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Volume: 120 No.114, June 16, 2023
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‘WE WERE BEATEN IN POLICE STATION’ Men allege officers beat them with a hose, bat and PVC pipe while in custody By LETRE SWEETING Tribune Staff Reporter lsweeting@tribunemedia.net FIVE men who brawled with police in a bar in Bimini over the weekend said officers beat them “black and blue” with a garden hose, a baseball bat and a PVC pipe after taking them into custody. One of the men, Leo Sands, said he did not know the men were police officers
ftX Bahamas liquidators to fight doJ on $143m assets
Smiles and tears as Watson bows out
when he fought them in the bar. He said the men were not wearing police insignia or uniforms. He shared photos with The Tribune showing extensive bruises on the leg and bottom of an allegedly beaten man. He said he wants the three officers allegedly involved in the incident thrown off the police force.
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net FTX’s Bahamian liquidators say it is increasingly likely they will have to battle the US Justice Department in the courts to recover $143m given that prospects of an amicable resolution have become “more remote”. FTX Bahamian liquidators have received legal advice concluding there are “grounds to challenge” the federal government’s seizure of these funds from the FTX Bahamian subsidiary they oversee.
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‘We kneW’ Prison Would fail accreditation Bid By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net DOAN Cleare, the acting commissioner of corrections, admitted yesterday that the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services failed an accreditation inspection earlier this year, saying officials knew the prison would “fail miserably”. He said the most
significant remaining problem is the inadequate toilet system, noting the prison’s slopping practices, a defining characteristic of the institution in Bahamian culture, must be eradicated to be accredited. He said it would cost about $1.8m to end slopping in the facility, which will involve uprooting floors and cutting walls.
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AN emotional Clint Watson said leaving Office of the Prime Minister’s press secretary role to become the new general manager of the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas was not an easy decision. He insisted he was not forced out. See full story PAGE 4. Photo: Moise Amisial
...as charities ‘liaising’ over cryPto firm’s donations By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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Bahamian liquida44 Percent of students need ‘urgent intervention’ torsFTX’s are “liaising” with local By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A LEARNING loss survey found that 44 per cent of public school students require urgent learning intervention, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said yesterday. The ministry surveyed public school students while partnering with Renaissance Learning Inc,
MINISTER of Education Glenys Hanna Martin a company providing the government $1m in consultancy services for diagnostic
assessment and accelerated learning recovery. Mrs Hanna Martin said there were two rounds of testing, the second to capture the impact of intervention efforts. She said 33,420 students were given a reading test in round one, and 29,960 were given the reading test in round two. She said 29,926 students sat the math test in round
charities and non-profits over the collective $5.4m in donations they received from the collapsed crypto exchange to determine if they still hold any of these funds. In their May 24, 2023, report to the Supreme Court revealed that FTX Digital Markets, the Bahamian subsidiary, made some 95 donations during the almost two years immediately prior to the group’s November 2022 implosion.
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