UPDATED: Shot dead as he set off for school
A seven-year-old boy about to head to his last day of school was fatally shot outside of his Piper Lane home yesterday morning after being hit by a stray bullet.
Policeman: It was my life or his
A SENIOR police officer yesterday expressed his remorse to a woman for having to kill her teenage grandson in Yellow Elder Gardens five years ago, although he added: “It was either my life or his.”
Woman abducted and raped on Sunday morning
A WOMAN was abducted and raped after leaving a pharmacy in the Carmichael Road area on Sunday morning, Chief Superintendent Solomon Cash told The Tribune yesterday. The incident took place shortly after 9am. “A lady…was at a local pharmaceutical es
Fleeing robber shot by officers
POLICE shot a man in his legs yesterday after he allegedly robbed a woman of her handbag containing cash and other items.
Driver who struck biker must pay family $30,000
A MAN ordered to pay an interim sum of $30,000 in financial assistance to the family of a motorcyclist he killed after hitting him from behind with his truck nearly three years ago has had his legal bid to get out of paying that sum dismissed by the
Two cleared of murder
A SUPREME Court jury has acquitted two Dorsett Alley residents of last year’s murder of another man in the Farrington Road area.
Off-duty police officer shot as men tried to steal his car
A POLICE officer is recovering in hospital after being shot by men he pursued while off-duty early Thursday morning.Police said they launched an island-wide manhunt for the suspects, who they believe are connected to a string of armed robberies in th
Abaco man guilty of killing uncle
AN Abaco man was convicted of the manslaughter of his uncle and sentenced to 12 years in prison.Shannon Walkins aka “Shannon Watkins” accepted a plea deal and pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter in the stabbing death of his uncle
Two men shot in Yellow Elder Gardens
Two men are in serious condition in hospital after being shot on Saturday.
Paul Belizaire sentenced to 25 years for armed robbery of Barry and Sheena Johnson
Paul Belizaire was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for the armed robbery of Barry and Sheena Johnson on Thursday in the Supreme Court in Grand Bahama.
Off-duty police officer injured in shooting
A POLICE officer is recovering in hospital after being shot by men he pursued while off-duty early Thursday morning.
Judges reject bid to retry Jean-Rony
CROWN attorneys yesterday called for the Court of Appeal to dismiss a Supreme Court judge’s landmark ruling that Bahamas-born Jean Rony Jean-Charles was unlawfully expelled from the Bahamas, with the alternative being a retrial on the facts in the Supreme Court.
Deportee faces court over ammunition case
A MAN recently deported from the US after being indicted on firearms trafficking charges was arraigned yesterday over allegations he imported more than 400 rounds of ammunition into the country.Dealo Cordell Pratt, of Jacksonville, Florida, stood bef
Police hunt for armed robbers
POLICE are appealing for public assistance as they investigate three armed robberies in the capital on Tuesday.In the first incident, according to reports, a man was standing outside a home in Ridgeland Park when he was approached by two men armed wi
Two men and teenager charged with Arawak Cay boat robbery
TWO men and a 16-year-old were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday over allegations they robbed a man at gunpoint on a boat at Arawak Cay on Friday.Cecil Martin, 24, Davante Fisher, 22, and the teenager stood before Chief Magistrate Joyann Fe
