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FACE TO FACE: What Dynamite Daisy did next

“Dynamite Daisy” is a household name in The Bahamas. She is a comedienne well known as the life of the party at weddings, birthdays, church events and functions all over the country. She appears on radio and television shows and commercials, and was the star of many of her own full-stage productions with a group of fellow actors who performed to packed crowds. She has even travelled throughout the United States and the Caribbean with her dynamite act.

Poll brings bad news for FNM

PUBLIC Domain’s favour Poll of the current political favour has to have shocked Cabinet and the 35 FNM MPs as they all perceive they have been doing an incredible job. One Minister said phenomenon! Hey No!

IAN FERGUSON: Inspiring our men in the workplace

THE number of productive, engaged male employees in the Bahamian workforce has been declining rapidly for some years. Somehow, in the span of two generations, women have replaced men in most professional fields of endeavour. From medicine to educatio

Cleared man sues after being held in detention after not guilty verdict

A MAN recently acquitted of murdering another man on Potter’s Cay Dock a day before his birthday three years ago is suing the government for unlawfully detaining him for some five days after he was found not guilty of the crime.

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'Miss Florida' denies drug den role

A SENIOR police officer yesterday testified how the boyfriend of internet sensation Handerea “Miss Florida” Rolle tried to flush a quantity of marijuana down a toilet the day police raided a home they were in two months ago.

Man injured in drive-by shooting

A GRAND Bahama man was seriously injured following a drive-by shooting on the Mall Drive in Freeport this week.

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Guyanese man is arrested at airport for drug smuggling

A GUYANESE man was arrested by officials at the Lynden Pindling International Airport Wednesday for drug smuggling.According to police, the 29-year-old resident of Suriname arrived in the country from Jamaica shortly after 4pm when he was taken into

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200 OFFICERS IN FOX HILL CELLBLOCK SHAKEDOWN

MORE than 200 officers across three law enforcement agencies conducted an overnight prison raid and recovered more than a dozen cell phones, deadly shanks and suspected marijuana.

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Crown seeks death penalty in Exuma Shooting death case

THE CROWN is seeking the death penalty for one of two men convicted of the shooting death of a man in his Family Island home during the process of an armed robbery four years ago.Prosecutor Al-Leecia Delancy submitted to Justice Carolita Bethel yeste

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Shane Gibson's constitutional relief application hearing delayed

THE hearing into former Cabinet minister Shane Gibson’s application for constitutional relief was adjourned by more than a month yesterday due to the “medical indisposition” of a key applicant in the matter.Yesterday was marked for the continuation o

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Lawyer insists client did not kill or rob Deadman’s Cay couple

In a lengthy opening address in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, a lawyer for one of three men accused of double murder insisted his client did not kill or rob the Deadman’s Reef couple found brutally murdered at their Grand Bahama residence in September 2015.

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Man who was fined and sent to prison has one sentence set aside

A MAN, previously sentenced to four years in prison and fined $25,000 for admitting his involvement in a $1 million drug seizure in waters off Andros four years ago, has had one of his sentences set aside by the Court of Appeal.Court of Appeal Presid

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INSIGHT: When what looks like a crisis can become an opportunity

The truth about shanty towns - part 2

In the Bahamas, the irregular communities that we disdainfully refer to as shanty towns are looked upon as a regrettable nuisance, a shameful stain on our national image that must be ‘eradicated,’ as one cabinet minister recently put it.

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Dames 'disgusted' by 'inmate' videos

NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames yesterday expressed disgust over viral video recordings purported to have been taken of inmates at the Bahamas Department of Corrections.

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Man and woman charged in connection with $80,000 drug seizure

A MAN and a woman were charged in a Magistrate’s Court on Friday in connection with the seizure of almost $80,000 worth of marijuana from a home in western New Providence earlier this week.

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Pair held after marijuana plants found in Coral Harbour home

A MAN and woman were taken into police custody after 173 marijuana plants and several packages of suspected marijuana were found at a home they were in at Coral Harbour.

Man convicted of aiding killer tells court he is innocent

A MAN sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for aiding the person responsible for killing the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major yesterday said he feels like “giving up” for being imprisoned for a crime he insist he had no involvement in.

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Dwight Major charged with another man over $280k of marijuana

Dwight Major and another man were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with being found with over $280,000 worth of marijuana earlier this week with plans to distribute the drugs to others.

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Man convicted of aiding killer tells court he is innocent

A MAN sentenced to almost 20 years in prison for aiding the person responsible for killing the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major yesterday said he feels like “giving up” for being imprisoned for a crime he insist he had

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283 pounds of marijuana seized in stop and search

POLICE seized 283 pounds of marijuana yesterday morning after a vehicle stop and search. Shortly before 4am Drug Enforcement Unit officers assisted by Mobile Division officers stopped and searched a Nissan March with two men inside at, Tonique Willia