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Volume: 120 No.55, March 21, 2023
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NO INQUESTS IN 74 POLICE SHOOTINGS
Human rights report highlights absence of Coroner’s probes By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE latest US report on human rights in The Bahamas reveals that 74 police-involved shooting deaths are awaiting inquests at the Coroner’s Court. The report, which has changed little in recent years, highlights poor prison conditions and weak enforcement of corruption laws while acknowledging
positive elements of life in The Bahamas, including free and fair elections, protections against arbitrary arrests and detention, and the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. The report says: “The Coroner’s Court determines whether security force killings are justifiable and pursues prosecutions; however, the director of public prosecutions had
A JUDGE ruled a police officer was unlawfully arrested in 2016 after declaring support for Maria Daxon. Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander, then a Chief Superintendent of Police, was involved in the
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By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net FTX’s US chief yesterday shattered the ceasefire with Bahamian provisional liquidators by launching a legal bid to deny them access to any assets caught in the crypto exchange’s multi-billion dollar collapse. Meanwhile, liquidators are accusing their US counterparts of interfering with a $45m stablecoin recovery and failing to preserve the value of the collapsed crypto exchange’s $241m local real estate empire. to enable Sam Bankman-Fried and his closest associates to channel proceeds from their purported fraud away from US regulatory oversight.
EX-PM SAYS OBAN DEAL ‘WAS DEAD’ By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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matter along with other senior police officials. Sgt Theodore Neily claimed in a lawsuit that police unlawfully detained him and that several senior police officers “acted maliciously and without proper authority and jurisdiction”. He said on September 1, 2016, he was talking to a colleague at the Central Detective Unit about Ms
FTX LOOKS TO BLOCK BAHAMIAN LIQUIDATORS
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JUDGE RULES OFFICER WAS UNLAWFULLY DETAINED By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net
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‘THIS IS FOR THE PEOPLE WITH A DOLLAR AND A DREAM. I’M A LITTLE GIRL FROM THE BAHAMAS THAT WAS GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY.’ BAHAMIAN coach Yolett “Yo” McPhee-McCuin shows her emotions after steering the University of Mississippi Lady Rebels into the Sweet 16 national basketball tournament for the first time in 16 years. See SPORTS for the full story.
250 JOBS TO COME IN EXUMA PROJECT By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
A new $500m project for Exuma promises to boost that island’s tourism and spark significant job growth. Government officials signed a Heads of Agreement with Cave Cay Limited yesterday, paving the way for its development of a new resort and marina in Cave Cay, Exuma.
DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis called the agreement’s signing historic. He said: “This is a $500m investment which we enthusiastically embrace. Again
it demonstrates the efforts that we’re putting into expanding and diversifying the tourism product.” “And it also, again, marks the expression of confidence that the international community is having in our brand and I want to thank the developers for their continued confidence. “We look forward to this project coming on stream and adding again to the
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PERRY Christie says he is “utterly amazed” that Dr Hubert Minnis would blame his administration for flawed due diligence on the $5.5bn Oban Energies project given that the deal “was dead” when he left office in 2017. The former PLP leader, in an interview with Tribune Business, said the controversial Grand Bahama oil refinery and storage terminal project “never went anywhere” before his administration was voted out of office on May 2017 because its promoters could not provide proof they had assembled the necessary financing. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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