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Man admits owning gun to protect himself as drug dealer
A MAN was sent to prison on Friday after admitting owning a gun to protect himself as a drug dealer.
Five hunted over armed robberies
POLICE are searching for five men responsible for two separate armed robberies on Wednesday, one of which took place in a bank‘s parking lot.
$1m cocaine seized on ship
POLICE seized over $1m in suspected cocaine during a search of a vehicle freighter yesterday.
Crime wave by Haitian shamans
I believe the case can be made that certain officials danced around the issue of law enforcement officers being assigned to the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) nearly a month ago.
Man who jumped out of police car is fined
A MAN was fined a collective $800 in Magistrate’s Court yesterday after being found with drugs and jumping out of a moving police car to evade custody.
‘Herculean effort’: Food stores submit price controls counter
Bahamian food retailers were last night hoping the Government “embraces their Herculean effort” to craft an alternative to the major price control regime expansion that satisfies the needs of all parties.
Americans fined over possession of hemp
TWO Americans were fined in Magistrate’s Court yesterday on separate drug charges.
Kidney transplant plan launched
THE Ministry of Health and Wellness plans to launch a comprehensive kidney transplant programme, with the aim of performing ten transplants by the end of next year.
Club Med’s reopening hailed as ‘monumental achievement’
The deputy prime minister yesterday hailed the “monumental achievement” in re-opening San Salvador’s Club Med resort after the property received its first 120 visitors for almost three years via an Air Canada flight.
Man in custody after over $400,000 confiscated
A man from Bernard Road is in police custody after being found in possession of over $400,000 in mixed currency on Tuesday.
Three years in prison over $3.8m drug haul
A MAN was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday in connection with a $3.8m marijuana drug bust off Andros in 2018.
Gov’t not budging on price control deadline
A CABINET minister yesterday confirmed the expanded price control regime will be implemented from November 1 even as the Government awaits proposed revisions from the food distribution and pharmaceutical industries.
$300 fine for Indian hemp possession
A MAN was fined in Magistrate’s Court after admitting to owning 18 grams of Indian hemp.
Food retailers ‘trying like hell’ for Friday solutions
Bahamian food retailers were yesterday “trying like hell” to meet Friday’s deadline to produce an acceptable alternative to the Government’s “catastrophic” price control expansion.
Grieving mother testifies over son’s murder in 2016
A VISIBLY distraught mother gave testimony in the Supreme Court yesterday in the murder trial of two men charged with the shooting death of her son in 2016.
Bran: Medicine price controls are ‘back door’ VAT admission
The Democratic National Alliance’s (DNA) ex-leader yesterday slammed the imposition of price controls on the pharmaceutical industry as a “back door” admission by the Government that reimposing VAT on medicines was a mistake.
Four held on drugs charges
THREE male residents of Abaco and one male resident of Bimini were arrested in three separate incidents early his week on charges of illegal drugs possession.
Pharmacies to offer ‘relief’ alternative to price control
Bahamian pharmacists yesterday said they will offer the Government an alternative “economic relief” plan for consumers that does not resort to wholesale and retail price controls.
Munroe continues defence of TCI police operation
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe has defended government’s decisions to send law enforcement to the Turks and Caicos Islands amid public concerns and escalating crime in The Bahamas.
No sanctions over price control ‘death warrant’ execution
The Government last night backed down from imposing sanctions on food retailers and pharmacists who fail to enact the expanded price control regime - which one branded “a death warrant” - by today’s deadline.