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Volume: 122 No. 94, April 7, 2025
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ROLLE ‘NAMED HIS KILLER’ AS HE DIED Pilot denied bail as he faces murder and drug charges By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net A MAN fatally shot at Lynden Pindling International Airport last year allegedly named his killer before dying, telling a witness: “This DJ, Nesha husband who shot me bey, please tell my kids, my daughter and my son, I love them.”
Honouring the ones who serve
That chilling statement formed a central part of the Crown’s case against granting bail to 26-year-old pilot Donald Ferguson, who awaits trial for murder and multiple drug trafficking offences. Supreme Court Justice Neil Brathwaite ruled that prosecutors had presented a prima facie case and
By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net POLICE said they are still investigating a Carnival Cruise Lines passenger’s claim that she was raped by a jet ski operator near Junkanoo Beach last week Tuesday. The Tribune reported the matter, which has not been reported by police in its crime updates, on Thursday. Such matters are typically reported to
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COUSINS ADRIFT AT SEA FEARED THEY WOULD NOT MAKE IT HOME By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net AFTER two harrowing days adrift in open waters without food, water, or communication, Huberto Miller, Sr, feared that he and his cousin, Kenroy Rolle, would never make it home. Their ordeal ended
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Friday morning, when they were rescued in waters off Bimini after drifting far off course during what was meant to be a routine boat retrieval. Mr Miller, 35, and Mr Rolle, 28, both of Great Harbour Cay in the Berry Islands, were returning a vessel from Chub Cay SEE PAGE FIVE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net THE COLOUR Guard enters during the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) annual church service at William Thompson Auditorium yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
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By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
MICHAEL Pintard said he has asked former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis to contribute to the Free National Movement’s future — not as a candidate, but as an elder statesman guiding strategy and
offering insight into government policy. During a press conference yesterday, he confirmed The Tribune’s report last week that Dr Minnis will not be renominated in Killarney, the latest political setback for a man who, just five years ago, was prime minister and only the SEE PAGE THREE
FNM leader Michael Pintard
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POLICE STILL INVESTIGATING cruise guest’s RAPE CLAIM
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BAHAMIANS must “brace” for a potential global depression and repeat of the 2008-2009 economic contraction, which saw thousands lose their jobs, due to Donald Trump’s tariff policies, a local economist is warning. A former senior IDB and CDB executive, told an Organisation for Responsible Governance (ORG) seminar she is “not being dramatic, but realistic” about the likely fall-out the Bahamian economy and this nation’s citizens face as a result of the US president’s actions in starting a possible global trade war. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS