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‘Banned’: Cinema slams film rating ‘Demonic content’ among reasons for blocking screening By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FUSION’S chief legal officer called for the “archaic and outdated” Theatre and Cinemas regulations to be amended after the Film Control Board reportedly restricted the company’s ability to show a movie by giving it a D
rating. The movie, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba To The Hashira Training”, is an anime released worldwide on February 2nd. Tecoyo Bridgewater, Fusion’s chief lawyer, said the Film Control Board gave the movie a D rating, which means “unsuitable
A SUPREME Court judge declined to accept as evidence a man’s alleged confession to armed robbery after the 19-year-old claimed police beat him on his buttocks with a cutlass, put a fish bag over his head, poured hot sauce in his eyes
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net The Bahamas’ first-ever crowd funding platform is suffering from a near-$4m insolvency, its provisional liquidators have asserted, as they prepare to report “multiple criminal infractions” to the police. A report to the Supreme Court revealed that ArawakX’s insolvency has almost doubled from the Securities Commission’s initial $2m estimate after they wroteoff more than $1m in assets listed on its balance sheet.
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confession was made under duress, supreme court rules By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net
ArawakX To be reported to police on $4m insolvency
and forced him to confess to the crime. Because the confession was the Crown’s only evidence, the prosecution submitted a nolle prosequi in the case after Justice Gregory Hilton ruled that it did not fulfil its burden to prove that the confessions were obtained willingly and SEE page four
A dance supporting young hearts
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The Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis and his wife Ann Marie Davis dance while attending the 58th annual Sir Victor Sassoon Heart Foundation ball was held at Baha Mar on Saturday. The foundation has provided financial assistance to Bahamian children who need heart surgeries for more than 50 years. For more pictures see Weekend section on Friday. Photo: Moise Amisial
Medics ‘fatigued’ by gun violence By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
THE president of the Consultant Physicians Staff Association (CSPA) said doctors and nurses at Princess Margaret Hospital are “strained and fatigued” by the increase in gun violence. “Obviously, it’s been traumatic for everybody,” Dr Charelle Lockhart told
Dr Charelle Lockhart The Tribune yesterday. “I’m a paediatrician, so we’ve
Father of six murdered as he drove child to church By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
had children involved in a number of these incidents, and so that has been pretty traumatic for us.” A 16-year-old girl was taken to the hospital yesterday after she was caught in the crossfire of a shooting incident that left her 35-year-old father dead after he picked her up for church on Wilson Track
A FATHER of six was murdered yesterday morning while taking his 16-year-old daughter to band practice. The girl was grazed with a bullet, but did not suffer a serious injury. Michael Woodside’s uncle, Fredrick Wallace, said the murdered man was a hard worker and a good father who played an integral role in his
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