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'Ninety' Knowles sues for $70m

CONVICTED drug “kingpin” Samuel “Ninety” Knowles is seeking $70m in damages from the government for the “emotional, mental torture” he experienced as a result of his “premature” extradition to the United States almost ten years ago.

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Police investigate robbery by men with a machete in Abaco

POLICE in Abaco are searching for two men who they want to question in connection with a violent robbery early on New Year's Eve.

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Freeport man, 22, in hospital after shooting

GRAND Bahama Police are investigating a shooting incident that resulted in the hospitalisation of a 22-year-old Freeport man on Wednesday night. A 43-year-old man is assisting police with their investigations.

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Cubans detained after being found by RBDF

EIGHT Cuban migrants discovered at Anguilla Cay in the Cay Sal Bank were picked up by Royal Bahamas Defence Force officers and brought to Freeport on Tuesday.

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Oorganisers aim to repeat junkanoo parade success

AS praise continues to roll in for one of the most successful Junkanoo parades in recent memory - last week’s Boxing Day Parade - officials of the Junkanoo Corporation of New Providence (JCNP) are hoping the New Year’s Day Parade “follows suit.”

Rufa ‘angry and shocked’ by immigration treatment

BRUNO Rufa - a Canadian who has adopted Freeport as his retirement home - says he is “angry and shocked” at how he is being treated by Bahamas immigration officials.

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Woman stabbed in home by robber

POLICE are looking for a man who broke into a woman’s home Wednesday morning and stabbed her.

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Murder victims named

POLICE have released the identities of some of the country’s latest murder victims.

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Man hunted by police over stabbing hands himself in

THE man authorities were searching for in connection with a stabbing death at Yellow Elder Gardens early Tuesday morning turned himself into police yesterday, Chief Superintendent Paul Rolle confirmed.

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Bahamian-American to be sentenced over gun in bag

A BAHAMIAN-American who recently admitted to being in possession of an unlicensed firearm will reappear in Magistrate’s Court for sentencing today concerning the discovery of a revolver in his bag at the Lynden Pindling International Airport.

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A glimpse inside the new-look UWI location

THE University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus Bahamas has held its first open house at its new location on Village Road.

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Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise. - Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise held its annual Jingle Bell Jazz event on Dec 4, 2015, that drew the attention of many patrons and jazz connoisseurs.

CIBC helping in that final lap . . .

CIBC FirstCaribbean gave Junkanoo groups the last push they needed as they prepared for the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day Parades.

Bahamas Red Cross team attends international conference in Switzerland

A Bahamas Red Cross delegation attended the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent in Geneva, Switzerland, earlier this month.

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Man charged over sex with girl, 11

A MAN was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court yesterday alleged to have had unlawful sexual intercourse with an 11-year-old girl.