Man accused of threatening someone with gun
A MAN was granted $6,000 bail yesterday after he was accused of using a gun to threaten another man on Wulff Road last month.
Man admitting to having drugs gets probation
A MAN was given a conditional discharge after admitting to having drugs in New Providence earlier this week.
Nygard: I could die if I go to court
PETER Nygard is struggling to find legal representation in Canada two weeks before he is sentenced for sexually assaulting five women between 1988 and 2005.
Murder ruling thrown out over ‘tenuous’ conviction
A MAN who was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for allegedly killing an American sailor in 2013 had his murder conviction quashed yesterday after the Privy Council ruled that evidence in the case was “so tenuous as to be incapable of supporting a safe conviction for murder”.
Friends mourn conch stand vendor killed in boat crash
LUKE Rolle, one of two men killed when his boat hit a reef near Rose Island on Friday, owned and operated a popular conch stand in Eleuthera.
‘Wilson should be fired’
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis argued that Financial Secretary Simon Wilson should be fired because of his recent altercation with a reporter at the Office of the Prime Minister.
Man shot by police ‘fired replica gun at officers’
AN officer has testified that on the night police killed Walter Johnson, the suspect had fired a replica gun at them.
Promised shelter to be bought ‘by end of month’
A BUILDING for the government’s long-promised shelter for domestic violence victims is expected to be bought by the end of this budget year, which ends this month.
Boarding school ‘will care for at-risk boys’
SOCIAL Services Minister Myles Laroda said the government’s proposed boarding school for at-risk boys will provide psychological, academic, and 24-hour care for its students.
‘Govt spending too little on what we need and too much on what we don’t’
EAST Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson said the Davis administration is underspending on national priorities and overspending on less critical items.
$7,000 bail for woman accused of maiming
A WOMAN was granted $7,000 bail after being accused of maiming a person on King Street last week.
Bail for phone theft suspect
A MAN was granted bail after he was accused of stealing a phone last year.
Four years’ jail over loaded gun
A 33-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to four years in prison after he admitted last week to having a loaded gun.
Russian fleet headed to Cuba
RUSSIAN warships conducted drills in the Atlantic, the military said Tuesday, as they were heading to visit Cuba, part of Moscow’s efforts to project power amid the tensions with the West over Ukraine.
Graduation rate sees 14 percent increase
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said the graduation rate increased by 14 per cent compared to the previous academic year after government approved changes to the Bahamas High School Diploma.
