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WEATHER TRY OUR PINA COLADA McFLURRY HIGH 89F LATEST NEWS ON WWW.TRIBUNE242.COM LOW 81F The Tribune SUNNY, THE PEOPLE’S PAPER T-STORM BIGGEST AND BEST Volume: 107 No.235 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 PRICE – 75¢ (Abaco and Grand Bahama $1.25) INSIDE TODAY: THE SEASON STARTS HERE - GET YOUR NFL2011SPECIALEDITION Car found WELL-KNOWN SAILING CLUB MEMBER IN HOTEL FALL TRAGEDY By AVA TURNQUEST as a suicide, according to detectives who Tribune Staff Reporter discovered a note inside his room at the in mystery [email protected] Radisson Ambassador Plaza Hotel & Casi- no, in San Juan. A WELL-KNOWN Nassau sailing The contents of the note have not been enthusiast who had been missing for some disclosed as police continue their investi- time has died after falling eight floors from gations. the balcony of his hotel in Puerto Rico. Edward Ramirez, police spokesman, said Jack Donald, 53, died of his injuries in that the suicide was reported at the hotel hospital. shortly after 11 am, Friday, September 2. Police confirmed the tragedy took place Mr Donald survived the fall and was taken last Friday. deaths case Mr Donald’s death has been categorised SEE page eight Discovery ‘raises suspicions of foul play’ By CELESTE NIXON tra was spotted Wednesday Tribune Staff Reporter night by a passing jogger who [email protected] read about the search for this “missing piece” of the inves- THE discovery of the car tigation in the news. belonging to a woman and According to Supt Paul child found dead in Nassau Rolle, officer in charge of the Harbour on Tuesday has Central Detective Unit, sug- raised suspicions of foul play, gestions that the car was dri- police sources said. ven by someone after the Officially, the police are mother and daughter died awaiting autopsy results does not necessarily mean before classifying the deaths they were murdered. – and are quick to point out He pointed out that some- they have yet to uncover any one might have stolen the car evidence of wrongdoing. from another location where However, sources within the victims left it and brought the force say clues connected it to the Cricket Club on POLICE OFFICERS remove the car which belonged to Amanda Seymour Burrows from the Cricket Club on West Bay Street. to the discovery of the car Wednesday. Tim Clarke/Tribune staff near the Cricket Club on The bodies of Amanda West Bay Street have left Seymour Burrows, 32, and investigators open to the pos- her five-year-old daughter STORM WILL HAVE ‘SLIGHT’ EFFECT ON BAHAMAS sibility they were murdered. Kaysha Burrows were pulled DEPUTY PM ACCUSES FORMER CANDIDATE Among these is the fact from the waters behind Eliz- TALK SHOW HOST OF FOR PLP NOMINATION that the car was not seen abeth on Bay Plaza Tuesday there at any point on Tues- morning. PERSONAL VENDETTA SHOT AND KILLED day – meaning someone had Police said there were no By SANCHESKA BROWN By PAUL G TURNQUEST to bring it there after the visible injuries on the bodies Chief Reporter bodies had already been of either of the victims. DEPUTY Prime Minister [email protected] found. Brent Symonette has accused Police said the Nissan Sen- SEE page nine talk show host Steve McKin- A FORMER candidate for ney of having a personal the PLP’s nomination in the vendetta against him and of Marathon area was shot and killed in Fox Hill on Wednesday making “ludicrous” com- evening. ments in an effort to slander Described as a community his name. leader by his peers and col- Mr Symonette’s comments leagues, the reports of Neil Per- came after he was informed centie’s death sent shockwaves that Mr McKinney had sug- through the Union Village area gested that he was somehow yesterday. benefiting from the govern- His death has been described ment’s extensive road work by eyewitnesses as a “senseless project, to the tune of mil- TROPICAL storm Maria will only have a “slight” killing.” affect on the country, according to meteorologists. According to police sources lions of dollars. last night, Mr Percentie had While admitting he did not The storm was expected to weaken to a depression last been travelling in a white two- hear the report personally night, according to Accuweather, whose storm projections door Honda around 8.30pm because he does not “listen indicated that the system is likely to pass over the south- with a male relative and three to garbage,” Mr Symonette ern Bahamas. young women when the car was said he is not surprised by Mr Tropical Storm Maria formed in the Atlantic yesterday, fired upon. Seated in the back McKinney’s comments. becoming the 13th named storm in the 2011 hurricane seat of the vehicle, Mr Percentie SEE