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Union chief challenges Customs overtime pay
# Mr Brooks said Customs officers wanted to be at least part-paid what they were owed before Christmas but this did not happen. However, he confirmed that two months’ worth of overtime payments should ...
The Jamaica Observer21d
Bahamas PM says planned industrial action is illegal
Ferguson said 14 unions are holding strike certificates and are prepared to take industrial action and that the unresolved disputes involved customs and immigration officers, the Bahamas Hotel ...
Bahamas Press1mon
Some $10 million worth of cocaine has been seized in a New Year’s Day drug bust at Freeport Container Port
Chief Superintendent Michael Thurston, head of the Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU), said based on intelligence, officers from the DEU, Bahamas Customs Department, and US Drug Enforcement Agency went to ...
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Feds say they stopped boat with 188 kilos of cocaine off Pompano Beach
ARCHIVO DEL MIAMI HERALD Two men from The Bahamas face cocaine-smuggling charges after U.S. Customs agents stopped their boat off Pompano Beach last week and found almost 190 kilograms of cocaine ...
Tribune2425d
Union chief challenges Customs overtime pay
A trade union president is challenging the explanation given by Bahamas Customs’ top official for why overtime and transportation payments due to officers have been delayed. Deron Brooks ...