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The PLP try to turn off the faucet opened in the Sixties
IT WAS interesting to hear State Minister for National Security Keith Bell blame the country’s crime challenges on a growing gang culture left unchecked by the Ingraham administration.
Drugs and ammunition found in apartment
POLICE in Bimini discovered drugs and ammunition inside an apartment in the Alice Town settlement.
Violence is greater than one woman being hit by one man
VIOLENCE depends on so many things to thrive.
Testimony is delayed in murder trial
AN ongoing trial yesterday delayed the testimony of an investigator in another case in which a man is accused of aiding the fatal stabbing of the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: If we build it they will play. And live
AS I look around the landscape of my beloved Bahamaland, it’s not hard to see that bloodstains, heartache and death are part of the scenery. Sadly, many of our youth are being lost to the coroner or the penal system daily.
Bahamians have lost their moral compass
ABOUT 1,445 years before the birth of Christ, a book of laws was written by Moses for the Israelites giving them guidelines as to the way in which God expected them to govern their lives. The book of Leviticus contains the laws “for all-time throughout the ages.” It told man that he must decide “between the saved and the profane and between the unclean and the clean”.
Demolition again as police crack down on crime areas
POLICE yesterday continued their demolition of dilapidated and abandoned buildings in New Providence in an effort to remove the existence of “crime havens”.
Murder testimony to resume on Monday
TESTIMONY is not expected to resume until Monday in the case of a man accused of aiding the fatal stabbing of the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major.
Cuban reply over man in prison
ALLOW me to clear up some elements in the article that appeared on March 13 in relation to Bahamian national Jamaric Green.
US warns of rise in marijuana cultivation
MARIJUANA cultivation in The Bahamas is on the rise, with 2014 “resulting in the seizure and eradication of more marijuana plants than 2012 and 2013 combined,” according to the United States Department of State International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2015.
US slams zero money launder prosecutions
The US government yesterday criticised the Bahamas’ almost non-existent number of prosecutions/convictions for money laundering, suggesting there should be far more given the size of this nation’s financial services industry.
Officials deny claims by wife of man locked up in Cuba
THE Cuban Embassy has denied claims that a Bahamian man sentenced to 18 years in prison in that country on drug trafficking charges has faced inhumane treatment while incarcerated.
Special dental tips for diabetics
Diabetes is a noncontagious, systemic disease characterised by sustained high blood sugar due to problems with insulin production or action.
DNA: Time for solutions to third-world thinking
LAST weekend’s island-wide blackout is the result of “third world thinkers refusing to look at modern options,” Democratic National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said yesterday.
24 years in prison for killer of Majors’ son
A MAN who pleaded guilty to murdering the teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major was sentenced to 24 years in prison yesterday.
Storage of prescription drugs during blackout
With the recent power outage in Nassau, many have suffered material loss, but even more concerning to me are the safety risks involved that many may not even consider.
Four men arrested after illegal firearm seized
POLICE took four men into custody after they seized an illegal firearm from a home with five live rounds of ammunition on Saturday.
Police demolish 'safe havens' for criminals
IN AN effort to reduce “safe havens” for criminal activity in urban communities police on Friday demolished a number of abandoned homes and removed derelict vehicles in the Fort Fincastle area of Nassau.
Police road checks net 91 Grand Bahama motorists
GRAND Bahama police have cited 91 people for various traffic violations as a result of road check exercises in the past two days.
‘No help from Bahamas for my husband locked up in Cuba’
A CONCERNED mother wants answers about the circumstances that led to her husband to being sentenced in Cuba to 18 years in prison.