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Cleaning workers at hospital caught fighting on camera
THE Public Hospitals Authority expressed displeasure yesterday with two employees of a contracted cleaning services company who were caught on video fighting at Princess Margaret Hospital on Saturday. People tried to separate them, but the two mainta
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GIBSON TRIAL: Witnesses’ testimony ‘coached’ by police
LAWYERS for former Cabinet minister Shane Gibson filed documents in the Supreme Court yesterday alleging the statements of two key prosecution witnesses have been “tainted” and are not reliable, painting a picture of “unprecedented levels of witness coaching and evidence alteration” at the hands of lawyers and the Anti-Corruption Unit.
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Revised Imigration Act to be released to public soon
THE government anticipates a draft of a revised Immigration Act will be released to the public “shortly”, Immigration Minister Brent Symonette told reporters yesterday.Mr Symonette said the existing act has not been substantially amended since this c
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Teacher’s murder: guilty as charged
A SUPREME Court jury yesterday found Allister Williams unanimously guilty for the September 2016 murder of pregnant Charles W Saunders Baptist school teacher Marisha Bowen.
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Rolle was ‘subdued’ trying to escape
A POLICE officer who was a supervisor at the Southern Police Station in 2013 testified Aaron Rolle did not complain of being abused during his interrogation despite having to be “subdued” by officers after an alleged attempt to jump out of a window.
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Belt 'did not have DNA on it'
WHILE the belt found wrapped around pregnant schoolteacher Marisha Bowen’s neck two years ago had blood on it and was “frayed”, it did not have any traces of the DNA belonging to the man accused of killing her. Detective Sergeant Nathanial Lloyd, at
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Leaks, infestation and broken windows in govt housing
A MOTHER living in government-assisted housing in the Kemp Road area is deeply disturbed by her living conditions.
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Mother and daughter’s ordeal in detention
THE Jamaican wife of a Bahamian man and her 11-year-old daughter were left traumatised and degraded after spending 10 days in detention at an immigration safe house for women and children, according to a court filed affidavit.
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EDITORIAL: Marijuana - to legalise or not to legalise
THERE was no marijuana in the Garden of Eden when the world began — but there was a special fruit. Not only was this fruit a curiosity piece, but what added to its worth — it was forbidden.
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60 per cent drop in use of nolle prosequis
THE use of nolle prosequi orders to hack away at the backlog of criminal matters before the courts decreased by more than 60 percent in 2017 compared with the previous year, Attorney General Carl Bethel said yesterday.
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Guilty - but the guys who killed Joyelle looked unmoved
FROM the day the prosecution closed its case into the murder trial of three men accused of killing teacher Joyelle McIntosh, to the moment the verdict was read, her sister Joycelyn Clarke Szasz said she was “unsure, nervous and unable to sleep”.
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REVEALED: Miller's role in BPL deals
THE Ernst & Young (EY) audit into operations at Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) has identified instances where former Executive Chairman Leslie Miller allegedly “influenced procurement decisions” for the awarding of contracts “or circumvented the process entirely,” The Tribune can reveal.
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Appeal bid dismissed for man convicted of kidnapping, robbing laundromat manager
A MAN convicted of kidnapping and robbing the manager of a Fox Hill laundromat at gunpoint almost a decade ago has had his bid to legally challenge his 25-year sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
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Two teens held over Primary school robbery
TWO teenagers are in police custody in connection with the robbery of Claridge Primary School on Monday.According to reports, officers from the Northeastern Division arrested the two juvenile boys shortly after 6pm on Wednesday. During the arrest off
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School ransacked: Where was security?
THE effectiveness of campus security at public schools has come under heavy scrutiny after thieves stole laptops, computers and microwaves at Claridge Primary School yesterday morning.
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Terror of locals in Las Vegas massacre
WHEN Hilton Bowleg arrived at the Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas at 9pm on Sunday he had no idea that about one hour later he would be running for his life in the hotel casino as bullets rained down on concert-goers blocks away on the Vegas Strip.
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Minister: A fantastic day for the team
LONDON, England: Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Michael Pintard called it a fantastic day for Team Bahamas after he watched national record holder Steven Gardiner speed to a silver medal in the men’s 400 metres on Tuesday at the 16th IAAF World Championships.
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NAD board 'not politically pressured' to discount airport tenant
THE Nassau Airport Development Company Ltd’s Board of Directors did not face interference from any politician nor was it compelled by political pressure under the former Christie administration to discount a Lynden Pindling International Airport tenant $1.2m in rental debt, according to former NAD Chairman Anthony McKinney, QC.
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Accused ‘said he killed man over sexual advances’
A JURY heard yesterday that a man allegedly confessed to his relatives that he fatally stabbed a banker who hired him to do maintenance work at his apartment for an upcoming holiday gathering when the victim allegedly made a sexual advance at him.
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Bungled vaccinations and an infant’s fight for life
When she took her healthy infant son for his routine vaccinations in Nassau last July, Elizabeth Dupuch Carron could not have imagined the horror that was to unfold which almost cost him his life. Now safely back home after five months of radical treatment in Miami, Aidan’s anguished mother opens her heart exclusively to The Tribune to tell the harrowing tale of his fight for survival in order to help other families avoid unnecessarily suffering the same frightening encounter with a deadly disease.
