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• Daughter’s tribute to murdered police reserve • Bishop: Don’t turn blind eye to criminals
By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net CHRIST Church Cathedral was filled with sorrow yesterday as family, friends, government officials, and members of the Royal Bahamas Police Force honoured Reserve Inspector Lernex Williams, who was fatally shot during an attempted armed robbery last month. Bishop Laish Boyd, Bishop of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, stressed the need for citizens to address wrongdoing instead of turning a blind eye, linking widespread complacency and corruption to the SEE page three
Latayah Poitier speaks during the funeral of her father Reserve Inspector Lernex Williams at Christ Church Cathedral yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Broken glasses and court date as guidance counsellors clash By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net A HEATED lunchtime dispute at Jack Hayward Junior High exploded into violence when a
guidance counsellor allegedly attacked a colleague, leaving her eyeglasses destroyed in the fray. Magistrate LaQuay Laing heard the case in Grand Bahama’s Magistrate’s Court yesterday,
where Sophia Morley, coordinator of the Guidance Department, is accused of assaulting fellow counsellor Shani Bowe and damaging her glasses during a May 12 SEE page five
Diddy dodges sex trafficking but convicted of prostitution charges By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net MUSIC mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, who was reportedly preparing to fly to The Bahamas when US Homeland Security agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami
last year, was found guilty yesterday of transporting women across state lines for prostitution but acquitted of the more serious charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. A jury of eight men and four women delivered SEE page seven
Sean “Diddy” Combs. Photo: AP
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