselves.DrEneia Theophilus, psychiatric registrar at Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre, who has experience with multiple persons at risk for suicide, said though suicide doesn’t discriminate between genders, men are more likely to commit sui cide than women. “Men are more likely to commit suicide than women. Women would attempt sui cide more frequently, but men actually commit suicide more and they usually use more deadly means in terms of hanging. A man would hang himself much quicker than a woman would. A woman might ingest tablets or cut herself on her wrist. Usually digestion of tab lets is common for women, whereas a man is more likely to hang himself,” she said.“We also know that sui cide doesn’t discriminate. Suicide is a complex pre ventative public health concern. Anyone can feel depressed. Anyone can feel hopeless. They can be frustrated, have negative life situations, so persons of all genders, ages, race, ethnicity can be at risk for suicide and that’s why it’s important to know the signs and symptoms for early detection and, of course, to then get the nec essary help.”

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DR ROBIN A Roberts, a consultant urologist, medi cal educator and one of the most distinguished medi cal practitioners in The Bahamas and the region, has retired as director of the UWI School of Clini cal Medicine & Research Bahamas (SCMR). He was appointed as selior Lecturer and the first Bahamian direc tor of SCMR in 2010 and remained in that post until his retirement in August.

The aim of the forum is to encourage and support development of structured partnerships to contribute to the national achievement of the country’s sustainable development goals. While giving keynote remarks at yesterday’s event, Mr Davis spoke of the importance of devel oping partnerships to address key issues facing the“Bycountry.formalising and structuring partnerships appropriately, especially when they include the private sector and the nongovernmental sector, we create a better foundation for success,” the prime min ister“Thesaid.irony is of course that the more organisations and people that become involved, the more likely it is that bureaucracies and cultures and personalities will get in the way. “This is not to condemn the challenges, merely to observe that this is what human structures are like. So what else can we do in order to promote success? A key tool is to ensure that we are all absolutely clear as to what the priorities are.“If we try to do every thing all at once, or if we have differing ideas of what they are, then chaos and confusion is the more likely result. To be clear, other SDGs are not being abandoned. The priorities are just that: an ordering of the things we currently con sider most urgent and most important.”Tothisend, Prime Min ister Davis highlighted eight areas of focus for his administration, includ ing education, health and national insurance, energy, digitisation, youth employ ment, economic recovery and climate resilience among other things. By forming several partnerships, he said his administration was able to introduce economic reforms, stabilise the coun try’s public finances and address fiscal responsibility among other things. “Some of the effec tive partnerships we have brokered also extend to the energy sector,” he added.“The government has formed partnerships with both the International Development Bank and the European Union to enhance infrastructural development to advance renewable energy. “The project will allow for the construction of solar energy panels projects throughout The Bahamas. This initiative is expected to benefit 13,000 to 17,000 residents - Abaco should benefit especially. “The installation of micro-grids should vastly improve the island’s elec tricity infrastructure, which is still severely weakened from the impact of Hurri caneOnDorian.”thedigital front, he said the government plans to launch several “digiinnovative” projects and programmes.“Thisinitiative seeks to promote information and communication technol ogy ideas that will improve innovation in the public sector,” he added. “The programme will encour age people around The Bahamas to present their ideas on technology and innovation.”

THE CONSTRUCTION site where a German man was found dead on West Bay Street.

She said some strong indicators or predictors of someone at risk for suicide can include anything from access to weapons or fire arms to issues with mental health and social isolation. “There are factors that are associated with the higher suicidal risk. Some of these factors can include relationship problems, sub stance abuse, persons who might have physical ill nesses or serious illnesses. They are at increased risk forShesuicide.”added: “Financial problems, you know in the time that we are in, there are lots of people suffering from financial situations. That could be a predictor. Persons having difficulty even accessing health care, feeling hopeless over health situations. Persons with criminal or legal issues, they can also be at risk for having suicidal behaviours.” She said family history can also be a strong pre dictor as well as access to firearms, or a history of trauma and abuse. “And even just social isolation or lack of social support, that could be amongst the elderly or adults that could also be a predictor for persons that can be expe riencing some sort of suicidal behaviours,” she said. She said these factors do not mean the person is suicidal, however they can warrant a further investi gation if these red flags are noticed.DrTheophilus said when in a situation with some one at risk for suicide it is important to remain calm. “You don’t want to exac erbate a situation that could be potentially dangerous, so you have to remain calm. Sometimes in the situa tion it is important to let the person talk about how they’re feeling. Give them the space to be able to just share how they feel. Some times this can mean being very direct and asking the person if they have sui cidal thoughts. There’s this notion that if we ask the person if they are having suicidal thoughts that they might decide to go and commit suicide as a result of that, but that’s not cor rect,” Dr Theophilus said. On Saturday, a 51-yearold German man died of alleged suicide at a construction site of con dominiums on West Bay Street. He was found by employees of the complex, “hanging by tie straps” on the second floor of the building, said police. Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings also reported that the man had injuries to hisLastneck.Thursday, 41-yearold Anthony Tilme, whose family said he suffered from depression, was found dead with cable wires wrapped around his neck at his resi dence on Kelly Lane. In addition, police were investigating two alleged suicides last month. The first one was in the Carmichael Road area. Ini tial information suggested that shortly after 11am a man in his early 20s was found unresponsive, hanging with a sheet around his neck. This came after another alleged suicide occurred in late July when around 7pm police responded to a report of a male hanging from a property in the area of Marathon Road, north of RobinsonEmergencyRoad.Medical Ser vices responded to both incidents and confirmed the men showed no signs of life. These incidents come as we prepare to observe World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10. Anyone suffering with thoughts of depression, suicide, or any mental health crisis can visit the Community Counseling & Assessment Centre (CCAC), the Out-Patient Mental Health Clinic for Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre (SRC) or call (242) 323-3293 for additional assistance.TheRoyal Bahamas Police Force has advised that anyone feeling suicidal can contact the Suicide Prevention Hotline at 3222763 or the Bahamas Crisis Centre at 328-0922.

By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net

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THE government is moving ahead with its plans to harness renew able energy and has formed partnerships with two international entities to enhance infrastructural development to advance the country’s energy reform goals, according to Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” DavisTheyyesterday.arethe Interna tional Development Bank and the European Union. Mr Davis spoke about the issue at the Bahamas Partnership Forum on Sus tainable Development held at SuperClubs Breezes Resort yesterday. The event was hosted by the Bahamas Development Bank in partnership with United Nations Bahamas.

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He has passed the SCMR leadership baton to Dr Cor rine Sin Quee, a diplomasoushearyhementisRobertsmedicaltinguishedfielddistinguishedwhohematologist/oncologist,pediatrichasmadeherownmarkinthatofmedicalpractice.Widelynotedasadisscholarandpractitioner,DrproudlystatesheagraduateofGovernHighSchool,wherereceivedhissecondeducation.Sincethen,hasearnednumerprofessionaldegrees,andcertifications.

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Govt to ‘step up the pace’ of rebuilding in Abaco

Three years later, some residents are still living in the government domes and other temporary housing structures.Yesterday, Mr Davis was asked to elaborate more on his government’s plans to assist residents following his recent pledge to Abaco nians during the Hurricane Dorian memorial service lastAtweek.last week’s service, Mr Davis promised to do more to help residents on the island, while saying residents should soon be able “to see, touch and feel the results” especially relating to its housing programme.“Ispoketo the residents of Abaco last Thursday and if they were of the view that the coverage was not fast enough, I agree with that and I agree that we have not been as proactive as we ought to do and that is less across the board,” Mr Davis told reporters yesterday. “But I can say that since taking office, we have accelerated our plans. We have set up a homeowners assistance relief programme to help them immediately. As you well know for at least two and a half years, there was nothing done. “But we have now been giving people homes. We have built homes. We gave at least two homes. Other homes are now being con structed and we are now (stepping) up the pace to ensure that the challenges of housing in Abaco are answered.

PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis pictured at the memorioal service in Abaco last week.

LOCAL weather fore casters are watching the development of three sys tems — two tropical storms and one tropical wave. However, none of these pose any direct threat to The Bahamas at this time.According to reports last week, Tropical Storm Danielle was expected to be the first hurricane of the 2022 hurricane season — reaching a strength of a category one storm. In an update on Danielle yesterday, mete orologist Basil Dean said the tropical storm is weakening and condi tions are becoming less favourable for any kind of development.“Danielleis now some 950 miles west northwest of the Azores Islands. Danielle is moving northnorth east at eight miles. And maximum sustained winds have decreased to 85 miles per hour and some slow weakening of the system is anticipated over the next couple of days,” he told The Tribune Mr Dean said there are no watches or warnings for Tropical Storm Danielle. On its Facebook page yesterday, the Depart ment of Meteorology said Tropical Storm Earl is now moving north-north west ward with little change in strength, however it can become a hurricane later thisMrweek.Dean said this tropi cal storm also is not a severe threat to The Baha mas at this Accordingtime.to Mr Dean, a tropical wave is currently southeast of Cabo Verde Islands and has a 40 per cent chance of becoming a tropical depression by the end of the week. “The tropical wave is southeast of the Cabo Verde Islands and it’s pro ducing a broad area of disorganised showers and thunderstorms,” he told The Tribune yesterday. “However, this has a good potential, but a 40 percent chance of becoming a trop ical depression later this week, at least by the end of this week. So, we’ll keep our eyes on that as well.” He expressed the importance of Bahami ans remaining vigilant and prepared as we enter the peak of the hurricane season.The hurricane season runs from June 1 through November 30.

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PRIME Minister Phil lip “Brave” Davis says his administration has accel erated its rebuilding plans for Abaco and “stepped up the pace” in addressing the housing crisis on the island. Abaco has been facing a housing shortage since September 2019 when Hur ricane Dorian laid waste to hundreds of homes and major infrastructure there.

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Dorian first struck Abaco on September 1 with maximum sustained winds of 185 miles per hour, gusts of 220 miles per hour and storm surge in excess of 20 feet. The storm then moved to Grand Bahama, where it hovered for nearly two days. While the official death toll of Dorian stands at 74, hundreds are said to be still Overmissing.thelast several days, the nation has held several memorial events to honour the lives lost to the storm as well as the survivors.

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“The Abaco economy is rebounding and the chal lenge to that rebound is being able to find work ers and workers finding a place to stay and so we are addressing that as we speak.” Asked if he was pleased with the state of Abaco, Mr Davis replied “no”, adding that he will not be pleased until more homes have been built and the island has returned to some sem blance of normalcy.

“So after the contrac tor walked away from the job and turned the items over to the DRA, there’s no way for me to say an installed dome is worth, let’s say $12,000 or what? Because I have none of that paperwork. I just have the actual costing that we paid on the contract, which would include installation, the contractor’s markup and many other different costs associated with the project.”Healso said: “I have paperwork that tells me that we should have items in our inventory associ ated with the domes and the dome project, but we have not been able to locate thoseWhenitems.”contacted, Mr Clarke said “we have to trust” that people in govern ment are sensible enough to keep proper records. Asked about the accu sation, he replied: “I can’t even fathom a response, but all I can say is that as far as when I was involved, as best as we were able, we tried to keep sufficient records so that those that come after us would be able to continue to execute the work of recovery and reconstruction.”Asforifthe govern ment contacted him to see where the paperwork is, Mr Clarke said: “To date, nobody’s asked me for it, but you know the thing is that’s why you keep records. I don’t think any body is deliberately hiding anything, but I am sure with careful investigation those records are easily found.” Mr Clarke also said: “You know, from my van tage point, every Bahamian in the disaster is trying to do the best that they abso lutely can – it’s a disaster.”

THE former chairman of the Disaster Reconstruc tion Authority (DRA) said when he was involved in the entity, officials tried as best they could to keep suf ficientJohnrecords.Michael Clarke told The Tribune yesterday he does not think anybody is deliberately hiding any thing but is sure, with careful investigation, those records can be easily found. He was responding to claims reported in a local daily that the DRA has not been able to find paperwork for the Minnis administra tion’s dome initiative. However, Alex Storr, the current DRA execu tive chairman, clarified the issue, saying while there is a contract for the dome project, there is no indi vidual customs or other paperwork detailing the individual dome’s price. “What it is, is that on the domes, I have a con tract that was given for the installation of the domes that included an industrial kitchen, and what they were calling a dome city at a time that’s quite different than what was actually done. “But I have no customs paperwork or no other paper work that tells me how much each dome costs. So I have no invoice for the purchase of a dome because it was done through a contractor.

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SO, A certain media outlet is holding a poll sub ject: Should we grant automatic citizenship? Tricky question as there is far from one answer, but as sure as the sun rose in the east, I suspect there is some madness in this poll will we hear that this is the view of the people? It should be noted there is an awaiting justices’ case at Privy Council which will be considerable if the Justice Winder judgement is held up - then a male Bahamian who fathers a child with a non-Baha mian that child will be Bahamian.

Photo: Yuki Iwamura/AP AFTER Police Commis sioner Clayton Fernander spoke on the issue of police opening fire on suspects and said officers were not “in the business” of letting off “warning shots”, read ers of www.tribune242.com had their own views on the matter.Tribanon said: “So the mere holding of a licensed firearm not pointed at anyone now gives the police the right to shoot and kill you on the spot, with no questions asked and with out any warning. “Just think about that the next time dangerous trespassers and/or home invaders are on your prop erty late at night and you tell your wife to call the police while you arm your self with your licensed shotgun to protect your wife and children. “This idiot Fernander is telling his officers that upon arrival at your home they have the right to imme diately shoot any armed person on sight. And that of course would include inno cent you standing there on your own property holding your licensed shotgun in a safe and non-threatening manner with the intent of protecting your family from dangerous trespassers and/or home invaders. Fer nander was obviously born without a thinking cap!” Flyingfish replied: “A Handgun isn’t legal for the general public and rarely is there a situation where you’d end up pointing your firearm, nonetheless a handgun, at police unless you’re trying to kill them.

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“In this case is a handgun not shotgun so no need for the speculative remarks. If you would want more police accountability, As I do, I would recommend supporting Body Cam introduction to the RBPF.” Mandela added: “If anyone engages in point ing a firearm at the police will and should be shot, simple.”•Join the conversation at www.tribune242.com.

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Truss’ perceived loyalty to John son, who remains popular with many Tories, also helped her win. Many party members cited Sunak’s decision to quit Johnson’s Cabinet in July as a mark against him. Truss didn’t resign, saying she was a “loyal person” — though she had been courting party members for months at “fizz with Liz” events to build support for a potential leadership bid. Conservatives have embraced Truss’ optimistic message of liberation through less government, which is reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s “morning in America” boosterism.Trussdoesn’t have long to persuade voters that she is on the right track. The next national election must be held in two“Isyears.Lizgoing to be able to say in 2024, ‘Are you richer now than you were when I became prime minister?’ Pos sibly,” Littlewood said. “But it’s not an obvious slam dunk.”

If any of either gender without either party agreeing is forcibly against their will into a sex act of any kind does not have to be limited to inter course or anal sex - that is Rape.There has to be worry as to the process of report ing rape unfortunately it is well established that in some cases a female trying to report rape is almost as traumatic as the rape itself.Every police station should have trained officers who will interview the person making the claim - those interviews must be video recorded. Once the claim is estab lished the police team stops and calls in a spe cialist psychologist who will then interview the claimant - assess and prob ably carry out the criminal rape kit/test. No claim ant should have to wait more than 48 hours before knowing the Police have concluded that a rape occurred and they will take all steps to arrest the offender.

