Court will hear Peter Nygard’s recusal application in his absence
A SUPREME Court judge yesterday said the court is “not at the beck and call” of Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard after noting she will not allow his “non-attendance” to his own recusal application on two consecutive occasions to “further delay” the hearing of those proceedings.
Six years for gunpoint rape and robbery
A SUPREME Court judge yesterday sentenced a man to six years in prison after accepting his “unequivocal plea of guilt” to raping and robbing a woman at gunpoint almost five years ago. However, Justice Carolita Bethel said she took into consideration
Cops hunt gunmen after street battle
TWO men are wanted in connection with a shoot-out with police which resulted in the arrest of a third man and damage to a police vehicle.
Supreme Court judge to give ruling on Nygard’s absence
A SUPREME Court judge will give her ruling today on whether she will accept an application for Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard to be excused from attending recusal proceedings or accept his legal opponent’s objections to his absence.
Abaco man accused of murder after woman’s body found
AN Abaco man was charged in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Monday with the murder of a woman whose partially decomposed corpse was discovered last Thursday on that island.
Nygard 'playing cat and mouse' with court, says lawyer
AN outspoken attorney yesterday railed against Canadian fashion-mogul Peter Nygard’s notable absence for a Supreme Court hearing, accusing the Lyford Cay resident of “playing cat and mouse” with the court and treating the institution as his own perso
Speedy retrial ordered in murder case
THE COURT of Appeal has ordered a man previously convicted for killing another man during a Junkanoo practice approximately five years ago be retried in the Supreme Court “as speedily as practicable.”Court of Appeal President Dame Anita Allen, along
UPDATED: Man shot in botched armed robbery
A SUSPECT is in hospital recovering from a gunshot wound after he was shot during an attempted armed robbery, police said.
Man quizzed after body find
POLICE are questioning a male relative of a woman whose partially decomposed body was discovered in bushes off the Sherlin Bootle Highway in Abaco last week.
Son of 'Singing Bishop' charged with murder
THE SON of the well known "Singing Bishop" was charged in a Magistrate's Court on Friday in connection with a murder that took place in the Balfour Avenue area earlier this week.
Appeal bid dismissed for man convicted of kidnapping, robbing laundromat manager
A MAN convicted of kidnapping and robbing the manager of a Fox Hill laundromat at gunpoint almost a decade ago has had his bid to legally challenge his 25-year sentence dismissed by the Court of Appeal.
Court to appoint legal representative for man's double murder appeal
A MAN seeking to contest his life sentence for a double murder in 2011 that Crown prosecutors previously claimed was motivation for a triple murder that occurred just weeks later will receive a court appointed lawyer for his appeal application. Serr
Trust your lawyer, convicted killer urged
THE COURT of Appeal’s president has urged a man convicted of murdering a former CARIFTA medalist to “trust” his legal representatives after he requested the court’s assistance in appointing an attorney to represent him for the second time.
Activists triumph in Nygard dredging case
A SUPREME Court judge has ordered the Department of Physical Planning be restrained from issuing any further dredging permits to billionaire Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard pending the resolution of three other judicial reviews against the controversial development of his Lyford Cay home.
‘I asked him why he shoot the people’ says witness
Devaughn Hall was the instigator behind the armed robbery and the shooting deaths of Barry and Sheena Johnson at their residence in Deadman’s Reef, a key prosecution witness who was there on the night of the murders told the Supreme Court yesterday.
