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Volume: 120 No.221, November 17, 2023
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DOUBTS OVER SMITH’S ‘ABSURD’ ASSET CLAIM Sands asks how can former passport chief not have bank account By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net DR DUANE Sands ripped into Kingsley Smith’s financial declarations for the West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election, insisting the PLP’s candidate has “absurdly” implied that he does not have a bank account. Candidates must accurately declare their assets,
Youth dies next to Tribune days after 18th birthday
income and liabilities before elections, according to the Parliamentary Elections Act. They are expected to reveal what they have in savings accounts, current accounts, securities, salaries, properties, other income and debts. Mr Smith declared $200k in securities, $65k in accounts receivable,
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said the parents of the two-yearold boy found dead in Fox Hill on Tuesday are unfit to keep their other four young children. He said the Ministry of Social Services will investigate and determine whether the children should remain with their parents. He said the mother and father are in police custody. The toddler, Daniel Nixon, was found dead in
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MOULTRIE: PETTY SHOULD RESIGN AS DEPUTY SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FORMER House of Assembly Speaker Halson Moultrie believes North Eleuthera MP Sylvanus Petty should resign as deputy speaker of the chamber for the same reason he was removed as chairman of the Water and Sewerage Corporation. He said the leaders of the
House should epitomise integrity and credibility. “Mr Petty sits in the seat of the deputy speaker, and the institution of the Parliament will definitely be affected by the fact that he was forced to resign as chairman under such a scandal,” he said. “The Speaker or the Deputy Speaker, when substituting for the Speaker, SEE PAGE THREE
FERNANDER: PARENTS OF CHILD FOUND DEAD UNFIT
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POLICE officers and EMT at the scene where a teen died on Deveaux Street, in front of The Tribune parking lot just days after his 18th Birthday. See PAGE TWO for story. Photo: Timothy Roberts
COP SAYS MURDERS DOWN BY 16 PERCENT By LETRE SWEETING Tribune Staff Reporter lsweeting@tribunemedia.net POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said major crimes are trending down, with the murder rate 16 per cent lower than it was up to this time last year. He said 92 people have been killed so far. “We continue to be tasked with our same prolific offenders, who
COMMISSIONER of Police Clayton Fernander continue to get bail and return in their old ways and
POLICE CHIEF ‘will search for files’ in NYGARD PROBE By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
continue to commit crime,” he said during an Office of the Prime Minister briefing yesterday. “It is like a death sentence. An individual gets bail and, in a few days or weeks, he’d end up dead.” He said police have solved nearly 70 per cent of murders this year, insisting officers are doing their job by finding people and
POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said he will search for the investigation files concerning complaints women in The Bahamas made about Peter Nygard to see why charges were never brought against the former fashion mogul. Charges and convictions against Nygard abroad have spotlighted the lack of action in this country where Nygard lived for years. The Tribune reported
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