WEATHER COOKIES & CREAM McFLURRY HIGH 87F LATEST NEWS ON WWW.TRIBUNE242.COM LOW 76F The Tribune SUNNY WITH THE PEOPLE’S PAPER SHOWER BIGGEST AND BEST Volume: 107 No.129 FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011 PRICE – 75¢ (Abaco and Grand Bahama $1.25) Value of Bahamas CARS FOR SALE, ‘Golden girl’ S S S Anthonique E E T fisheries exports D HELP WANTED I N R I ready for S O S N P I U rise 14 per cent AND REAL ESTATE S Penn Relays B SEE SECTION B BAHAMAS BIGGEST SEE SECTION E MAN FOUND DEAD WITH GUNSHOT WOUNDS IN LATEST MURDER POLICE are investigating a murder that occurred in Fox Hill yesterday. Missing fisherman Ricardo Edgecombe, 30, of Johnson Road, is the coun- try’s 43rd homicide victim this year. His body was discovered with multiple gunshot wounds on Grant Street, off Step Street, at around 3am. Emergency Medical Ser- vices personnel responded and pronounced Mr Edge- combe dead at the scene. In a separate investigation, police appealed for help in ‘victim of foul play’ trying to track down a teenag- er they want to question. Officers are looking for 18- Wife’s desperate CLOWNING AROUND AT FUN DAY SEE page six HAITIAN IMMIGRANTS plea for truth SLEEP IN CHURCHES AFTER ‘MUD’ BLAZE about fatal trip DOZENS of Haitian immi- grants slept in local churches and with friends last night By TANEKA about a week's time. after being left homeless by THOMPSON She said since her a massive fire in The Mud, Tribune Staff husband's disap- Abaco. Reporter pearance, she has More than 100 people were tthompson@ had insomnia and displaced when the fire tribunemedia.net had to enrol her two destroyed nearly 40 homes, young daughters according to unofficial esti- THE distraught into grief coun- mates. wife of a fisherman selling. Tim Roberts, an Abacon- who has been miss- Mrs Deleveaux ian fire worker, said the ing at sea for nearly said she has heard flames are now under control six months believes "conflicting" and several government agen- he was the victim of accounts of what cies have arrived to assist. foul play and is des- happened on the The National Emergency perate for police to MISSING: Oral day her husband Management Agency conclude their inves- Deleveaux did not went overboard. (NEMA) sent officials to tigation into the case. return from a fishing To make matters Abaco yesterday to join Jacqueline Dele- trip last year. worse, Mrs Dele- workers from the Department veaux, a 40-year-old veaux said the oth- of Social Services, Immigra- primary school teacher, said er men on the trip never con- life for her and her two tacted her about her hus- SEE page six daughters has been turned band's disappearance, telling upside down since her hus- The Tribune she found out band reportedly went over- the horrific details from fam- board during a fishing trip last ily members two days after ANONYMOUS DONOR December. the incident. Oral Deleveaux, a fisher- She was told the boat car- GIVES PMH $500K OF man by trade since the early rying her 42-year-old husband MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 1990s, left Nassau on Decem- and two other men broke By LAMECH JOHNSON ber 4 for the Exuma Cays and was expected to return in SEE page six THE Princess Margaret Hospital has received $500,000 in medical equip- ment from an anonymous donor, hospital officials revealed yesterday. The donor, who has lived in the Bahamas for more than 45 years and wishes not to be named, was the husband of a terminally ill patient who received treat- ment at PMH about five years ago. Dr Rickey Davis, an Accident and Emergency doctor who treated the donor’s wife, said she had only been receiving treat- MADE-UP: Children get their faces painted yesterday at Windsor Park, as the Urban Renewal Pro- ment for five months but gramme held an Easter Egg Hunt and Fun Day. Felipé Major/Tribune staff SEE page two NASSAU AND BAHAMA ISLANDS’ LEADING NEWSPAPER PAGE 2, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011 THE TRIBUNE LOCAL NEWS Five new dialysis machines as part of $500k donation By LAMECH JOHNSON Ms Fernander said the unit has around 150 patients, 80 of whom are treated daily. STAFF of the Dialysis Unit at the Princess D Rickey Davis says the dialysis machines are Margaret Hospital are grateful for the five new "critical" for the hospital because the facility has dialysis machines they received as a part of a a lot of patients with pressure related problems $500,000 donation from an anonymous donor. and other health issues which require dialysis Christine Fernander, one of the nursing officers treatment. of the unit, said the machines, which cost $22,000 The five machines are part of a donation of each, "have made dialysis easier." equipment worth $500,000, and according to "The machines have a certain life span depend- Dr Sara Friday and Lisa Deveaux of the A&E ing on how much you use it and we have been department, are the most expensive of the exceeding it. These five machines have made lot. dialysis easier and are up to date,” she said. The Dialysis Unit also received a computer. THE MACHINES, which cost $22,000 each, ‘have made dialysis easier.’ ANONYMOUS DONOR GIVES PMH $500K OF MEDICAL EQUIPMENT FROM page one best if it came in the form of equipment. Dr Sara Friday, head of thought highly of the hos- the A&E department at pital staff's work. PMH, spoke about some of "Apparently five years the vitally important ago when I was in the sur- machines. gical department at the She said: "We were given time, I worked with this a patient tracking system, elderly lady. I treated her and this is important like I treated everybody because it is a system where else, but she thought I was we enter patients as they an exceptional person in the are arriving and we track way that I had managed her them through the depart- with the team that I was ment. So when someone with at the time,” said Dr calls looking for a patient, it Davis. helps us to readily locate “She had a diary that she where that patient is and kept notes in, and appar- what steps they are in their ently when she had passed process – whether they have away from her terminal ill- been seen, are waiting for ness, her husband went lab results, waiting to be through and read the diary. admitted to the ward or He said it brought tears to whether they have already his eyes because she spoke been warded." so well about me and some The $29,000 system also of the other staff that was helps A&E track the length taking care of her and her of time a patient has been condition, and we treated in the department, includ- her like she was a part of ing how long it takes to be the family." seen by a doctor. Dr Davis said he recently "We also got some very- received a phone call from needed cardiac monitors. DR SARA FRIDAY, head of the A&E department at PMH, shows the new Patient Tracking system (above) and the new ECG Machine (below). “an individual who identi- These are important for Tim Clarke/Tribune staff fied himself" but thought it when we are transporting was a prank because the patients to the ECG screen- man said he wanted to ing department and the donate half a million dol- ward,” Dr Friday explained. lars to the hospital. The ECG machine, which "Well, of course, I is used for screening thought it was a joke when patients with heart prob- he said he'd like to meet lems, cost $19,000. There with me. I don't think I'd are now two ECG machines like to meet with anybody in the hospital. when they say they want to In total, including the donate half a million dol- patient tracking system and lars,” said the doctor. Mac5500 ECG machine, “But eventually I met the A&E department with the individual and he received 25 pieces of equip- was very pleasant and indi- ment, among them seven cated that because of his computers, six cardiac mon- wife he would like to itors, three examination donate half a million dol- beds, four wall diagnostic lars." sets and a digital baby The donor gave Dr Davis scale. the option of receiving a The ENT Clinic and Dial- cash donation, but he ysis unit also received new replied that he thought it equipment. DR. RICKEY DAVIS addresses members of the media yesterday about the donation. Tim Clarke/Tribune staff THE TRIBUNE FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2011, PAGE 5 LOCAL NEWS POLICE URGE BOATERS Police Sergeant describes murder TO ENSURE VESSELS ARE SEAWORTHY By DENISE MAYCOCK scene as trial gets underway Tribune Freeport Reporter [email protected] By DENISE MAYCOCK the hallway and in the store eral items, including swabs col- FREEPORT – Following Tribune Freeport Reporter Five charged in connection room near the body. lected at the scene, a projectile, a near tragedy at sea this [email protected] “I processed the scene, I took spent bullet casings, and shoe week, police are urging with incident in 2008 pictures of the scene and pic- impressions along with an analy- boaters to ensure that their FREEPORT – The trial of tures of the deceased. I also sis form, to the Police Forensic vessels are seaworthy before five Abaco men charged in the It is alleged that Mills and his role in the investigation.