OBITUARIES THURSDAY
The Tribune L AT E S T
HIGH 92ºF LOW 82ºF
CARS! CARS!
Volume: 123 No. 157, Thursday, July 9, 2026
N E W S
CLASSIFIEDS TRADER
O N
T R I B U N E 2 4 2 . C O M
Biggest And Best!
THE PEOPLE’S PAPER: PRICE–$1
BIMINI BLAZE LEAVES TWENTY HOMELESS Residents express anger over lack of island’s firefighting resources By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
A FIRE at Bailey Town in Bimini destroys at least five structures leaving 20 residents without a home yesterday.
RESIDENTS formed a bucket brigade from the shoreline and scrambled onto rooftops to fight a massive Bailey Town fire on Wednesday morning, as flames tore through homes in Bimini and reignited long-running anger over the island’s firefighting resources. Police said officers were
alerted shortly after 6am to the blaze on Kings Highway, where they found a two-storey concrete-and-wood structure housing four residences fully engulfed in flames. The Ministry of Social Services later said at least five homes were affected, while Island Administrator Evak Arthur estimated that close to 20 people were impacted. BLAZE - SEE PAGE FOUR
Father says Diamond would want ‘I JUST WEPT, I REALLY FELT THE PAIN’, SAYS MOTHER him to forgive car crash driver By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
Diamond Stubbs with father Damian.
DAMIAN Stubbs, the father of 17-year-old Diamond Stubbs, says he has forgiven the 19-year-old driver charged over the Shirley Street crash that killed his daughter and four
other teenagers, softening the anger he felt in the raw days after the country’s deadliest traffic accident in at least two decades. Mr Stubbs previously demanded justice for Diamond and the other teenage girls who died after a Mazda sedan carrying eight people slammed into a tree at the
intersection of Shirley Street and Church Street on June 28. But as Marcus Thacker Jr, the 19-year-old driver, now faces five counts of vehicular manslaughter, Mr Stubbs said his grief has shifted. “I was really angry, but as FORGIVE - SEE PAGE THREE
RIGHTS GROUP DEMANDS PROBE INTO VIRAL POLICE SLAP VIDEO By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net HUMAN Rights Bahamas has called for a prompt, independent and transparent investigation into a viral video that showed a Royal Bahamas Police Force officer slapping a man during a crowded public sporting event. The group’s demand came
after Deputy Commissioner of Police Anthony Rolle said the Complaints and Corruption Unit is investigating the matter. He said the RBPF does not condone the conduct shown in the video. The footage, which had spread across social media, shows two officers standing with a man near the bleachers PROBE - SEE PAGE SEVEN
Nassau & Bahama Islands’ Leading Newspaper
Philip McCarron, Philip D’Caprio and D’Angelo Christie three brothers who died ina traffic accident in 2024. By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net LOVAN Miller-Christie, the Andros mother who lost all three of her sons in a car crash less than two years ago, said she wept for the five teenagers killed in last month’s Shirley Street crash, saying the tragedy tore open the grief she still carries. GRIEF - SEE PAGE THREE