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‘COURTS MUST BE SAFE’ URGES BAHAMAS BAR Association said they were ‘let down by the lack of security’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas Bar Association called for greater security at the courts after Wednesday’s brazen shooting outside the Magistrate’s Court, saying court users were “seriously let down by the lack of security and persistent failure to take reasonable and necessary steps” to protect judicial officers and the
Man shot and killed in Fox Dale subdivision
wider public. “Bar Council continues to call for the urgent improvement of the security afforded to judicial officers, prosecutors, public and private criminal defence attorneys and our members more widely,” Bar president Khalil Parker said in a statement yesterday. “The courtroom and its precincts are our members’ workplace, and we, as are SEE PAGE THREE
GOVT REVIEWING CONDUCT OF REVENUE TASK FORCE By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net OFFICIALS are reviewing how the Revenue Enhancement Task Force conducts itself when checking whether businesses are complying with the law after a video of law enforcement officers entering CBS Bahamas with guns on
Monday went viral. Press Secretary Keishla Adderley said: “Let me hasten to say that obviously, the task force has a job to do in its assessment.” “The security is a part of what is being considered, even though that business may have considered it overbearing. But going SEE PAGE FOUR
ANGUISHED onlookers at the scene of a fatal shooting last night in the Fox Dale area. See PAGE TWO for story. Photo: Nikia Charlton
FBI assisting local police in search WESTERN AIR for missing American woman SUSPENDS FLIGHTS TO CAT ISLAND By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
THE US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has helped local police with its investigation into the
disappearance of American Taylor Casey, 41. Ms Casey was reported missing on June 20 when she failed to attend morning classes at a yoga retreat on Paradise Island. She was last seen in the
Paradise Island area on June 19. National Security Minister Wayne Munroe said criticism of efforts to find the woman is “odd.” SEE PAGE THREE
‘LACK OF TRANSPARENCY ON INDEPENDENCE COSTS’ By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net AS a new round of Independence Day celebrations nears, the cost of last year’s festivities is still unknown. Press secretary Keishla Adderley could not provide information during the Office of the Prime Minister’s press briefing.
FNM chairman Duane Sands.
Brice, former chair of the Bahamas Independence Secretariat, said she did not know and referred The Tribune to Jack Thompson, the permanent secretary to Government House, who could not be reached. Free National Movement chairman Dr Duane Sands criticised the Davis
Earlier this week, Leslia
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By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A MAJOR Bahamian airline has suspended flights to Cat Island’s New Bight airport due to the “hazardous state” of a runway that has previously damaged aircraft and prevented yesterday’s scheduled take-off. Western Air said New Bight’s runway has “deteriorated” to such an extent that it is no longer safe for jet aircraft because multiple pieces of broken asphalt are in danger of being “ingested” by their engines. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS