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VOLUME:114 No.65, FEBRUARY 23rd, 2017
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‘I forgive teacher for my son’s death in car’ By SANCHESKA DORSETT Tribune Staff Reporter sdorsett@tribunemedia.net ROSEMANIE Louis, the mother of the threeyear-old boy who died after being found unresponsive in a car in front of his nursery last week, said while there is a “big hole” in her heart caused by her only son’s death, she forgives the teacher who accidentally “forgot” her child. Ms Louis, who is Haitian, said her son, Kayden Guerrier, was a “happy boy” who told her he loved her every day and was polite to everyone he met. She said if she knew last Monday was the last time she would see her son alive, she would have “hugged him a little harder”. Kayden was found unresponsive in a car in front
THREE-year-old Kayden Guerrier. of his daycare on February 13. According to initial reports from police, a daycare worker at his school off Coleman Lane found the child shortly after 2pm. The child was rushed to the Princess Margaret Hospital where he died a short time later.
MILLER: ENFORCE DEATH PENALTY OR LET THE CRIMINALS TAKE OVER By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller yesterday advised lawmakers that if they did not have the “guts” to support capital punishment then they should abandon the anti-crime fight altogether and let criminals
“take over” the country. Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, Mr Miller suggested that government interference was preventing the courts from carrying out the death penalty - referring to a conversation he is supposed to have had with a senior Supreme Court judge. SEE PAGE NINE
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Officer-in-charge of the Central Detective Unit, Chief Superintendent Fernander, said the toddler was left in the car “by mistake” for hours after he was picked up by one of the teachers, who took him to school. In an interview with The Tribune at her Kemp Road home yesterday afternoon, Ms Louis, who was visibly distraught, recalled her last moments with her son. “Kayden woke up and said he wanted tea. I bathed him, gave him the tea and then the lady came for him,” she told The Tribune. “He said, ‘Bye mommy I love you’. At 12.30 the police called me and said Kayden can’t breathe and he is in the hospital,” Ms Louis, who also has a daughter, said. SEE PAGE SIX
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TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller condemned the voter registration process yesterday, accusing government workers at registration sites of intimidating and harassing Bahamians for unnecessary documentation despite official proclamations. Mr Miller pleaded with National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage, who has responsibility over elections, to reinforce pronouncements made to the Parliamentary Registration
Department. In a statement to Parliament, Mr Miller claimed that the contrary actions of registration officers have contributed to the sluggish pace of registration, adding that noncompliant officers should be fired. Mr Miller recounted the experience of a TOPS employee, who he said was turned away three times from three different registration sites. In another account, Mr Miller said that registration officers demanded that registrants have a new NIB card and a valid passport.
“The minister implored those persons who are registering people, to register people on a timely basis,” Mr Miller said. “The gentleman had his passport, his NIB card as well as his driver’s licence. Plenty of those persons who are responsible for registering people today are still requesting their passport and a valid passport, I don’t know why you need a valid passport, driver’s licence plus NIB card. The new thing now is that you must have your new card, that’s what they are telling people.” SEE PAGE NINE
INTERCEPT BILL CONSULTATION HAILED AS A VICTORY By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net THE Grand Bahama Human Rights Association yesterday hailed the postponement of debate on the
Interception of Communications Bill 2017 for public consultation as a landmark victory. Amid growing pushback against the so-called “spying” bill, Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson,
QC, on Tuesday night defended the need for the bill but announced that her office will lead a “period of public consultation” on the legislation. SEE PAGE SIX
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ROSEMANIE LOUIS, the mother of Kayden, speaks with The Tribune as she fights back tears after the death of her son. Photo: Terrel W. Carey/Tribune Staff
VOTER REGISTRATION STAFF ACCUSED OF DEMANDING UNNECESSARY PAPERWORK By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
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BUTLER-TURNER: PUT COUNTRY BEFORE EGOS OR PLP WINS
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net OFFICIAL Opposition Leader Loretta ButlerTurner yesterday forecast that it was “very likely” the Progressive Liberal Party will be returned as the government unless splintered opposition forces can put the future of the country before their own egos. Mrs Butler-Turner told reporters outside Parliament yesterday that the path to achieving a unified opposition is “very straightforward” but was blocked largely by the leadership desires of all persons involved. She maintained that, despite the protestations of other groupings, the only team that she has not had SEE PAGE THREE