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The Tribune Limited NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI “Being Bound to Swear to The Dogmas of No Master” LEON E. H. DUPUCH, Publisher/Editor 1903-1914 SIR ETIENNE DUPUCH, Kt., O.B.E., K.M., K.C.S.G., (Hon.) LL.D., D.Litt . Publisher/Editor 1919-1972 Contributing Editor 1972-1991 EILEEN DUPUCH CARRON, C.M.G., M.S., B.A., LL.B. Publisher/Editor 1972Published daily Monday to Friday Shirley & Deveaux Streets, Nassau, Bahamas N3207 TELEPHONES News & General Information (242) 322-1986 Advertising Manager (242) 502-2394 Circulation Department (242) 502-2386 Nassau fax (242) 328-2398 Freeport, Grand Bahama (242)-352-6608 Freeport fax (242) 352-9348 WEBSITE, TWITTER & FACEBOOK www.tribune242.com @tribune242 tribune news network PAGE 6, Tuesday, September 6, 2022 THE TRIBUNE

Liz Truss: An heir to Thatcher?

PAULA MINNS SeptemberNassau, 1, 2022.

AS A child, Liz Truss marched in demonstrations against Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. As an adult, she came to admire Britain’s first female leader — and now she is about to enter No 10 Downing St. with a Thatcherite zeal to transform the UK. Truss, Britain’s foreign secretary, was named winner Monday in the contest to replace the scandal-plagued Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader and the country’s prime minister. The party said Truss won the votes of around 57 percent of Conservative members, compared with about 43 percent for exTreasury chief Rishi Sunak. Truss, 47, will become Britain’s third female prime minister, after Thatcher, who governed from 1979 to 1990, and Theresa May, who held office from 2016 to 2019. Conservative Party members have embraced Truss’ vows to slash taxes and red tape and keep up Britain’s staunch support for Ukraine. Some see echoes of the Iron Lady — as Thatcher was known — in Truss’ vision of a “network of liberty” binding democracies around theToworld.critics, Truss is an inflexible ideo logue whose right-wing policies won’t help Britain weather the economic tur moil set off by the pandemic, Brexit and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mark Littlewood, a libertarian com mentator who has known Truss since their university days, said Britain’s new leader is less a conservative than a “radi cal,” who — like Thatcher — wants to “roll back the intervention of the state” in people’s lives. “I’m expecting a lot of fireworks and a lot of controversy and a lot of action,” heBornsaid. in Oxford in 1975, Mary Eliza beth Truss is the daughter of a math professor and a nurse, who took her on anti-nuclear and anti-Thatcher protests as a child, where she recalled shouting: “Maggie, Maggie, Maggie — out, out, out!”Ina 2018 speech, she said she began developing her own political views early, “arguing against my socialist parents in our left-wing household.” The family lived in Paisley, Scotland, before moving to Leeds in northern England, where Truss attended a public high school — something that sets her apart from her many privately educated Conservative colleagues. During the leadership campaign, Truss emphasised her relatively modest background. But she riled some former classmates and teachers when she said students at her school were “let down by low expectations, poor educational standards and a lack of opportunity”. The school’s alumni include academics, judges and several other members of Parliament.Trusswent on to Oxford University, where she studied philosophy, politics and economics — the degree of choice for many aspiring politicians — and was president of the university branch of the Liberal Democratic Party. The economically centrist Lib Dems back constitutional reform and civil liberties, and Truss was an enthusiastic member, putting up “Free the Weed” posters that called for decriminalisation of marijuana and arguing in a speech for the abolition of the Littlewood,monarchy.who was a fellow member of the Oxford Lib Dems and now heads the Institute for Economic Affairs, a free market think tank, remembers Truss as “headstrong and determined and outspoken”. “You were never in any doubt where she stood on an issue or a person,” he said. After Oxford, Truss joined the Con servative Party — “when it was distinctly unfashionable,” she later said. She worked as an economist for energy company Shell and telecom munications firm Cable and Wireless, and for a right-of-center think tank while becoming involved in Conserva tive politics and espousing free market Thatcherite views. She served as a local councilor in London and ran unsuccess fully for Parliament twice before being elected to represent the eastern England seat of Southwest Norfolk in 2010. She won the safely Conservative seat after a bump on the way — some local Conservatives were outraged when it was revealed she had had an affair with another MP when both were married to other people. Truss won over her crit ics, and her marriage survived. She and husband Hugh O’Leary, an accountant, have two teenage daughters. She founded the Free Enterprise group of Thatcherite Tory lawmakers who produced “Britannia Unchained,” a polit ical treatise that notoriously included the claim that British workers are “among the worst idlers in the world”. David Laws, a former Cabinet minister who worked with Truss in gov ernment a decade ago, recalled her as energetic and “mind-bogglingly ambi tious,” comparing her in his memoir to “a young Margaret Thatcher on speed”. Truss got her first Cabinet job as food and environment secretary in 2014, making her biggest impression with a much-mocked speech in which she thundered that it was “a disgrace” that Britain imports two-thirds of its cheese. In Britain’s 2016 referendum on whether to leave the European Union, Truss backed the losing “remain” side, though she says she was always a natural euroskeptic. Since the vote, she has won over Brexiteers with her uncompromis ing approach to the EU. She became justice secretary, but she was demoted to a more junior role in the Treasury by May in 2017. When May was toppled by her repeated failure to break a political deadlock over Brexit, Truss was an early backer of Boris Johnson to replace her. When he won, Johnson made Truss trade secretary, a role in which she Instagrammed her way around the world signing post-Brexit trade deals and raising her profile. In September 2021, she was appointed foreign secretary, Britain’s top dip lomat. Her performance has drawn mixed reviews. Many praise her firm response to the invasion of Ukraine, and she secured the release of two British citizens jailed in Iran, where her prede cessors had failed. But EU leaders and officials who hoped she would bring a softer tone to Britain’s relations with the bloc have been disappointed. Amid trade wran gling, Truss introduced legislation to rip up parts of the binding UK-EU divorce agreement signed by both sides. The 27-nation bloc is taking legal action against Britain in return. Truss has sometimes suggested the frequent comparisons to Thatcher are sexist, but at other times she has encour aged them. She has posed in a British Army tank in Eastern Europe, evoking an image of Thatcher during the Cold War. In a televised leadership debate, Truss sported a pussy-bow blouse just like one Thatcher used to wear. By stressing her modest background, she is evoking comparisons to grocer’s daughter Thatcher, said Victoria Hon eyman, associate professor of British politics at the University of Leeds — “the working-class girl done good”. Truss’ own personality is hidden behind a stern public persona. Friends say she has a fun-loving side rarely glimpsed in public, and enjoys karaoke and blasting out tunes by Taylor Swift, Whitney Houston and Destiny’s Child.

M THOMPSON SeptemberNassau, 2, 2022.

A PARTICIPANT in costume walks during the West Indian Day Parade in the Brooklyn borough of New York yesterday.

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EDITOR, The Tribune. THE laws governing what is rape and what isn’t urgently need reviewrepeat probably and a new sensibly written law will co-exist with modern con vention and Statute Law. Remove the word mari tal it’s inclusion existing is unjust - discriminatory and does not cover the fullest description of what and how rape can occur remove the wordRape“marital”.bybasic definition the forcible taking agree ment/acceptance to the sexual act on either gender, not either, on another totally against the will of the other party.

TEENAGER JAILED FOR BAIL VIOLATION

Lavaughn Ferguson, 33, faced Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on a charge of indecent assault against the 33-year-old woman.Itis alleged that after Ferguson was let into the hotel room by the female complainant on August 31, he touched the woman’s breasts and vagina without herInconsent.court, the accused pleaded not guilty to the charge. As there was no objec tion to bail by prosecutor ASP Lewis, Ferguson was granted $7,000 bail with one or two sureties. Under the conditions of his bail, Ferguson is expected to sign in at South Beach Police Sta tion every Sunday by 7pm.Magistrate VogtEvans further warned the accused not to interfere with the complainant in this matter.Ferguson’s trial is set for September 14. He is represented by attorney Kareem Higgins.

By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net

AN 18-YEAR-OLD was sentenced to one year in prison yesterday for vio lating the conditions of his Supreme Court bail on a murderQ’Shawncharge.

80 Haitian migrants held after vessel intercepted

CHINA LINK-UP FOR ELECTRONICS TO AID STUDENTS

Commodore King described Haitian migrant arrests as “passive”, in comparison to the arrest of Dominican tionsKinglevelapproachsochangedpoachersenvironmentaggressive.evenboardingpoachers.sameheprettymigrant“Surprisinglypoachers.theHaitianarresthasgonewell,prettypassive,”said.“I’munabletosaythefortheDominicanThoseattemptedhavebecomemorehostileandThetoneandofthosehaveevidentlyovertimeandwehavetoapplytheforcetomeetthatofresistance.”Lastmonth,Commodorenotedthatintercepofmigrantvessels have been largely success ful for the year, noting there had been no recent illegal landings in the country. “For this fiscal year, none,” he said, when asked about the issue. “We’ve intercepted every vessel that attempted to come to TheYesterday,Bahamas.”Mr King noted these statistics about illegal migration activity is “still the“Stillcase”. the case, this would’ve been the second vessel that attempted within recent times to come to The Bahamas. The last one was off Salt Pond, Long Island and this one now is along the Ragged Island chains. “We are watching the trend, but we remain strategically postured and we continue to work with our regional partners, local agencies and the fishing community to provide the intelligence to Commodoreus.”King also noted a second vessel that was spotted by the United States Coast Guard. “The report we got was that there were some 20 to 30 persons visual on deck,” Commodore King told reporters. “That’s all that we have for now. We haven’t been able to get any footage or picture of the vessel from the Coast Guard as yet.” He said with the assis tance of the United States Coast Guard the migrant vessel will be intercepted.

BAHA MAR WORKER IS ACCUSED OF SEX ASSAULT from page one STUDENTS of Sadie Curtis Primary School are starting off the new school year with more technology at their fingertips, thanks to a unique community partnership between The Bahamas and China. Member of Parliament for Nassau Village Jamahl Strachan thanked Dai Qingli, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, for supporting the goal of providing greater access to educational tools for the children of Nassau Village.“Ibelieve that in order to prepare our young ones to be competitive in the future, they must be equipped with the assets that they need now,” Mr Strachan said. With the gift of technol ogy in the form of desktops, tablets and keyboards, it will allow the students of Sadie Curtis to become familiarised with the digital world and ultimately, com pete“Itglobally.”isapleasure to part ner with the Embassy of China and Her Excellency Dai Qingli because it also speaks to the interna tional bonds, friendships and camaraderie shown between the two nations to advance the younger generation.OnMonday, August 29, Mr Strachan officially pre sented the gifts to Sadie Curtis Principal Sheanda Mackey and staff, who expressed appreciation for the tools, which will undoubtedly enhance the educational experience for the students. The devices donated will boost exist ing facilities and enhance the digital curriculum and programmes.

TWO YEARS IN PRISON FOR STEALING

LAWNMOWER FROM GOVT HOUSE

of plywood and a stolen lawnmower. The Briggs & Stratton lawnmower, worth $379.99, was later identified as the property of Michael Wring.In court, the accused pleaded guilty to the stealing and trespass ing charges resulting in the receiving charge being withdrawn.WhenPratt was asked by the magistrate why he committed this crime, he claimed that he was drunk at the time. The accused fur ther claimed that he was abused while in custody at Central Station to which the magistrate advised him to lodge an official complaint to the relevant authorities. Magistrate Vogt-Evans then sentenced Pratt to two years at BDCS for the stealing charge and an additional three months for the trespassing charge, to be served consecutively. The magistrate pointed out that Pratt is a repeat offender with similar con victions — shop-breaking and attempted stealing — and as he does not appear remorseful for his actions is reason for his sentencing. While on remand, the accused will receive medical attention after requesting it from the magistrate.

By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net

By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS lmunnings@tribunemedia.net

SADIE Curtis Primary School principal Sheanda Mackey and staff accept electronic de vices from Nassau Village MP Jamahl Phoot:Strachan.Verline Mackey

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A MAN was sentenced to a little more than two years at the Bahamas Depart ment of Correctional Services (BDCS) for tres passing onto Government House grounds and stealing a lawnmower.OtisPratt, 57, appeared before Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on charges of stealing, receiv ing and menttrespassingofficersberAroundtrespassing.6pmonSeptem2,PrattwasarrestedbyafterhewasfoundonGovernHouseholdingapiece

EIGHTY Haitian migrants were apprehended when their vessel was inter cepted in the Ragged Island chain on Sunday. Royal Bahamas Defence Force Commodore Ray mond King said the group will be taken to Nassau. “Based on intelligence from a local fisher, fishing along the Ragged Island chain provided intelli gence yesterday (Sunday) of a migrant vessel that was moving along the Ragged Island chain off Water Cay,” he said yes terday on the sidelines of The Bahamas Partnership Forum at SuperClubs Breezes.“We dispatched our aircraft to confirm that sighting and two of our ves sels which intercepted that vessel and is reported to have some 80 persons on board and those persons are being transported to the capital as we speak,” he added.MrKing provided report ers with an update on illegal migration activity for the year.He said the country con tinues to experience an influx of migrants either transiting through The Bahamas towards the United States of Amer ica and in isolated cases towards The Bahamas. He suspects the “trend” of migrant vessels frequent ing the Great Bahama Bank is in an effort to evade Cuban Border Con trol and the United States Coast“WhatGuard.we found now is that those vessels are moving high on the Great Bahama Bank and so they are trying to be eva sive from the Cuban Border Control, as well as the United States Coast Guard by coming high in our internal waters on the bank itself,” Commodore King said. “That seems to be a trend that we now have to pay attention to, those vessels being some 30 to 40 miles just South of Andros.”

Turnquest stood before Senior Mag istrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans in Magistrate’s Court on charges of violating the conditions of bail. Between August 18-30, according to his elec tronic monitoring device (EMD), Turnquest was found outside his residence during his Supreme Court ordered curfew of 8pm to 6am on five occasions. While Turnquest pleaded guilty to the charge and accepted the facts of his case in court, he claimed that his EMD was malfunctioning. He also said that he had reported the issue to the monitoring company. When the magistrate asked the accused’s mother if she was aware that her son broke curfew, she con firmed that the monitoring company had called her about Turnquest violat ing his bail conditions last week.Magistrate VogtEvans sentenced the teenager to a year at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services for breaching curfew. He was also ordered to pay a $2,500 fine or risk an additional six months in custody.

He also received the Ron Bentley Memorial Award of Excellence.Kenneth eventually trans ferred to Podiatry Medical School at Temple University in Philadelphia. Coinciden tally, Temple is Bill Cosby’s alma mater. Things were really becoming full circle in Kenneth’s life. The black excellence that he saw on TV, now became his reality, and he had no intention of stopping.Hisparents Kenneth and Angela Kemp are his great est inspiration. In addition to pushing him in his educa tional pursuits, they showed him the importance of his family and country. His father, now deceased, hailed from Eleuthera. His mother, formerly a Cartwright, hails from Long Island. Together, they were a formidable team and source of support forDespiteKenneth.Temple’s intense curriculum, Kenneth came out soaring. He was gradu ated with the National Podiatric Medical Associa tion (NPMA) Excellence in Research award, the American Association of Podiatric Practice Manage ment (AAPPM) award and the Jay Robert Rappaport Humanitarian award. “It was difficult at first, adjusting to being in the United States after having lived in Canada for seven years and the curriculum was intense,” Kenneth recalls.“The one thing that never got easier about progressing, was leaving people behind. I left my Nassau friends and moved to Toronto; then left those friends and moved to Ottawa; then Philadelphia; and then New York. The journey was often lonely, but I always had my family who were so proud of me. They encouraged me to constantly push forward.” While at Temple, Ken neth had to figure out where he would pursue his surgical residency. The only hospital in the United States that Kenneth had ever really heard of notably, was Mount Sinai in New York. So, while his friends selected over ten places to interview, he only selected Mount Sinai. Kenneth was told that he was making a grave error. So, to appease his advisor, he selected one other hospital in New York. “During that intern ship,” he said, “I slept in the hospital for one month, because I didn’t want to ask my parents for more money to secure another apartment.”MountSinai is ranked in the top ten hospitals in the United States, and securing an internship here would be super difficult. Fortunately, Kenneth’s grades and board scores were good enough as an international student for the hospital to select him for a one-month internship. “The night before I was scheduled to travel to New York and start my internship, the guy who was renting me an apart ment called to demand an additional $1,000.00 be trans ferred to his account before morning,” Kenneth said. “I hadn’t signed a lease and he had someone in front of him offering that amount. Rather than wait until morning for me to get there, he needed me to match it immediately or I would lose the place. Even if I could get the money from my parents in time, I had no way of getting it to him before the end of the day; so I walked away thinking I could get some thing else easily.”

