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February 25, 2016
'No power to reduce Rufa stay' says lawyer

THE Department of Immigration did not have the power in law to cancel or reduce the 150-day stay granted to Canadian citizen Bruno Rufa last year, his attorney Fred Smith, QC, has argued.

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April 22, 2016
Unreasonable for Bruno Rufa to be given seven days to leave the country

WHILE Director of Immigration William Pratt by law had the power to vary, cancel or reduce the 150-day period that was granted to Canadian Bruno Rufa on his entry to the Bahamas last year, Supreme Court Justice Petra Hanna Weekes found that it was ?unreasonable? for the director to have given him seven days to leave the country - a day and half before the Christmas holiday.

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February 26, 2016
Judge rules Rufa can stay until verdict of judicial review

CANADIAN Bruno Rufa will be able to remain in the Bahamas until April 4 when the Supreme Court is expected to deliver its ruling in the judicial review into a decision made by the Department of Immigration to revoke his 150-day stay in the country.

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November 20, 2015
AG agrees to release of McKinsey Report on HCA consultation

The Office of the Attorney General has agreed to release the McKinsey Report - the highly sought report on the Freeport economy by international consultancy McKinsey & Co. - in a move that has a prominent Queen's Counsel (Q.C.) "elated."

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