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‘CLEARE MUST RESIGN’ OVER SEXIST REMARKS Women United president slams prison chief’s words as ‘demeaning’ and ‘wholly unbefitting’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Myles LaRoda publicly rebuked Correctional Services Commissioner Doan Cleare yesterday and promised further scrutiny of his department after the commissioner said female recruits could be fired more quickly than men, triggering calls for his resignation and an investigation into whether the prison system applies different standards based on gender. Mr LaRoda, in a rare public rebuke of a senior
public official, told the House of Assembly he summoned Commissioner Cleare to his office after learning of remarks concerning the “discriminatory treatment” of male and female recruits. He said Commissioner Cleare had written apologising to the permanent secretary and the minister. The comments provoked widespread anger and condemnation, with Women United president and former senator Lisa Bostwick-Dean calling on Commissioner Clear to resign. RESIGN - SEE PAGE THREE
BDOC Commissioner Doan Cleare (left) and Women United president Lisa Bostwick-Dean (right)
House Speaker calls US drug claims Florida court sentences Abaco man ‘frivolous’ and ‘malicious’ gossip to five years for drug smuggling By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
Speaker of the House Patricia Deveaux.
HOUSE Speaker Patricia Deveaux yesterday blocked efforts to table documents tied to explosive US court allegations about an unnamed Bahamian
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politician, dismissing the claims as “frivolous” and “malicious” gossip as the opposition accused the government of staying silent on a matter that could damage Parliament’s reputation. The interaction erupted GOSSIP - SEE PAGE THREE
IVAN CURRY
AN Abaco man who admitted to helping smuggle cocaine and undocumented migrants from The Bahamas toward Florida was sentenced to five years and four months in a US prison yesterday after accepting a
plea deal in a case involving 168 kilograms of cocaine and 31 Chinese nationals. Ivan Curry, 52, was also ordered to serve five years of supervised release after completing his prison term. Among those who DRUGS - SEE PAGE FOUR
Officers in Azario Major killing will be tried in judge-alone trial By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net THREE police officers accused of killing Azario Major will be tried by a judge alone in September, more than three years after a Coroner’s Court jury found that the 31-year-old was unlawfully killed. Justice Guillimina Archer-Minns
told Sergeant 2825 Antonio Sweeting, Sergeant 3039 Jamal Johnson and Sergeant 3726 Deangelo Rolle yesterday that their manslaughter trial will begin on September 14. The trial had been scheduled to begin last week. Major was shot and killed in his car outside a bar on Fire Trail Road on December 26, 2021. AZARIO - SEE PAGE FIVE
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