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STANIA AND DIAMOND SIDE BY SIDE FOREVER
Volunteers help dad build mausoleums for tragic crash victims By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net BEST friends Stania Webb and Diamond Stubbs will be interred side by side in a Cat Island cemetery, where Stania’s father Stanley is building mausoleums for each girl with the aid of his two elder sons and a small army of locals who have volunteered their help. Mr Webb said he wanted a place where he could sit with the girls – Diamond
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was his goddaughter – leave a rose and ‘come say hello.’ He said he could not bear the thought of the young women, who grew up as best friends and died together in last month’s deadly Shirley Street crash, being buried underground in graves that might become difficult to locate over time. “I wanted just to put something there in the cemetery where I could come back,” he said. “You
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Staniel Webb at the site of the mausoleums he is building for daughter Stania and goddaughter Diamond Stubbs on Cat Island.
DAD DID NOT GIVE SON PERMISSION TO USE BOAT By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
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A 12-YEAR-OLD Abaco boy accused of causing the negligent death of 15-yearold student Kyron Curry took his father’s boat without permission, Director of Public Prosecutions Cordell Frazer said, explaining why
prosecutors did not charge the child’s parents. Ms Frazer said the father was initially detained after the fatal fishing trip, but prosecutors could only act on the evidence contained in the police file. “My understanding of what the file revealed, the young man moved the boat without his father's
permission,” she said. Residents had said the boy’s parents had been repeatedly warned about letting the child operate the vessel. “We don't shy away from parents who need to be held responsible, but according to the file, it did not reveal
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WOMAN WINS $140,000 FOR UNLAWFUL 199 DAY DETENTION By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net A JAMAICAN woman who was held in immigration detention for 199 days despite being fined by a court for overstaying has been awarded nearly $140,000 after the Supreme Court found she was unlawfully imprisoned
and subjected to degrading treatment. Acting Assistant Registrar Adrienne Bellot awarded Carolla Ashman Demeritte $89,400 in compensatory damages for false imprisonment and $50,000 in exemplary damages, bringing the total award to $139,400. COURT - SEE PAGE FOUR
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