Dr. Carol Angela Henry-Carroll, 73 a resident of Lakeview Drive, Nassau, The Bahamas, will be held Wednesday September 07, 2022 at, 10:00 a.m. at Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Stapledon Gardens. Cremation was held prior to service. Current Government COVID-19 regulations are in effect. Social Distancing and Face Masks will be Leftrequired.tocherish her memory are her loving husband (together for 53 years): Dr. K. Larry Carroll; her children: Amanda, Keenan and Melissa; sisters: Judith Henry-Porther and Valerie Smart of Trinidad; brother: Dr. Ronald Henry of Trinidad; sistersin-law: Margo Gongora and Yasmin Enache; the Samuel Minnis Family; the Archie Carroll Family; numerous nieces and nephews; her close friends: Cassie Cooper, Merlease Bethel, Rosemary Johnson, Bill and Glynn Lyons, Rosamund Williams, Cora Johnson, Mildred Fox, Fr. John and Loise Kabiga, Debbie Johnson; the Holy Trinity Church Family, and myriad of other family members and friends. There will be No Viewing. Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Butlers’ Funeral Homes & Crematorium, Ernest and York Streets. Service For

MANY in my generation grew up watching the Cosby Show. We couldn’t wait for new, weekly episodes to see what the Huxtables - a TV Show family - was up to next. The Huxtables gave us the image of a solid African American family structure. Because of this, little black boys and girls had positive people who looked like them to emu late on television. Dr Kenneth Kemp, like me, grew up watching the Cosby Show. The everimportant figure that Bill Cosby played is the strong black male and father figure. Kenneth wanted to be like Cliff Huxtable – a doctor – and he was ten years-old when he made up his mind to become one when he grew up. Ini tially, Kenneth assumed that Cliff was a paediatri cian, because of how well he dealt with children. So, that is what he determined he wanted to be. He later found out that Cliff repre sented an OB/GYN. Over the years, just like any child, the young Ken neth’s dream took shape in his mind in many ways. At one point, Kenneth imag ined himself as a cardiologist, because of a paternal family history of congenital heart defects. But it wasn’t until his grandmother developed a small wound on her foot that gradually became infected and a surgeon amputated her entire leg, that he felt the desire to become a foot and ankle“Mysurgeon.grandmother was never the same after losing her leg and she died less than five months later,” he shared.“Iwas too young to help her, but I was determined to help anyone else that found themselves in her position.” Fast forward to today, Dr Kenneth Kemp is an out standing doctor, dubbed “the Prince of Podiatry” by the late Hollywood actor, Sir Sean Connery. The film star is just one of many A-list celebrities, professional athletes, super models, ambassadors, and other influential people whom he has had the pleas ure of caring for, and in some cases, becoming their friend. It’s because Kenneth does his work from the heart. His life was changed by his grandmother’s ordeal and subsequent passing. He continued to learn and grow with his goal in mind. Kenneth was graduated from St John’s College with honours. He received the Principal’s Distinction award, the Prefect award, a Deportment award, Junior Achievement award, and an honourable mention for meritorious development in English Language and Lit erature. In addition to that, Kenneth was the first-ever recipient of the Fr Dunston BurrowsThroughaward.diligence in high school, he created the perfect launching pad for himself to even be able to consider medical school. The student who knows where he or she is going is likely to give school their best shot, knowing that their grades will ultimately affect the outcome of their future. With great grades and accolades in hand, Ken neth was one step closer to his dream of becoming a doctor. He applied to York University in Canada, and was accepted. There, the young Kenneth continued to flourish in academics. He served as a student ambas sador and was graduated as a Presidential Honour’s recipient for student excel lence with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. At this point in his ter tiary education, Kenneth would not have had the chance to even dabble in his chosen professional spe cialty. However, an incident occurred which cemented his“Itvision.wasn’t until I injured my ankle playing soccer and was repetitively afflicted by arch pain and shin splints because of my flat feet that I truly appreciated my call ing,” Kenneth told me. “I had to see a foot specialist and received orthoses (medical grade shoe insoles), which I still wear to this day.” Relief from pain and the ability to be mobile is a gift that Kenneth appreci ated as a university student. He was able to be on the receiving end of the kind of help he wished to give the world; and he had a chance to see just how effective podiatry could be. With this new perspec tive, Kenneth continued his studies at the Michener Institute for Applied Health Sciences, Toronto, where he spent two years. Kenneth, became class president, then went on to do a year intern ship at Ottawa General Hospital. He successfully passed his Canadian Medi cal Board examinations and received his licence to practise podiatry in Canada.

“The next morning, I travelled to New York hoping that during my break, I could call around and sign a one-month lease. However, the entire day I was swamped with oral presentations, clinic work, rounding on patients in the hospital and assisting with surgical cases. Before I knew it, the day was almost over and with no place to stay and no money for a hotel, I commuted back to Philadelphia.”“Everyday I got up at 4:30am; got ready; walked ten minutes from my campus apartment to catch the bus; took the bus to the subway station; took the subway to the Amtrak train station; and at 6am, I took a one-and-a-half-hour train ride from Philadelphia to New York. From there, I took a subway to the 103rd street station nearest the hospital and walked to work to start rounding on all the hospital in-patients on our service by 8am. Then there were morning didac tic learning sessions, then surgical cases, Emergency Room calls, clinics, and evening didactic learning sessions. Then, I took the 8:30pm train and commuted back home to Philadelphia. This went on every day for 3 weeks.”“Bythe middle of the third week, my body was numb. I was a zombie run ning on three to four hours of sleep every night. On weekends, I would fall asleep; sleep all day Sat urday; and be barely able to move on Sunday. On the Friday of my third week interning, everything nearly fell apart. Up until that point, no one knew that I was commuting. But on Friday, our Opera tion Room case ran over time so we didn’t finish our evening didactic session until after 10pm. The last train to Philadelphia was at 11:15pm and there was no way that I could make it in time by walking to the bus stop and taking the bus to the train station, so when one of the residents offered me a ride home, I begrudg ingly said yes. Then when he asked where I was stay ing, I said Philadelphia. He brushed it off and said, ‘No, I know you go to school in Philadelphia, but where are you staying in New York?’ I explained that I was com muting back and forth because I couldn’t find an apartment and he just said, ‘Wow’. The rest of the car ride was silent.” “The following Monday morning when I got to the hospital, that same resident saw me and told me not to round on the patients because the director of the programme wanted to see me as soon as possible. I was terrified that I had lost my only opportunity to match at a great hospital for residency. The director asked me why I didn’t say anything to anyone, and I said that it was because I didn’t want them to think that I was irresponsible and incapable of securing an apartment. But to my surprise, he congratulated me for ‘never complain ing and for showing up to work before all of his other residents, being prepared for every surgical case and exemplifying what hard work and determination looks like’. He gave me the rest of the week off.” Kenneth ultimately got the job and within two years, he was selected as the Chief Resident for Foot and Ankle surgery. He left Mount Sinai with three Crystal awards of excel lence, two certificates and a standing ovation from every physician that he worked with. With a blooming career in America, Kenneth decided to come back home to The Bahamas and be of service to his country. For a time, Kenneth was partners in Vasyli, Kemp & Co, before he went on to establish his own practice. He continues to sell the Vasyli orthot ics exclusively in his office, carrying on the legacy of Dr Phil Vasyli, who was found murdered in his Old Fort Bay mansion in March, 2015.His practice, Bahamas Foot and Ankle, is located in the Caves Village and has been in operation for nearly a decade. He has treated billionaires as well as those with low incomes, and he always aims to provide the same level of care and stellar service, no matter the patient. He never real ised that by following his passion, it would open up opportunities for him that he never expected. Since August 2021, Ken neth has shared some of the most compelling medi cal stories that he has ever encountered over the course of his career in his health column: ‘The KDK Report’. It appears every Monday in The Tribune and online at www.thekdkre port.com.Since returning home and practising podiatry, Dr Kenneth Kemp has served as the deputy chairman for the Health Council for five years. For the past ten years, he has also served as the vice chairman for the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) Foundation. Ken neth received one Crystal award from the Health Council and three awards from the PMH Foundation during his tenure for pro viding years of dedicated service.“Ifit’s something that you’re truly passionate about, work hard and never give up,” Kenneth said when asked to share advice with young people. “Always treat patients respectfully and success will follow.”Today, Kenneth is carving out new ways to be of ser vice to his community. He intends to form the KDK foundation “with a focus on helping sick kids and doing my part to build my community”.

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By FELICITY DARVILLE Face to Face DR KENNETH KEMP

DR KENNETH KEMP, centre, with Dr Patti Symonette and Bernadette Ellis at a Bahamas Health Council event.

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the huge interna tional media coverage of the passing last week of the former president of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, perhaps one of the most telling headlines was one by the BBC calling him ‘a warm-hearted, decent and generous man’. Delving in to the background, it is evident that this was partly prompted by what was known about his deep love for Raisa, his wife of fortysix years. After her death from leukaemia in 1999, he publicly admitted that “my life has lost its princi pal meaning. I have never had such an acute feeling of loneliness”.Butitwas also based on an assessment of his capacity, skill and efforts to reform the system of government in the former USSR. After becoming General Secretary of the Communist Party and then President of the country in 1985, he had burst on to the political stage with his plans for perestroika (restruc turing) to reform a failing state-controlled centralised economy – not necessarily to replace it with a freemarket economy – and glasnost (openness) in order to implement such reform with a measure of democracy like free elec tions and some relaxation of an existing repressive regime. These changes were intended to reinvigorate the country’s stagnant economy and overhaul its political processes, rather than to replace the existing system in its Theentirety.worldhad never seen a Soviet leader similar to him. Unlike his predeces sors, he was young and relaxed with an open and direct manner and he seemed determined to build better relations with the West. His name became familiar in Britain when, during his and his wife’s visit in 1984, Prime Min ister Margaret Thatcher memorably said that Gor bachev was “someone I can do business with”, thus taking relations with the Soviet Union to a new level of meaningful dialogue and bilateral co-operation. His relationship with President Reagan also paved the way to an ending of the Cold War.After helping to achieve this in the face of his fear of a third world war, Gor bachev was recognised as one of the most influential figures of the last century and won a Nobel Peace Prize “for the leading role he played in the radical changes in East-West rela tions”. But the internal reforms became the cata lyst for a series of events, including growing calls for independence of parts of the Soviet Union, that eventually resulted in its dissolution after 70 years of existence. There was increasing pressure for cre ation of a Commonwealth of Independent States that included an end of commu nist rule across the satellite states in Eastern Europe. However, despite claims to the contrary, the evidence clearly shows that this had not been his intention and that he had been trying to keep the union together – indeed, in later years he reiterated his fierce oppo sition to the collapse of the USSR and called it “a crime resulting from treach ery”. He wanted reform of the existing system not the destruction of the whole edifice of the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, by the time Gorbachev left office the USSR no longer existed. Inevitably, he was blamed by some people for its col lapse. So, although his perestroika and glasnost reforms had been benefi cial to an ailing economy and society had acquired new freedoms and hope for the future, many were not happy with his actions. That said, others maintained that the USSR collapsed under the weight of its own inefficiency.Gorbachev was forced to resign in 1991 after opposition from hardlin ers in the ruling Politburo and as the result of a coup. After the instability of the Boris Yeltsin era, the autocratic Vladimir Putin made it clear after assum ing power in 1999 that he wanted to improve order and discipline, and restore what were termed the lost certainties of a strong and respected USSR, saying that Russia had been a great power for centuries and remained so, with legit imate zones of interest. Putin is said to be a nationalist in the federal (Russia) – rather than purely ethnic (Russia) –sense of the word which partly accounts for his terri ble and calamitous invasion of Ukraine. It also explains his earlier infamous words about the disintegration of the USSR being a “geopo liticalHecatastrophe”.hasundonemuch of the reform process intro duced by Gorbachev. The latter complained in a recent interview that his achievements had been rolled back in the face of an increasing crackdown so that any taste of free dom had been lost. Even though he had agreed with the annexation of Crimea in 2014, Gorbachev also warned recently -- well before the invasion of Ukraine in February this year – of renewed East/ West confrontation and that the current tensions between Russia and the West were putting the world in “colossal danger” because of the threat of nuclearInterestingly,weapons. however, on Gorbachev’s 90th birth day last year Putin praised him as “one of the most outstanding statesmen of modern times who had made a considerable impact on the history of our nation and on the world.” It was therefore surpris ing to some that Gorbachev was not accorded a full state funeral and that his service at the weekend was not attended by Putin though he had earlier pri vately paid his respects at Gorbachev’s coffin and laid flowers.Butperhaps a not insig nificant factor was that in the nation’s current state of isolation over Ukraine international dignitaries would not be able to show up.Watching the large num bers of ordinary people filing past his coffin and paying their own respects to this remarkable man, it was not hard to see why many had placed their hopes in Mikhail Gorbachev. He had earlier given the people a first taste of free dom and partial democracy. But he lost control of his own reforms which have been reversed as Russia under Putin has returned to a state of renewed authoritarianism.

BRITISH lawmaker Liz Truss speaks after winning the Conservative Party leadership contest. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

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To my eye, this can invite comparisons with a particular development in Britain where, according to press reports, a debate is starting about the justification of the coronavirus lockdowns, the imposition of which is now increasingly being seen as a lurch into authoritarianism under a Con servative government – and, as I mentioned last week, one example is that Rishi Sunak, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Tory leadership candidate, is now saying that during the pandemic the scientists had been given too much say over policy.

THEN Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev pictured in 1989. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko, File) PRESIDENT Joe Biden speaks outside Independence Hall, Thursday in Philadelphia.(APPhoto/Matt Slocum)

Biden’s speech has provoked a furious reaction among Repub lican leaders and voters, with some calling it a despicable attack on tens of millions of Americans – all of whom are his own people given that he is president of the whole country. Biden condemned them en masse as unfit to participate in the nation’s democracy.Thishas apparently caused particu lar outrage because such people believe in time-honoured American values like freedom of expression, small government, election integrity, the sanctity of personal rights and liberty, secure borders and traditional families. This attack echoes Hilary Clinton’s labelling of Republicans as “deplorables” which is said to have con tributed to her losing the 2016 election to Trump. Commentators are now suggest ing that his speech could seriously damage Biden and prove to be a turning point against him. In the view of some observ ers, demonising opposition voters in such a way, rather than persuading people to vote for you by explaining the benefits of your own policies, smacks of authoritarianism and may work against the Democrats in the coming mid-term elections.

The politicians in charge at the time may well be covering their backs in response to a formal investigation as some of them now claim they did not support any lockdown.

