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Man arrested after drugs found

POLICE recovered a quantity of dangerous drugs in two separate incidents on Tuesday and have taken an adult male into custody.

New central location for budding entrepreneurs

A BRANCH of the Small Business Development Centre was opened on Baillou Hill Road on Wednesday, providing a central location for budding inner city entrepreneurs seeking to access the programme’s training and financing services.

'Carnival cruise lines owes us compensation as well as apology'

THE Coalition to Save Clifton said Carnival Corporation “owes” the country financial compensation in an addition to an apology for dumping treated sewage and food waste in Bahamian waters.

Taxi drivers will take drastic action if issues ignored, warns union boss

KWASI Thompson, State Minister for Grand Bahama,  said the government remains committed to working with the Grand Bahama Taxi Union, revealing that an increase in the taxi rate for cab drivers on the island has been approved and should take full effect next month.

Six bus shelters to be built on Long Island

LONG Island MP Adrian Gibson announced this week that he has signed off on the construction of six bus shelters for his constituency.

THE MARIJUANA QUESTION: Cooper sparks debate, but public divided over how law could change

EXUMA and Ragged Island MP Chester Cooper called last week for the legalisation of medical marijuana along with the decriminalisation of small amounts of its recreational use.

Teenager helping police over school bullying allegations

A TEENAGE boy from Grand Bahama is assisting police with an investigation into an incident of alleged school bullying that was captured on cell phone video.

Trio deny planning to sell marijuana worth over $1m

THREE Bahamian men between the ages of 35 and 50 yesterday denied being caught off South Andros last week with over $1m worth of marijuana they intended to supply to others.

Woman and teen charged with murdering father-of-five

A 32-year-old woman charged with murdering a 34-year-old father-of-five yesterday complained of inhumane and degrading treatment while in police custody awaiting her arraignment for the crime.

Task force to look into government house security

NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames announced yesterday the appointment of a “review committee” tasked with investigating the security issues related to the shooting death of Petty Officer Percival Philip Perpall at Government House on April 28.

UPDATED: Two shot dead at Potter's Cay Dock, two more deaths hours later

Police are investigating after four men were killed in two separate shooting incidents, hours apart.

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.

‘Lawful killing’ in police shooting

THE shooting death of a 20-year-old at the hands of police officers in the Masons Addition area four years ago was justified in the circumstances, a jury found yesterday.

‘A half a million thank yous’

ONLY 100 of the more than 3,500 registrants of the Access Accelerator Small Business Development Centre (SBDC) are from the Over-the-Hill community, SBDC chairman Geoffrey Andrews said yesterday.

Speaker questions FNM's position on PAC

THE Minnis administration’s restrictive view of the powers of the House of Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee “seems odd” and may be unconstitutional, House Speaker Halston Moultrie said yesterday.

We are compliant, say web shops

THE Bahamas Gaming Operators Association has unequivocally denied Finance Minister Peter Turnquest’s recent comments on the state of tax compliance by web shops, insisting three of them are fully compliant, representing 70 percent of all taxes due to the government.

Significant number of pupils not vaccinated

AS they move throughout schools in New Providence, Ministry of Health officials are finding a “significant” number of children are missing some of their needed vaccinations.

Stabbing victim dies of wounds

POLICE are investigating the country’s latest homicide after a man was reportedly found walking with visible stab wounds and later died of his injuries in hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

Vendors unhappy with hotels renting water sports equipment

SCORES of disgruntled watercraft operators flocked to Goodman’s Bay yesterday to protest against hotels renting vessels to their guests.

Time to get tough with drivers who kill, insists PLP

OPPOSITION leader Philip “Brave” Davis is calling for the Minnis administration to “revamp the entire road traffic regime” — particularly reiterating calls for the government to add an amendment to the Road Traffic Act to increase penalties for those who kill in the course of dangerous driving.

Job figures expected to show better news, predicts Turnquest

AHEAD of the Department of Statistics’ Labour Force Survey, Deputy Prime Minister K Peter Turnquest said he expects unemployment figures to show some improvement.

Mother who lost two sons to guns, warns: Too much killing. It has got to stop

THE pervasiveness of illegal firearms and the “kill or be killed culture” perpetuated by them are leading to the destruction of inner-city communities, a mother preparing to bury a second son in four months has said.

Web bosses told: Pay what you owe

FINANCE Minister K Peter Turnquest yesterday urged web shop operators to pay their taxes out of an obligation to the government regardless of beliefs or legal arguments they intend to mount.

Baha Mar robbery: Three detained

THREE men are in custody in connection with the recent smash and grab robbery at John Bull’s Baha Mar store.

Pulpit for preaching not politics

OPPOSITION Leader Philip ‘Brave’ Davis yesterday levied a litany of critiques against Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, including describing his recent speech in a church as “inappropriate” and dubbing Dr Minnis’ claims that the PLP “politicised the police force” as “ludicrous”.