Crime & Court

US accused bailed

TWO Americans accused of killing a fellow countryman in Bimini five days ago were each granted $35,000 cash bail yesterday, four hours after their arraignment.

Birbal guilty in sex case

ANDRE Birbal faces up to 20 years in prison after being unanimously convicted yesterday of two of the six unnatural sexual intercourse charges he faced concerning his former student.

Two Americans charged over death of U.S. man

19-year-old and 62-year-old charged

VIDEO: Andre Birbal guilty of unnatural sex with former student

ANDRE Birbal has been found guilty of two counts of unnatural sex with a former student.

Two US men to be charged

FREEPORT – Two American men are to be charged on Tuesday in connection with the stabbing death of an American man last Friday in Bimini.

Man in hospital after Arawak Cay shooting

POLICE have issued an appeal after a shooting that left a man in hospital early on Monday morning.

Man jailed for shooting Atlantis security guards faces delay for appeal

A MAN sentenced to 15 years in jail for the shooting of two Atlantis security guards at Marina Village has to wait seven weeks before his appeal can be heard in the Court of Appeal.

Woman 'forced into prostitution' to pay airfare

A JURY heard evidence yesterday from the second of two women who allege they were victims of human trafficking.

Birbal to hear fate today in unnatural sex case

By LAMECH JOHNSON

62-year-old pedestrian dies after hit-and-run

RELATIVES are appealing for any clues that might assist investigators following the death in hospital of a 62-year-old hit-and-run victim.

Two killed in shootings

TERROR struck a quiet community off East Street South over the weekend when a man was shot multiple times and died in one of two separate fatal shooting incidents.

CHARGES DROPPED AGAINST FRED SMITH AND KEOD SMITH

THE charges against lawyers Fred Smith and Keod Smith following an incident on Jaws Beach last April were dropped by the office of the Attorney General yesterday.

Date set for legal action over removal of stenographers

A DATE has been set for a group of attorneys taking legal action against Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson for the removal of stenographers from the Magistrate’s Court.