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Inner-City Pastors and Ministers Alliance celebrate 'great launch'

By ALESHA CADET

Call for answers over $8m for fleet purchase

AFTER the first of eight new vessels for the Royal Bahamas Defence Force arrived in the Bahamas on Monday, an opposition MP again raised questions over the $8 she claims is “unaccounted for” in the acquisition of the fleet.

Recording calls 'clearly illegal'

THE allegations of possible surveillance of cellphone calls in the Bahamas are “startling” and, if proven, then the behaviour would be “clearly illegal”, Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said yesterday.

US 'spying' threatens nation's business model

A top QC yesterday warned that the US ‘spying’ allegations “hurt us at every level”, and warned that they threatened to undermine the Bahamas’s very business model - that of an international business and financial centre.

Claims NSA is bugging all Bahamian calls

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said last night that his ministry is liaising with the US government to address reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) has got the green light for all cellphone conversations within the Bahamas to be recorded.

Police monitoring Facebook for 'treasonous' comments

AUTHORITIES yesterday said they were monitoring several Facebook groups after treasonous comments were posted sparking hysteria from users.

Four years in jail for woman who smuggled cocaine

A WOMAN will spend the next four years in Her Majesty’s Prison after she maintained her guilty plea to serious drugs charges yesterday for the smuggling of $50,000 worth of cocaine into the country from Panama in several home appliances.

Our new defender

HMBS Arthur Hanna, the first of eight new vessels in the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s new fleet, arrived in the country yesterday morning, nearly a month ahead of its proposed June 13 arrival date.

B.T.C. probes U.S. 'spying' claim

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) last night promised to urgently investigate “the integrity” of its cellular network, amid claims that the US National Security Agency (NSA) is intercepting almost every mobile call made in the Bahamas.

Bahamian woman 'caught smuggling $50,000 of cocaine from Panama'

A BAHAMIAN woman is in police custody after she was caught attempting to smuggle $50,000 worth of cocaine into the country from Panama in several home appliances.

Two US citizens held

By DENISE MAYCOCK

Drug lord questions jurisdiction of court to fine or jail him

A drug lord is now questioning the Court of Appeal’s jurisdiction to stipulate that he goes to prison for two more years if he fails to pay a $250,000 fine after upholding his conviction for the possession of $1.2m worth of marijuana.

71-year-old man arrested after marijuana worth $250,000 found

ABOUT 2,500 marijuana plants, with an estimated street value of $250,000, have been discovered in Crossing Rock, Abaco, police reported yesterday.

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PROPOSED SHOCK APPROACH IS DISGRACEFUL, SHAMEFUL

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Wanted man shot by police after he 'attacked officers with a knife'

POLICE shot a wanted suspect on Wednesday morning after he allegedly attacked officers with a knife. Jeffery Etienne, of Okra Hill, who was wanted by officers of the Central Detective Unit for stealing, was shot in the thigh and taken to hospital, where he is listed in stable condition and under heavy police guard.

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