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Three men deny charges in $4m marijuana haul

THREE Grand Bahama natives yesterday denied allegations of being caught with close to $4 million worth of marijuana while in waters off South Andros last week. Kenny Major, Patrick Bain, and Brian Marshall each pleaded not guilty to several drug rela

Police hunt for armed robbers

POLICE on New Providence are seeking the public’s assistance in solving two armed robberies which occurred on Sunday.Police were told the first incident happened shortly after 9pm, when two armed men entered a gaming house on Market Street and Bahama

Nurses in GB stage solidarity protest

STANDING in solidarity with their counterparts in New Providence, nurses on Grand Bahama staged a protest outside Rand Memorial Hospital yesterday morning to voice their disapproval over an eight-hour shift change that is being implemented by the Pub

Time to celebrate life of Bahamian cultural icon Moxey

A WEEK-LONG cultural festival is set for next month to honour the memory of Bahamian icon and politician Edmund Moxey.Shanendon Cartwright, executive chairman of the Bahamas Public Parks and Public Beaches Authority, said Moxey was a “cultural icon”

Attorney gravely ill in hospital

PROMINENT Freeport attorney Rawle Maynard is gravely ill in the Intensive Care Unit at Rand Memorial Hospital in Grand Bahama.The attorney reportedly took ill at his home on Saturday after attending a funeral and was transported to RMH.The Tribune co

Two face court on separate murder charges

A 20-year-old man was charged yesterday with killing a man last week who had himself been recently acquitted of murder.Ivans Dodo, of Meadow Street, is accused of murdering Jamal McSweeney on October 21, just months after McSweeney had been acquitte

Govt 'should be embarrassed' over abortion law backtrack

AN activist has suggested that government delegations appearing before international treaty bodies either set out to be “intentionally deceptive,” or local officials are allowing pressure groups to stifle or reverse efforts to expand women’s rights.A

'Electricity cost oppression of residents cannot continue'

COALITION of Concerned Citizens, a Grand Bahama activist group, has said “the economic oppression” of residents there cannot continue as it relates to the high cost of electricity.Pastor Eddie Victor, president of the coalition, said both businesses

Nurses threaten week of unrest

NURSES are planning to demonstrate this morning at the Princess Margaret Hospital to protest an impending shift change, with some nurses saying they would rather “quit” than work the new hours.

Govt denies move on abortion law

THERE are no plans to make abortion legal in The Bahamas, Attorney General Carl Bethel said yesterday in response to questions over claims made by a senior health official at the 71st Session of the Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva last week.

Cops probe body found in bushes

POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding the discovery of a man’s partially decomposed body found in bushes in the Cowpen Road area yesterday.

Travel delay may have hurt Taranique

SICK teen Taranique Thurston is expected to go through another two weeks of testing before doctors in Florida determine when and how they will treat her brain cyst and the resulting fluid that has collected around her brain.

Financial issues force PLP to delay convention

THE Progressive Liberal Party has postponed its national convention to next May. The official reason for this is to improve the party’s platform and get its branches ready. However, privately some acknowledge that financial constraints are the major

Welcome home for RBDF sailors

AFTER completing her refit at the Maaskant Shipyard in Stellendam, in The Netherlands, Her Majesty’s Bahamian Ship Bahamas arrived the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s Coral Harbour Base on Saturday. The 24-day journey took the ship’s company from The N

Three injured in weekend shootings

TWO men and a teen are in hospital following three separate shootings over the weekend.

American woman and her brother charged with breach of Immigration Act

AN American woman accused of harbouring her brother illegally in the Bahamas was charged in the Magistrate’s Court on Friday for breach of the Immigration Act.

One man charged with armed robbery, another with receiving

IN the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Friday two men were charged, one with armed robbery and the other with receiving.

Blue Lagoon to host cancer survivors event

THE organisers of a local campaign aimed at raising awareness about breast cancer are holding an event at Blue Lagoon on Sunday, November 4, to acknowledge and honour cancer survivors.

Three held after $3.85m drug bust

THREE men are in custody after a multi-agency task force intercepted a go fast boat in waters off South Andros and recovered nearly four thousand pounds of suspected marijuana.

Nurses arrange meeting over new shift system

NURSES nationwide have hastily arranged a meeting for Friday night to respond to the Public Hospital Authority’s announcement that a new shift system for them will go into effect on December 10th.

Local schools get ocean conservation presentation

THE Guy Harvey Ocean Foundation and the Norwegian Cruise Line hosted a presentation on ocean conservation for four local schools yesterday at the Bahamas National Trust Retreat.

'Preserving the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice'

THE Rotary Club of East Nassau on Friday were invited to consider the theme of “how to preserve the memory of those who made the ultimate sacrifice for world peace” as the Bahamas celebrates Remembrance Day.

Three charged in Freeport Magistrate’s Court

THREE men appeared in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a number of offences, including attempted armed robbery, assault with a deadly instrument, and causing grievous harm.

PLP postpones convention to May, 2019

THE Progressive Liberal Party has postponed its national convention to next year May.

Big bad Brad - a ferocious advocate of the PLP

KNOWN for his political quips and acerbic attacks on his opponents, Bradley Roberts will go down in the annals of history as a fierce defender of the Progressive Liberal Party.