It was announced in London yesterday that, as had been widely expected, the frontrunner Liz Truss has won the Tory leadership contest. That means that, as the new leader of the Conservative and Unionist Party, she will also become Britain’s Prime Minister. But her formal appointment will not be until today when she is due to visit The Queen who will invite her to form a govern ment. This meeting will be at Balmoral in Scotland where The Queen is staying as she normally does during September. After a leadership contest lasting some two months -- in which the final two candi dates were thoroughly questioned about their capacity for the top job and about their policies for dealing with the massive chal lenges currently facing Britain -- no one can be in any doubt where the new PM stands on the main issues. But it was nonetheless inter esting that, in her formal acceptance speech following yesterday’s announcement, Liz Truss spoke firmly of her intention to govern according to the Conservative principles of personal liberty and responsibility, free enterprise, limited government and respect for the rule of law; and it was evident that, after the long period of campaigning during the summer, she was ready to hit the ground running; for example, she stressed that she already had a plan to cut taxes and grow the economy and she would deal urgently with the energy crisis which was seriously affect ing the whole country. It is also, of course, a priority to reunite the Tory party given that her immediate pre decessor was thrown out of office following the resignations of some sixty members of his own government – and supporters of Boris Johnson will have been pleased to hear the tribute to him during her acceptance speech. It is already clear that she will run a tighter and more ordered ship than he presided over, and the signs are that she will be tough and assertive while getting on with the tasks ahead. Her first experience of being grilled in the bear pit of the House of Commons, with its numerous aggressive and argumentative MPs, will be at Prime Minister’s Questions as early as tomorrow -- and for those interested in politics, her first encounter with the leader of the main opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, should be well worth watching!

Gorbachev reforms in Russia short-lived

While reflecting in today’s column about the rise once again of authoritarianism in Russia, how disturbing it was to read of President Biden’s speech to the nation this past week about – purportedly -- the soul of IrrespectiveAmerica. of their political leanings or preferences, most people will surely have immediately recognised that this was not an address about the state of the nation and an attempt as president of all America to promote unity – as promised in his inau guration speech -- amongst a people who are divided to an unprecedented degree in the nation’s history. Rather, it was an una shamedly politically partisan speech and a blatant attack on the opposition Republi cans in the run-up to the crucial mid-term elections in November. Specifically, he labelled MAGA Republicans -- as if they can be identified as such among the 74 mil lion people who voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election – as an extremist threat to the nation’s democracy who were allegedly fanning the flames of politicalUnsurprisingly,violence.

A growing number of voices are suggesting that such lockdown measures were not only unnecessary but also a failure of judgment. It is being said that, in the UK at the height of the pandemic in 2020, insufficient weight was given to the importance of liberty and freedom under the rule of law, together with the primacy of individual personal responsibility under an elected govern ment and the right to a private life -- any of which the state should not interfere with except in the most serious circumstances. It is even being suggested that introduction of extraordinarily invasive prohibitions -- stricter even than during wartime -- was partly politically motivated because some of those concerned were not worried about causing damage to a free-market economy which they did not anyway support. This may seem farfetched and it would be hard to prove such accusations. But it does illustrate the tensions still surrounding this issue in Britain. In a liberal democracy voters are always on guard against any form of growing authoritarianism exercised by politicians and a consequent weakening of their accountability to the public. In the US, Republicans are now saying Biden’s speech last week was authoritarian because he said, in effect, that if people opposed him, they are extremist and undemocratic. In such circumstances, with the impending approach of the mid-terms, politics in the US seems set to become even rougher than usual.

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Charlton, 26, is tied for second place in the stand ings with Puerto Rico’s Olympic champion and world championship bronze medallist Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, both with 16 points from a pair of meets.The leader of the pack is World and Commonwealth Games champion Tobi Amusan, the world record holder with 22 points from threeThemeets.women’s 100m hurdles will take place at 7:25pm on Thursday

The duo then went on to team with Thompson and Johnson to finish 12th overall in the 400m Medley Relay.More than 500 of the world’s best junior swimmers from over 80 countries competed over the six-day event which concluded on Sunday, Sep tember 4. This Videna Aquat ics Centre also hosted the XVIII Pan American and Parapan American Games in 2019, the 2021 South American Youth Aquatic Sports Championship and the 2022 FINA Water Polo World League Interconti nental Cup. After four months and 12 meetings, high hurdler Devy nne Charlton and sprinter Tynia Gaither are the only two Bahamians who survived for a spot in the Wanda Diamond League Final this week in Zurich, Switzerland.Theleague’s most dra matic climax will take place on Wednesday and Thursday when 32 cham pions will be crowned with the prestigious Diamond Trophy in the series final at Weltklasse Zurich. While six finals will take place at a city event on Wednesday, Gaither and Charlton will be among the remaining 26 featured at the Letzigrund Stadium on Thursday.Theduo earned their berths in the series of events that took place from May 14 in Doha, Qatar, to Brussels, Belgium on September 2. In the series of meets throughout that period, athletes earned points from 13 meetings across four continents. Notably absent from the list is Olympic and world champion Shaunae MillerUibo, who qualified in both the women’s 200 and 400 metres, but she opted not to Instead,compete.she shut down her season after winning the gold medal at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Championships in Grand Bahama a few weeks ago. The 28-year-old Baha mian multiple national record holder finished the series in fourth place in the 200m with 12 points from two meets, while she occu pied the second spot in the 400m with 22 points in thee meets.Gaither, the 29-year-old Grand Bahamian native, is having undoubtedly her finest season, having emerged in her first Dia mond League Final tied for fifth place with American Gabrielle Thomas, Swiss sprinter Mujinga Kam bundji and Great Britain’s Beth Dobbin, all with 10 points from two meets. Jamaica’s Shericka Jack son tops the field with 23 points from three meets. Jackson, who has had a ter rific transformation from the 400m to the sprints, winning a medal in just about every international meet she competed in, is also entered in the 100 at number three behind Marie-Josee Ta Lou of the Ivory Coast and fellow Jamaican sensation ShellyAnn Fraser-Pryce, who is going for her fifth Dia mond League title. Like Gaither, national record holder Charlton is making her debut in the women’s 100m hurdles as she capped off a tremen dous season that started with a silver medal at the World Indoor Champi onships, another at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England and a bronze in the NACAC Championships at home.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Andy Ruiz landed just enough big punches on Luis Ortiz to make up for his mistakes and caution in a narrow victory that kept him on the path to a chance to become the heavyweight champion again. Ruiz knocked down Ortiz three times on the way to a victory by unanimous deci sion Sunday night. Former three-division world champion Abner Mares also fought to a majority draw with Miguel Flores in Mares’ return from a four-year ring absence on the pay-perviewLightweightundercard.

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Sprinter, high hurdler all set for big event in Zurich 16 SPRINTER Tynia Gaither, left, and high hurdler Devynne Charlton, right, are the only two Bahamians who secured a spot in the Wanda Diamond League Final this week in Zurich, Switzerland.

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stretches of relative inactiv ity for both fighters. “I worked so hard for this fight, because I knew he’s a warrior and he hits hard,” Ruiz said. “I thought I did a beautiful job boxing him around and handling his pressure.”Thejudges scored the bout 114-111, 114-111 and 113-112 for Ruiz. The Associated Press also had Ruiz 114-111, with the knockdowns making the difference.Ruizpulled off one of the bigger upsets in recent heavyweight history when he took Anthony Joshua’s three championship belts in 2019, only to lose them back to his British oppo nent six months later. Ruiz had fought just once since, but he rededicated

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TEAM Bahamas con cluded competition at the FINA World Junior Cham pionships in Lima, Peru with a pair of semifinalists over the Rhanishkaweekend. Gibbs reached her second semifi nal of the meet and Nigel Forbes advanced for the first time at the Videna Aquatics Centre. Gibbs concluded day five with an 11th place finish in the women’s 50m Freestyle with her time of 26.68 sec onds - a new personal best. She advanced to the semi-finals with the 14th fastest time out of the pre lims, 26.99. Keianna Moss also contested the event and finished tied for 23rd overall with her personal best time of 27.70. Forbes finished 12th overall in the men’s 50m Butterfly with a new per sonal best time of 24.71. Forbes finished 17th in the preliminaries with a time of 25.12 and was an alternate for the semifinal round.After a withdrawal of an athlete in the top 16, Forbes received the opportunity to swim in the semifinals.Marvin Johnson also swam the 50m Butterfly and finished 35th overall with a time of 26.06. Team Bahamas reached the semifinal round in four events at this year’s World Championsships.Gibbswasthe first to advance out of the pre lims with her 14th overall (33.46) finish in the 50m Breaststroke last Tuesday. Johnson advanced to the semis of the 50m Freestyle and finished 13th overall in 23.39.All six members of Team Bahamas participated across four events on day five.Johnson and Forbes both contested the 100m Freestyle.Forbes finished 30th in 52.29 and Johnson was 39th in 52.95.

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Gibbs was 35th in the 100m Butterfly in 1:09.97. In addition to Moss’ aforementioned appear ance in the 50m Freestyle, she also swam the 100m Butterfly and finished 22nd in Erald1:05.21.Thompson III and Emmanuel Gadson fin ished 20th (30.17) and 31st (31.45) respectively in the 50mOnBreaststroke.thefinal day of competition, Gadson and Forbes were the only members to compete in an individual event - the 200m Butterfly.Forbes finished 21st overall in 2:06.75 while Gadson was 31st in 2:18.05.

THE Retired Boxers Association Inaugural Hall of Fame Awards programme originally scheduled for Sunday, September 18 has been postponed and will now take place at a date to be announced in late October. A spokesman for the organisation, headed by Pat ‘The Centreville Assa sin’ Strachan, said that the event was put off because of circumstances beyond the control of the organisers. However, plans are being made to hold the event in late October at the same venue – JCN Broadcast Centre on University Drive. The association will induct former world cham pion Oswald ‘Elisha Obed’ Ferguson, Gomeo Brennen, William ‘Yama Bahama’ Butler Jr, Ray Minus Sr, Nathaniel ‘Nat’ Knowles,

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ANDY RUIZ, right, fights Luis Ortiz in a WBC world heavyweight title eliminator boxing match on Sunday in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

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SEE PAGE 18 BERMUDA has now topped The Bahamas in three consecutive matches at the CONCACAF Men’s U17 Qualifiers level. Bermuda emerged with a 4-0 win yesterday over The Bahamas as Group A play continued at the IMG Academy Field in Braden ton,WithFlorida.the win, they secured qualification to the CONCACAF U17 Cham pionships in Guatemala in 2023.The sides previously met in the 2010 edition of the qualifiers when The Baha mas won the first match 1-0 and Bermuda followed with a 5-1 win. At the 2014 quali fiers, Bermuda took a 4-0 win.Bermuda now tops Group A with 12 points and an unblemished 5-0 record while The Bahamas fell to 2-2 and fourth in the group with six Bonairepoints.issecond in the group with nine points U-17

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Isaac “Pit bull” Cruz then stopped Eduardo Ramirez in the second round with two vicious knockdowns. In the main event, Ruiz (35-2, 22 KOs) grinded out a decision over Ortiz (33-3), a twotime world title challenger. The Southern Califor nia native knocked down the 43-year-old Ortiz twice in the second round and again in the seventh, but his Cuban opponent battled through a badly swollen left eye and punched more accurately during long

Jones’ crew chief, Dave Elenz, was gratified his team finally broke through at one of the most difficult tracks in NASCAR.

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The Wildcats held a 9-7 lead.The Mingoes’ defence held The Wildcats score less in the top of the fifth. Syazha Kelly got on base thanks to an error and scored on a single from Cyntese Cooper. The Mingoes, with two outs and Cooper and Nabria Hamilton on second and first, sent infield Adonya Rolle to the plate. With a full count on her, she connected for what could have been a routine out to second base. The throw was bobbled and that allowed Cooper and Hamilton to score to end the game at 10-9. Rolle still made a victory run to home but her run did not score. “I was very nervous,” Rolle“Butsaid.Isaid I couldn’t be nervous and I just need to hit the ball and try to get on base or at least bring someone home. My team mates were telling me not to be nervous but that made me more nervous. I powered through it and got theHeadwin.” coach Shane Albury said it was a good win for the team. “Our starting pitcher was doing a good job but our defence was just letting us down,” he said. “I have been preaching that for the past few games with the team. We have been right in games and errors and mistakes cost us runs that we shouldn’t.” Albury added the win was the first time UB has not only defeated The Wildcats but also the first time to beat a number one seeded team. “I believe we can do that on a consistent basis,” he said. “We have quite a number of young ladies on the team so it’s just a matter of everyone buying in and believing that we can win. Once we minimise the amount of errors that we have been committing we will see more games in the victory column.” The Mingoes also lost on Friday against the Opera tors 16-9. The Mingoes now have a record of 3-8 on the season.

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THE University of The Bahamas Mingoes wom en’s softball team defeated the defending New Provi dence Softball champions Sunshine Auto Wildcats 10-9 on the last play of the game on Sunday at The Bankers’ softball field. The two teams exchanged leads early in the game but heading into the fifth and final inning

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himself to training with hopes of getting another shot at the belts. “I do not want to be waiting,” Ruiz said. “I want to fight at least three or four times a year. I’m hungry, man. I want to be a champion again.” After entering the ring in a blue-and-gold robe and trunks featuring the Super Bowl champion Los Angeles Rams’ colours and helmet horns, Ruiz abruptly floored Ortiz early in the second round with a short right hand. Ortiz wobbled to his feet and soon slipped back down while trying to clinch with Ruiz, but he made it to the bell. “To everyone who said that I’m old, I gave you a war today,” Ortiz said. “I would want a rematch. The eye wasn’t a problem for me. Do you think I’m done after the way I fought? Do the people think I’m done? I don’t think so.” Neither fighter threw much or risked much in the next four rounds, and the crowd that loudly backed Ruiz grumbled its displeas ure. But Ruiz connected again late in the seventh, staggering Ortiz before sending him to the canvas with a right to the top of the head.“It was very difficult,” Ruiz said. “I was waiting for him to load up, and counter ing him when he did. It was a blessing we were able to beEarlier,successful.”Cruz (24-2-1, 17 KOs) made his case for a rematch with Gervonta “Tank” Davis with his two-round demolition of Ramirez, first knocking him down face-first with a left hook to the jaw before finishing him with a combi nation in the corner. Davis, who narrowly beat Cruz by decision last December, smiled as he watched the bout from ring side amid chants of: “We want Tank!” from Cruz’s fans.Mares (31-3-2) hadn’t fought since his second loss to Leo Santa Cruz in June 2018. He recovered from surgery on a detached retina shortly before the start of the coronavirus pan demic, and his ring absence stretched on while he landed a commentary job withButShowtime.Mares eventually decided he had to return, and he looked quite sharp early against Flores (25-41) with a series of big right hands that rocked his oppo nent. Mares tired in the second half, but won 96-94 on one judge’s card. The other two scored it 95-95. “Obviously it had been over four years, so I was a little off with my timing, and a little sluggish,” Mares said. “But I felt good, and I thought I was landing the more powerful shots. I defi nitely felt like I won.” The pay-per-view card opened with an enor mous upset: Edwin De Los Santos, a Dominican lightweight filling in as a late replacement oppo nent, battered previously unbeaten Mexican prospect José Valenzuela for a thirdround stoppage victory. with Charlton competing against Amusan, Camacho-Quinn, Jamaican world championship silver medallist Britany Ander son, former world record holder Kendra Harrison along with Nia Ali and Tia Jones, all from the United States, Switzerland’s Ditaji Kambundji and Poland’s Pia Skrzyszowska.“I’mfeeling pretty good, looking forward to rounding out my season with a strong performance,” Charl ton“It’ssaid.a tough field and should make for a really fast race. “I’m focused on having a good execution to put myself in the running.”Charlton, ranked at number seven in the world and a sev enth place finisher at the World Championships, heads into the meet having lowered the Baha mian national record to 12.46 for her lifetime best at the Bahamas National Championships at the Thomas A Robinson National Sta dium in AmusanJune.clocked 12.12 in the semi-finals at the World Champi onships in Eugene, Oregon in July for the world record before she lowered it in a wind-aided 12.06 in the final that wasn’t a legal time. The 29-year-old Gaither, on the other hand, rebounded from a false start in the 100m at the World Championships to make the semifinals of the 200m. Then she went on to the Com monwealth Games where she got seventh in the 100m and was a silver medallist in both the 100m and the women’s 4 x 100m on a brilliant comeback leg at the NACACGaither,Championships.currentlyranked at No.27 in the world with her life time of 22.41 this season, will run in the 200m at 9:42 pm against a stacked field. The field includes Jackson with the world’s fastest time of 22.41 this year, Americans Thomas, Jenna Prandini and Tamara Clark, Swiss’ Kambundji, Dobbin from Great Britain and Ida Karstoft from Denmark. In addition to winning the Dia mond League trophy, athletes will be competing for a total of $30,000 in prize money with a further $30,000 distributed amongst the other finalists. While first place will pocket $30,000, second place will collect $12,000, third place $7,000, fourth place $4,000, fifth place $2,500, sixth place $2,000, sev enth place $1,500 and eighth place receives $1,000. From the Diamond League series, the overall winner will also get $10,000, second place $6,000, third $3,500, fourth $2,000, fifth $1,250, sixth $1,000, seventh $750 and eighth earns $500.

