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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
Click to read storyA relative found Leslie Campbell, 36, hanging from the stairs of his Pastel Gardens’ home just before 11pm on Friday.
Less than 24 hours later, Kimberley Miller, 37, was also found by a family member, hanging from an electrical cord in her Ruby Avenue home in the Cable Beach area.
Police believe the deaths were suicides.
Campbell’s friends told The Tribune he was devoted to his ten-year-old son and five-year old daughter.
On Wednesday a 45-year-old father of three was found by his wife hanging by a cord in his living room on Seabreeze lane.
-Guardian and Tribune
Click to read storyDetectives are investigating allegations that a teacher indecently assaulted a 14-year-old boy who is both mentally and physically challenged.
Guardian sources say the teacher was questioned and released by the authorities.
The boy’s parents, concerned the incident may be covered up, have hired a lawyer to prosecute the issue.
According to a family member, the teacher admitted to fondling the boy but said she did not intend to hurt him.
-Guardian
Click to read storyA fire early Sunday morning has left three families with no home and few possessions.
Victoria Moss-Ferguson was one of several women living in the 14-room, clapboard house on the corner of Cordeaux Avenue and Wilson Tract in Englerston.
Moss-Ferguson and her two children lost nearly everything they own in the fire, as did Merlinda Daxon and her three children.
Shenique Hart, also a mother of three, managed to get most of their things outside before the fire destroyed them.
The unit of one resident, Lloyd Mackey, was not damaged by the fire.
-Tribune
Click to read storySTABBED IN ANDROS:
A 21-year-old man was stabbed during an argument with several men at the Cabana night club in North Andros on Friday.
Renaldo Dames was stabbed twice in the back and three times in his chest around 8.30pm. The attack led to the collapse of one of Dames’ lungs, and an airlift to New Providence.
He was in serious but stable condition on Sunday.
-Guardian and Tribune
MAN SHOT: A 24-year old man was shot in the back of head Saturday.
The man was driving near Cox Way off East Street with a man he knew when the shot was fired.
As of Sunday, The victim, who lives in Nassau Village, was in serious condition at Princess Margaret Hospital.
-Guardian and Tribune
DRUGS SEIZED: Police confiscated more than 17 pounds of marijuana Friday morning.
Officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit were executing a search warrant on a Baillou Hill Road home when they found a bag with packages of marijuana wrapped in plastic.
They arrested three men in their early 30s.
-Guardian and Tribune
GRAND BAHAMA GUNS:
On Saturday afternoon, officers were near Gladstone Terrace when they saw a vehicle speed off as they got close.
After a brief chase the vehicle stopped and the passenger jumped out and ran.
Police caught the man, in his late 20s. They also collected a black .45 caliber pistol and seven bullets.
Around midnight Sunday morning, officers acting on a tip arrested a 26 year old Guyanese male in the Port Lucaya area.
Police have charged him with possession of a .22 pistol and one live round.
-Tribune
Click to read storyA decision by the Attorney General’s office means a former Bank of the Bahamas manager accused of stealing $130,000 will not be retried.
The case against Terry Murray was discharged last year. Then prosecutors won an appeal on the basis that the magistrate had made ‘material errors’ by not allowing the court to see some of the documents associated with the matter.
Prosecutors say Murray stole the money by authorizing 14 drafts to himself and his siblings. Co-workers testified that he confessed to the theft and claimed he committed the crime out of “frustration and stress”. The alleged thefts occurred in 2004.
On the day he was to appear before court for the start of the new trial, the attorney general’s office withdrew the charges.
-Guardian
Click to read storyOfficers confirmed reports of a shootout soon after 10am between police and an ex-cop on Sunday.
The fugitive was reportedly recently released from prison.
Details gathered by The Tribune suggest that the chase led to a crash at the light-pole at the corner of Shirley Street and Sears Road and several shots fired soon after.
A resident from the area said a policeman told him the car’s driver was arrested and drugs were discovered in the car.
An officer from a downtown police station confirmed an arrest but did not give details. Police have not made an official comment on the matter.
-Tribune
Click to read storyRUM CAY: Since the close of the island’s two marinas, much of the island’s population has been in the bush, searching for the Cascarilla tree.
The bark of the Cascarilla, also known as Sweetwood, is used to make the popular alcoholic drink Campari. The bark sells for $5 per pound, and is helping to keep an economy going that is at nearly zero unemployment.
Bar owner and resident Delores Wilson said despite high electricity costs and less work after the close of the marinas, life on the island is good.
With plenty of fish and conch to eat and seven wells of fresh water for drinking, the recession is something almost unknown to those on the island, the 77-year-old islander told The Tribune
Like New Providence, Rum cay is 21 miles by 7 miles. Unlike New Providence only 79 people live on the island.
-Tribune
Click to read storyTwo cold fronts will keep it cool this week.
Two cold fronts moving over The Bahamas will keep night-time temperatures around the 50s on Wednesday and Thursday. Daytime highs will be around the 60s and 70s.
The wind chill will make those temperatures feel even lower and there will probably be a few showers.
-Guardian
Click to read story Buntrum Cooper died in hospital after he reportedly had trouble in one of Atlantis' pools on around 6 o'clock Thursday evening.
The 58-year-old was visiting from Missouri.
Atlantis spokesman Ed Fields said the hotel would refrain from comment until it had more time to investigate. -Tribune
