Wrongful arrest victim wins $60k
A SUPREME Court judge has ordered the government to pay over $60,000 to a civil servant after finding that two police officers were wrong for breaking into his Yellow Elder Gardens home in 2015, putting a shotgun to his forehead and subsequently arresting him in their search for someone who did not live there.
Immigration detentions again ruled unlawful
A SUPREME Court judge has ordered the unconditional release of five persons and two minors from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre after ruling they were all “unlawfully detained” by immigration officials between November and December of last year.
'It's time to stop school beatings'
WEST Grand Bahama and Bimini public educators are moving to eliminate corporal punishment within schools, a move The Tribune was told is part of a wider effort to stamp out the practice nationally.
Plane crash families ‘kept in the dark’
THE son of one of the North Andros plane crash victims has said the news that officials have found the debris field from the accident is the “latest and hardest” hit in a series of stunning blows.
‘Fleeing’ driver in second fatal crash
A man was killed yesterday when a woman suspected of fleeing the scene of an earlier car crash collided into his vehicle.
Mother and daughter’s ordeal in detention
THE Jamaican wife of a Bahamian man and her 11-year-old daughter were left traumatised and degraded after spending 10 days in detention at an immigration safe house for women and children, according to a court filed affidavit.
All change - new prosecutor parachuted into Smith trial
FORMER PLP Senator Frank Smith’s bribery and extortion trial was adjourned to Wednesday after his lawyer lamented the “shoddiness” surrounding the Crown’s intent to produce additional documents at such a “late stage” in the proceedings connected to its case against the accused.
The man who sailed to gold
FROM the beginning to the end of his life, Sir Durward Randolph Knowles lived his philosophy, “fish or cut bait – either you will choose to be a part or be one way or another, whichever one it is, a decision has to be made.”
Donation to emergency teams will help save lives
THE Public Hospitals Authority’s National Emergency Medical Services received a donation of 15 fully equipped trauma bags donated by the Aidan Roger Carron Foundation.
Wreckage IS from crash plane
CRASH investigators yesterday confirmed a debris field recently discovered by fishermen in waters off Andros is that of the ill-fated flight which crashed last month.
LONE KILLER SHOOTS DEAD VICTIM, 26
A 26-year-old man became the country’s latest murder victim when he was shot early Saturday morning at an intersection.
Two sacked in Baha Mar probe
TWO high-level executives at Baha Mar were fired last week on “suspicion of impropriety” after an internal investigation was launched at the resort.
Farewell, Seawolf: Remembering Sir Durward Knowles
BAHAMIAN Olympic icon Sir Durward Knowles died Saturday afternoon, three months after the country and global sailing community commemorated his life and legacy in the celebration of his 100th birthday.
‘Pay $3,000 and you can go free’ – Bishop Hall makes Immigration ‘corruption’ claim
IMMIGRATION officers have been accused of soliciting thousands of dollars in bribes from migrants, according to allegations in a court filed affidavit which were echoed by a prominent religious leader yesterday.
Talks in Haiti on tackling migration
A high-level meeting was held at Haiti’s National Palace between Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis and Haitian President Jovenel Moise yesterday, where both leaders committed to undertake joint initiatives that could contribute to reducing the flow of migration to The Bahamas.
