Lockdown did help reduce crime stats
NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames said fewer COVID-19 restrictions are likely a factor – but not a significant one – in the uptick in murders this year.
Body found in landfill well
POLICE removed a man’s partially decomposed body from the New Providence Landfill yesterday in what Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters said appears to be a suspicious death.
Rape accuser Claudia died of COVID day after birth
CLAUDIA Edwards, the woman at the centre of a rape allegation against immigration officer Norman Bastian, was eulogised yesterday after dying of COVID-19.
Investigator ‘shocked’ at arrest for Davis defamation
A POLICE sergeant testified in Magistrate’s Court yesterday about his role in arresting private investigator Oswald Poitier for libel allegations made against him by Progressive Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis.
Marijuana conviction quashed
THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed the conviction of a man who was previously fined $10,000 after he pleaded guilty to marijuana possession with the intent to supply.
Fishermen held for violations
ELEVEN fishermen were apprehended for fisheries violations last week by members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force in the northern Bahamas.
Accused will face child sex charge
A MAN who denied having sex with a three-year-old boy was told by a Supreme Court judge that he does have a case to answer.
‘Pay $300 or go to jail’ over three grams of marijuana
A 36-year-old man was yesterday ordered to pay $300 or spend a month in prison after he was found with three grams of marijuana.
16-year-old accused of murder remanded
A JUVENILE was remanded to the Simpson Penn Centre for Boys yesterday after being charged with murdering a man in the Garden Hills area earlier this month.
Migrants guilty of illegal embarkation
SEVERAL migrants were charged in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court for illegal embarkation this week.
Extra security for Grove after double shooting
POLICE say they will beef up security in the Coconut Grove area after a 26-year-old woman and her uncle were killed in the community only a day apart last week.
Munroe questions need for travel health visa
THE Progressive Liberal Party has doubled down on criticisms of the government’s travel health visa, demanding that officials release an audited accounting breakdown of the initiative.
Police probe man’s suspected drowning
A BODY was found submerged in waters under a pier off Victoria Avenue yesterday morning.
BPL rejects claims and calls walkout illegal
IN response to unionised staff walking off the job yesterday to protest “unfair treatment”, Bahamas Power and Light issued a statement calling the walk out illegal and the claims unfounded.
AG’s office seeks stay on citizenship ruling
THE Office of the Attorney General on Friday filed documents asking the Court of Appeal to stay Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder’s consequential ruling on citizenship rights and to grant leave for the ruling to be appealed to the Privy Council.
