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Volume: 123 No. 147, Thursday, June 25, 2026
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COP CHARGED 9 YEARS AFTER TRAFFIC DEATH ‘All I want is justice for Phillip’, says mother of victim By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net MORE than nine years after a 21-year-old was struck and killed on Tonique Williams Darling Highway, a police corporal has been charged in the case his parents refused to give up on. Corporal 3847 Samuel Rolle, 41, was granted $8,500 bail yesterday after being charged with killing Phillip Daniel Clare Jr in
the course of dangerous driving, a development that came nearly two years after a Coroner’s Court inquest returned a verdict of gross negligence manslaughter in the case. “All I want is justice for Phillip,” Ms Reckley has always said. Prosecutors allege Rolle, while off duty and driving a 2008 Suzuki Swift at a dangerously fast speed, struck Clare as he tried to cross CHARGED - SEE PAGE THREE PHILLIP CLARE JR
Govt plans visa exemption for foreign Father killed in Andros crash business visitors doing short-term work during annual family reunion By Rashad Rolle and Lynaire Munnings Tribune Reporters
AG WAYNE MUNROE
THE Davis administration is moving to ease immigration rules for select foreign business visitors, with legislation creating a Trusted Traveller Programme that would
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
allow some people to enter The Bahamas for up to three days without a work visa or short-term work visa. Attorney General Wayne Munroe outlined the proposal yesterday in remarks distributed with his Senate PERMITS - SEE PAGE FOUR
BURDETTE CARTWRIGHT
A FAMILY’S annual trip to Andros ended in tragedy on Tuesday when Burdette Cartwright, the relative who helped organise the reunion for decades, was killed in a traffic collision
BPL BLAMES PEAK DEMAND FOR NEW PROVIDENCE CUTS By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net WIDESPREAD power outages swept across New Providence on Tuesday night after Bahamas Power and Light blamed overloaded circuits caused by “peak system demand.” BPL said customers
as his 16-year-old son tried to save him with CPR. Cartwright, 64, died after the vehicle he was driving collided with a truck at the intersection of Staniard Creek and Queen’s Highway shortly after 1pm. FATALITY - SEE PAGE THREE
in Bamboo Boulevard, Pinewood, Churchill Subdivision, Windsor Field, Harbourside West and the Girl Guides area, including the newly added Goldwynn Condominiums complex, lost power between 9pm Tuesday and the early morning hours of yesterday.
Bahamian teen named Beyoncé to sing at US Embassy event
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