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Facebook scam uses Labour Minister’s identity

LABOUR Minister Shane Gibson is raising the alarm about a Facebook scam that is conning Bahamians out of money while using his identity.

Samsung planning software update for overheating Note 7s

SAMSUNG, the world’s largest smartphone maker, plans to issue a software update for its recalled Galaxy Note 7s that will prevent them from overheating by limiting battery recharges to 60 per cent.

Justice system set for new procedures to handle juveniles

NEW judicial procedures that govern the way juveniles would be processed and handled by the justice system going forward should be implemented “soon”, according to Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson.

AG’s office yet to decide how it will proceed on Kofhe Goodman case

ATTORNEY General Allyson Maynard-Gibson said yesterday that her office has not yet decided how it will proceed in handling the Court of Appeal’s recent overturning of the conviction and death sentence of Kofhe Goodman.

Status hearing for man accused of rape

A MAN awaiting trial in the knifepoint robbery and sexual assault of a woman during a home invasion in 2008 appeared in the Supreme Court for a status hearing yesterday.

Woman charged in connection with gun seizure

A WOMAN was remanded to prison yesterday after she was arraigned in connection with a recent gun seizure by police.

Bahamian awaiting sentencing for hacking celebrities ‘planning to write book’

A BAHAMIAN who pleaded guilty to hacking over 100 celebrities and stealing unreleased movie and TV scripts, social security numbers and private sex videos, is reportedly planning to write a book on celebrity secrets.

FNM ‘working round the clock’ to vet candidates

FREE National Movement Chairman Sidney Collie said since the party’s July convention more than 30 additional persons have submitted applications in a bid to run on the FNM’s ticket in the 2017 general election.

FNM’s hidden Baha Mar documents petition ‘gathers 1,092 signatures’

THE Free National Movement’s online petition to measure Bahamians’ level of displeasure over the hidden Baha Mar negotiation documents has to date gathered 1,092 signatures, The Tribune was told.

Man arrested after marijuana found

POLICE arrested a man in Andros after finding him with a quantity of marijuana on Sunday.

Post Office closed due to flooding

THE GENERAL Post Office on East Hill Street was closed on Wednesday morning and services suspended for the day after the building was flooded.

UPDATED: Two men dead, child injured in Peardale Street shooting

TWO men were killed and a child was shot after three gunmen ambushed a group of people standing outside a home off Peardale Street, near Wulff Road yesterday afternoon.

Fitzgerald says all Bahamian Baha Mar creditors ‘will be taken care of’

EDUCATION Minister Jerome Fitzgerald, one of the government’s lead negotiators in the effort to remobilise construction at Baha Mar and pay creditors, objected to criticism yesterday that there are discrepancies between Prime Minister Perry Christie’s confident pronouncements that all Bahamian creditors will receive money owed to them and the Claims Committee’s assertion that payment is not guaranteed.

Senior PLPs back PM to win leadership contest

TWO senior Progressive Liberal Party Cabinet ministers are certain that Prime Minister Perry Christie will emerge undefeated at the PLP’s November convention, one of them going so far as to suggest that Mr Christie could not be replaced as leader.

Baby found in bushes will stay in hospital for eight weeks

THE newborn baby boy, found in bushes in southwest New Providence last week, will remain in the Princess Margaret Hospital for eight weeks before becoming a ward of the state, Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin said yesterday.

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