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VOLUME:114 No.226, OCTOBER 17TH, 2017
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Not guilty: BAMSI accused cleared By NICO SCAVELLA Tribune Staff Reporter nscavella@tribunemedia.net
DAVE Dion Moxey yesterday thanked Supreme Court jurors for their “honesty” after they found him not guilty for setting fire to a male dormitory at the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Sciences Institute (BAMSI) in January of 2015. A jury of nine –six women and three men – returned the unanimous verdict after a little under an hour of deliberating, which followed a full day of submissions from both the Crown and Defence as to why Mr Moxey should or should not be convicted. Upon hearing the verdict, Mr Moxey, 53, of Fresh Creek, Andros, stood to his
feet from the holding bar and told the jury: “Thank you for your honesty.” He then left the holding bar, shook hands with his attorney Calvin Seymour, and walked past The Tribune on his way to the restroom, shaking his head in relief. Yesterday marked the end of a two-week trial into Mr Moxey’s alleged plans of arson in connection with the January 15, 2015 incident. Earlier yesterday, Mr Seymour, in making his closing submissions, called on members of the jury to “do the right thing” and “let him go home”, referring to his client. Mr Seymour told the jury that while the Crown did introduce the possibility of
A 20-YEAR-OLD man is in custody assisting police with their investigation into 38-year-old Shenique Hart’s death as yet another man became a murder victim last night. Ms Hart, a mother of three girls, was killed while standing on a porch last week. She was on the corner of Peardale Road shortly after 9pm with two other men when a gunman SEE PAGE EIGHT
By RICARDO WELLS Tribune Staff Reporter rwells@tribunemedia.net
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“Sometime after 12 midnight last evening and before daybreak this morning, these THE effectiveness premises were of campus security assaulted and vicat public schools timized by some has come under assailheavy scrutiny after BUT President unknown ants who broke Belinda Wilson thieves stole lapinto the tuck shop, tops, computers questioned and microwaves at where security took all the supplies, broke into Claridge Primary guards were several classrooms during the School yesterday in one of the blocks break-in. morning. and removed items Thieves broke in of value, including sometime after midnight, laptops, computers, microaccording to Education Minister Jeffrey Lloyd, waves and so on,” he said. “Police are doing its who said the extent of the loss had not yet been investigation to determine SEE PAGE SEVEN determined.
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
‘LENIENT’ BPL LET STAFF RUN UP DEBTS
SCHOOL RANSACKED: WHERE WAS SECURITY?
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
SHENIQUE MURDER SUSPECT QUIZZED
THE BAMSI dormitory was destroyed by fire in January 2015.
PAY ROW LAWYER FEARS FOR JOB
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
A PROSECUTOR in the Office of the Attorney General says her outspoken pursuit of money allegedly owed to her has put her job in jeopardy. In September, The Tribune reported on a letter Darnell Dorsette sent Prime
Minister Dr Hubert Minnis, complaining that prosecutors and civil litigators have not been paid increments and salary increases consistent with the 2013 Industrial Agreement between the Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) and the government. That agreement, Ms Dorsette contends, should have
resulted in prosecutors and civil litigators receiving “$800 at the beginning of September, 2017; $1200 in 2016; and two incremental payments on their base salaries in 2014.” Administrative staff of the Attorney General’s office dispute this. Attorney General Carl Bethel SEE PAGE SIX
‘I DROVE HER ROUND THE BENZ’
GUY Gentile, the “And I must transplant banker left have driven her crazy to fish his luxury car for her to have driven from his backyard pool my car into the pool.” after a breakup, said he Gentile’s Russianmust have driven his born, model girlfriend, jilted lover “crazy” just Kristina Kuchma, 24, before the deed. in a fit of rage drove Mr Gentile, in an his Mercedes S400 interview with The hybrid into the pool at Tribune Monday, GUY Gentile’s car submerged in his pool. his Ocean Club home insisted he was partly to after he ended their blame for the incident that has since gained 18-month relationship by a text and alleginternational notoriety. edly reneged on a promise to provide “I must accept some responsibility, if a $50,000 for one of Kuchma’s business woman is not crazy, she doesn’t love you,” ventures. he said. SEE PAGE THREE
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BAHAMAS Power and Light’s policy that allowed workers with overdue accounts to avoid disconnection was instituted for “leniency in hard times,” not as “privilege,” claimed Bahamas Electricity Corporation Executive Chairman Leslie Miller. Calling BPL’s recent decision to drop the SEE PAGE SIX
DISCLOSURE PROBE: NOW DELAY DOWN TO MOULD By KHRISNA RUSSELL Deputy Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net
MORE than three months after the government’s self-imposed deadline to prosecute delinquent public officials under the Public Disclosure Act, the Public Disclosure Commission has yet to conduct any work, leaving the Minnis administration’s mandate in limbo. Yesterday, PDC chairman Myles Laroda confirmed to The Tribune that outside of initial introductions to staff two SEE PAGE SIX