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Govt unpaid bills nearly doubles

Unpaid invoices and arrears owed by the Government increased by 97.6 percent, or almost $120m, year-over-year to hit $241.898m as a year-end 2025, the mid-year Budget disclosed yesterday.

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Cross-dress "attorney" guilty of child cruelty

A DAY after being sentenced to three years for impersonating a female attorney and defrauding clients of nearly $20,000, Kimeo McIntosh returned to court yesterday, where he admitted to giving liquor to two teenage boys and offering one money to touch his genitals while acting as a teacher and headmaster.

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Date set for five in US cocaine trial

FIVE defendants in an alleged plot to import cocaine from The Bahamas to the United States are being kept apart in prison, a court heard yesterday.

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‘I would deal with a party issue before a second newspaper cycle’

FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis suggested yesterday that under his leadership, a candidate facing questions tied to a criminal investigation would not linger in the headlines, amid scrutiny around the man he once appointed Minister of National Security, Free National Movement candidate Marvin Dames.

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Cannabis industry launch stalled by missing digital platform

MORE than two years after Parliament passed the Cannabis Act, key provisions — including ticketing for small amounts of marijuana — remain inactive as the government waits on a digital regulatory system that does not yet exist.

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Former PSA head Sonny Miller sentenced to six years for $1.4m drug smuggling

A FORMER senior police officer who once led the Police Staff Association was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday for smuggling $1.4m worth of cocaine and $34,000 worth of marijuana into Acklins in 2022.

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Tomorrow.io AI satellites alongside BACSWN’s WxSenseNet™ to power the nation’s Aviation Weather Centre

Just weeks after deploying its first satellite constellation, Tomorrow.io has announced DeepSky, a next generation system designed to reshape how weather data is collected and used worldwide.

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Major: PLP headquarters hijacked my contracts to ‘sabotage’ me

SOUTHERN Shores MP Leroy Major has accused his own party of hijacking constituency contracts to “sabotage” him.

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Dames denies involvement after partner caught in $4m cocaine bust

FORMER National Security Minister and FNM candidate Marvin Dames yesterday denied any involvement in a US drug trafficking case after his business partner was arrested off Florida with roughly 200 kilograms of cocaine worth an estimated $4 million aboard a boat they jointly own.

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Staff rally support as super value owner airlifted to U.S.

SUPER VALUE staff mobilised “almost immediately” after owner Rupert Roberts urgently needed blood, the company’s president Debra Symonette said yesterday, as word spread of a health crisis involving one of the country’s most prominent businessmen.

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Bishop brands ‘sweethearting’ an evil as study sparks alarm

A SENIOR bishop has branded sweethearting “an evil” and warned that The Bahamas is sliding from its Christian foundation, reacting to a new University of The Bahamas study that quantified the practice.

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Cross-dressing 'lawyer' jailed

A 30-year-old man who posed as a female attorney and defrauded clients of nearly $20,000 was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to more than 50 offences in the Grand Bahama Magistrate’s Court.

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‘They killed the whole family’

“When they kill Jonathan, they killed the whole family,” Gelita Gooding said yesterday, describing the devastation after her 36-year-old nephew, Jonathan “Goddy” Gooding, was gunned down last Thursday morning in the parking lot of the Shirley Street Shopping Plaza, just moments after leaving the gym he had faithfully attended for nearly four years.

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Dames distances self from US arrest

Free National Movement candidate for Mount Moriah Marvin H. Dames has moved to distance himself and his wife from a US criminal investigation involving a business associate.

Man accused of posing as female attorney arraigned on 51 charges

A 30-year-old man who police say posed as a female legal professional while misrepresenting himself as a qualified attorney is to be arraigned in the Magistrate’s Court in Freeport today on multiple fraud and forgery charges.

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