Too much hot air delays Frank Smith hearing
FORMER PLP Senator Frank Smith’s bribery and extortion trial had to be relocated yesterday due to a three-week long air conditioning failure at the Magistrate’s Court complex.
Haitian man accused of illegal landing by boat
A Haitian man who arrived illegally by boat to The Bahamas two weeks ago was charged with being in breach of the Immigration Act in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court yesterday.St Jude Pierre, 28, of Port de Paix, Haiti, appeared before Magistrate Rengi
American woman held over drugs
CENTRAL division officers arrested an American woman aboard the Carnival Elation cruise ship, after she was allegedly found in possession of a quantity of suspected marijuana.The woman is expected to be formally arraigned in Magistrate’s Court later
Renew CEO Cox ‘had no work permit’
FORMER Renew Bahamas CEO Michael Cox and his uncle Maurice Cox will stand trial at the end of the month on allegations that they were working in The Bahamas last month without government approval.
Witness misidentified men in ID parade, court hears
A KEY witness against Stephen “Die” Stubbs, Clinton Evans and Andrew “Yogi” Davis identified Evans as Stubbs during an identification parade almost 20 years ago, despite his claims that he had known Stubbs for almost a decade up to that point, appellate judges heard yesterday.
UPDATED: Victim’s body found lying in the street
A man is dead after a shooting off Kemp Road late on Friday night.
Woman in hospital after armed robbery
POLICE are investigating six armed robberies that occurred on New Providence between Friday and Saturday, including one incident that left a woman in hospital with a gunshot wound.Most of these incidents happened on Saturday. Police said shortly befo
Pair’s conviction thrown out over man’s death in bar brawl
THE Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction for a woman and her child’s father previously sentenced to over a decade in prison each for killing a man in the course of a brawl at a bar on Carmichael Road six years ago.
Visa fraud suspect is out on bail
THE Haitian-Bahamian justice of the peace at the centre of an FBI probe into visa fraud in the Bahamas has pleaded not guilty to charges in the United States, The Tribune was told.
Accused armed robber ‘riddled with dried blood stains’
THE attorneys for a man accused of committing numerous armed robberies in the capital yesterday claimed the man was flogged with a cutlass by police officers, moments after the accused’s blood-stained underwear was exposed for the court to see.
Boat carrying $2m of marijuana stopped by police
NEARLY $2m worth of suspected marijuana was seized and two men were arrested in separate drug hauls by police.Police said shortly after 11pm on Monday, Drug Enforcement Unit officers, assisted by Royal Bahamas Police Force Marine Support officers and
New mass action over rights abuse
ATTORNEYS for 15 former detainees are suing the government for damages that could cost taxpayers millions.
Five women fined for overstaying in the Bahamas
FIVE Hispanic women were fined upwards of $1,000 each yesterday for overstaying their time in The Bahamas, with three of them further fined for being caught with altered immigration stamps in their passports by immigration authorities.Senior Magistra
Man shot dead on street in Bimini
BIMINI police are investigating a homicide on that island after a Grand Bahama man was shot dead there on Sunday.According to Assistant Superintendant Terecita Pinder, the shooting occurred shortly after 9pm at a business in Porgy Bay.She said that s
