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Minnis: AG apology over Rubis did not go far enough
Minnis: AG apology over Rubis did not go far enough
Opposition Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis said yesterday that the government's response to the Rubis fuel leak has been "insulting" and the "overdue" apology that Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson offered on behalf of the government did not go far enough.
Rubis issue is 'beyond politics' for residents
Rubis issue is 'beyond politics' for residents
A SPOKESPERSON for the Justice for Marathon advocacy group said yesterday that she believes that the issues surrounding the 2012 Rubis gasoline leak are beyond politics for many of the area residents affected...
Rubis scandal 'unacceptable'
Rubis scandal 'unacceptable'
FORT Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins believes the Christie administration only announced concrete steps to address the Rubis underground fuel leak because of escalating public pressure, adding that for a long time the administration hoped the controversy would just "go away..."
Senator Keith R. Bell Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security On The Rubis Spill
Senator Keith R. Bell Minister of State in the Ministry of National Security On The Rubis Spill
Madam President, members opposite have raised the issue relative to the Rubis spill as they increase their efforts to politicise this serious and sensitive matter...
Rolle and the Rubis select committee
Rolle and the Rubis select committee
Dear Editor,
Last week, Minister of State for Investments Khaalis Rolle provided the Bahamian public with two demonstrable examples of the troubling collective psyche of the PLP government toward the Rubis gasoline oil spill.
Health officials defend action on Rubis spill
Health officials defend action on Rubis spill
Chief Medical Officer Glen Beneby yesterday defended the Ministry of Health's response to the Rubis gasoline spill, pledging that public health officials will "make good on any shortfall" that may exist as a result of previous failures.
Bell 'disheartened' that Rubis spill has become political
Minister of State for National Security Keith Bell said yesterday he finds it "disheartening" to see the "politicization" of a gasoline spill that happened at a Rubis gas station.
Rubis boss on boycott: Look at the facts
Rubis boss on boycott: Look at the facts
Rubis Managing Director for The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos Gordon Craig has addressed calls for a boycott of that company head on, urging Marathon residents and Bahamians at large to examine "the facts" and stressing the breadth of the company's remediative efforts in the wake of a fuel leak at its Robinson Road gas station that affected Marathon residents and Cable Bahamas' offices next door.
Environmental lawyers: new legislation a knee-jerk reaction to Rubis leak
Leading attorneys and environmentalists yesterday criticized the government's recently proposed Environmental Planning and Protection Bill, 2015 as a "knee-jerk" reaction to growing public backlash following the release of Black & Veatch's report on the 2012/2013 Rubis leak in Marathon.
Fitzgerald: My wife's role in Texaco deal not connected to Rubis fuel leak
MARATHON MP Jerome Fitzgerald yesterday said it was in an "administrative function" that Higgs and Johnson, the law firm at which his wife Zarina Fitzgerald serves as a partner, incorporated Rubis after it took over the Texaco brand in The Bahamas...