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Volume: 121 No.86, March 25, 2024
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BOY ACCUSED OF KILLING RELATIVE Mom at school play when told of deadly Eleuthera stabbing By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net THE mother of one of the country’s latest murder victims was at a school play on Friday when she learned Topaz Baillou, 25, had been stabbed to death - allegedly by a minor who is related to the victim. The incident has
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rocked the family’s small, closely knit community in Upper Bogue, Eleuthera, according to the island administrator, Stephen Wilson, who said the alleged killer and the victim did not get into problems. Baillou’s death was one of two over the weekend, pushing the murder count
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net ALBANY’S principal investor has admitted that pleading guilty to securities fraud is “a devastating and self-inflicted humiliation I will have to live with for the rest of my days”. Joe Lewis, the Bahamasbased British billionaire who spearheaded the southwestern New Providence community’s multi-million dollar development, told the southern New York federal court that he had allowed “hubris and childish exuberance to impede my judgment” over the insider trading scheme for which he is now seeking to be spared jail time.
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SHOCK AS TORNADO HITS WOMAN’S HOME By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A TORNADO ripped through Deidre Miller’s South Ocean Boulevard home on Saturday, leaving behind a damaged roof, shattered glass and torndown doors. Meteorologists had warned the severe weather
system over the weekend could produce tornadic activity, but Ms Miller was shocked to experience the weather event. While awake around 3am, she went to look through the window as rain poured down. As she got closer, the curtains began flying, a large SEE PAGE THREE
ALBANY CHIEF IN ‘DEVASTATING, SELF-INFLICTED HUMILIATION’
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CONGREGANTS of St Gregory’s Anglican Church marked Palm Sunday yesterday. For more photos, see PAGE TWO. Photo: Katie Longley
BAHAMAS MAKES CLIMATE SUBMISSION TO ICJ By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas has made a submission to the International Court of Justice, seeking to hold countries accountable for climate change. Attorney General Ryan Pinder announced last year that the country supported a United Nations
ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder Resolution requesting an advisory opinion on states’
obligations regarding climate change. A Friday press statement from the Office of the Attorney General noted that written submissions were made to the ICJ and that the country would respond to submissions from other countries and organisations ahead of the June 24 deadline.
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TWO SHIP CREW DEAD AFTER ENGINE ROOM MALFUNCTION TWO Holland America Line crew members died on the line’s Nieuw Amsterdam’s ship when it was moored at Half Moon Cay in Eleuthera on Friday. Police said around 9.30am, the captain was alerted by the ship’s automatic fire alarm system to a malfunction in the ship’s engine room. The vessel’s fire response team was activated. On arrival in the engine room, they encountered SEE PAGE THREE