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SONS WATCH STABBED DAD BLEED TO DEATH Relatives recount horror of watching collapsed man die on his mother’s front porch By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net RELATIVES of Okino Kareem Burrows watched in horror as he bled to death on the front porch of his mother’s home in Hepburn Town, Eight Mile Rock, after fleeing a violent confrontation at a nearby bus stop.
Burrows, 38, was stabbed in the throat during a physical altercation with another man around 11pm on Saturday. He ran to his mother’s house seeking help, but collapsed at the front door. His two sons, ages 15 and 12, opened the door and found their father bleeding on the porch. His mother, Ena, and other relatives looked on helplessly as he
lay on the ground with a severe wound to his throat. According to relatives, his sister rushed to help him and tried to stop the bleeding. “It was hurtful to watch him bleed out there on her front porch,” Kim Musgrove, a close family member, told The Tribune. MURDER - SEE PAGE THREE OKINO KAREEM BURROWS
Former PM calls for probe into politicians’ sharp rise in wealth St John’s principal back at work after viral neck-grab video By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday questioned unexplained jumps in politicians’ declared assets, saying those whose wealth rises sharply in office should be required to explain how it happened. Speaking in the House of Assembly a week after the annual financial disclosure
deadline passed, Dr Minnis said he found it strange that some people enter politics with $50,000 and within four years have more than $2 million. He said he was not “picking on anybody”. “What I'm saying is, if nothing is going on, they are very, very intelligent, and those individuals should be hired within the Ministry of Finance,” he said. “They MINNIS - SEE PAGE FOUR
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
FORMER PM Dr Hubert Minnis.
ST JOHN’S College principal Quinn McCartney has returned to work after a viral video showed him grabbing a girl by the neck during a school event, an incident that prompted an investigation by the Anglican Central Education
Authority. Mr McCartney, a former Deputy Commissioner of Police who joined St John’s College in 2024 after moving from St Anne’s College, said he has been back at work since last week but declined further comment. ACEA officials did not respond to The Tribune’s CHOKE - SEE PAGE FIVE
FORMER DCP Quinn McCartney.
Davis: Fake voter cards pose no systemic threat By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
PRIME MINISTER PHILIP ‘BRAVE’ DAVIS
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said fraud cases involving Bahamian passports and voter cards do not pose a systemic threat, despite a string of recent arraignments tied to forged official documents.
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His comments come as biometric voter cards continue to roll out. Meanwhile, several criminal cases have moved through the courts, including one in which an 18-year-old Haitian man was remanded to prison after being accused of FRAUD - SEE PAGE FOUR