Legal debts could force Nygard sale
ENVIRONMENTAL activists are seeking a Supreme Court order to have Nygard Cay sold to satisfy the $2.2m debt Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard owes in legal costs from illegal dredging activities.
Suspect shot dead ‘pointed gun at police’
A 22-year-old shot and killed by police in the Nassau Village community two years ago was not the person they were seeking to apprehend, according to police testimony on Friday.
Man stable in hospital after shooting
A MAN is in hospital following a shooting in the Flamingo Gardens community on Saturday.According to police reports, shortly after 10pm, a man was walking through a track road off Nigeria Drive when he was approached by a man with a firearm.The gunma
13 arrests after $135,000 of suspected cocaine found on Haitian vessel
POLICE arrested 10 men and three women in connection with the seizure of $135,000 worth of suspected cocaine found on a Haitian vessel at the harbour in Great Inagua.
Convenience store robbed on Wulff Road
POLICE are investigating the armed robbery of a Wulff Road convenience store on Wednesday. A man entered the store off Market Street shortly after 10am, held up an employee and robbed the store of cash, according to Supt Shanta Knowles. The robber es
Crown seeking the death penalty over murder of couple
THE Crown is seeking the maximum penalty of death for murder convict Devaughn ‘Short Man’ Hall for the “brutal slaying” of an unarmed couple shot to death at their residence in Grand Bahama in 2015.At Hall’s sentencing hearing in the Supreme Court ye
'Attacker looked like a psycho' before alleged assault on Paradise Island
THE woman allegedly assaulted near a Paradise Island parking lot earlier this month yesterday said her attacker looked like a “psycho” before he ultimately threw her to the ground over an apparent parking dispute.However, in response to suggestions f
Family’s agony over double murders
A relative of slain Deadman’s Reef couple Barry and Sheena Johnson told the Supreme Court her family continues to struggle with the pain of how they were “murdered and left like animals” three years ago.
Teenager arrested over alleged drug possession at school
A teenager allegedly caught with illegal drugs in his possession was arrested at a high school in Abaco on Tuesday.ASP Pinder reported that shortly after 3pm on Tuesday police were called to the S C Bootle High School, where a 17-year-old male studen
Three men and a woman arrested in connection with home invasion
POLICE have arrested three men and a woman in connection with a home invasion and armed robbery that occurred in the early hours Tuesday.
Order for Super Value to pay former staff member $10k overturned
THE Court of Appeal has overturned an Industrial Tribunal’s order for Super Value to pay one of its former assistant managers $10,000 for firing him for gross negligence.The former manager reportedly said he was too tired from working a double shift
Bid for more time to challenge leniency of sentence denied
THE Crown’s bid at seeking more time to challenge the leniency of a man’s sentence for having sex with his lover’s 15-year-old daughter has been shot down by the country’s second highest court. Court of Appeal President Sir Hartman Longley, and fello
OUT OF ORDER: Gibson’s lawyers attack prosecution’s ‘tainted’ evidence
LAWYERS for former Cabinet minister Shane Gibson yesterday accused the Crown of engaging in “wholly improper conduct” for allegedly conducting meetings with two key prosecution witnesses and their lawyers to discuss how the evidence they would eventually give against Gibson should be “edited” or “amended”.
Crime stats down - and it’s ‘not by accident’
MAJOR crime categories continue to trend downward and it’s not by “happenstance”, National Security Minister Marvin Dames said yesterday.
US man held after failure to declare nearly $40k
AN American man was arrested when he failed to declare $39,905 in cash at the Lynden Pindling International Airport.Police said the man presented himself to a US Border Control Officer shortly after 7pm, but failed to declare the true amount of curre
