Court debates name in fraud case
A Crown witness yesterday confirmed that former Ministry of Finance accounts clerk James Anwar Johnson also went by his middle name, following extensive legal debate over the user name connected to a local business allegedly receiving thousands of do
Murderer's sentencing to be held on anniversary of killing
THE sentencing hearing for convicted murderer and armed robber Devaughn “Short Man” Hall - who shot and killed a husband and wife from Deadman’s Reef, West Grand Bahama - was adjourned yesterday.Family members of the murdered victims Barry and Sheena
Crown told to prove link to business in fraud case
A MAGISTRATE yesterday ordered the Crown to establish that the user name purportedly used by former Ministry of Finance accounts clerk James Anwar Johnson was actually the user name connected to a local business receiving over thousands in unauthoris
Magistrate orders police to be charged with perjury
A senior magistrate has ordered two police officers be charged with perjury after video surveillance contradicted what they claimed happened the night they arrested a man in a nightclub for having an illegal firearm late last year.Senior Magistrate D
US tourist tells court of island sex attack
AN American woman has claimed a Bahamian man allegedly forced her to give him oral sex, assaulted her with two fingers and gave her oral sex without her consent on a Family Island four years ago.The 21-year-old woman, testifying before Justice Cheryl
Marijuana field discovered
POLICE in North Andros uncovered a marijuana field with approximately 600 plants on Monday.Shortly after 8am, officers from Andros, acting on information, went to an area near the Bahamas Agriculture Research Community, where they uncovered the field
Victim confirmed as missing woman
THE worst fears of the family and friends of Kiria Erica Musgrove materialised yesterday as police confirmed the 25-year-old mother’s body was the one found in a field off Cowpen Road on Sunday evening.
TWO ACCUSED OF SEX ATTACK ON TOURISTS
TWO Harbour Island natives were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday over allegations they raped a 17-year-old female tourist and had unlawful sexual intercourse with a 15-year-old tourist late last month.
Privy Council orders new appeal for policeman’s killers
THE Privy Council has ordered a new hearing of Stephen “Die” Stubbs and two other convicts’ appeal of their convictions and sentences for the murder of a policeman at a nightclub almost 20 years ago.
Sentence in child molester case prompts legal rethink
THE Office of the Attorney General is considering reviewing the law as it relates to cases that are inappropriately charged, to allow officials to use their discretion to give tougher penalties where warranted.This comes as activists are calling for
Two in hospital after being shot in car
TWO men are in hospital after they were shot during an incident on Wellington Street, police said. The victims were sitting in a car in front of a home near St Vincent Road when two men approached, who opened fire. The incident occurred shortly befor
Pair jailed who killed Bahamian boat captain and threw him to the sharks
TWO men from the Republic of Georgia who stole a charter boat from Grand Bahama, stabbed a Bahamian captain and threw him overboard in shark-infested waters two years ago to smuggle two Brazilian men to South Florida have been sentenced to prison by
Series of men accused of New Providence murders
TWO men, a 23-year-old Haitian and a 25-year-old Bahamian, were charged in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday with shooting two teen aged brothers in a barbershop last month.
Body found as police hunt for missing woman
POLICE found the body of a woman in a field off Cowpen Road shortly after 6pm yesterday.
Firearm and drugs found by police in separate swoops
POLICE recovered a firearm, a quantity of ammunition and dangerous drugs from the streets of Nassau on Friday.Shortly after 4pm on Friday, Drug Enforcement Unit officers, acting on information, searched a bushy area off Fire Trail Road, where they fo
