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MAN KILLED BY COP ‘WAS KNOWN TO HIM’ Residents claim men knew each other and had argued days earlier By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A 28-YEAR-OLD man who was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer in Kemp Road last week knew the officer, say local residents, contradicting initial police statements that he was an “unknown” man encountered at the officer’s home. Police Press Liaison Chief Superintendent Sheria King had said a plain-clothes officer arrived at his Margaret Street residence
Thursday afternoon and confronted the “unknown” male on the premises, but not inside the home. An altercation followed, and the officer fatally shot the man. Those close to the deceased identified him as Makaveli Tinker, a father of one who lived nearby, and said the two men had argued days earlier. A close friend, speaking anonymously out of concern for their safety, said bystanders also heard an KNOWN - SEE PAGE FIVE
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Symonette: ‘Inhumane’ to deport Gomez vows to ‘hold’ Baha Mar child killer after serving sentence to construction halt pledge By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Immigration Minister Brent Symonette.
FORMER Immigration Minister Brent Symonette said deporting convicted murderer Chris Ferguson after he completes his 40-year sentence for killing Adriel Moxey would be
“inhumane”, amid questions over the killer’s unresolved immigration status. Ferguson, 39, was sentenced last week after accepting a plea deal in the killing of 12-year-old Adriel, whose body was found in bushes off a track road near DEPORT - SEE PAGE SEVEN
By NEIL HARTNELl Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A FORMER Cabinet minister is pledging to “hold” Baha Mar to its undertaking after construction work related to the $700m resort expansion launched despite an active
and ongoing challenge to the project’s planning approvals. Damian Gomez KC, ex-minister of state for legal affairs in the last Christie administration, told Tribune Business he plans to “check” whether the Cable Beach mega resort developer has breached a pledge
given to the Subdivision and Development Appeal Board by its attorneys last Tuesday. Graham, Thompson & Company promised that no construction work or activity would occur before the outcome of the bid by FOR STORY - SEE BUSINESS
DAVIS: WE WILL NOT HAVE ANY POLITICAL ACTIVITY DURING LENT’ By KEILE CAMPEBLL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis.
THE PLP launches its national election campaign today – but will suspend public political events just two days later in observance of the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. It’s a move seen as seeking to ease concerns from religious leaders who sparked a public debate over the appropriateness of beginning a national campaign on the eve of the 40-day period of
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Christian reflection leading up to Easter. ”We will not have any political public activities during Lent,” said Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis He did not indicate any change to the launch itself but said campaign engagement during the season would be limited to non-public outreach, including private meetings with voters. Some church leaders had LENT - SEE PAGE FOUR