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MUNROE: ELECTIONS CHIEF WAS NOT FIRED Munroe: No one directed removal of election chief BY LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said acting Parliamentary Commissioner Arthur Taylor requested reassignment to another government agency, insisting that no one from his ministry directed his removal. Mr Munroe, who has
ministerial responsibility for the department, said he was informed that Mr Taylor sought the transfer through the Office of the Prime Minister after applying for vacation leave. He said he only learned of the matter after returning to the country recently. “I never sought Mr Taylor’s removal,” he said, adding that he could not say SEE PAGE SEVEN
Police ‘still investigating’ held money one year later By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net ALMOST a year after alleging that police officers took $9,000 from their Marathon Estates home during what they claim was a mistaken search, Aynalel and Marvin Deveaux are still without answers — leaving Marvin, already battling
Crash knocks out power in West Grand Bahama
severe health issues, losing hope. “My husband says he doesn’t have the energy to fight the police because he’s already down, already in too much pain, and cannot stand up long. He can’t do nothing,” said Mrs Deveaux, a naturalised Bahamian originally from SEE PAGE THREE
A FREIGHT-truck collided with an Infinity and a utility pole on Warren J Lavarity Hwy in Grand Bahama, sparking a fire and cutting power to the Eight Mile Rock area. See PAGE TWO for more. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn
Pintard and Thompson call for man sent to more firefighting resources for GB Prison for murder to get retrial DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net
WITH over 50 power poles destroyed by massive bushfires that threatened many properties across
East Grand Bahama, Free National Movement members of Parliament are calling for additional firefighting resources and manpower in Grand Bahama. While speaking in the
House of Assembly on Wednesday, FNM Leader Michael Pintard and East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson highlighted the terrifying bushfire incidents SEE PAGE THREE
Bostwick’s call for fnm unity welcomed By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FREE National Movement leader Michael Pintard welcomed Dame Janet Bostwick’s call for the FNM to unite to defeat the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in the next general election. The FNM has struggled
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particularly in relation to former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. Dame Janet reportedly told The Nassau Guardian last week: “We are not benefiting because we are not showing a united front and we are not showing a sort of causation and a fixed position where people can
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By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net THE Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial for a man previously sentenced to 57 years in prison for the 2018 murder of a web shop patron, ruling that his trial was unfair because he was forced to represent himself. William Etienne, 31, won his appeal before Justices Stella Crane-Scott, Indra Charles, and Gregory Hilton. Etienne was convicted in February 2023 by Supreme Court Justice Franklyn Williams for the murder SEE PAGE SEVEN