page eight season. SEE page eight NASSAU AND BAHAMA ISLANDS’ LEADING NEWSPAPER PAGE 2, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2011 THE TRIBUNE LOCAL NEWS CURRY EYES PRIME MINISTER’S SEAT PLP CONTINGENT TOURS NORTH ABACO CONSTITUENCY WITHBy MEGANLOCAL REYNOLDS CANDIDATEAs township chairman for Murphy Tribune Staff Reporter Town and member of the central Aba- [email protected] co district council, Mr Curry, who was Daniel Johnson ratified by the PLP on May 5, said his PRE-ELECTION politics reached party would offer a support structure the prime minister’s constituency this for local government that is missing week as the leader of the PLP and his under the FNM. JOHNSON top MPs toured the area with local “My advantage is that I live here, I candidate Renardo Curry. experience what they experience,” Mr SCRUTINISES Confident and unafraid, the Mur- Curry said. phy Town businessman hoping to steal “I intend to be there on the ground the prime minister’s seat believes his for the people, to listen to their con- POOR WORKING youth and commitment to local people cerns, the issues that really affect them gives him the edge over the North socially.” CONDITIONS AT Abaco MP of the last 34 years. On a road-trip from Marsh Harbour to Crown Haven at the western tip of Issues MEDICAL CLINIC north Abaco, the PLP contingency By MEGAN REYNOLDS including deputy leader Philip ‘Brave’ There are major issues to be DAMAGES: Coopers Town dock in shambles after Hurricane Irene. Tribune Staff Reporter Davis, party chairman Bradley addressed in education, Mr Curry said, [email protected] Roberts, and MPs Ryan Pinder and as there is a need for a vocational Fred Mitchell, Shane Gibson, as well training college to give young people POOR working conditions as new candidates, stopped at homes who are not academically inclined an that led nurses at the Marsh and businesses to talk to local people opportunity to be trained in job skills. Harbour medical clinic to and survey hurricane damage after And he would like Abaco residents walk off the job this week Irene. to have more opportunities to win job were scrutinised by PLP can- In the well-groomed settlement of contracts for construction projects, the didate for Carmichael Daniel Cooper’s Town, where Prime Minister PLP candidate said. Johnson on a party visit to Hubert Ingraham was raised and still “I believe strongly that I will get Abaco on Wednesday. has a home, they saw damage to roofs, in,” he said. No air-conditioning, the public dock and at the gas station “I have support from the leader of mouldy ceilings and blocked run by PLP supporter Medious Edge- the PLP and the MPs who have toilets drove five of the clin- combe who has successively run the pushed for me. ics six nurses out of work for town gas station for 55 years, and “We have a large contingency of two days as repairs got under painted the pumps blue and yellow in young people that are behind me; peo- way and doctors treated tribute to his party. ple who are tired of just business as patients on an emergency- usual. only basis. “We believe that the change has to Dr Johnson, of the Walk- come now for us and the generation In medical clinics, said it was Political Oddity after us.” disappointing to see the most However taxi driver Ronald Murray Although the prime minister may important of Abaco’s six Coopers Town service station owner and party supporter said Mr Edgecombe is somewhat of a have pleased Abaconians by solving healthcare centres out of STRONG SUPPORTER: political oddity in Coopers Town ongoing issues with electricity supply action. Medious Edgecombe stands in front of one of his gas pumps that he painted blue and yellow in tribute to the PLP party. where Mr Ingraham has ensured the by building a $105m power plant in The clinic, run by two doc- roads are smoothly paved, there are Wilson City, and starting the long- tors and six nurses, typically street signs are on every corner, dual awaited rebuild of Marsh Harbour sees 60-100 patients a day, aluminum street lights hang over the international airport, Mr Curry said but this week has been serv- seafront road, sidewalks line the he can offer something the prime min- ing only emergency cases. streets and government buildings, ister cannot. “I think it’s unsanitary for “What we are seeing now is mil- staff here,” Dr Johnson said. including an impressive two-storey “Public health is all about health clinic, are well-kept and lions of dollars being spent in Abaco prevention and control of dis- appeared undamaged by the storm. and we believe that because it’s being ease, and that is where to put “In Coopers Town it’s hard to win,” spent so close to the election it’s obvi- your resources.