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Click to read storyGRAND BAHAMA: Twenty students involved in a brawl at the Sir Jack Hayward High School will be evaluated by a psychiatrist.
School Principal Dr Paula Mortimer said that some of the students would be enrolled in programs on the island and some will be sent to New Providence.
Two students were charged with causing grievous harm after a fight that included 20 students from grades 9-12.
Three male students were stabbed during the fight. They have since been released from hospital.
- Guardian
Click to read storyPolice discover body at Pinder's Point
GRAND BAHAMA: At about 10.45 Sunday evening a resident reported hearing shots fired in the Pinder’s Point Community.
After talking with residents, police found the lifeless body of a black male who seemed to be in his early 20s.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact them at the Crime Tipsters Hotline – 352-1919.
-Guardian & Tribune
Police hunting robbery suspects make arrest
Police are searching for men involved in the holdup of a 31-year-old man.
The victim was near Nassau and Meadow Street around 4pm Sunday. A burgundy SUV pulled up and several men got out and demanded money.
Some time later, officers arrested three men in the Bain Town area. They had been investigating a car that fit the description just before the arrest.
- Guardian
Men held for murder questions
Police are holding a number of men for questioning in connection with two shooting deaths - Ashley Newbold and Ignacio Smith.
The two were both shot last week just hours apart.
-Guardian
Click to read storyA reward of $25,000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of persons responsible for damage to the Santiation Services Pineridge landfill during the early morning hours of December 9th 2008.
Persons with information are asked to contact the police hotline at 350-3106/7/8 or 9.
-Guardian
Click to read storyTeenage girl describes rape incidents
A 16-year-old girl cried as she testified that Hubert Rolle penetrated her with his finger on three separate occasions when she was 10 years old.
The girl said after attacking her, Rolle told her he would kill her and burn her house if she told anyone.
- Guardian
Men charged with murder, gun threats
Three men were charged with the death of Onando Newbold yesterday.
Leshawn Bowe, Julian Johnson and Kendrick Sands were charged with the January 25 murder.
Johnson is further accused of threatening two women while armed with a gun; Willimide Alminor on December 26 and Anastacia Evans on January 1.
Sands, also known as ‘Ghetto’, has been charged with murder before and was acquitted.
Johnson’s and Bowe’s lawyers said their clients were beaten while in police custody.
The case was adjorned to February 18.
-Guardian & Tribune
Men charged with kidnapping, armed robbery
Jeffrey Wilson and Roscoe Armbrister were charge with kidnapping and robbing Sabrina Eizenga on Monday January 26.
It is alleged that the men took her Mercedes Benz while armed with a handgun.
The pair were remanded to Her Majesty’s Prison and the case was adjourned to May 28.
-Tribune
Click to read storyMarijuana bust leads to 2 ½-year sentence
A man was sentenced to 30 months in jail for possession of 17 pounds of marijuana after pleading guilty.
Dwayne Lockhart was one of three men arrested during a Drug Enforcement Unit Search of a Baillou Hill Road home during the weekend.
-Guardian & Tribune
Mother convicted of assault
GRAND BAHAMA: Eunice Frith was fined $650 for charges of assault and threats of harm to Deveron Gibson.
Frith pled guilty to approaching Gibson at her register at Kelly’s and telling her she would be waiting for her when she left work at 5pm.
- Guardian
Three men go to trial
Michael Joseph, Nicole Octelus and Smith Charitable will stand trial for the murder of Shawn Evans, who was shot during an argument in September of 2007.
-Guardian & Tribune
Click to read storyGRAND BAHAMA: Shannon Comarcho, 33, died after losing control of his motorcycle around 6.30pm Monday. Comarcho was a resident of Fox Hill.
-Tribune
Click to read storyHealth Minister Hubert Minnis said he won’t accept a donated mammography machine because his ministry cannot afford the infrastructure needed to make use of it.
An American Donor has made several attempts to provide the machine for use in the family islands.
Cancer Society President Terrance Fountain said the government should find a way to accept the machine, especially since young Bahamian women are nearly three times more likely than young American women to be diagnosed with the disease.
- Guardian
Click to read storyMembers of the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union screamed and banged on the door during the signing of a new five-year agreement with the Bahamas Hotel Employers Association.
Fist Vice President Kirk Wilson and others were escorted by security from the Department of Labour Monday after protesting that the contract was illegal.
Wilson said the union’s executive board had rejected the agreement and that union president Roy Colebrook had not right to sign.
Labour Director Herbert Brown said such complaints should be presented to the Industrial Tribunal since, at that stage of the process, the Labour Department is only serving as a witness.
Despite the protests, the agreement was signed as planned.
- Guardian
Click to read storyImmigration Minister Branville McCartney and Director Jack Thompson flew to Marsh Harbour last week to hear the oath of citizenship from six Haitian men, who are long-time residents of The Bahamas.
-Tribune
Click to read storyFormer president of the Bahamas Hotel Assocation said the country can expect a “very bleak” 2009.
Russell Miller said he does not think we will see an improvement until the October or perhaps as late as the start of 2010.
Miller made the remarks after accepting this year’s Cacique Award for Hotelier of the Year.
-Tribune
Click to read storyThe Bahamas was rated sixth most business-friendly place in the region and 55th in the world.
The report comes from the Doing Business project, which rates economies based on the time and cost of starting and operate a business.
St. Lucia was chosen as the most friendly country in the region and Singapore received the highest score worldwide.
-Tribune
