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Read storyA new system that can tell where gunfire is coming from and what type of gun was used may soon be part of the police toolkit.
Officers were set to review the Shotspotter system at a demonstration by the local distributor - Bahamas Fleet Management Solutions.
The system can tell the difference between guns and fireworks and detects how many shots were fired. It creates a map for dispatchers and could help officer response time.
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
Read storyBail requirements should be uniform to ensure suspects that are granted bail have a fair chance of meeting them.
Ellsworth Johnson, lawyer and tutor at the Eugene Dupuch Law School’s Legal Aid Clinic, told The Nassau Guardian that requiring people to own property is an unfair condition, since there are many Bahamians who do not.
"You shouldn’t give someone bail and by the very things you require make it impossible for a person to avail himself of that bail," Johnson said.
Two lawyers, who did not want to give their names, echoed his statement, saying that bail requirements change from court to court and seem arbitrary. One said the requirements keeps people “running up and down for weeks.”
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
Read storyMark Daniels was shot and killed while he was playing dominoes with his friends Sunday.
The mechanic and father of five was shot in the head around 1pm on Augusta street. He was declared dead at the scene.
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
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Read storyIn a letter published in The Tribune, Andrew Allen said The Bahamas should consider ways to farm sea turtles rather than ban their consumption.
Allen said the Cayman Islands have successful turtle farming and have found a way to sustain the turtle population.
He said too often Bahamians try to condemn customs and cultures that they don't agree with or don't enjoy themselves rather than looking for ways to make them sustainable.
Full Story in The Tribune here
Cayman Turtle Farm website here
Humane Society criticizes Cayman farm here
Read storyA young man was killed in a traffic accident on East Street Saturday.
The crash injured the 18-year-old male driver and his 22-year-old female passenger but was fatal for 16-year-old Godfrey Murphy.
Police believe the car was overtaking when it collided with a utility pole and a building.
ELEUTHERA: Police are also investigating a traffic accident in Rock Sound, Eleuthera. The crash killed 56-year-old Edmund 'Beef' Symonette, a local handyman.
Sometime before 7pm Saturday, he was driving on Queen's
Highway when his truck ran off the road.
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
Full Story in The Tribune here
Read storyThe Department of Immigration played no part in the dismissal of Chinese workers from a Bahamian construction company last week.
E R Hanna Construction said last week that it would be forced to send about half of its 26 Chinese workers home because they were not able to renew their work permits.
But Immigration director Jack Thompson said that was not the case as all the worker permits were valid until June.
Last week Tuesday, the workers protested after getting the news of their dismissal. Several said they had not been paid in months and were being treated unfairly.
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
Read storyA convicted murderer originally sentenced to death was released after the court of appeal decided it was unfair to release one man and not another.
The Court released Jeronimo Bowleg, ruling that the man he was accused of committing the murder with - Brian
Schroeter – had been released.
Bowleg and Schroeter were convicted of the 1994 murder of Dieuseul Almanor and sentenced to death, the mandatory sentence for murder at the time.
After mandatory death sentencing was ruled unconstitutional, the pair appealed. Schroeter was release and Bowleg's sentence was modified to include ten years in addition to the 11 he had served.
Bowleg appealed the decision and won. In its ruling, the court said it felt the sentence was inadequate but wanted to avoid any appearance of unfairness between people involved in the same offense."
Full Story in The Nassau Guardian here
Read storyCuba is a threat but not yet Tourism Minister says
Tourism Minister Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace said The Bahamas should be ready to compete with Cuba but that it's not an immediate threat.
Wallace said the American decision to relax restrictions on Cubans returning home for visits was more of a humanitarian effort than something that would generate tourism.
Still, the Minister said The Bahamas needs to develop its tourist product and think of the entire country when planning.
"We have a variety of islands that we have never really developed to the stage that we need to develop them and to differentiate one from the other so that we have a lot more varied products on the shelf to deal with the Cubas when they open," he said.
Full Story in The Tribune here
