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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Bahamas Prime Minister “ordered” to take bed rest

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FILE – Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis, as he urged the international community to do more at the COP 28 international climate change summit, in December 2023.

FILE – Prime Minister of The Bahamas, Phillip Davis, as he urged the international community to do more at the COP 28 international climate change summit, in December 2023.

The Ba­hamas’ For­eign Af­fairs Min­is­ter, Fred Mitchell, says Prime Min­is­ter Phillip Davis has been “or­dered” to take bed rest, af­ter ap­par­ent­ly dis­obey­ing doc­tors and over­strain­ing him­self, weeks af­ter un­der­go­ing surgery in the Unit­ed States.

“So, you know he had surgery a cou­ple of weeks ago, and as usu­al, we dis­obey our doc­tors and over­strain our­selves. So, he has been or­dered to have bed rest for three days. So … I bring apolo­gies on his be­half,” Mitchell said, ex­plain­ing Davis’ ab­sence from a church ser­vice to cel­e­brate Fox Hill day on Tues­day.

Mitchell, who is the par­lia­men­tary rep­re­sen­ta­tive for Fox Hill, told re­porters that Prime Min­is­ter Davis, who un­der­went surgery to cor­rect sci­at­i­ca, had presided over a Cab­i­net meet­ing ear­li­er this week, but took “an ear­ly break”.

Health Min­is­ter Dr. Michael Darville said last month that Prime Min­is­ter Davis had suc­cess­ful surgery in the Unit­ed States af­ter ex­pe­ri­enc­ing ex­cru­ci­at­ing pain over the course of sev­er­al months while stand­ing.

But Mitchell told re­porters that the prime min­is­ter may have been overex­ert­ing him­self too soon af­ter the pro­ce­dure.

“He’s fine.  He had an op­er­a­tion on his back, and you know he was at sev­er­al pub­lic func­tions, so on and so forth. And so, you should re­al­ly be more care­ful. We’ve been try­ing to tell him slow down, slow down, slow down. He’s go­ing to take doc­tor’s or­ders,” Mitchell said.

“He’ll be back up and run­ning,” he added. —NAS­SAU, Ba­hamas (CMC) 


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