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Donna Vasyli guilty

DONNA Vasyli gasped in shock and fainted in a courtroom yesterday after hearing that a jury unanimously found her guilty of the stabbing death of her husband, millionaire podiatrist Philip Vasyli, at their home in Old Fort Bay.

An April ‘roll out’ for National Health Insurance might be delayed

“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”

Murder suspect: I was a cocaine dealer not a killer

BASIL Black told the Supreme Court yesterday that he was a “cocaine” pusher but not a killer and denied shooting his 15-year-old girlfriend outside a sports bar in Eight Mile Rock over a year ago.

TOUGH CALL: Time to face reality over death penalty

Last November, a regional conference in Guyana focused on abolishing the death penalty, which many Caribbean territories - including The Bahamas - want to keep on the books.

It is now time for politicians to stop playing politics

CRIME is down, murders are up, therefore it should not be said that the PLP’s crime “policies have fallen short and that the sole basis upon which (the government’s) efforts should be measured is the murder rate”.

Does the Bahamas have special laws for those in authority?

RELIEVED that his political colleagues had let him off the hook, MICAL MP V Alfred Gray declared in his defence that he would never break the law knowingly.

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”.

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.

Farewell to two judges - as another steps up

THE Court of Appeal president dubbed yesterday’s special ceremony for the retirement and elevation of three judges as “the institutional knighting of the Court of Appeal”.

Adult stem cell treatments begin at Okyanos clinic

OKYANOS has started adult stem cell treatments at its clinic in Freeport, with patients experiencing some “remarkable” benefit from cell therapy, according to CEO Matthew Feshbach.

Condemns promotion of immodesty at carnival

ALTHOUGH the g-string clad beauties who come with the controversial Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, did not shock PLP chairman Bradley Roberts, the remarks of the eye-brow raising president of the Bahamas Christian Council certainly did.

Grand Bahama junkanoo

JUNKANOO fans turned out for the 2015 New Year’s Day parade in Grand Bahama, despite wet and chilly conditions and the format being reduced to one lap for reasons of time.

Emancipation still comin’

SHACKLES are still holding us; Lord, we continue to pray for deliverance, total deliverance. Let’s sift through some of these.

WORLD VIEW: Haiti and Peru biggest worries as democracy in Americas in decline

ALL the countries of ‘the Americas’ ie, those in North, Central and South America and the Caribbean are experiencing political, social and economic trials to some extent.

DIANE PHILLIPS: Last manse standing – let’s get together and save Collins House

THERE’S a Joni Mitchell song whose lyrics are timeless: ‘Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone … They paved paradise, put up a parking lot.’

DIVIDED RESPONSE OVER RAPE LAWS: One pastor calls Bill ‘demonic’ in day of consultation

A DRAFT amendment to the Sexual Offences Act that seeks to criminalise marital rape and re-define what consent is, among other terms, was met with mixed reactions from religious leaders yesterday - with one pastor calling it “the most wickedest and demonic bill” in the country’s history.

Crimes against the person increased by 23 percent last year

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander revealed on Friday that crimes against the person increased by 23 percent last year when compared to the same period in 2021, including murders, armed robberies and sex crimes that also trended upwards.

INSIGHT: High marks from a hero of the force

DESPITE the alarming incidents of murder and crime in the country, the officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force are doing a “phenomenal job” – they are simply overwhelmed and need more support and resources, according to a former Assistant Commissioner.

WORLD VIEW: OAS should promote systemic change in Haiti not an external agenda

IN what is increasingly becoming a pattern of ignoring established procedures and authority in the Organisation of American States (OAS), a delegation went to troubled Haiti on June 19 without any discussion or mandate by the Permanent Council, the organ responsible for making and overseeing policy between General Assemblies.

Colina Fund aiming to grow assets up to $5m

COLINA Real Estate Fund’s president yesterday said he was aiming to grow its asset base by up to $5 million, or more than 40 per cent, over the next five years as its moves to expand its property portfolio and diversify rental income streams.

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