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FINAL JUSTICE FOR BREANNA Women jailed for 28 years after young mum slain over a cellphone By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE remaining two women convicted of murdering teenage mother Breanna Mackey over three years ago were sentenced to 28 years in prison by a Supreme Court judge yesterday. Zaria Burrows, 24, and Dervinique Edwards, 24, were convicted last February after a 12-member jury found both guilty of the 19-year-old’s death in January 2018. Yesterday, Justice
Cheryl Grant-Thompson sentenced both women to 28 years in prison minus the time they spent on remand awaiting sentencing, which included a year and nine months for Burrows and two years and ten months for Edwards. They are the last of the six women who were convicted and subsequently sentenced with Mackey’s murder that fatal night. The incident was said to have transpired over a cell phone. SEE PAGE THREE
AUGUST TARGET FOR END OF RESTRICTIONS By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
ATTORNEY General Carl Bethel said the Minnis administration wants to remove the COVID-19 emergency restrictions by
August but that doing so will depend on infection rates and the behaviour of residents. The latest emergency proclamation expires in August. SEE PAGE FOUR
ZARIA BURROWS, left, and Dervinique Edwards pictured outside court previously.
LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune Senior Reporter rrolle@tribunemedia.net
THE Court of Appeal’s affirmation of an historic Supreme Court ruling on citizenship rights means there is light at the end of the tunnel for some residents who have long sought to be recognised as citizens of The Bahamas and to benefit from that recognition,
one of five that sent him plaintiffs in on a long and the matter difficult prosaid yesterday. cess to secure Shannon citizenship. Rolle, 22, Born to an said he was unwed Baha12 years old mian father when he began and a Jamaiasking his can mother, SHANNON ROLLE mother why he said he he could not hopes that enjoy certain privileges like soon people like him will no other children, an inquiry longer endure the hurt of
not being able to travel or find a job because they lack a passport. “Some people turn into murderers and thieves when they find out how hard it is to get a passport when in this situation,” he said yesterday. “You can’t even get a McDonald’s job without a passport.” SEE PAGE FIVE
HALF-YEAR REVENUES $127M AHEAD OF PLAN
‘OFFICER’S MURDER WAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME’
CABINET Minister Kwasi Thompson yesterday defended the Government’s forecasts for the upcoming fiscal year by revealing that its revenues exceeded projections by
ABLE Seaman Jevon Seymour denied threatening to shoot Petty Officer Percival Perpall after the marine refused to let him use the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s satellite
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
almost $127m over the past six months. The Minister of State for Finance said there was an improving income trend since the tourism industry and wider economy began their re-opening in earnest in November 2020. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
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phone to call his girlfriend while they were deployed on Ragged Island. Seymour is charged with the shooting death of PO Perpall, along with the attempted murders of Marine Seamen Calvin Hanna and Ellis Rahming. SEE PAGE SEVEN