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Charged with trying to kill DPM's aide

TWO men with the aliases ‘Boo Boo’ and ‘Smiley’ have been accused of trying to kill the Deputy Prime Minister’s aide.

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FIVE-YEAR-OLD SHOT NEAR EAST STREET

A five-year-old boy is fighting for his life after being shot outside of his home yesterday evening.

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Anti-crime campaigner hopes more parents will be arrested

THE REV CB Moss, president of Bahamas Against Crime, said “hopefully more parents will be arrested” after a 50-year-old mother and her three sons were arrested when police found items, believed to have been stolen, in their home.

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Cocaine conviction thrown our on appeal

THE Court of Appeal has thrown out a local pilot’s cocaine conviction and three-year sentence.

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Officer's evidence discussed in court

AS the Constable Jimmy Ambrose murder retrial continued yesterday, legal discussions followed the evidence of a policeman who claimed to recognise a sealed container handed to him by a pathologist.

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Three in hospital after shootings

POLICE are investigating two separate shootings and a stabbing that left three men in hospital.

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Officer 'was at point of death'

THE physician who performed surgery on a wounded policeman during early morning hours said the officer appeared to be at the point of imminent death.

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‘We eat our own in this country’

HOUSE Speaker Kendal Major criticised the recent shootings of police officers, saying the Bahamas has become a country where no one is safe and where we “eat our own”.

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Man wanted for questioning

POLICE are asking for information concerning the whereabouts of Gerard Nairn.

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Lawyer told he cannot withdraw

JUSTICE Bernard Turner yesterday denied an application by Kofhe Goodman’s counsel to withdraw as an attorney in the Marco Archer murder trial.

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DPM: No one safe

DEPUTY Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said yesterday the attack on his body guard proves that no one is “safe” from the unrelenting scourge of crime in the country.

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Stenographer reads testimony of policeman who later died

A STENOGRAPHER that recorded the testimony of an ex-policeman who witnessed the murder of a colleague outside a nightclub gave evidence in Supreme Court yesterday.

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70-year-old dies from gun injuries

A 70-year-old grandmother died Sunday after she was shot multiple times last month, taking the country’s murder count to 57 for the year.

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Greenslade waits on AG decision

POLICE Commissioner Ellison Greenslade said yesterday he is waiting for the Attorney General to “make a decision” in the Aaron Rolle matter before he makes any comments on what will happen or will not happen to the officers in question.

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Police car stolen by prisoner left alone in back seat

A POLICE car was stolen yesterday – after a suspect left alone in the car used the key in the ignition to drive away.