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PM makes evacuation plea ahead of storm

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis made a final plea on Friday to residents living in high-risk areas of Grand Bahama and Abaco to evacuate, warning that to ride out the dangerous storm could be a gamble with life.

Union delays challenge to strike order

A HEARING about whether the Bahamas Doctors Union breached the Industrial Relations Act and will remain restrained from participating in a strike was adjourned yesterday.

Haitians hurt by move to suspend visas

HAITIAN Foreign Minister Bocchit Edmond said yesterday that the suspension of visa issuance to Haitian nationals is damaging to the people of his country.

Teen in Breanna killing goes free

AN 18-year-old woman who admitting to taking part in the carnage that led to teenage mother Breanna Mackey’s death last year is now a free woman.

Surprise visit for student who wrote to prime minister

MATTHEW Stuart, a Queen’s College eighth grader who wrote to Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis asking for a surprise visit to his blind grandmother on her birthday, received a surprise of his own yesterday when the nation’s leader dropped in on the boy

Call for hotline to be set up to tackle elder abuse

A LOCAL accountant is expressing his support for the establishment of an elderly abuse hotline.Dr John Bain also suggested more public awareness initiatives and enforcement of existing legislation as other tactics the government can utilise to help p

Police officer contradicts teen's claim in child sex case

A WOMAN police officer yesterday contradicted a teenager’s claims that her official statement against a police reservist who allegedly had sex with her was not read back to her by the officer after she gave it.Inspector Altida Bowles testified that n

Be on the alert for fraud, warns police

A “trend of fraudulent activities” has been occurring in the country, police revealed yesterday. Some of these trends observed include third party transfer fraud, credit card fraud, fraudulent cheques and sham marriages. Police discussed these matt

Smith case may feature in no-confidence vote

THE Official Opposition’s resolution of a vote of no confidence in the prime minister could also ask parliamentarians to consider the government’s handling of the case brought against former Senator Frank Smith.Progressive Liberal Party chairman Fred

Administrator: Abaco in the line of fire

AS Hurricane Dorian continues to barrel its way toward The Bahamas bringing with it potentially devastating winds, rain and storm surge, Abaco residents are preparing for the worst. While New Providence, Eleuthera, Abaco, Grand Bahama, North Andros,

Tributes after judge's death

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis expressed sadness over the death of retired Court of Appeal Justice Emanuel Osadebay, who died yesterday. In a statement released yesterday, Mr Davis said, “I was saddened to learn of the passing

Juvenile one of two injured in separate shooting incidents

POLICE on New Providence are investigating two shooting incidents which left a juvenile male and an adult male in hospital on Wednesday. In the first incident, shortly after 9pm, two males were standing in front of a home on Sunrise Road, Gamble Hei

$1m price tag to renovate senate building

RENOVATIONS to the ground floor of the Senate building will cost around $1m, according to Speaker Halson Moultrie, who noted the work would be undertaken by the Ministry of Works as a capital development.Mr Moultrie also revealed the new digital Hans

20 years in jail for rape of tourist

A SAN Salvador native has been sentenced to two decades in prison for raping a 17-year-old American tourist on that island five years ago.Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson sentenced Henry Gay to 20 years for the April 2014 rape of the woman, who is now i

'No grounds for appeal' of Frank Smith acquittal

ATTORNEY Wayne Munroe, QC, yesterday suggested the government did not have any legal grounds to appeal the Court of Appeal’s ruling on Frank Smith’s acquittal.Mr Munroe noted the Court of Appeal Act was amended in 1996 to make it the final court to a

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