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Volume: 122 No. 81, March 19, 2025
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ELECTION CHIEF OUT AFTER CRITICISM Taylor reassigned to new post amid local govt voting issues By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net ACTING Parliamentary Registration Commissioner Arthur Taylor has been removed from his post and reassigned to another government agency. Government officials did not respond to questions about his departure
yesterday, and it is not clear where he has been transferred. His removal followed heavy criticism of his department’s handling of the recent local government election process, which critics say was marred by delays, ballot errors, and administrative SEE PAGE THREE
FATHER FOUND GUILTY OF ALL FIVE COUNTS IN INCEST CASE By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net A FATHER accused of sexually molesting his daughter was convicted of incest on Tuesday in the Supreme Court after jurors returned guilty verdicts on all five counts. A jury of seven women and two men deliberated
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for nearly three hours before delivering a majority 9-0 guilty verdict on each count. Justice Petra Adderley thanked the jurors for their service and adjourned the matter to June 11 for sentencing, when a probation report on the defendant will be presented. SEE PAGE THREE
LIEUTENANT NICHOLAS KAMWELA, commanding officer of the Lawrence Lawson, gives a brief tour aboard the US Coast Guard ship. See PAGE TWO for story. Photo: Nikia Charlton
‘Justice has prevailed’, says Davis - but six months’ jail World Famous Valley Boys to appeal FOR MAN WHO BEAT BOY WITH BR0OMSTICK By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
THE Supreme Court dismissed the World Famous Valley Boys’ application for judicial review, ruling that
the group had no realistic chance of success in its legal challenge against the Registrar General’s decision to remove it from the register of non-profit organisations. Justice Darron Ellis found that the Registrar
General acted lawfully in determining that the name “World Famous Valley Boys” closely resembled that of the Valley Boys Junkanoo Group, creating the SEE PAGE SEVEN
US Chargé d’Affaires downplays impact of Cuba policy on Bahamas By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net THE top US government official in The Bahamas downplayed the impact of the Trump administration’s Cuba-related visa restriction policy on this country, framing the expansion announcement as an effort
to prompt a broader inquiry into how Cuban workers are treated and paid, rather than a measure targeting The Bahamas or any local government official. US Charge d’Affaires Kimberly Furnish said the US inquiry into Cuba’s medical programme was SEE PAGE FIVE
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By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A 22-YEAR-OLD man was sentenced to six months in prison yesterday after admitting to beating his girlfriend’s seven-yearold son with a broomstick earlier this week as “discipline” for accidentally breaking a television. Assistant Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans arraigned Richard Fox on a charge of cruelty to children. Fox reportedly beat the boy on March 16 in New Providence, striking SEE PAGE THREE