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ERIK Jones celebrates in the Winner’s Circle after the NASCAR Southern 500 auto race on Sunday in Darlington, S.C. Jones held on to the victory after taking the lead from Kyle Busch, who blew a motor with 30 laps remaining.

“But I think the first thing Erik said to me is, ‘Don’t you wish we won Daytona’” in the regular-season finale, Elenz said. At the end, Jones out lasted all three of his old Joe Gibbs Racing team mates — Martin Truex Jr., Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin.Truex lost a late lead with power steering problems, Busch’s engine blew up with Jones in second. Hamlin reached Jones’ back bumper on the last lap but couldn’t pass him. “It was crazy. I’ve never had anything like that happen,” Jones said. Truex, like Jones, didn’t qualify for the playoff. Busch and Hamlin are vying for the title. Earlier in the night, playoff favourites Chase Elliott and Kyle Larson of powerhouse Hendrick Mot orsports struggled. Elliott bounced off the wall as he spun by himself in the first 100 laps, damag ing his suspension, which his team could not repair. Top-seeded coming in, Elliott was out of the race and fell to ninth in playoff points.Larson, the defend ing NASCAR Cup Series champion who is seeded fourth this year, had early engine problems and fell four laps off the pace. Larson steadily rebounded to get back on the lead lap and end 12th — not what was expected out of the 2021’s most dominant driver. “So, pretty bummed about it, but also happy at the same time because I thought we were going to have another DNF,” said Larson, who fell to seventh in the point standings with two more races at Kansas and Bristol before four of the 16 playoff teams are eliminated.Busch,faced with ques tions about his racing future much of the summer, looked he’d have a moment of celebration as he led the race with less than 40 laps remaining. Then his fail ing engine sent him to the garage.Therace’s least surprising result? Continued driver anger over what they see as an unreliable, unsafe Next Gen car. The loudest voice Sunday came from Kevin Harvick, the 2014 series champ whose car caught fire and had flames coming through the dashboard. Harvick parked the car on the grass and scrambled away to safety. He did not return. Moments later, J.J. Yeley’s machine caught fire under the hood and he, too, had to get out quick. Drivers have said the hits this year feel harder, some thing NASCAR’s analytics back up. Kurt Busch gave up his playoff spot due to his continuing recovery from a concussion suffered in a crash at Pocono. “I’m sure it’s just crappy parts on the race car like we’ve seen so many times,” Harvick said. “They haven’t fixed anything. It’s kind of like the safety stuff. We just let it keep going and keep going.”Harvick fell from ninth in the playoffs coming in to 16th and is on the brink of elimination if things don’t improve the next two weeks.Darlington brought a quick and surprising shuf fle to the playoffs, which are unique among sports because those who aren’t racing for a title still get to race for victories. Imagine if the NL’s top-seeded Los Angeles Dodgers lost to the Florida Marlins, who didn’t make the playoffs. That’s what happened at Darling ton as Jones won his third NASCAR race and second Southern 500. Jones, who drives for Petty GMS, was the 17th racer to win in 27 races this season, closing in on the most ever in NASCAR, which was 19 different win ners in Jones2001.also gave the his tory-filled No. 43 car, made famous by NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty, its 200thJoeywin.Logano, fourth at Darlington, moved into the points lead with Wil liam Byron second, Hamlin third and Christopher Bell fourth. Joining Harvick on the bubble as the first four out were first-time playoff participants in Austin Cin dric and Chase Briscoe, and Austin Dillon, who pulled off a win-and-in at Daytona a week earlier just to make playoff field.

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DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Buckle up your five-point harness. Looks like NASCAR’s playoffs will be just as wild and unpredictable as its regular season.That came into sharp focus at Darlington Race way where Erik Jones became the first-ever nonplayoff racer to take the postseason opener in the Southern 500 on Sunday night — one week after the cutoff for playoff qualifying.

UB Mingoes infielder Cyntese Cooper slides into third base against The Operators on September 2 at The Bankers’ softball field. The Mingoes lost 16-9. UB Mingoes outfielder Nabria Hamilton lays down a bunt against the Wildcats.

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RESULTSMONDAY’S Women’s Third Round: No. 1 Iga Swiatek of Poland defeated Jule Niemeier of Germany 2-6, 6-4, 6-0; No. 8 Jessica Pegula of the U.S. beat No. 21 Petra Kvitova of the Czech Republic 6-3, 6-2.Men’s Fourth Round: No. 9 Andrey Rublev of Russia beat No. 7 Cam eron Norrie of Britain 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. STAT OF THE DAY 3 — Jessica Pegula has now reached three Grand Slam quarterfinals this season. QUOTE OF THE DAY “I’m not paying really attention because it’s not me.”— Andrey Rublev, on a new men’s No. 1 player in the world after the U.S. Open Tiafoe ends Nadal’s 22-match Slam streak in US Open 4th Rd

FRANCES TIAFOE, of the United States, celebrates after defeating Rafael Nadal, of Spain, during the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships yesterday.(APPhoto/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

MILAN (AP) — Gian nis Antetokounmpo got the day off. Greece rolled into the knockout stage of the EuroBasket tournament without him. Kosta Sloukas scored 21 points, Georgios Papagian nis added 17 and Greece pulled away in the second half to top Great Britain 93-77 in a Group C matchup yesterday.Antetokounmpo is expected to play in at least one of Greece’s final two group-stage games, the first coming today against Ukraine. The knockout round in Berlin starts on Saturday.“He’s available and he will play tomorrow,” Greece coach Dimitris Itoudis said after yester day’s“Hegame.had a discomfort a little bit on his knee, noth ing major. ... We did not want to risk anything so we decided not to dress him up today.”Kostas Papanikolaou and Michail Lountzis each had 10 points for Greece, which is now assured of a top-four place in the group. There are four groups with six teams in each at EuroBasket, with the top four finishers in each group headed to the knockout stage.Luke Nelson had 17 points for Great Britain (0-3), while Myles Hesson scored 13, Ovie Soko added 12 and Dan Clark finished withGreece11. used a 16-0 run to erase an early seven-point deficit. Great Britain closed within 53-52 in the third quarter, but Greece scored 40 of the game’s final 65 points.

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CZECH REPUBLIC 88, NETHERLANDS 80 Jan Vesely scored 24 points and the Czech Republic (1-2) kept its hopes of advancing alive by holding off the Netherlands (0-3).Vesely was nearly per fect, going 9 for 10 from the floor and 6 for 6 from the foulMartinline. Peterka scored 20 points, Tomas Kyzlink added 12 and David Jelinek scored 10 for the Czech Republic, which held on despite seeing a 23-point halftime lead whittled down to three in the final minute of Yannickplay. Franke led the Netherlands with 22 points, while Worthy De Jong scored 13 and Jesse Edwards added 12.

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All 24 teams are in action, with all clubs play ing their fourth game out of the five scheduled for each nation in the group stage. Group play games conclude Wednesday and Thursday. Group A: Belgium (2-1) vs. Turkey (2-1), Monte negro (2-1) vs. Spain (2-1), Georgia (1-2) vs. Bulgaria (0-3). The Belgium-Turkey and Montenegro-Spain winners will clinch spots in the knockout stage. Group B: Bosnia and Herzegovina (2-1) vs. France (2-1), Hun gary (0-3) vs. Lithuania (0-3), Germany (3-0) vs. Slovenia (2-1). The Lith uania-Hungary loser is eliminated from knock out stage consideration, and both of those nations would be out if Bosnia tops France.Group C: Estonia (0-3) vs. Great Britain (0-3), Greece (3-0) vs. Ukraine (3-0), Italy (1-2) vs. Croa tia (2-1). Italy could qualify for the round of 16 with a victory.Group D: Netherlands (0-3) vs. Poland (2-1), Finland (1-2) vs. Czech Republic (1-2), Israel (2-1) vs. Serbia (3-0). The Finland-Czech Republic game could decide which one of those clubs moves on.

GREECE’s Giannis Antetokounmpo stands during the Eurobasket group C basketball match between Great Britain and Greece, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

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GROUP D SERBIA FINLAND100,70 At Prague, Nikola Jokic scored 13 points and Serbia (3-0) had six players in double figures as it clinched a berth in the knockout round.Nemanja Nedovic and Vasilije Micic had teamhigh totals of 14 points for Serbia, while Nikola Kalinic scored 13, Vladimir Lucic had 12 and Marko Guduric finished with 11. Lauri Markkanen scored 18 points for Finland (1-2), which got 10 apiece from Edon Maxhuni and Elias Valtonen.

RAFAEL NADAL, of Spain, waves to fans after his loss to Frances Tiafoe, of the United States, during the fourth round of the US Open tennis championships yesterday in New(APYork.Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

There were plenty of signs yesterday that his serve is just not in tip-top shape: nine double-faults, a first-serve percentage hovering around 50%, five breaks by Tiafoe. The next-to-last break came for a 4-3 edge in the fourth set, when Nadal put a backhand into the net, and Tiafoe skipped back ward toward the sideline for the ensuing changeo ver, his fist raised. Fifteen minutes later, Tiafoe broke again, and it was over. When one last backhand by Nadal found the net, Tiafoe put his hands on his head. When he sat in his sideline chair, he buried his face in a towel. There were signs of trou ble for Nadal earlier in the tournament. He lost the first set of his first-round match. Did the same in the second round, when he also accidentally cut the bridge of his nose and made him self dizzy when the edge of his racket frame bounced off the court and caught him in the face on a back hand follow-through.

POLAND 85, ISRAEL 76 A.J. Slaughter scored 24 points, Aleksander Balcer owski added 17 and Poland led most of the way to hand Israel its first loss. Aaron Cel scored 13 and Mateusz Ponitka fin ished with 11 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for Poland (2-1). Yovel Zoosman scored 18 for Israel (2-1), which got 17 from Yam Madar. They also got 10 from Tamir Blatt.

NEW YORK (AP) — Frances Tiafoe ended Rafael Nadal’s 22-match winning streak at Grand Slam tournaments by beat ing the 22-time major champion 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the US Open’s fourth round 9saidhappy.totheretractabletheinandpopularitssidedwasRoddicktheicanofsecondMeadowsseededfromTiafoeyesterday.isa24-year-oldMarylandwhois22ndatFlushingandreachedthemajorquarterfinalhiscareer.HeistheyoungestAmermantogetthatfaratUSOpensinceAndyin2006,butthisnotacaseofaone-crowdbackingoneofown.NadalisaboutasasitgetsintennisheardplentyofsupportArthurAsheStadiumasvolumeraisedaftertheroofwasshutinfourthset.“Idon’tevenknowwhatsayrightnow.I’mbeyondIcan’tbelieveit,”Tiafoe,whofacesNo.seedAndreyRublevnext.

“He’s one of the greatest of all time. I played unbe lievable tennis today, but I don’t even know what happened.”Here’swhat happened: Tiafoe served better than No. 2 seed Nadal. More surprisingly, he returned better, too. And he kept his cool, remained in the moment and never let the stakes or the opponent get to him. Nadal had won both of their previous matches, and every set they played, too.“Well done for him,” Nadal said. “He was better thanThisme.”surprise came a day after one of Tiafoe’s pals, Nick Kyrgios, eliminated No. 1 seed and defend ing champion Daniil Medvedev.Nadalwon the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June. Then he made it to the semifi nals at Wimbledon in July before withdrawing from that tournament because of a torn abdominal muscle; that does not go into the books as a loss, because he pulled out before the match.The 36-year-old from Spain competed only once in the 1 1/2 months between leaving the All England Club and arriving in New York while recovering from that injury. His play has not been up to his usual standards at the US Open, which he has won four times, particularly his serve. Nadal tweaked his ser vice motion, tossing the ball lower than he normally does so as not to put as much strain on his midsec tion while reaching with his racket.

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer

GROUP UKRAINEC 84, ITALY 73 Also at Milan, Ukraine is going on to Berlin for the knockout round. Svi Mykhailiuk scored 25 points, Ivan Tkachenko and Issuf Sanon each scored 17 and Ukraine (3-0) remained perfect by topping Italy. Achille Polonara led Italy (1-2) with 17 points. Simone Fontecchio scored 14 points and Marco Spissu added 11. CROATIA 73, ESTONIA 70 Karlo Matkovic scored 17 points on 8-for-8 shooting, Dario Saric added 15 points and 12 rebounds and Croa tia held off winless Estonia. Jaleen Smith scored 13 points for Croatia (2-1). Siim-Sander Vene had 18 points for Estonia (0-3), while Malik-Kalev Kotsar added 17 and Kristian Kul lamae added 14.

— LOOKAHEAD TO TODAYBOTH No. 5 seeds headline the first day of quarterfinal play at the US Open. On the men’s side, Casper Ruud of Norway plays No. 13 Matteo Berrettini of Italy at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Ruud is the 2022 French Open runner-up and Ber rettini was runner-up at Wimbledon in 2021. Later in Ashe, Ons Jabeur of Tunisia plays unseeded Ajla Toml janovic of Australia on the women’s Tomljanovicside.is playing for the second time since she beat Serena Wil liams and sent her into an apparent retirement. At night, No. 12 Coco Gauff of the US plays No. 17 Caroline Garcia of France and No. 23 Nick Kyrgios of Australia takes on No. 27 Karen Khachanov of Russia. Both night matches are at Arthur Ashe Stadium. Gauff is 4-0 in Ashe this year and is playing the Open quarterfinals for the first time in her career.The 18-year-old Gauff, the French Open run ner-up in June, is the youngest American to make it this far at the US Open since Melanie Oudin was 17 in 2009.

BLUE Jays’ Bo Bichette reacts after hitting a three-run home run off Orioles re lief pitcher Nick Vespi during the third inning yesterday in Baltimore. Blue Jays’ Jackie Bradley Jr and George Springer scored on the home run. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

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Lynn (5-5) didn’t allow a base runner after Abraham Toro’s bloop RBI single in the second inning and he allowed just three hits.

RECIFE, Brazil (AP) — The plan Alex Jensen laid out for the team USA Basketball sent to the AmeriCup tourna ment was simple. Get better every day, and let the results take care of themselves. It seems to be working. Norris Cole scored 17 points, Craig Sword added 11 and the US got its first win of this year’s AmeriCup by rolling past Panama 88-58 yesterday. The Americans (1-1) led by as many as 38 points, never trailed and outscored Panama 48-9 from 3-point range. “We’ve got to peak at the right time,” said Jensen, the US coach. “I think we took a step in that direction tonight.” The US opened AmeriCup with a six-point loss to Mexico and has been rolling since. The Americans led Venezuela 48-21 at halftime Sunday before rain caused some leaks and forced the game to be stopped; that contest will resumeCombinetoday.that score with yesterday’s effort, and the US has outscored foes 136-79 in its last six Jeremyquarters.Pargo scored 10 points and Gary Clark had 11 rebounds for the US, which will have Wednesday off before a quarterfinal matchup against a to-be-determined opponent.IsaacHall Machore led Panama with 12 points. At 0-3, Panama was eliminated. Venezuela (2-0) beat Mexico (2-1) yesterday, which opens the door for the US to win a three-team tiebreaker and end this stage atop Group C. Also yesterday, in Group A, Canada (2-1) topped Colom bia 62-61, taking the lead on a free throw by Trae BellHaynes with 1.8 seconds left to cap a comeback from 16 points down. Colombia fell to 1-2.

