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US man held after cocaine find

AN American man was arrested after police and American officials found $30,000 worth of suspected cocaine at the Lynden Pindling International Airport on Tuesday.

Law has to keep up with banned drugs

The topic “Synthetic” Marijuana was timely and very interesting. It was held at Wesley Methodist, Blue Hill Road and Chapel Street. The presenter was Dr Kirk Christie; Clinical Director of Female and Substance Abuse Services.

Visitor must pay $1,500 or go to jail

A VISITING North Carolina man who admitted smoking cannabis cigarettes must pay $1,500 to avoid spending four months in prison.

Man held in connection with armed robbery

ONE man is in custody in connection with armed robbery and the recovery of an illegal firearm.

Dead Foetus found in hospital parking lot

FREEPORT - Police are trying to determine how a dead foetus ended up in the parking lot near the Rand Memorial Hospital at the weekend.

Man held over large cash find

POLICE arrested a 32-year-old man yesterday after finding large amount a cash which they suspected to be the proceeds of crime.

Haitian drug sloop causes oil spill

THE Department of Environmental Health reported that a 75-foot Haitian sloop that sank in Inagua’s Mathew Town harbour spilled a mixture of diesel and oil into the water.

Marijuana plants worth $7.5 million are discovered in Grand Bahama

FREEPORT – Some 75,000 marijuana plants, worth an estimated $7.5 million, were discovered growing in the pine forest of Grand Bahama.

Objections to chain of custody in drugs trial

THE lawyer of two men and a former policewoman, accused of conspiring to possess $64,000 worth of cocaine, objected to a forensic examiner giving evidence yesterday about items she received from the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

Reception held to welcome embassy narcotics chief

ON September 12, US Charge d’Affaires John Dinkelman hosted a reception to welcome the new director of the Embassy’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) Section, Kristin Gilmore.

Drugs smuggled in loaves of bread

A 54-year-old man is in police custody after he allegedly tried to smuggle marijuana to Mayguana in loaves of bread.

Two men caught with cocaine in Bimini

TWO men found with a quantity of cocaine in Bimini on Wednesday night have been arrested by police.

American man fined for heroin found at LPIA

AN American man was fined $1,000 in the Magistrate’s Court Friday after admitting to having nine grams of heroin in his possession.

INSIGHT: No one should go to prison for smoking a joint

No one should go to prison for smoking a joint. No life should be ruined over a small amount of weed.

Debbie sets focus on the 4 x 100 relay

SPRINTER Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie remembers when she was the youngest member of the Bahamas national track and field team.

Too little, too late

I believe the call by Bahamians for a return of “hanging”, often invoking emotive language in our native vernacular, in the following YouTube video, “Caribbean Crime Wave – The Bahamas”, is merely a reaction to the horror of the proliferation of senseless killings across our once peaceful island nation.

US warns of rise in marijuana cultivation

MARIJUANA cultivation in The Bahamas is on the rise, with 2014 “resulting in the seizure and eradication of more marijuana plants than 2012 and 2013 combined,” according to the United States Department of State International Narcotics Control Strategy Report 2015.

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