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Police discover thousands of marijuana plants

DRUG Enforcement Officers have arrested a 50-year-old man and are searching for two individuals who are behind a huge marijuana field found on Monday.

US loses $14m drug case ruling

The Court of Appeal has overturned the US government’s bid to enforce a $14 million seizure order against the Bahamas-based assets of convicted drug offender, Samuel ‘Ninety’ Knowles.

Shadow tourism minister's TNT tourism crime solution

I OFFER the following TNT Crime Prevention suggestions in my capacity as a 16-year resident of downtown “Old Nassau”, a father to a 15-year-old son and as the Shadow Minister of Tourism.

Pharmacy association in legal threat to government

MEMBERS of the Bahamas Pharmaceutical Association are threatening to take legal action against the government, telling the press the Pharmacy Act passed in 2009 has been violated.

Bodybuilders get ready for CAC Championships

SEVEN of the 15-member team that will represent the Bahamas at the 41st Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Bodybuilding Championships are proud members of Club One Fitness Centre.

Building demolished as part of Urban Renewal

A DILAPIDATED wooden structure in Centreville was demolished yesterday, another step in the drive to revitalise inner city communities according to Asst Supt of Police Stephen Dean.

Weekend crime blitz: 120 people arrested by police, 564 drivers cited

Major assault on crime and violence over the weekend.

MYSTERY SURROUNDS DOUBLE SHOOTING

By SANCHESKA BROWN

WANTED MEN

POLICE are asking for your help in locating five men, four of whom are siblings, in connection with the country’s latest murders.

Brothers among the suspects in weekend murders

By SANCHESKA BROWN

The Cuban detainees and the long-awaited revolution

Rupert Missick Jr looks at the issues surrounding the Cuba detainees

Over-the-counter codeine phosphate 'misused by general public'

Over-the-counter preparations of codeine phosphate were being misused by members of the general public, says The Bahamas Pharmacy Council .

'Stand up for right, not for wrong'

"THE blood of this good man shed in Memphis still cries out across the years, cries out to each and every one of us wherever we may be all across the world to stand up for freedom, to stand up for human dignity, to stand up for equality, to stand up for social justice, to stand up for right and not for wrong…”

Illegal immigrants discovered at a home in the Freeport area

FREEPORT: More than a dozen illegal immigrants were discovered at a home in the Freeport area on Tuesday evening

Five held over discovery of drug stash

FIVE men were detained by police in Andros in connection with the discovery of a drug stash on a boat.

Police make drug bust in Andros

FIVE men in custody after they was arrested by police in Andros for possession of dangerous drugs.

October goal over costs of national health insurance

By DANA SMITH

Sentence delay for man who caused $1.2m road damage

A MAN who admitted for the second time to causing $1.2 million damage to the airport road was told by a magistrate that she would need time to consider the factors in his case before deciding what to do with him. Acting Chief Magistrate Joyanne Ferguson-Pratt told 53-year-old Thomas Alexander Rigby that he would be medically and psychologically evaluated before she makes a decision on September 27.

TOUGH CALL: Tax justice and what it would mean for the Bahamian economy

IN July, the Observer newspaper in Britain published an exhaustive study by the Tax Justice Network asserting that at least $21 trillion of unreported private financial wealth was hidden in secret tax havens by the global super-rich elite at the end of 2010 – a sum equal to the combined size of the American and Japanese economies.

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