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Davis declares: Make weed legal – And PLP leader wants criminal records erased

OPPOSITION leader Philip Davis has confirmed his support for the decriminalisation of recreational marijuana as well as the immediate expunction of the records of those who have been convicted of possessing small amounts of the drug.

INSIGHT: The law is there to be used against criminals, not at political discretion

Cases of criminal misconduct against parliamentarians have not been prosecuted and the government has made no effort to confiscate the proceeds of crime from perpetrators, former Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Thompson reveals in the latest part of his weekly series.

And who invited the Americans to take an interest?

BIG BROTHER is watching and our local Sherlock Holmes is busy beating the local bushes to find out who invited him in.

Bell’s blame game

Keith Bell, the state minister of national security, has stirred from his political slumber to blame the country’s current crime catastrophe on the previous government.

Extradition court case to be heard next year

FIVE men fighting extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges will have their day in the Supreme Court in January next year.

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.

Guns seized

POLICE seized two illegal firearms, quantities of dangerous drugs and arrested 29 people for a number of offences, including armed robbery and theft of vehicles as they intensified their anti-crime operation across New Providence at the weekend.

Probation for American woman on marijuana possession

AN AMERICAN woman was placed on six months probation yesterday after admitting in court to having marijuana while on vacation in Nassau.

Man held on rape and drug possession charges

A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday after being accused of the sexual assault of a 41-year-old woman last week.

Man jailed for six months for possession of gun ammunition

A MAN was sentenced to six months in prison after admitting to having six unfired rounds of ammunition and a gun magazine. Marlon Whyte, 26, and Michael Sands, 31, were charged with possession of a component of a firearm and possession of ammunition.

Man bailed in drugs trial

A MAN who had been arraigned with eight others in connection with last month's seizure of more than $400,000 worth of marijuana in Inagua was granted bail in the Supreme Court. John Pintard, 52, appeared before Justice Bernard T

Two arrested on high-powered gun find

TWO people were arrested after police found an unlicensed high-powered firearm while executing a search warrant at a residence in the area of the Bel-Air Estates on Monday.

$5,000 fine for having over five pounds of marijuana

A MAN was fined $5,000 on Friday after he admitted to having over five pounds of marijuana.

More than 50 arrests in friday night police operation

POLICE arrested more than 50 people during an operation on Friday night. Among the arrests, one man was picked up for murder, another for operating a brothel, 14 Jamaican and Bahamian women were taken into custody for prostitution and 34 people were

16 arrests as police seize firearms in special operations

FIFTEEN men and one woman have been arrested over the weekend for illegal firearms and ammunition possession in special operations in Nassau, police are reporting.

Two deny smuggling cocaine into the country

A Dominican man and a Colombian man who denied smuggling cocaine into the country were on Friday remanded to prison pending a bail hearing.

We would need an officer on board

As a result of the meeting with President Trump are we to understand that the US was offered to up their presence in the southern Bahamas presumably the Inagua RBDF base, to police the waters south of Inagua for contraband — migrant smuggling and especially drugs which head to the US?

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