'5' or 'S': Firearm conviction overturned on technicality
A MAN’S conviction for having an illegal firearm has been overturned because of the appellate court’s uncertainty over whether the serial number of the firearm police said they found him with contained the number “5” or a capital “S”.
Police in Andros destroy 90,000 marijuana plants
POLICE destroyed more than 90,000 marijuana plants found in eight fields in Andros in two separate incidents last week.
UPDATED: Four people murdered in 48 hours
Four men were killed in separate incidents over the weekend with two of the killings taking place roughly an hour apart and just streets apart.
WSC executive chairman: Woods ‘hasn’t done a day’s work for us in years’
BAHAMAS Utilities Services and Allied Workers Union president Dwayne Woods “has not performed a day’s work” for the Water and Sewerage Corporation in years, according to its executive chairman, who said the man stills gets paid approximately $60,000 a year despite being on “administrative leave”.
TOGETHER IN GRIEF: Mass turnout for funeral of Abaco tragedy victims
THEIR coffins draped in the Haitian flag and a bouquet of flowers, 22 Haitian migrants who were killed when their sloop shipwrecked in Abaco more than a week ago were mourned yesterday by hundreds who did not know them but who came to show empathy for the plight that brought them to their demise.
UPDATED: Search suspended for man missing from downed plane
SUNDAY 11.50pm UPDATE: The US Coast Guard has suspended its search for the second man from the downed Conquest Air airplane on Saturday afternoon.
One dead, one injured after shooting off Cowpen Road
One man was killed and another was injured after a shooting off Cowpen Road in the early hours of Saturday.
AF Adderley Junior High students make the grade
SCORES of A F Adderley Junior High School students were rewarded for stellar academic achievement during the school’s awards assembly on Friday.
Man in critical condition after shooting
A MAN is in critical condition in hospital after he was shot outside his home on Thursday afternoon.
Canadian man jailed for three years for smuggling heroin
A 54-year-old Canadian man was sentenced to prison on Friday for smuggling almost $10,000 worth of heroin into the Bahamas from London late last year in the hope of getting more than $3m in exchange.
Man tells court he posted Facebook video 'to tell the world the truth'
A man testified on Friday that he used Facebook as a last resort to counteract the allegations made in a statement he said he was forced to give to police that implicated his cousin and two other men of executing a murder plot.
Police body cams 'on the way'
IN the wake of Tuesday's police-involved shooting, the first of the year, National Security Minister Marvin Dames said body cams for law enforcement is on the way.
'Tremendous' turnout at Fusion Superplex job fair
NEARLY 1500 job-seekers turned up to the Fusion Superplex entertainment venue yesterday, as the company seeks to fill up to 80 part-time and full-time openings.
Court of Appeal orders murder retrial
THE Court of Appeal has quashed the murder conviction of Javaro Davis who allegedly killed Rimardo Rolle, 27, at a nightclub in 2014.
