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Woman, 20, pictured with high-powered rifle on social media arrested

POLICE have arrested a 20-year-old woman for questioning over firearms possession in response to a recent social media posting of a female posing with a high-powered assault rifle.

Man on bail is shot and killed

A 23-year-old man on bail and being electronically monitored was shot multiple times and killed early yesterday morning, feet away from his McCullough Corner home.

Man gets 38-year prison sentence for murder

A JUDGE sentenced a man to 38 years in prison yesterday after calling the fatal shooting of a man at a convenience store as a “premeditated and ruthless act.”

Boys AND girls now in Simpson C Penn Mentoring programme

THE CRY for support throughout the Bahamas to help the development of the younger generation has become a major social topic that reveals a greater need for mentoring and discipline.

Woman in custody after high speed chase with police officers

POLICE took a woman into custody yesterday afternoon after she led officers on a high-speed chase through the inner city before crashing on Wulff Road.

Three marijuana fields discovered

POLICE uprooted more than 4,000 marijuana plants on Tuesday after officers from the Drug Enforcement Unit discovered three large marijuana fields in Marsh Harbour, Abaco.

Man arrested after posing with handguns, ‘drugs’ and infant

POLICE arrested a 26-year-old man on Tuesday night after several photos of him posing with handguns and suspected marijuana along with an infant surfaced on social media.

Freeport man is reported missing to police

A Freeport man has been reported missing to police, but no further details have been released about the case.

Judge to decide on her jurisdiction to hear bail application

A JUDGE requested a week’s time to determine whether she has the jurisdiction to hear the bail application of an alleged drug lord fighting extradition to the United States.

The ‘kindlier, gentler days’ of today’s Bahamas

WHEN Prime Minister Perry Christie made his first bid in 2002 to lead the PLP back to the seat of power after voters – 10 years earlier– had banished them to the political wilderness — he promised that he was introducing Bahamians to a “new PLP.” The Pindling era was dead.

POLITICOLE: Should I stay or should I go?

Do I stay in and fight for my country? Well, the country I once thought I had?

INSIGHT: Nottage too silent on crime

LAST week, Minister of National Security Dr Bernard Nottage walked past a group of protestors in Rawson Square who are fed up with the rising murder count and the almost daily bloodletting that occurs on the streets of New Providence.

Christie and the AG under fire over ‘conflict of interest’

FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday called for Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson to resign from Cabinet in light of what he sees as a conflict of interest with her role as a government negotiator on Baha Mar and her daughters owning stores that have leases with the stalled project.

Mitchell's 'outrageous' statements

I found Fred Mitchell’s comments directed at Mr. Izmirlian to be absolutely outrageous. Mitchell’s statements were disgraceful. It seriously makes me worry about the direction this country is headed when a prominent politician, supposedly educated, could make threats such as these in public.

Insurers ‘compared apples with oranges’ on NHI cost

The Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA) was yesterday accused of “comparing apples with oranges” over its estimates of National Health Insurance’s (NHI) total costs, a key government adviser suggesting it was resistant to “dramatic but necessary change”.

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