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Read storyThe sister of murder-victim Eric McGreggor told the court the details of her brother's shooting, Tuesday.
Shecoya McGreggor said on May 18, 2006, Edward Taylor pulled up to a laundromat on Carmichael Road, walked up to her brother and said "You have a message for me? You have a message for me?" before he pulled out a gun and fired.
She said Taylor fired again as Eric ran inside. Shecoya testified that she then put the killer's license plate number in her cell phone.
Shecoya said about a month before that Taylor had circled her family's home on Bacardi road threatening to kill people if they did not stop "sending the police around my [expletive] place".
Taylor's lawyer argued that she got the license number when the vehicle was impounded and that she was mistaken about the shooter being Taylor.
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Read storyA senior officer from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre said social service worker and local clergy toured the facility Monday.
Senior Deputy Director at the centre, Roderick Bowe said the purpose of the tour was to inspect conditions at the facility.
Bowe was not a part of the tour, which included Immigration Director Jack Thompson and Defence Force Commodore Clifford Scavella. He did not give the names of the social workers or clergy or give details of their findings.
Reports received by The Tribune are that three detainees at the centre are still on a hunger strike that started last week Wednesday.
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Read storyFormer Housing Minister Shane Gibson accused the government and the auditor general of politicizing a recent report to make him look bad.
He said the report - which said hundreds of thousands of dollars were unaccounted for – included figures that had been recorded in a previous report.
Gibson also said that whenever these kinds of reports are prepared there are documents that are missing.
“My point is, if they are losing documents, why should I be held responsible? No permanent secretary would release any cheques unless there is proper documentation. The PS is the official accounts officer. It’s all political.”
He said that it would be easy for someone to hide a document if they wanted to "make a minister look bad".
On Tuesday, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fred Mitchell, held a press conference to protest a Tribune headline based on the same report.
The headline read "$1 million missing from embassy funds".
Mitchell said the headline suggested that the funds were missing because of misconduct but the story (and the report) refer to procedure irregularities and missing documents.
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Read storyAbaco residents are concerned that crime is rising and police have allegedly stopped crime reports to the local newspaper.
David and Kathy Ralph, publishers of the island's newspaper, The Abaconian, say residents are angry after they reported that they would no longer be getting crime reports. See story here.
But residents say crime in Abaco is getting worse and needs to be addressed. Several recent incidents have raised concern:
Lily Sands, a woman in her seventies, was forced into her home and gunpoint and locked in her closet while men robbed her home.
A man who was was locked in his trunk by a would-be kidnapper was told by a policeman that he could not help because he was there to patrol the Junkanoo parade. Meanwhile the kidnapper ran into the crowd.
Several boats have gone missing, in more than one case on the day after they dock in Abaco.
Full Story in The Tribune here
Read storyThe Bahamas must act now to protect its climate or it could be face permanent damage according to Neil Pierre, a director for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).
Pierre was speaking during a meeting with Philip Weech, director of the Bahamas Environment Science and Technology (BEST) commission and Arthur Rolle, director of the department of meteorology.
The meeting was to discuss the Review of the Economics of Climate Change in the Caribbean which will be presented at a United Nations Climate Conference in December.
Weech said The Bahamas needs to take long term steps, including introduce energy efficient technology, develop sustainable tourism, encourage cruise ships to use desalination plants and enforce land use and building codes.
If not, The Bahamas could change forever: “Climate change is a death sentence for small island states," he said.
Full Story in The Tribune here
