13 August 2015
Democratic National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said yesterday that Prime Minister Perry Christie remains silent, despite the noise in the market surrounding Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson’s conflict of interest with Baha Mar. Mr. McCartney said the prime minister’s silence is what he calls “deafening.” “After adamantly declaring that he is the only person to speak […]
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13 August 2015
Member of Parliament for Long Island Loretta Butler-Turner is blasting the government again with claims that the Christie administration is lashing out because it cannot control ongoing matters at Baha Mar. Mrs. Butler-Turner explained that while the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is unable to bring the Baha Mar matter to a timely conclusion in the […]
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13 August 2015
Attorneys Frederick Smith, QC, and Carey Leonard decided to sue the government, as they made an application in the Supreme Court yesterday for a judicial review, following what they called a “flawed” consultation exercise to extend the tax concessions under the Hawksbill Creek Agreement. According to Smith, the judicial review proceedings relate to the actions […]
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13 August 2015
Drug Enforcement Unit (DEU) officers discovered a large quantity of marijuana plants in Abaco on Tuesday. According to police reports, shortly after 4 p.m., police in Abaco along with other law enforcement agencies, while on routine air patrol in the Northern area of Abaco discovered three plots of marijuana plants. Each plot contained marijuana plants […]
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11 August 2015
While confirming that her husband was granted retail space within Baha Mar along with her two daughters, Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson yesterday hit back at Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis who insists that she is in “an overt conflict of interest”. Mrs. Maynard-Gibson has come under heavy criticism for her family’s interest […]
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11 August 2015
A Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) employee became the country’s latest murder victim after being gunned down early yesterday morning. The victim, who sources identify as Jamal Huyler, an employee of eight years at BTC’s Fleet Management Division, was ordering food at a breakfast stand – something that was part of his daily routine. According to […]
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11 August 2015
The family of a brutally murdered man said that they can now be at peace after the man convicted of murdering their loved one was sentenced in a Supreme Court. On Monday, Lathario Miller, the man convicted of the shooting death of Marco Smith was sentenced to forty years in prison for the incident that […]
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11 August 2015
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Fred Mitchell and Member of Parliament for Fox Hill paid tribute to the four people that lost their lives as a result of a mass shooting in December 2013. “We remember not only Claudzino Davis, Shanique Sands, Eric Morrison and Shaquille Demeritte but we remember the nine others who […]
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11 August 2015
Jaws dropped in the Supreme Court as a man was sentenced for the abetment of rape on Monday morning. Vincent Brown, 54, of Potter’s Cay Dock was sentenced to two years and seven months for the abetment of rape of now t37-year-year-old Loretta Farrington. According to reports, in December 2014, Brown aided Teo Delancy with […]
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10 August 2015
Police in Bimini are investigating a traffic accident that has left a 45-year-old male of Suomi, Finland dead. According to reports, police were called to the Porgy Lane area where two men were driving a golf cart around 4:00 a.m. Saturday. The men reportedly collided with an apartment wall and were taken to a nearby […]
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