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Read storyA six-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after an attack at a government primary school.
Police are investigating claims that the girl was sexually assaulted by a group of secondary school boys.
The attack is said to have happened shortly after 3pm on January 23.
Education Minister Carl Bethel said the matter was kept private due to the nature of the incident and the fact that the police investigation has not yet concluded.
Police Superintendant Elsworth Moss said there is an investigation ongoing and that the attack involved at least two perpetrators. He did not describe the nature of the attack.
Moss said he expected to conclude the investigation in a few days.
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Read storyThe police complaints and corruption unit is reviewing two cases of alleged extortion by its officers.
In one case, an Arawak Cay stall owner said a policeman took $200 from one of his staff members.
He said the officer told him that people had complained about his stall but that he would "have him straight".
The stall owner said the next week the policeman came back and said he wanted $500 every week to "keep everbody off ya back".
In the other matter, 20-year-old Travis Brown said police told him there was a warrant out for his arrest.
Brown said three officers handcuffed him and drove him around for while before offering him a choice: spend a few days in a holding cell or pay a $100 "fine".
After Brown told them he didn't have the money, an officer reached into his pocket, took $50 and gave half to a policeman in the front seat.
Later, the officers were forced to stop at the Quackoo Street Police station when they realized they had no keys for the handcuffs, he said.
Brown said they later dropped him off on East Street.
Acting Commissioner Reginald Ferguson said all such activities must be stopped and encouraged citizens to report them to the Police Complaint Unit.
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Read storyPolice expect to charge a 27-year old Nassau Village man now in custody with the recent shooting of a police officer.
The man opened fire on officers when they tried to question him about firearm suspicions.
During the shooting, Officer 518 Johnson was hit in his left leg.
A witness told The Tribune that she told police where the suspect was after he had threatened her with a gun earlier in the day.
Tia Thurston said she was following police to the area when she heard several shots fired.
Police expect to bring the suspect to court on Friday.
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Read storyImmigration Minister Branville McCartney said the government wants to raise fines for hiring illegal immigrants above the current $3,500 limit.
Appearing on the radio talk show Generation Next on 106.5 FM, McCartney said that persons who hire illegal immigrants should have to pay the cost of deportation and have their names printed in the newspapers.
Former Immigration Minister Shane Gibson agreed that fines were an important consideration but said there are other loopholes.
He asked how long The Bahamas would allow wooden-hulled vessels to enter its waters, pointing to the recent seizures of millions of dollars of cocaine found aboard two such vessels.
He said that the present government should photograph and fingerprint persons held at the Detention Center, a practice started while he was in power.
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Read storyA 39-year-old woman died in hospital after she suffered a seizure at a local pool.
Noelle Roberts, the daughter of the late Member of Parliament Noel Roberts and mother of two, had a history of seizures.
According to a statement from the swim club that Roberts belonged to, she suffered a seizure while swimming.
Although a nurse and coach on the scene were able to revive her with CPR, she remained in a coma until her death Wednesday afternoon.
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Read storyProsecutors seeking to link three men with a white getaway car questioned a woman who testified that she was in a car with a suspect on the date of the murder.
The testimony is part of the prosecution's case against Jamal Glinton, Sean Brown and Dwight Knowles, who are accused of the murder of Keith Carey in February 2006.
The woman, whose name was withheld by court order, said she was in a car with at least one of the suspects - Glinton.
The woman said she had known him for five years and had slept at Glinton's home the night before.
She told the court that she sat in the back seat with him on the way to her East Street job and that two other men were in the car.
Carey, who owned the Faith Avenue/Carmichael Road Esso Service Station, was shot outside the Bank of The Bahamas on Harrold Road while making a large deposit.
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Read storyGRAND BAHAMA: The Freeport Lions Club has a new eye testing machine to help in their sight conservation program.
For years the club has helped children get eye exams and glasses at no cost as well as raising funds for eye surgeries.
The machine, which takes about 15 minutes to test eyes, can detect the early stages of short-sightedness and far-sightedness, crossed eyes and colour blindness.
It will be operated by trained members of the club.
To help pay for this and other sight conservation efforts, the club will hold a Fun Run Walk on February 22nd, starting at 6am at the Lions Club house on East Beach Drive.
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