Govt appeal bid rejected in $27m case
THE Court of Appeal has rejected the government’s effort to appeal orders involving a Jamaican seeking $27m in damages for false imprisonment before the Supreme Court judge hearing the matter issues her final ruling.
Laptop thief is jailed
A TEENAGER who stole a man’s laptop and then sold it to another man was sentenced to two months in prison.
Drugs counselling ordered
A 23-year-old man who attempted to flush 10 grams of marijuana down the toilet when officers raided his home was ordered to attend drug counselling classes for a year.
Man accused over unlicenced gun
A HARBOUR Island man who denied having an unlicenced firearm and a quantity of illegal ammunition was yesterday granted bail ahead of his trial.
Activist Bain accused of breaking glasses
ACTIVIST Lincoln Bain was yesterday granted $500 bail after he denied breaking a man’s glasses last year.
Four men face court accused of murders
FOUR men were charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with murder in connection with three separate incidents that took place last year and earlier this month.
Two shot as they sat in parked car
A MAN and a woman are in hospital after a shooting in New Providence on Monday.
Abduction suspect is given bail
A 24-year-old Freeport man accused of attempting to abduct two school girls last week in Grand Bahama was arraigned yesterday.
Midnight prowler looking for money is given $750 fine
A 37-year-old who claimed he knocked on a woman’s house door and windows after midnight because he wanted money that she owed him was yesterday fined $750.
Whacker thief gets community service
A TEENAGER who stole a weed whacker from a man was yesterday ordered to complete 50 hours of community service.
Man in hospital after shooting off Joe Farrington Road
A man is in hospital after a shooting off Joe Farrington Road on Saturday.
Girls escape school gate ‘snatching’
GRAND Bahama Police arrested a man yesterday in connection with two alleged attempted child abductions at separate government primary schools in Freeport.
NO QUICK FIX TO END THE KILLING: Dames concedes efforts to rein back gun violence will need time to succeed
WITH six people already dead just days into the new year, National Security Minister Marvin Dames conceded there will be “occasions like this when you have a spike” in killings.
Man punched victim who said he was gay
A MARRIED father-of-three who beat up another man who told people he was a homosexual was put on six months probation yesterday.
Slapped for refusing to share a joint
A TEENAGER who slapped a family friend in the face when she refused to share her joint with him was put on probation yesterday for three months.
