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The death penalty is ‘virtually dead’ says CJ
SPEAKING at the opening of the Legal Year for 2016 yesterday, Chief Justice Sir Hartman Longley made it clear that the death penalty for “The Bahamas is virtually dead”.
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Four charged with Kurt killing, one with being accessory
TWO WOMEN and two men were charged in Magistrate’s Court yesterday with the murder of businessman Kurt McCartney.
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NAUGHTY'S PICKS: Let’s hit the road for starters with Steelers and Colts
FIRST let me open by saying thank you Jesus, King of Endless Glory, who reigns in Heaven, for allowing me to see another NFL season, and for positioning ‘our’ Dallas Cowboys (Yes, God is a Cowboy, thus the retractable roof in the stadium, we leave it open so God can watch His team, the Cowboys, play) on the threshold of another Lombardi Trophy!
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NAUGHTY'S NFL PICKS: Working with the ‘short and sweet formula’ in Week 3
HERE we go, week three in the NFL and after a 12-4 week it seems I’m rounding into form.
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SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: To all haters, the Cowboys’ loss didn’t stop my show
OKAY, let’s get this one out of the way. Despite my Cowboys losing for only the second time this season, again to the Giants, my trip to New York was far from being in vain!
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Former Christian Council president accuses leaders
FORMER Grand Bahama Christian Council president Rev Keith Meadows has accused “leaders in the Christian church” of disregarding Jesus Christ’s teachings to gain power by spreading homosexual rumours about him.
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EDITORIAL: US holds its breath for Trump's first electoral test
Tomorrow’s American mid-term elections will serve as a referendum on the tenure so far of US President Donald Trump. For months, political pundits and observers have reminded us the first mid-term elections under a new president can serve as a stinging rebuke. The opposition party often racks up big gains at the expense of the president’s party. The most recent example is most often cited. In 2010, the Republicans wiped out the legislative gains Barack Obama had helped to achieve for the Democrats two years earlier.
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Americans spared jail but fined for possession of marijuana
FOUR Americans escaped lengthy prison sentences yesterday when they were fined a combined $1,500 for admitting to simple possession of dangerous drugs in three separate incidents.
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EDITORIAL: Casting a shadow of political victimisation
THE allegation that members of the Democratic National Alliance were carried out on the instruction of “someone higher” than the police are very disturbing.
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Police kill man 'in self-defence'
POLICE Commissioner Ellison Greenslade railed against the release of prolific offenders on bail after a man was killed in a confrontation with two police officers.
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Law would give power of secret entry to homes and businesses
THE Interception of Communications Bill gives police officers the power to obtain warrants to “secretly” enter into homes and businesses in order to seize communications and install interception devices within them, attorney Fred Smith, QC, said yesterday as he continued to campaign for parliamentarians to indefinitely postpone debate on the bill until public consultation takes place.
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Former DNA leader says arrests a travesty
FORMER Democratic National Alliance leader Branville McCartney has questioned whether members of the party acted according to police’s recollection, adding if it were so, the group would have been arrested on the spot.
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'Tough Love' for wayward youth applauded
WE COMMEND National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage for reintroducing “tough love” into the schools to discipline unruly students.
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RATHER than getting on with the country’s business and focusing solely on can’t-wait issues before jetting out of town — like the unfinished bill to fix veterans’ health care and the stalled bill to deal with the humanitarian crisis of Central American children arriving at the border — House Republicans are gearing up for a grand manoeuvre: an apparently unprecedented move by the House to sue the president over his use of executive orders.
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Commissioner denies political victimisation
POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle yesterday pushed back against assertions that the Royal Bahamas Police Force is being used to carry out acts of political victimisation, insisting “I do not take instructions from politicians”.
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Maycock Sr. and son are sentenced for escape bid
CONVICTED drug dealer Melvin Maycock Sr and his accomplices in the infamous cellblock escape faced a maximum two-year prison term going into yesterday’s sentencing before Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis.
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Island Luck co-founder strikes US plea bargain
A co-founder of the Island Luck web shop chain has agreed a plea deal with US authorities that omits all mention of the human smuggling offences he was initially charged with.
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COVID delays Island Luck co-founder’s US sentencing
A co-founder of the Island Luck web shop chain has persuaded a US federal court to delay his sentencing by 30 days because he has become ill with COVID-19.
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INSIGHT: Putting the lives of broken children back together
WHILE children who have suffered from abuse and trauma are more likely to become violent adults, studies prove that early intervention can decrease the likelihood of them spiralling into a life of crime and violence.
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THE PRESSBOX: Cowboys have bright future on both sides of the ball
WELL the NFL Draft has come and gone and, it’s safe to say that Cowboys fans here in the Bahamas can be happy and relieved, with the haul of talented players drafted by the Cowboys rounds 1-7, especially on defence, the ‘Boys future is definitely bright on both sides of the ball.