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Mystery over couple’s deaths

THE deaths of an elderly couple whose decomposing bodies lay in their home for four days before being discovered by horrified relatives remains a mystery, say police, although foul play is not suspected.

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Fox: This election will be my first time voting

FREE National Movement Garden Hills candidate Rick Fox said this year’s general election will be the first time he has ever voted in The Bahamas.

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Davis backs Sebas Bastian despite FBI file allegations

PRIME Minister Philip Davis on Friday publicly backed Progressive Liberal Party candidate Sebas Bastian, dismissing unverified allegations appearing in FBI files connected to Jeffrey Epstein and insisting the claims would not damage his party’s election campaign.

Florida man battles ‘flesh-eating’ disease after Bahamas vacation

A FLORIDA man who scraped his ankle while vacationing in The Bahamas over the New Year was later given just a ten percent chance of survival after developing necrotising fasciitis, a rare and fast-moving infection commonly known as flesh-eating disease, according to reports.

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Father killed in Wulff Road crash years after losing son

NEARLY three years after losing his toddler son to illness, 33-year-old Jarad Miller was killed on Thursday night in a violent multi-vehicle crash on Wulff Road, cutting short a life his family said was only beginning to stabilise.

Woman charged in fatal Carmichael Road crash

A WOMAN accused of causing the death of a 28-year-old man who was fatally injured in a car crash on Carmichael Road last May was granted bail on Friday.

Woman granted bail in year’s first traffic fatality

A WOMAN accused of causing the death of a 64-year-old father who was struck while attempting to cross Bahamas Games Boulevard last month was granted bail on Friday.

Skyline Drive resident granted bail on loaded firearm charges

A MAN accused of having a loaded firearm in his home on Skyline Drive last week was granted bail on Friday.

Teenagers accused of gunpoint carjacking in Sea Breeze remanded

TWO teenage males accused of robbing a woman of her car at gunpoint last month were remanded in custody.

5.5 earthquake near Cuba felt in Inagua

A magnitude 5.5 earthquake struck near eastern Cuba, with tremors felt in parts of The Bahamas this morning.

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Former Turks and Caicos premier found guilty over bribery charges

A decade-long corruption trial in the Turks and Caicos Islands ended on Wednesday with guilty verdicts against the territory’s former premier, his brother and a former cabinet minister, closing one of the most consequential legal sagas in the country’s modern political history, according to reporting by the Miami Herald.

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Island luck co-founders slam human and gun trafficking allegations in Epstein file

Island Luck’s co-founders yesterday both slammed claims they were involved in human and firearms trafficking as alleged in a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) report released in the files on convicted paedophile and sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein.

Entrepreneur on bail for $42k theft charges

AN entrepreneur accused of stealing more than $40,000 from clients three years ago was arraigned yesterday and granted bail.

Six months jail for three-time bail breaker

A MAN on bail for a violent 2021 airport robbery that nearly claimed the lives of a woman and a police officer was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday after breaching his bail conditions for a third time.

Teen admits to 67 rounds of ammo in bedroom

A 15-year-old boy admitted to possessing 67 rounds of ammunition at his Yorkshire Street home earlier this week and was remanded in custody pending a probation report.