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Volume: 119 No.194, September 1, 2022
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SUSPECT LOOSE AFTER PRISON BREAK By LETRE SWEETING
A JAMAICAN man who was being held on remand at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services on charges of attempted murder, armed robbery and attempted armed robbery escaped from the Fox Hill facility yesterday.
Police said the last known address of 30-year-old Winston Walker, pictured, was 34 Rupert Dean Lane, Big Pond, in New Providence. When contacted yesterday, National Security Minister Wayne Munroe advised the public not to assist with his escape. SEE PAGE FIVE
HUSBAND IS ACCUSED OVER COULD PROJECT BE SOLUTION CAR CRASH THAT KILLED WIFE TO DOWNTOWN PARKING? By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Court Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A HUSBAND was charged with vehicular manslaughter yesterday in connection with a car crash that killed his wife and injured his children. He was one of two men who were granted bail yesterday after being arraigned on two separate charges of vehicular manslaughter.
The other man was charged with causing the death of a pedestrian as a result of reckless driving. Jonathon Sands, 33, faced Senior Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on four charges: vehicular manslaughter, failure to notify change in ownership, driving in a vehicle not covered under third-party risk insurance and driving an unlicensed vehicle. Around 10.25pm on
April 30, while driving west on West Bay Street, Sands is alleged to have lost control of his 2007 white Nissan Bluebird and crashed into a tree in the median. His 26-year-old wife Lashonna Sands, of Bellot Avenue, was in the front passenger seat and died at the scene. Sands was not required to enter a plea in court. He was granted $11,000 bail. Magistrate Vogt-Evans SEE PAGE FOUR
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A BISX-listed fund yesterday declared its continuing interest in solving downtown Nassau’s parking woes by redeveloping the Registrar General’s former home as it renews ambitions to expand to a $100m property portfolio. Michael Anderson told Tribune Business that the Bahamas Property Fund
remains keen on delivering “a massive improvement” by converting the former Rodney Bain Building, at the junction of Shirley and Parliament Streets, into a multi-storey parking garage with condominium units “on top”. The RF Bank & Trust president said that its recent “recapitalisation” - which saw bank debt replaced with $8m worth of preference shares - will
revive both its acquisition hunger and the resumption of investor dividend payments. With a dividend declaration set to be made “in the next few weeks”, and the balance sheet freed to take on new debt to finance property acquisitions, Mr Anderson told this newspaper that the fund is seeking to diversify both in property type and location. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
WILL DRAWN UP BY FORMER DEPUTY PM NOT FRAUDULENT By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A SUPREME Court judge has rejected allegations that a will drawn up by an ex-deputy prime minister and his law firm on their client’s behalf was “fraudulent”. Justice Ian Winder, in one of the last verdicts he delivered before becoming chief justice, upheld “the validity of a will” prepared by Desmond Bannister
FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Desmond Bannister. and Commonwealth Law Advocates for Alicia Maria Stockdale despite the claims and assertions made
by her two sons. Barrington Smith, an accountant, and Leon Smith, an attorney by profession, blocked the grant of probate for their mother’s estate after she died in Florida on August 22, 2015. One of their sisters, Betty Smith-Forbes, had initially obtained the probate grant on December 15 that same year but this was recalled due to her brothers’ challenge to largely being cut out of their mother’s will. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
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