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Volume: 123 No. 130, Monday, June 1, 2026
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WOMAN TRAUMATISED AFTER BOYFRIEND KILLED Girlfriend describes surviving ambush that killed 23-year-old man By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE girlfriend of a 23-year-old man shot and killed just feet from his Elizabeth home recalled ducking for cover as bullets rang out, only to discover moments later that she had been hit and her boyfriend fatally wounded. The woman, who asked for her name to be withheld, said she now suffers nightmares and fears she may
never be able to recover from the terrifying ordeal. “I don't think I could go in another relationship for as long as I live. I can't take that,” she told The Tribune yesterday. “I don’t want to get attached to anybody anymore because that was my safe place.” Her comments came three days after her boyfriend of five years, Aljaron Stubbs, was murdered. Police were alerted to TRAUMA - SEE PAGE FIVE
ALJARON STUBBS
Murder suspect gets two years jail after eight months on the run By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
D’ANGELO CULMER
FORMER fugitive and murder accused D’Angelo Culmer told a magistrate he was getting closer to God and staying out of sight before he was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday for escaping from
the Magistrate’s Court Complex last October. Culmer, 36, appeared jovial during his arraignment before Deputy Chief Magistrate Shaka Serville, even as his escape had triggered an eight-month manhunt, internal police investigations and tribunal CULMER - SEE PAGE SEVEN
Gaming Act doesn’t bar Cabinet picks, board says By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
INNOVATION and National Devleopment Minister Sebas Bastian.
THE Gaming Board said on Friday that the Gaming Act does not bar Sebas Bastian and Leslia Miller-Brice from serving in Cabinet, but critics quickly accused the regulator of dodging the question of whether
the ministers or their close relatives still hold direct or indirect interests in licensed gaming houses. The board’s statement, released two weeks after it was originally expected, came amid scrutiny over the appointments of Mr Bastian and Ms Miller-Brice, GAMING - SEE PAGE THREE
VAST SCALE OF DEA DRUG TRAFFICKING PROBE REVEALED By INSIGHT TEAM
JONATHAN GARDINER
THE arrest of Jonathan ‘Player’ Gardiner after the Election Day plane crash has revealed the vast scale of the US Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) ongoing investigations into US-bound narcotics trafficking through The Bahamas, The Tribune can reveal today. Gardiner’s arrest links him
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not only to the November 2024 indictment of former Royal Bahamian Police Force Chief Superintendent Elvis Curtis, and 12 others, but also to a charge sheet in Atlanta, Georgia, where 14 individuals are accused, in total, of 29 offences relating to firearms, money laundering, robbery, drug trafficking and conspiracy charges. SEE INSIGHT PAGE 10 AND 11