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Taxpayers forecast to pay $50m on controversial PPP

Bahamian taxpayers are scheduled to pay more than $50m for the Government’s Eight Mile Rock administrative complex, built by a contractor and developer linked to the general election day plane crash drug suspect, due to a 48.8 percent surge in costs and a near-$17m interest bill.

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‘Security failures’ at Old Fort Bay allegedly allowed man to enter expat resident’s home

SECURITY failures at the upscale gated community Old Fort Bay allowed a man to enter the property of an expat resident early Friday morning, resulting in violent threats, extensive property damage and a police investigation, the resident at the centre of the incident has alleged.

Boy, 8, seriously injured in Bimini shooting incident

NATIONAL Security Minister Myles Laroda yesterday issued a strong appeal to licensed firearm owners to properly secure their weapons around children after an eight-year-old boy was seriously injured in a shooting incident in North Bimini on Saturday night.

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The day Gardiner’s life - along with the plane on which he was a passenger - came crashing down

When Jonathan ‘Player’ Gardiner left Nassau on the now infamous election day charter flight early on the morning of May 12 – to do whatever it was he was tasked with doing that day - the last place on earth the big-time drug kingpin would have wanted to end up was in the United States of America.

62-year- old man found dead in North Eleuthera

A 62-year-old man was found dead in North Eleuthera on Sunday in what police are classifying as a suspected drowning.

43-year-old woman travelling to Haiti arrested at airport for allegedly failing to declare nearly $74,000 in cash

A 43-year-old woman travelling to Haiti was arrested at the airport over the weekend for allegedly failing to declare nearly $74,000 in cash, police said.

Haitian woman charged with fraudulently obtaining several national documents

A HAITIAN woman was charged on Friday with fraudulently obtaining several Bahamian national documents, the latest in a series of such cases in recent months.