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Volume: 120 No.146, August 2, 2023
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‘WE’LL SEND TROOPS TO HAITI’ 150 personnel will be sent - but only IF the UN passes resolution By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas is committed to sending 150 officers to Haiti as part of a multinational force to curb the violence in that country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press statement yesterday. The commitment marks an evolution in the Davis
administration’s public stance on the matter. Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis previously said leaders hoped “boots on the ground will not be necessary” in Haiti. Privately, officials acknowledged yesterday that a multi-national force in Haiti is far from certain and faces a significant SEE PAGE THREE
RBDF Officers standing at attention at an Independence celebration Tatoo event in July
OFFICERS QUESTIONED WHETHER EVANS WAS IDENTIFIED AS A SUSPECT BEFORE SHOOTING
Challenge on religious use of cannabis fails By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net A SUPREME Court judge rejected a challenge from the Rastafarian community on the constitutionality of laws prohibiting the possession and use of marijuana, even for religious purposes. “I find nothing antidemocratic or anti-rights in Parliament’s decision not
to make allowances for the religious or recreational use of marijuana,” Justice Lorein Klein wrote in his long-awaited judgement. “There are many democratic states (in fact, the vast majority of them) that still maintain general prohibitions on the possession and use of marijuana. Further, even those states which have reduced restrictions SEE PAGE FO UR
By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net
DEANGELO EVANS
AN attorney representing Deangelo Evans’ estate questioned police assertions that Evans was the suspect in an armed robbery that preceded his death in 2018. Romona Farquharson crossexamined PC Dwayne Miller after he gave testimony in the Coroners Court yesterday as the inquest into Evans’ death continued. PC Miller
testified that he and PC Deneko Major responded to a report of an armed robbery in Masons Addition shortly after 9.50am on May 27, 2018. The two officers went to the scene of Evans’ shooting on Sandy Lane after hearing gunshots, with PC Miller claiming it took the officers 30 seconds to arrive. PC Miller said he saw a large hostile crowd of 90 to 100 people surrounding Corporal Wright and Inspector SEE PAGE FIVE
‘HigH volume of illegal’ fisHing in abaco By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE HOPE Town District Council said it is appalled by a recent purported “high volume of illegal activities” related to violations of fishing laws and regulations. Jeremy Sweeting, the chief councillor, said many of the culprits of recent illegal activities are tourists,
but that some Bahamians also engage in poaching. The press release came after Karen Huff-Lowe, an American married to an Abaco resident, expressed frustration in a Facebook post about a Florida-registered vessel that appeared to be crawfishing near one of her family’s crawfish traps on Monday, the day before the crawfish season opened. Director of Marine
Resources Gregory Bethel said officials are investigating her complaint. “When we pulled up to the vessel to inquire what they were doing, the captain announced they had a home on Tilloo and were just checking traps,“ Mrs Huff-Lowe said in her social media post. “Most of my husband’s habitats that were full of
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