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‘Ban male guards from safe house’
HUMAN Rights Bahamas has called on the government to immediately remove male officers from the Department of Immigration’s ‘‘safe house” and to investigate sexual assault allegations against detainees there.
Students fall sick after eating marijuana cookies
SEVERAL students on Eleuthera fell sick after consuming marijuana laced cookies which were shipped to the island, police reported yesterday.
Baha Mar concerns
THE open letter to the Gaming Board in yesterday’s Tribune raises serious concerns that need to be addressed before the Gaming Board grants Sky Warrior Bahamas Limited a licence to operate the casino at Baha Mar.
One in four Bahamians has been a smoker
TWENTY-FIVE percent of Bahamians have smoked at some point in their life, according to a 2017 National Household Drug Survey, which revealed 13 percent of teenagers smoke tobacco.Bahamians surveyed were between the ages of 12 and 65, with men found t
$17m drone deal takes crime fight to the sky
MINISTER of National Security Marvin Dames signed a $17m contract with California-based Swift Systems yesterday for a multi-agency drone programme he said should lead to “record level” crime reduction.
Mobile police station launched
DAYS after a spate of murders at Thompson Lane, a 24-hour mobile police station was launched in the area yesterday.
Security officer ‘tricked into giving cousin a ride to pick up marijuana’
A SECURITY officer said he unknowingly became an accessory to his relative’s crime after he was tricked into giving his cousin a ride to pick up a box of marijuana he claims he thought contained building tools.
Court of Appeal dismisses appeal of man who aided killing teenager
A MAN has had his hopes dashed for contesting his near 20-year sentence for aiding the person responsible for killing the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major four years ago.
Bahamas' accident response times 'consistent with those across Caribbean'
IN the wake of the United States’ Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) cautioning tourists visiting the Bahamas about slow response times to traffic incidents, Superintendent Mareno Hinds said their response time is consistent with the response times across the Caribbean.
Missing Marvin - we don’t have him
POLICE Commissioner Anthony Ferguson said nobody named Marvin Pratt was recently arrested or is in police custody, despite claims he was taken into custody weeks ago and has not been seen since.
If you resist the devil, he will flee from you
Hey you, yeah you who all about terrorising the country. Killing, robbing innocent people and raping young women. Yeah you it’s you I’m talking to. Going around giving our country a bad name. People being warned not to come to the Bahamas. Nice tourists places like the fish fry getting caught up in your stupidness.
Why I was ashamed to watch Netflix Fyre documentary
I watched Netflix’s Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened documentary, and found it both deeply disturbing and ironic that Exuma and Norman’s Cay are once again at the centre of an international scandal of epic proportions that has brought embarrassment to The Bahamas.
RBDF targets new ways to tackle smugglers
THE ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) yesterday announced the development of a comprehensive programme to decentralise their operations in a bid to combat human smuggling.
‘We are safe’ insists senior police officer
DESPITE a recent spate of murders and shootings in New Providence and Grand Bahama, officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit, Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander said the country is still a “safe” place.
National independence prayer for anniversary
A NATIONAL independence prayer has been created to mark the 40th Anniversary of Independence.
School security officer stabbed
POLICE are on the hunt for two men who stabbed a security officer while attempting to break into Government High School.
What is is that truly allows your body to heal?
What allows a body to heal? Do we have the ability to heal on our own or do we need outside intervention that will tell our bodies how to heal?
Police probe US man’s drowning
POLICE are investigating the death of an American man who drowned while swimming in western New Providence on Sunday.
School stabbing is no surprise
Why should anyone be surprised with the seriousness of the fatal stabbing of the student?
Police name man shot dead on Grand Bahama
GRAND Bahama police officially released the identity of the man shot and killed last week on the island as Antonio Williams, aka “Babes”, of No 7 Bass Lane.