The Bahamas closes out the round robin group stage with a matchup against Bonaire Wednesday Septem ber 7 at 9:10am. Bermuda looks to remain undefeated with a matchup against Guyana at 11:15am.

BALTIMORE (AP) — Bo Bichette hit a career-high three home runs in the second game of a doubleheader, and Toronto defeated Baltimore to complete a sweep and widen its lead in the AL wild-card race. Bichette hit a three-run homer off Nick Vespi in the third inning, then added solo drives in the sixth and seventh off Bruce Zim mermann. The shortstop had six hits and seven RBIs during the doubleheader.Bichettelined to centre in the ninth when he came up with a chance to tie the major league record of four home runs in a game. He matched a career high with five RBIs in the nightcap. Toronto won the opener behind Kevin Gausman, who allowed two runs in 6 2/3 innings in his first outing at Camden Yards since Baltimore traded him in July 2018.Toronto starter José Berríos (10-5) allowed three runs and eight hits in six-plus innings, strik ing out two. Keegan Akin (3-2) took the loss, allowing two runs in 2 1/3 innings. In the opener, Anthony San tander homered from both sides of the plate for Baltimore. Rutschman had two hits and scored a Georgerun. Springer, Vladimir Guerrero Jr and Bichette hit consecutive RBI singles against rookie DL Hall as Toronto broke the game open in the ninth inning. Mike Baumann (1-3) yielded three runs in five innings in his first major league start.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Aaron Judge kept up his bruising pace and hit his major league-leading 54th home run, connecting for the third straight day and sending the New York Yan kees over the Minnesota Twins 5-2 yesterday. Judge has homered in five of his last seven games for the AL East leaders. He snapped a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning when he hit a 3-1 slider from Trevor Megill (3-2) into the second deck in left. “It’s getting hard to put into words what he’s doing,” manager Aaron Boone said. “Just a special season he’s in the midst of.” The All-Star slugger reached 54 homers in his 131st game. He is on pace to hit 65 homers, four more than Roger Maris’ AL record in 1961. Judge has continued to play down his pursuit of history. “Just trying to do what I can every single day,” Judge said. “I show up to work, prepared ready to go and do whatever it takes to help our team what it takes to get a win today. Whether it’s moving a guy over, driv ing a guy in, making a play on defence, that’s what I’m focused on.” Judge reached 54 homers in New York’s 135th game; Maris hit his 54th when he connected off Washing ton’s Tom Cheney in New York’s 139th game on Sept. 6, “I’m1961. paying close atten tion to it. How could you not?” Boone said, adding, “it’d be pretty amazing.” It was the ninth time in his career Judge homered in three straight games and third time this season. Judge also doubled. His latest homer came after Gary Sánchez hit a 473foot, two-run drive into the left field bleachers off Jameson Taillon in the fifth that tied it at 2. Judge ended the game 18 homers ahead of Philadel phia’s Kyle Schwarber for the major league lead. He is 23 ahead of Houston’s Yordan Alvarez in the AL. “Right now, especially the season he’s having, he’s always been a very good player, better than that even,” Twins manager Rocco Baldelli said. “This season he’s been as good of a player as any us of have seen in a long time.” Sánchez tied the game by hitting for his 14th homer since the Yankees traded him along with Gio Urshela to Minnesota for Josh Don aldson, Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Ben Rortvedt on MarchAfter13. connecting, Sánchez watched the ball soar into the stands, dropped his bat and ran around the bases as some of his teammates pounded on the dugout rail. Marwin Gonzalez also homered for the Yankees, ending a 0-for-29 skid with his first hit since July 6. Kiner-Falefa added his second homer this year in the“It’sseventh.hard for me to just hit one,” Kiner-Falefa said of Judge. “For him to do what he’s been doing but still have base hits and con tribute in other ways with walks, especially when guys don’t want to pitch to him, I think that’s what makes it soGregimpressive.”Weissert (2-0) pitched 1 1/3 innings. Clay Holmes pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for his 19th save. Judge scored in the first when he doubled and scored on Donaldson’s single off the base of the left field wall. Judge scored just before Donaldson was tagged out at second after appearing to think he had homered. New York went up 2-0 when Gonzalez hit a slider into the right field seats in the third. FOR STARTERS Taillon allowed two runs and six hits in five innings. Three of those came in the fifth inning and he was aided by rookie RF Oswaldo Cabrera’s fourth career outfield assist when Miranda was thrown out trying to stretch his single in the fifth.

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Stone Garrett hit a solo homer for Arizona, which won for the ninth time in 11 games. San Diego, which came in with a halfgame lead over Philadelphia for the NL’s second wild-card spot, lost its third straight game. Blake Snell (6-8) struck out 10 in six innings while allowing one run on four hits. He walked one.

AWARDS FROM PAGE 15 (3-1), Guyana is third with seven points (2-1-1), the British Virgin Islands is fifth with one point (0-3-1) while Saint Martin has yet to tally a point in the tournament (0-4).

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Garvin ‘Garry’ Davis, Charlie Major Sr., Kirk wood ‘Baby Boy’ Rolle, Leonard ‘Boston Blackie’ Miller, Bertram ‘Bert Perry’ Perigord, Wilfred Coak ley Jr., Wilfred ‘Battling’ Douglas, Clifford ‘Sugar Cliff’ Francis and Andre Seymour into the Hall of Fame Class of 2022. The association will also rec ognise Tureano Johnson, Ray Minus Jr., George ‘Boo’ Wilmore, Everette Jackson, L. Garth Wright, Paul Thompson, Gladstone Thurston, Chris Malakius, Roger Kelty, Charlie Major Sr. , Frederick Sturrup and Valentino Knowles for their outstanding contribution to amateur and professional boxing.

NEW York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge (99) hits a home run against the Minnesota Twins dur ing the sixth inning of a baseball game yesterday in New York. (AP Photo/Noah K Murray)

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SCHEDULETODAY’S Other than the US-Vene zuela resumption, there are two games today, both in Group B. The Virgin Islands (0-2) faces Puerto Rico (1-1), and the Dominican Republic (1-1) meets Argentina (2-0). The Virgin Islands needs a win to have any chance of advancing. There are no games Wednesday.Quarterfinal games — fea turing the top two teams in each group, plus the two best third-place teams — start Thursday.

DIAMONDBACKS 5, PADRES 0 SAN DIEGO (AP) — Ryne Nelson was brilliant in his big league debut, allowing just four hits in seven innings and retiring 17 straight batters at one point to lead Arizona over San Diego. The 24-year-old Nelson (1-0) allowed Jurickson Profar’s lead off double in the first, then didn’t permit another runner until Profar doubled with two outs in the sixth. Nelson struck out seven and walked none on 87 pitches.

Taillon pitched for the first time since exiting in the second inning Tuesday against the Angels when he took a comebacker off the forearm.Minnesota’s Chris Archer allowed two runs and four hits in five innings and is winless in his last 10 starts.

Bonaire opened the competition with a 4-2 win over Guyana, followed by a 2-1 win over BVI, a 2-0 loss to Ber muda and a 2-1 win over Sait Martin. The Bahamas opened competition with a 2-1 win over Saint Martin led by goals from Reuben Edgecombe and KaiInPerez.their second match, they suf fered a 4-0 loss to Guyana. They then improved to a 2-1 record as they blanked BVI 1-0 on Saturday via a goal from Robert Holcombe. The four group winners will advance to the 2023 CONCACAF Men’s U17 Championship.Inaddition to Bermuda leading Group A, Aruba leads Group B at 3-0, Dominican Republic leads Group C at 3-0 and Nicaragua clinched Group D. They will join the top 16 ranked nations that have been seeded directly into the group stage of the 2023 CMU17 Championship.

WHITE SOX 3, MARINERS 2 SEATTLE (AP) — Lance Lynn struck out a season-high 11, Elvis Andrus hit a two-run home run and the Chicago ended Seattle’s seven-game winning streak. Lynn retired the final 17 bat ters he faced in a dominant outing. The win kept the White Sox on the heels of Minnesota and Cleveland in a suddenly tight AL Central race, while Seattle lost ground to both Toronto and Tampa Bay in the chase for the top wild-card spot in the AL.

Flaherty (0-1) returned from the injured list after being side lined by a right shoulder issue. In his first start since June 26, he allowed one run on six hits and a walk. He struck out six and hit a batter while throwing 91 pitches. St. Louis managed just three singles against three pitchers. Msson Thompson allowed one hit in three innings for his first big league save.

BREWERS 6, ROCKIES 4 DENVER (AP) — Victor Car atini hit a go-ahead three-run homer in the sixth inning for Mil waukee helping Craig Counsell earn managerial win No. 600. Counsell reached the milestone in roller-coaster fashion, with Mil waukee trailing 3-0 after the first inning, rallying and then escaping a two-out, bases-loaded jam in the eighth.Caratini lined a slider from reliever Justin Lawrence for his ninth homer of the season. The Brewers trail Philadelphia by two games for the final NL wild-card spot.Adrian Houser (5-9) allowed three runs, one earned, and two hits over five innings. Devin Wil liams earned his 10th save. C.J. Cron homered and Ryan Feltner (2-7) took the loss for Col orado, surrendering four runs and five hits over 5 1/3 innings. TRIBUNE

RAYS 4, RED SOX 3 ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Manuel Margot and David Peralta each doubled home a run in the seventh inning, sending Tampa Bay past Boston for its 12th win in 15 games Tampa Bay stopped Boston’s five-game winning streak and stayed five games behind the firstplace Yankees in the AL East. The Rays hold one of three AL wild-card spots in a tight race that also includes Seattle, Toronto and Baltimore.Withthe Rays trailing 3-2 in the seventh, pinch-hitter Vidal Bruján was hit by a pitch from Jeurys Familia (2-2) and stole second. Bruján advanced on a groundout and scored on Margot’s double off Familia. One out later, Peralta punched an RBI double over first base off Zack Kelly to give Tampa Bay a 4-3 lead.

Twins: RF Max Kepler (hip tightness) was a late scratch. He struck out as a pinch-hitter in the ninth. …RHP Sonny Gray (right hamstring tightness) will throw his bullpen session Tuesday and his next start is being pushed back to

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Bichette hits career high three home runs in 2nd game, Blue Jays sweep DH from Orioles

ASTROS RANGERS1, 0 HOUSTON (AP) — Hunter Brown scattered three hits across six innings in his major league debut, and Houston handed Texas its ninth straight loss. The Astros scored against hardluck loser Martín Pérez (10-6) with the help of an error in the second. But that one run was enough on a night when three relievers completed a three-hitter after Brown’s stellar start in which he struck out five and walked one. Bryan Abreu pitched the sev enth and Hector Neris worked the eighth before Rafael Montero got three outs for his 12th save. Pérez yielded six hits with five strikeouts in seven innings. Trey Mancini walked with two outs in the Houston second before a single by Chas McCormick. Martín Maldonado then singled on a line drive to left field and an error by Thompson on the play allowed Mancini to score.

Thursday’s series finale in NewYankees:York DH Giancarlo Stanton was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth after fouling a ball off his left foot in the sixth. Stan ton grimaced and was unable to put any weight on his left foot. Boone said he’s not sure whether Stanton will be available for Tuesday night’s game. … LF Andrew Benintendi will have surgery on Tues day after breaking a bone in his right wrist during a swing Friday night. Boone said Benintendi, acquired from Kansas City in late July, could play again this season. “I think the pos sibility of him returning is still in play,” Boone said. … 1B Anthony Rizzo (lower back) is expected to resume baseball activities Wednes day. Rizzo was originally scheduled to resume base ball activities Monday but experienced headaches as a side effect from an epidural shot. … LHP Aroldis Chap man (leg infection) may throw a bullpen session this week. … OF Harrison Bader (right foot plantar fasciitis) hit in the cage and could begin a rehab stint next week. UP NEXT Minnesota RHP Joe Ryan (10-7, 3.88 ERA) opposes New York RHP Gerrit Cole (10-7, 3.28) today. Cole allowed a career-high five homers in 2 1/3 innings June 9 in Minnesota.

NATIONALS 6, CARDINALS 0 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jack Fla herty pitched five effective innings for St. Louis in his first big league action since June, but the NL Cen tral-leading Cardinals had their four-game winning streak stopped by Joey Meneses and Washington. Meneses got three hits and fellow rookie C.J. Abrams had four to back five shutout innings from Aníbal Sánchez (2-5). Wash ington, which has the worst record in the majors, has won three in a row.

The Fed has already raised interest rates four times this year and is expected to raise shortterm rates by another 0.75 percentage points at its next meeting later this month, according to CME Group. Following the jobs report, expectations for that threequarter percentage point hike fell to 56% from 75% onMarketThursday.watchers such as David Kelly, chief global strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said they still expect the central bank to raise rates later this month by another 0.75 per centage points. Signs of some slack in the labor market as well as more welcome news on falling gas prices “increase the odds that the economy could gradually return to milder inflation over the course of the next year without falling into reces sion,” Kelly said. Stocks entered a skid last week after Chair Jerome Powell said the Fed needs to keep rates elevated enough “for some time” to slow the economy.

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Photo:John Minchillo/AP like three to four years ago. We are also monitoring it because we are feeling a slight rise in electricity bills, and need to look at that to see why it’s occurring, especially businesses that are selling beverages. They are feeling the pinch from elevated costs in their light bill.”The Government has, for the moment, kept rates consistent by subsidising BPL’s fuel charge, holding it at around 10.5 cents per kilowatt hour (KWh) and making electricity essen tially a volume business where customers can con trol the cost by monitoring consumption. Mr Turn quest, though, encouraged it to increase the use of solar and other renewable technologies via the provi sion of tax breaks and other incentives.BPL last Wednes day blamed outside “interference” for an hourslong power outage that impacted much of New Providence and cost many businesses valuable sales andBrentincomeBurrows, CBS Bahamas (Commonwealth Building Supplies) chief, told Tribune Business his decision to work from home could not have been worse as his electricity supply was interrupted for almost half the day. “I’m working from home today and I’ve been severely affected because I can’t do anything,” he said. “This is 2022 and it’s incredible that we can’t keep the lights on. This is just incredible. You would think that at this time in our country’s development that we can have dependable power.”CBS’ physical store in Carmichael Road’s South west Plaza, in common with many companies, retail and office complexes, has long employed back-up generators that automati cally kick-in due to the constant interruptions in BPL’s electricity supply that were a regular occurrence prior to the purchase and installation of new genera tion capacity at the Clifton Pier power plant under the former severaloutage,since.frequency2019thesheddingsspreadgeneration,Supplementedadministration.byrentalthedailywideblackoutsandloadenduredduringsummersof2018andhavereducedinbothanddurationLastWednesday’swhichlastedforhours,wasamong the longest in recent months, and all businesses without back-up genera tor supply will have been impacted through loss of sales and customers as a result.The partial island-wide black out affecting multiple corridors and areas in New Providence. BPL’s Whats App Group reported that Market Street North to Bay Street; Fort Charlotte; Blue Hill Road North and south of Soldier Road; Ernest Street; East Street South; Collins Avenue; Wulff Road; eastern New Provi dence in its entirety; and Paradise Island east were all without power for at least two full hours. A BPL spokesperson, in response to Tribune Business inquiries, said the outages resulted from “third party interference where a truck ran into a cable line, which caused the line to bounce and ricochet against the power lines, which resulted in a fire on the line”. This caused BPL to “initiate a protective system shutdown”, result ing in yesterday’s partial blackout.

