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Charlton looks ahead to outdoor season
World indoor record holder Devynne Charlton made a special appearance at the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) Track and Field Championships over the weekend to spend a few days at home after achieving a gold-medal finish and world record at the World Indoor Championships on March 3.
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Munroe says he will discuss police morale with commissioner
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said while he understands how police morale could take a hit from frequent homicide-by-manslaughter rulings in the Coroner’s Court, he is unaware of the problem and would discuss the matter with the commissioner of police.
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EDITORIAL: More action needed in fight for equality
ON Friday, The Bahamas joined the world in celebrating International Women’s Day.
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Homicide-by-manslaughter rulings affecting officer’s morale says police’s lawyer
POLICE morale is taking a hit from frequent homicide-by-manslaughter rulings in the Coroner’s Court, according to a lawyer who has represented officers in most inquests over the last year.
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‘JUSTIFIED’ RULING IN TRIPLE KILLING: Jury says shootings by police in Blair case appropriate
A CORONER’S Court jury ruled on Friday that law enforcement officers were justified in killing three men at a Blair Estates mansion in 2019, one of the deadliest single instances of a police-involved killing in the country’s history.
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Pathologist testifies Stubbs and Forest died due to gunshot wounds to torso and head
AS the inquest into a police-involved killing on Cowpen Road in 2018 continued yesterday, a pathologist testified that Roy Stubbs suffered six gunshot wounds to his chest and Ernest Forest was shot in his head.
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Man testifies he heard police shout ‘stay down’ before shots fired
A MAN said he heard police officers shout “stay down” before gunshots rang out in his Cowpen Road neighbourhood in 2018.
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A $200k helping hand from Atlantis
ATLANTIS and its partners donated over $200,000 to five non-profit organisations yesterday as the resort continued to celebrate last year’s 25th anniversary of its opening.
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Police urge men who are victims of domestic abuse to speak out
THE director of the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s domestic unit is urging men who are being abused to speak out, saying many men are often also suffering in silence as victims of domestic violence.
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DEMOLITION OF 100 SHANTY HOMES BEGINS: Residents hurry to get personal items before structures destroyed
AFTER years of government pledges to dismantle unregulated communities in Abaco, the Ministry of Works began demolishing more than 100 structures in the Gaza shanty town on the island yesterday.
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Movie ban xenophobic and insulting
This is a complaint as well as a rebuttal to the unrightful banning of the movie “Demon Slayer - Kimetsu no Yaiba, To the Hashira Training” from a fan. Not only is this blatant xenophobia, but it’s an insult to the intelligence of the audience watching this movie.
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Beaten on the street - but police rally to the aid of Patrick
PATRICK Stuart, the man a group of teenagers viciously attacked last week, said he feels “okay” now and is taking things day-by-day.
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Police criticised over delay of evidence being presented in Blair shooting inquest
THE coroner once again criticised the police as an inquest into the police-involved killing of three men in Blair Estates in 2019 resumed yesterday, calling it “unacceptable” that only eight of the 15 weapons officers used to kill the men were submitted as evidence.
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POLICE KILLINGS RULED HOMICIDE: ‘Justice is served’ says mother after jury returns finding
THE mother of one of two men police killed on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway on December 2, 2017, said “justice was served” after a Coroner’s Court jury returned a homicide by manslaughter finding at the end of an inquest yesterday.
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Pistol used by police was engraved with ‘headshots’
THE word “headshot” was engraved on a police gun used in the fatal shooting of two men on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway in 2017.
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MEN KILLED BY POLICE ‘HAD FIRED AT CROWD’: Officer testifies men shot at them near bar then fled in car
AN officer testified yesterday that police opened fire on two men killed in a chase on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway in 2017 after they allegedly fired a gun at a crowd outside a bar.
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Bahamas reported among escapees from EU blacklist
THE Government’s growing optimism that The Bahamas will imminently escape the European Union’s (EU) tax blacklist appeared justified yesterday amid reports this nation is among those set for delisting.
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Mother of Harold Brown claims in inquest, ‘doctors left my son to die’
THE mother of Harold Brown, one of two men police killed in a chase on Tonique Williams-Darling Highway in 2017, claimed doctors left her son to die in hospital after the shooting as the Coroner’s Court inquest into the matter continued yesterday.
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Inquest into fatal shooting of two men by police begins
THE families of two men killed in a fatal 2017 police chase on Tonique William Darling Highway were asked to leave the courtroom yesterday as close-ups of one of the men’s blood-stained corpse lying on the sidewalk was shown after the inquest into the matter began.
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Ballet on the beach
FOR two nights only this week, some of the world’s most iconic ballet dancers from one of the most revered ballet companies will headline two dynamic shows of grace and precision set on the Great Lawn of Old Fort Bay Club for ‘Iconique’ Dinner Ballet Gala.
