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SENIOR POLICE OFFICER CHARGED WITH MURDER Superintendent remanded over American’s murder as the US Embassy offers FBI assistance By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A SENIOR police officer appeared in court in ankle cuffs yesterday, charged with the murder of a 31-year-old American man outside a West Bay Street bar. Prosecutors allege Superintendent Berneil Pinder, 54, shot and killed Cody Castillo as he drove a white Ford truck belonging to the Pike Corporation following
an incident at Da Plantation Bar & Grill before 6pm on March 21. Pinder was off duty at the time. Castillo was shot in the chest through the side window of the vehicle. He was found lying on his stomach outside the truck in a pool of blood and pronounced dead at the scene. Castillo, of Huntsville, Texas, leaves behind a wife who is four months pregnant. In a rare move, US MURDER - SEE PAGE FIVE
PINTARD SAYS FNM WOULD PROVIDE INDEPENDENT OVERSIGHT OF POLICE FORCE See PAGE FIVE
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Exuma hit-and-run victim dies after hour-long wait
Mother identifies body of her missing son
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
A 29-YEAR-OLD man died after waiting nearly an hour for an ambulance following a hit-and-run in Exuma, with his family questioning whether the delay cost him his life. Police said Deno Rolle
was struck by an unidentified vehicle shortly after 6.20pm Tuesday while riding west along Queen’s Highway near Hooper’s Bay. He was thrown from the borrowed motorcycle and suffered severe head and knee injuries. His sister, Lakesha Rolle, DELAY - SEE PAGE THREE
DENO ROLLE
A MOTHER who travelled from Exuma to New Providence to search for her missing son learned yesterday at the morgue that he had been murdered and dead for days. Alice Adderley said she
flew in after relatives urged her to check whether a body found off Carmichael Road matched her 23-year-old son, Cameron Munnings, who had not been seen since Thursday. “I came straight here from the airport,” she said. Police said the body MORGUE - SEE PAGE THREE
LOCAL AIRLINES WARN OF 10 PERCENT FARE HIKE AMID SURGING AVIATION FUEL COSTS By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net BAHAMIAN aviation operators yesterday warned travellers to brace for an up to 10 percent hike in air fares due to surging fuel costs with these increases set to be introduced “uniformly” by all carriers to
prevent “making a mess of the marketplace”. Anthony Hamilton, president of the Bahamas Association of Air Transport Operators, told Tribune Business that the sector is forecasting an initial 55-60 percent jump in aviation fuel costs with local privately-owned carriers waiting for Bahamasair to increase
its ticket prices before they follow suit with similar rises. He explained that the industry’s “conventional practice” has been for all carriers to adjust air fares at the same time, and by similar magnitudes, so as to prevent price “gouging” by rogue operators seeking SEE BUSINESS FOR STORY
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