Man denies assaulting woman after he unlawfully entered her home
A man vehemently denied assaulting a woman whose home he admitted to unlawfully entering last weekend.
Charged with wantonly discharging a gun with intent to endanger life
A 23-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after being accused of firing a gun near a woman on Harbour Island last month.
Ex-police officer convicted of trying to solicit sex to dismiss traffic tickets
A FORMER police constable convicted of attempting to solicit sex from a woman at Yamacraw Beach in exchange for dismissing traffic tickets has had his sentencing postponed until next month.
Jamaican woman gets three month jail for forged residency documents
A JAMAICAN woman was sentenced to three months in prison yesterday after admitting to possessing forged residency documents.
'I was hog tied and beaten for trespassing’
A MAN broke down in court as he recounted how owners of a property on which he trespassed “hog-tied” and beat him so severely that he feared for his life.
Grand Bahama businessman charged after $4.5M drug seizure
A GRAND Bahama businessman was arraigned in court on Friday in connection with a $4.5 million drug seizure at the Freeport Container Port.
Probation given for threatening to ‘punch a woman’s teeth out’
A 26-year-old woman who threatened to “punch a woman’s teeth out” was placed on probation Friday.
18 months jail for stealing money to buy drugs
A woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday after admitting to stealing more than $500 worth of items from a woman’s car and selling them to buy drugs.
Rose Island boat tragedy inquest halted due to insufficient evidence
AN inquest into the fatal 2024 boating accident off Rose Island was abruptly halted yesterday after Coroner Kara Turnquest-Deveaux found that numerous police officers had failed to appear in court and that there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
Gov’ts ‘undisguised coercion’ of locked-out social worker
The government subjected a 30-year veteran social worker to “undisguised economic coercion” by unlawfully withholding his salary and forcing him to work for free for a year prior to locking him out.
Police testify in inquest that one of two guns found belonged to one of the victims in fatal boating crash
A POLICE officer testified yesterday that one of two guns recovered from the scene of a fatal boating accident off Rose Island belonged to one of the deceased.
Possession of loaded gun gets man two years jail sentence
A 26-year-old man was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to having a loaded gun inside a business on East Bay Street early Sunday morning.
15-year-old boy accused of murder in fatal shooting of Dennis Lightbourne in Fox Hill
A 15-year-old boy has been remanded to custody after being accused of fatally shooting 19-year-old Dennis Lightbourne in Fox Hill last month.
Man charged with having images and videos of child pornography on his phone
A 27-year-old man accused of possessing child pornography was granted $8,000 bail after appearing before a magistrate yesterday.
Two officers lose bid to have charges dropped
TWO police officers accused of killing 20-year-old Deangelo Evans in Mason’s Addition in 2018 have lost their bid to avoid trial, clearing the way for their manslaughter case to proceed in the Supreme Court.