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By ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writer STOCKS gave up an early rally and closed lower Friday, marking their third losing week in a row and extending Wall Street’s latesummer slump. Major stock indexes initially climbed broadly following the government’s latest job market report, which showed employ ers slowed their hiring in August. The report put traders in a buying mood, stoking cautious optimism that the Federal Reserve may not need to raise inter est rates as aggressively in its ongoing bid to tame inflation.Butthe market reversed course by mid-afternoon, shedding all its gains. That left the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average 1.1% lower. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.3%. “The jobs report today was nice, but it was not enough to obviously sustain the rally,” said Ross May field, investment strategist at Baird. “The bar to clear is ‘does this change the tra jectory of the Fed?’ And I don’t know that this report is enough to say yes.” In recent weeks, the market has wiped out much of the gains it made in July and early August as traders worried that the Fed would not let up anytime soon on raising interest rates to bring down the highest inflation in decades. The latest jobs data appeared to give traders some hope that a key driver of inflation is cooling. On Friday, the Labor Depart ment reported that the U.S. economy added 315,000 jobs last month, down from 526,000 in July and below the average gain of the pre vious three months. The unemployment rate also rose to 3.7% from 3.5% in July.Average hourly pay jumped 5.2% last month from a year earlier, but slowed slightly from July to August. That’s a welcome sign in the inflation fight, as businesses typically pass the cost of higher wages on to their customers through higher“Today’sprices.jobs report was a step in the right direc tion, in that the pace of job and wage growth sta bilized,” said Matt Peron, director of Research at Janus Henderson Investors. “However, we reiterate our caution that we are not out of the woods just yet, as stubbornly high wage gains could keep the Fed on an aggressive path.”

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“The Fed is not going to be swayed by one or two pieces of data, and they are steadfast about getting inflation down,” Mayfield said. “They need a really broad and long body of evi dence before they’re going to pivot because the last thing they want is to quit tooTheearly.”latest jobs data comes a day after the Labor Department reported unemployment claims fell last week in another sign of a strong job market. It said earlier this week there were two jobs for every unem ployed person in July.

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NOTICE is hereby given that ARISMENDY ANDUJAR MENTOLIZ of Marathon Estates, Nassau, Bahamas is applying to the Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for registration/ naturalization as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any person who knows any reason why registration/naturalization should not be granted, should send a written and signed statement of the facts within twenty-eight days from the 6th day of September, 2022 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, Bahamas.

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NOTICE is hereby given that AUBERT DARCY of Sir Lynden Pindling Estates, New Providence, Bahamas is applying to the Minister responsible for Nationality and Citizenship, for registration/ naturalization as a citizen of The Bahamas, and that any person who knows any reason why registration/naturalization should not be granted, should send a written and signed statement of the facts within twenty-eight days from the 6th day of September, 2022 to the Minister responsible for nationality and Citizenship, P.O. Box N-7147, Nassau, Bahamas.

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The�. objective of this engagement is to conduct quarterly Internal Audits of the Company’s processes and assess the status of internal controls. The areas to be audited will be scoped and agreed upon by both the Company and Auditor through an annual review of the Risk Based Internal Audit Plan. The plan will be prepared, reviewed, and agreed upon with the Company’s Audit Committee and Chief Financial Officer. The specific terms of reference, in terms of overall objectives and scope of work are outlined below�

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The�. Company will evaluate all proposals based on the criteria below. To ensure consideration for this RFP, your proposal should be complete and include all the following criteria� I. Overall proposal suitability� proposal must meet the scope and needs included herein and be presented in a clear and organi�ed manner� II. Clarify the alignment of the proposed internal audit planning and process to BHL. III. Organi�ational ��perience� Bidders will be evaluated on their e�perience as it pertains to the scope of this assignment� I�. Previous work� Bidders will be evaluated based on e�amples of their work on similar assignments� �. �alue and cost� Bidders will be evaluated on the proposed cost based on the work to be performed in accordance with the scope of this assignment� and �I. Technical e�pertise and e�perience� Bidders must provide descriptions and documentation of the technical e�pertise and e�perience of the specific proposed core team for this assignment.

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he added. “There’s been nothing proven wrong with the eggs but they’re not taking any chances. That’s going to put eggs back in the $5 per dozen range.” Asked how quickly this increase will occur, the Super Value chief indicated within weeks. “It will be the next time we import,” he added. “We have them on special now at $3.29, and have about 1,200 cases left. We have to hold the special until Wednesday night (tomorrow) when the advertising expires. “If we have any left, we will continue the $3.29 through the week as long as supply lasts. But the next shipment we expect them to go up to the $5 range. This is bad news for the consumer as we’re entering baking season. Sales do go down when the price goes up, supply and demand. The [Hillandale] owner told me $1.50 per carton. They will forward us the new price today, and we will see if it’s $5 and we have to go to Eggs,$4.99.”as a food staple, are among the However,leadinglatter’s20informedricegasoline,placedimpendingandida,eastsupplierHillandaleBesidestaryaffecttheerts10allowedwatchdog.ernment’smargins“breadbasket”price-controlleditemswherearesetbytheGovPriceControlRetailersareafixedmark-upofpercent,andMrRobvoicedconcernthatriseineggpricescouldsalesofcomplemenfoodssuchasbacon.TheBahamas,isamajoreggfortheentireUScoast,includingFlorthecruiseshipindustryPuertoRico.MrRobertssaidthepriceincreaseeggstogetherwithcookingoilandwithSuperValueofanimminentpercentincreaseinthepriceasthe“fourinflationaryitems”.strikingamore

The financial proposal shall also be submitted to internalauditproposal�bahamasair.com, with subject ‘Internal Audit Financial Proposal’. The financial proposal shall detail the level of effort, the consultancy fees, and other costs payable by the Company.

The specific terms of reference, in terms of overall objectives and scope of work are I. Preparation of a two year risk based internal audit rolling plan based of key risk areas regarding the Company’s Operations, Risk Management and Corporate Plan which will be reviewed annually considering emerging processes� Bahamasair�. Holdings Limited (The Company/BHL”) was incorporated on February ��, ��, laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and is owned by the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“the Government”). The Company’s shares are registered in the Treasurer of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Cabinet Secretary of the Commonwealth the Bahamas. The principal activity of the Company is the operation of scheduled freight services within The Bahamas and between The Bahamas, Florida, Haiti and Cuba. The Company maintains its membership with The International Air Transport Association participates in its clearing house, and undergoes an IATA Operational Safety Audit (“IOSA”) years. IATA is an association representing appro�imately �� a irlines. It is responsible safe, reliable, secure and economical air services and fostering inter airline co operation. operates the airline’s clearing house, which processes and allocates financial credits between member airlines and administers the IATA Operational Safety Audit (“IOSA”). has participated in the IOSA program since �� and has successfully undergone a unqualified audits. The Company successfully passed its seventh IATA Operational Safety The�.��.purpose of this RFP is to invite suitably qualified and e�perienced service providers The Bahamas to submit proposals to provide Internal Audit services for a period commencing October ��. The�. objective of this engagement is to conduct quarterly Internal Audits of the Company’s and assess the status of internal controls. The areas to be audited will be scoped and agreed both the Company and Auditor through an annual review of the Risk Based Internal Audit plan will be prepared, reviewed, and agreed upon with the Company’s Audit Committee Financial Officer.

BHL�. invites qualified consulting firms to submit proposals for provision of internal audit services. Interested firms are requested to submit a proposal as follows�

The Company maintains its membership with The International Air Transport Association (“IATA”), participates in its clearing house, and undergoes an IATA Operational Safety Audit (“IOSA”) every two years. IATA is an association representing appro�imately �� a irlines. It is responsible for promoting safe, reliable, secure and economical air services and fostering inter airline co operation. IATA also operates the airline’s clearing house, which processes and allocates financial credits and debits between member airlines and administers the IATA Operational Safety Audit (“IOSA”). The Company has participated in the IOSA program since �� and has successfully undergone a total of seven unqualified audits. The Company successfully passed its seventh IATA Operational Safety Audit in The�.��.purpose of this RFP is to invite suitably qualified and e�perienced service providers operating in The Bahamas to submit proposals to provide Internal Audit services for a period of two years commencing October ��.

Bahamasair�. Holdings Limited (The Company/BHL”) was incorporated on February ��, laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and is owned by the Government of the of The Bahamas (“the Government”). The Company’s shares are registered in Treasurer of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Cabinet Secretary of the the Bahamas. The principal activity of the Company is the operation of scheduled freight services within The Bahamas and between The Bahamas, Florida, Haiti and The Company maintains its membership with The International Air Transport Association participates in its clearing house, and undergoes an IATA Operational Safety Audit years. IATA is an association representing appro�imately �� a irlines. It is responsible safe, reliable, secure and economical air services and fostering inter airline co operation. operates the airline’s clearing house, which processes and allocates financial between member airlines and administers the IATA Operational Safety Audit (“IOSA”). has participated in the IOSA program since �� and has successfully undergone unqualified audits. The Company successfully passed its seventh IATA Operation The�.��.purpose of this RFP is to invite suitably qualified and e�perienced service providers The Bahamas to submit proposals to provide Internal Audit services for a period commencing October ��. The�. objective of this engagement is to conduct quarterly Internal Audits of the Company’s and assess the status of internal controls. The areas to be audited will be scoped and both the Company and Auditor through an annual review of the Risk Based Internal plan will be prepared, reviewed, and agreed upon with the Company’s Audit Committee Financial Officer.

As a result, Mr Roberts said he was hopeful that “this inflation spiral is lev elling off” for world and Bahamian food prices ear lier than he had originally anticipated. Having previ ously predicted this would occur towards the end of the 2023 first quarter, he added there were signs this might happen from month’s end, though there is no indica tion that costs will go down as rapidly as they have esca latedEggs,post-COVID.though,will remain an outlier with US-based Hillandale Farms warn ing that high prices could persist for a year until its egg-laying flock is rebuilt. “We have been informed by our egg supplier that eggs are going up by $1.50 a carton. With freight and duty, that will go to $2 per carton, which is what we estimate it will go up by,” Mr Roberts told Tribune Business. “We’ve put eggs on spe cial at the moment at $3.29 a carton. We had hoped eggs would go down next week to $3.09, and $2.99 the following week. When they dropped the duty [in the May Budget], bird flu hit and doubled the price of eggs. The Government thought we didn’t respond to the duty cut, but we did.” Mr Roberts said that while Hillandale Farms had escaped the first bird flu wave, it had not been so for tunate second time around, which has cost it 35m chicks equivalent to one-fifth of its production. “They took the thousands of cases in the cooler, tracked the shipping down, and all eggs were confiscated and destroyed,”

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upbeat note, he told this newspaper: “After those, the buyers told me they have not been notified of any other increases. Apart from rice, they expect a little increase in sugar but it is not an expensive item. “I hope this inflation spiral is levelling out. I thought that might happen next year, but it looks like it will happen at the end of this quarter and that will be great for here. I hope the spiral in inflation is plateau ing out. My past prediction was that this will not level out until the first quarter next year, January, Febru ary and March, but it looks better now. We hope this is it, and that the supply keeps up. We are assuming it’s holding through, and the supply is not broken. “Eggs will take a year to get back to normal. They have to replace the flock and get them laying,” Mr Roberts continued. “The only other problem we’ve had is with Hunt’s tomato paste. They refused our last order because they’re keep ing the supply in the US. They don’t have enough to supply the US, so they’re not going to export. “We shifted to the Philip pines, and we have 300-400 cases from the Philippines. It’s good quality. The brand name will change, but we still have the items. The US will show empty shelves, but we’re all over the world. When the supply of toilet tissue dries up, we’ll go to Turkey or Trinidad. The customers want the name brands they are used to, but we have to encourage them to buy what we get, espe cially on cooking oil.” With Christmas still some months away, Mr Roberts said Super Value has con tained price increases for picnic hams and regular hams to 10 percent and 20 percent, respectively, com pared to last year’s costs by

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Bahamasair�. Holdings Limited (The Company/BHL”) was incorporated on February ��, ��, under the laws of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and is owned by the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“the Government”). The Company’s shares are registered in the name of the Treasurer of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Cabinet Secretary of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. The principal activity of the Company is the operation of scheduled passenger and freight services within The Bahamas and between The Bahamas, Florida, Haiti and Cuba.

locking in prices over the summer.“Really, it’s a miracle,” he told Tribune Business of these prices. “This over last year. It’s not too bad. We had to lock those in during the summer, and they asked us to go ahead and pay for them back then so they could hold them. I think the Government should be happier it’s not going any higher and the consumer should be happy with the exception of eggs. “We have six months’ inventory on most hard goods, and corn beef that has a four-year life, we probably have a year’s supply. We’ve protected the country on most hard good items. We have them inven tory so their prices cannot goTheup.”Bahamas, as a coun try that imports virtually all it consumes and produces very little food of its own, has little to no control over food costs and is extremely vulnerable to the present inflationary environment. This has been a major factor driving the cost of living crisis, although the Government - in the grip of its own fiscal woes - tried to bring help where it could with selected tariff cuts.

oil, and upcoming poten tial increases of 20 percent and 10 percent for rice and sugar, respectively, Super Value’s buyers have not been informed of any fur ther cost rises by suppliers.

FROM PAGE A24 business interests in retail pharmacy, education and real estate are all witnesses to the daily struggles an increasing number of Baha mians are suffering to make endsHemeet.revealed that around 30 percent of customers at his family’s Wilmac Phar macy, located opposite the University of the Bahamas, are unable to pay for their full prescriptions. And, at Halsbury Chambers, accounts receivables have jumped by between 25-28 percent as Bahamian clients find it increasingly difficult to come up with the neces sary retainers and expenses to cover legal fees. “We have to be bold in our approach to looking at things,” Mr McCartney told Tribune Business. “We can’t be doing the same thing over and over again, and expect different results. We have to be bold and, almost like a business, the Govern ment has to take some risks. You’ll win some, lose some, and hopefully the wins will outweigh the losses. “Let’s move forward. It is time now for us to look at being a first-world country. We have to. We have enough here to be a first-world country. We just need the mindset and political will to move in that direction. I’ve travelled extensively, and love my country, but I get so frustrated when I go to dif ferent places and see they’re much more advanced than we are. That shouldn’t be.” Conceding that the COVID-19 pandemic imposed “a terrific strain” on the Bahamian economy and society, and that “we haven’t caught ourselves since”, Mr McCartney added: “We’re trying to rebound, but gas prices have increased and the cost of food has increased. I think it was a mistake to have added VAT to breadbasket items and medicines; I see it every day. “Just this morning at the pharmacy, people were coming in there and just barely, those on the National Prescription Drug Plan in particular, were they afford ing life saving medications as simple as high blood pres sure pills. They may have medication to be refilled after three months, and they’re coming in and only getting three to four pills because that’s all they can afford to deal with at that time. Then they come back after four days for another three to four pills “We see that every day, and it’s been going on for some time. I would say that about 30-odd percent of customers are in that posi tion. We have to try and give assistance, especially with those patients that have been with us for 25 years. And the same thing some times happens in the legal profession.”TheHalsbury Chambers principal added: “I’ve been in law for 32 years, and have some clients that have been with me for that long. When they have legal issues, what are you going to say? That you cannot deal with it because they cannot pay the retainer? You try to work it out with them. “I’m talking primarily about local clients where persons, for the most part, cannot come up with the retainer that’s necessary. Retainers not only cover legal fees but expenses they have to part with to get the matter started. You have to pay the Government, and you have to pay to have doc uments served and filed. “You say to clients: ‘Put a certain amount down and come back to get it sorted’. Many times you say: ‘Pay the expenses to get the matter started, and we will work it out on the back end’. Inevitably you end up with receivables that are out of this world. All busi nesses have receivables, but in these circumstances it’s bit more. We’re looking at a 25-28 percent increase in receivables, and when you don’t work it out they have to be written off.” Mr McCartney also called for a tougher crackdown on littering and environmen tal pollution as a means to ensure Bahamians take greater pride in their coun try. “Bahamians need to stop being so damn dirty and nasty,” he blasted. “I would really encourage the Minis try of the Environment, the police and what have you to crack down on people drop ping mattresses by the side of the road, dropping KFC wrappers and abandoning wrecked vehicles on the roadside.“Let’s take pride in our country, and the only way to deal with that is to look at the laws that deal with litter ing and make them as stern as possible where people will think five times’ before they throw gum out of the window or a car.” Mr McCartney suggested that The Bahamas follow the example set by Singa pore and its former ruler, the autocrat Lee Kuan Yew, which he argued had suc cessfully achieved “first world” status by focusing on educating and providing opportunities for its people as well as a harsh approach to law and order.

The specific terms of reference, in terms of overall objectives and scope of work are outlined

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THE TRIBUNE Tuesday, September 6, 2022, PAGE 21 Food cost ‘plateau’ looms despite 60% egg increase

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BARBERS and beauty salons were yesterday said toldbersCosmetologistspresidentthesionalsrestrictionsfromtobe“reboundingverystrongly”previousCOVID-19asmoreprofesreturntoworkinsector.AntonMinnis,vice-oftheBahamianandBarAssociation(BCBA), Tribune Business the industry has embraced more hygienic practices in an effort to ensure the continued health and well-being of staff.

“Things have really taken off to another level. They were good to begin with because we were able to have the downturn of pseudofolliculitis (irritation caused by shaving) in males and alopecia with females. We’ve had a lot of that come down considerably. So the industry is doing its part to keep the standard of health high in the country, and we’re looking forward to bigger and better things to come,” he said. Barbers and beauty shops were hit hard by the COVID-19 lockdowns and associated restrictions that lasted well into 2021, and endured a protracted recov ery due to sluggish demand. But, as COVID proto cols have been relaxed, barbers and beauticians are breathing a little easier this year.Mr Minnis added: “Bar bers are even coming back into the shops. The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) is doing an excellent job of training people, so we are having a lot of success right now in the industry.” Many employees were forced out of the industry when COVID restrictions made it impossible for them to maintain a physical busi ness location. Because they operate in close proximity to their customers, fears of so-called commu nity spread via barbers and beauty shops meant pandemic-related protocols were relaxed very slowly. Mr Minnis said: “We’ve had people close their doors and started a mobile busi ness, because a brick and mortar business became tedious for them and they couldn’t catch up. But some of them are rebound ing, and rebounding very strong. They are coming back.“Freeport is rebound ing soundly, but we’re still having conversations with our members to see what we can do to help with the rebound, especially when it comes to us having more of a hygienic presence in terms of the sanitation and infection prevention in controlled areas. The industry is doing this. The beauty trade and industry in this country is working along with the Ministry of Health to bring about standards and procedures to help with infection pre vention and control.”

remains largely stagnant, adding: “I don’t feel as if it’s getting any better. It’s not changing a whole lot, but right now it’s not get ting any worse.” While not opposed to the recentlylaunched government initiative of providing Bahamians with free wire less Internet (wifi) access at public parks, he added that the country needs to be careful over the signals it is sending with other “free” promotions.Indicating this could encourage a ‘something for nothing’ mentality, Mr Bowe added: “We need to give people support to earn, but we deny them oppor tunities and give them free stuff. We don’t encourage people to learn. Where do we expect to go. If we don’t

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Scott MacKenzie, Cloud Carib’s chief executive, told Tribune Business that the Caribbean Telecommu nications Union’s (CTU) information and communi cations technology week, which opened in Nassau yesterday, must deliver the right policy mix to grow the sector.“Ithink with regulation for anything, it’s good to formulate your own strat egy internally and then bring it into a broader audience, and that’s where industry participation comes in,” he added. The CTUs closed-door meetings will take place throughout the week, mixed with private sector inter action. “That’s the whole reason for having URCA (the Utilities Regulatory Competition Authority) or regulatory bodies in general, so the regulatory bodies can interface with CTU, which interfaces with the ITU (Interna tional industryquestion,ple,MrUnion)TelecommunicationsoutoftheUN,”MacKenzieadded.“Bandwidthasanexamyouhavetoaskthenotfromanperspective,but from a citizen or govern ment perspective: Why is bandwidth here 1,000 times more expensive in the Car ibbean than it is across the water in the North Ameri can market? You have to ask that Suggestingquestion.”that it was critical to have industry providers involved in these discussions because “this is where they make their money”, while regula tors’ primary focus is on protecting consumers, Mr MacKenzie said: “These meetings happen every year, and every year they do this in a different country. So this year, it’s The Baha mas’ time to host it, and it’s really the same kind of thing each year for over the past ten years.”

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By YOURI KEMP Tribune ReporterBusiness ykemp@tribunemedia.net actually above their pro jections,” Mr Thompson argued.Other sources also pointed out that the return of the PHA loan would have “inflated the rev enue numbers” as it does not represent tax income earned by the Govern ment. All indications are that it is included in the numbers shown in the Min istry of Finance’s monthly report for June 2022 and the full 2021-2022 period, as it appears in the “other” revenue column for April, which shows $87.2m earned thatThemonth.ministry’s April 2022 report confirmed that the month’s $46.2m fiscal sur plus was “largely owing to the return of a $86.2m PHA (Public Hospitals Author ity) capital subvention”. Mr Wilson, in an earlier interview with Tribune Business, confirmed that related to the cancellation of a loan from Banco San tander, underwritten or guaranteed by the World Bank’s Multilateral Invest ment Guarantee Agency (MIGA).This was taken out by the former Minnis administration to finance redevelopment of both the Princess Margaret Hospi tal (PMH) and Freeport’s Rand Memorial Hospital. Despite the low 3.23 per cent interest rate attached, the Davis administration elected not to proceed with the loan, and without its one-off cancellation a deficit of some $40m would have been recorded for April 2022. Mr Thompson, mean while, yesterday said he “didn’t remember” fiscal deficit projections for the 2021-2022 fiscal year going as high as the $1.11bn signalled in the Ministry of Finance’s June 2022 report. The former Minnis administration projected this at $951.8m, with the Davis administration sub sequently lowering it to $858.6m after revenues for the 2021-2022 first quar ter beat expectations by $92.3m.Netting off $251.4m in supplementary borrowing unveiled with the Budget for 2022-2023, and a $351.4 reduction in the deficit due to an improved fiscal out look, resulted in a $100m cut that took the final defi cit forecast to $758.6m. The June 2022 report shows the final outturn at $689.5m, indicating the Government beat its deficit target by almost $70m, but stripping out the PHA loan’s return would leave it exceeding this by over $16m. The $1.11bn deficit figure appears to have been derived from taking the Minnis administration’s original $951.8m forecast, subtracting the $92.3m rev enue outperformance from this, and then adding in the $251.4m in supplementary borrowing. However, the forecast $351.4m reduction via an improved economic and fiscal outlook is not factored in, thus giving the impression that the Gov ernment performed far better against the deficit target than it actually did. Meanwhile, Mr Thomp son urged the Government to provide a full explanation as to why June 2022’s rev enues were down by $84m or 27.5 percent against the prior year’s comparatives. “Our obvious concern is how could that be?” he asked. “The Government owes the public a very clear explanation how it could be 27.5 percent below rev enues for last June, as it is a time when the economy is doing far better and is more open.“We are also spending more than last year. We were still last year spend ing on COVID support and COVID relief. We are no longer spending on that. It is concerning, in a month when revenues are 27.5 percent less, that we are spending more.” How ever, total government spending barely increased year-over-year, rising by just 0.6 percent or $3.4m to $540.1m, thus producing a $318.7m monthly deficit that was $87.4m or 37.8 per cent higher than in 2021. The Ministry of Finance sought to explain the reve nue decline in a release that accompanied the June 2022 report, saying: “June 2022 revenues decreased by 27.5 percent ($84m) compared to the prior fiscal year, driven by decreased col lections of $61.1m in excise tax owing to timing delays related to tax payment; $13.7m in VAT largely related to VAT on property [transactions]; $9.7m in the sale of goods and services; and $19.4m in other non-tax revenues.”MrWilson also told this newspaper that the near$14m reduction in VAT collected on property transactions resulted from buyers and their attor neys holding off bringing conveyances forward for stamping, and the payment of due taxes, until July so they could take advantage of lower VAT rates for deals worth $1m or less that were introduced to coincide with the new Budget year. Gowon Bowe, Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) chief exec utive, yesterday advised against reading too much into one month-over-month or year-over-year compari son as this did not represent a trend. “We should never get to high or too low over inconsistent trends or what we perceive to be trends,” he told Tribune Business. “One month does not make a trend, and one year-overyear comparison does not make a Pointingtrend.”out that it has “taken us years to get where we are in the debt situation, so it will take years to reverse it”, Mr Bowe said “look ing toandsistentlyGovernmentwhile,positionBahamas’whenerlyandment-widetoaccrual-basedagainstory”.aover-yearquarter-over-quarter,month-over-month,year-isultimatelyonlymarginalportionoftheThesituation,headded,exposedtheneedforaccountingbeimplementedgovernsothatrevenuespendingcanbeproprecordedintheperiodstheyoccurandThetruefinancialdetermined.MrThompson,meanaccusedtheofbeing“conlate”withitsfiscalfinancialreportingtheBahamianpeople, which he described as “very worrisome” and a violation of the obligations mandated by the Fiscal Responsibil ity Act. He warned that this “has an impact on our cred ibility” with the financial markets, including credi tors and potential lenders as well as the credit rating agencies.Tribune Business under stands both the quarterly report for the three months to-end June 2022, the final period for the 20212022 fiscal year, as well as the July monthly report are both supposed to be published by end-August according to the Act. How ever, Clint Watson, the Prime Minister’s spokes man, indicated a fortnight ago that these reports may be released later this week. Hubert Edwards, head of the Organisation for Responsible Governance’s (ORG) economic devel opment committee, also voiced concern that the Government appears to be “lagging” with the publica tion of its reports. Mr Wilson, though, previously told this news paper that the Ministry of Finance’s existing systems, some of which are decades’ old, make it almost impos sible to meet the reporting deadlines while at the same time providing accurate information.

“There are a lot of people employed by the Gov ernment every day who provide nothing of value and get paid. Those that are doing something of value have to take their money to pay them. Any time there are a lot of lines in the country, it means people are standing on those lines and not working. If they’re not working it’s a drag on our gross domestic product (GDP).“We have to be produc tive. We need to focus on our productivity, and for people to understand what productivity and ser vice is.” Mr Bowe recalled how he had to make three separate trips to the Road Traffic Department recently in a bid to licence one of his trucks after an employee there told him no more licence plates were available.“Italked to the minis ter, talked to the director of road traffic, and they said there’s no shortage of licence plates. Why was everyone telling us that? It cost us three trips, and if that’s being repeated with other persons how is that impacting the GDP of the country? It was frustrating for me, but it turned out they had licence plates,” Mr Bowe said. A BAHAMAS-BASED cloud services provider yesterday said Caribbean regulators must focus on reducing Internet band width costs across the region.

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get people productive, we will not get the economy to move.“Our problem is really us. We need people to tell us the truth. We need to earn our way out of this situation. There’s no magic. Every day I go to work at 8.30am, 9am, and there’s a whole line of men at the liquor store. You can’t run a society like this, standing around drinking all day, and spending all the money you earn at the bar.

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“The Government has to be honest with the people even if it means getting kicked out of office for doing the right thing. We have to save the country. The Government needs to tell the people every chance they get, they have to be productive. If you do not come to work, we cannot pay you,” he continued.

THE OPPOSITION’S finance spokesman yes terday charged that the Government would have missed its 2021-2022 deficit target but for the repay ment of an aborted $86.2m Public Hospitals Authority (PHA)Kwasiloan.Thompson, former minister of state for finance in the Minnis administra tion, told Tribune Business that the deficit for the past fiscal year would have exceeded the final $758.6m goal if the low-cost loan guaranteed by a World Bank affiliate - and which was intended to finance hospital redevelopment - was not unwound and returned.

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A SMALL business advo cate has voiced concern that last Wednesday’s power outage, which hit multiple areas of New Providence, is “the end and not the beginning” of any summer woes for Bahamas Power & Light (BPL).Mark A Turnquest, head of the fledgling 242 Small Busi ness Association and Resource Centre, and a consultant to the sector, told Tribune Business in a recent interview that the stateowned utility monopoly has not negatively impacted entrepre neurs to the extent it did three years ago with daily rolling out ages and blackouts. “BPL has not significantly impacted small businesses in the country this year,” he said. “My members and clients are very close to it. The outage on Wednesday morning, hopefully that will be the first and last to occur, but BPL has not behaved badly this summer in terms of impacting the country and busi ness“Wecommunity.canexcuse BPL for Wednesday morning, but we hope this will be the end and not the beginning. We don’t need BPL to start these island-wide blackouts. This year has not been horrible

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SUPER Value’s president yes terday voiced optimism that food price inflation could start to “pla teau” by end-September despite warning Bahamians that egg prices could suffer an imminent 60 percentRupertincrease.Roberts told Trib une Business the 13-store supermarket’s US egg supplier had informed it that cartons con taining a dozen eggs will increase by $1.50 due to the loss of 35m chicks as a result of bird flu - a number equivalent to 20 percent of its regular production. Conceding that the timing is “bad news” for consumers as it coincides with the start of “baking season”, he added that the addi tion of freight costs and Bahamian import duty will likely take the per carton increase to $2 - pushing the total price to $5 or just over - right at the time when Super Value had been hoping to lower theNevertheless,cost. Mr Roberts told this newspaper that eggs are among the exceptions rather than part of an overall trend when it comes to food prices and related inflation. Besides cooking

“My question, and I saw the point Simon [Wilson, the financial secretary] made about not wanting to have a ‘victory lap’, and where the deficit was $70m better than expected, but does that take into account the $80m-plus returned from the PHA? If that is included then they are

A FORMER Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader is urging the Government to revisit the creation of a National Lottery as a means to assist vulnerable Bahamians struggling with the cost of living crisis. Branville McCartney told Tribune Business in a recent interview that despite suggestions a National Lottery and web shop gaming cannot co-exist there was no doubt the former would “certainly be better” for The Baha mas as a means to redistribute monies to those with the greatest food, cloth ing and shelter needs. Calling on the Davis administration to “be brave” and “take some risks” to rescue The Bahamas from its postCOVID economic and fiscal crisis, he argued that the National Lottery’s purpose would not be to erode the web shops’ profits although some observers believe there is insufficient funds to support both. “Although Bahamians might still play the numbers, go back to a National Lottery. I would revisit that again, the development of a National Lottery,” Mr McCartney told this newspaper. “If we do a National Lot tery, the proceeds would right now go to social assistance. “It’s certainly not to take away from the web shops, but the bottom line is that a National Lottery would cer tainly be better for the economy as a whole.” He cited the National Lottery as an example of initiatives that would help break the status quo, adding that The Bahamas needs a fresh “mind set” backed by the necessary political will if the country is to move forward post-COVID.Besideshis Halsbury Chambers law firm, Mr McCartney said his other National Lottery, ex-DNA leader demands

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A BAHAMIAN businessman yesterday said increased productivity is the only way to “save the country”, and called on the Government to be “honest” with voters even if they lose an election for “doing the rightEthricthing”.Bowe, an engineer with multi ple business interests including Advanced Technical Enterprises, an insurance agency/ brokerage and a family farm, lamented to Tribune Business the challenges he and other employers have in finding staff with the necessary literacy, numeracy and work ethic that enable their ventures to function efficiently.“Thehuman resource issue is the big gest issue out there,” he blasted. “I say that because I spent most of the morning trying to find some people to hire. You can’t find people to hire. My advertisement said we are looking for people who can read, write and come to work. Is this a real place or what?“Italk to business people all the time. They all have the same problem. It’s not a matter of training. Most of the people I’ve seen, it’s an aversion to training. They don’t want to be trained, don’t want to learn and don’t want to acquire skills. How is the country supposed to move forward? That is a huge one, and it feeds into the same thing.”MrBowe said the economic climate as the country emerges from COVID-19

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