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OLYMPIAN WAS KILLED ‘TRYING TO STOP FIGHT’
EMBASSY WORKER IN HAITI KIDNAPPED By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
AFTER the reported kidnapping of a local staff member of the Bahamas embassy in Haiti, former Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield expressed confidence in the ministry, but stressed that there should be short notice to repatriate Bahamians home if things get to the point where the embassy staff determine they are unsafe. His comments came after the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted in a press release that it received communication from the embassy in Port-au-Prince advising of the apparent kidnapping of a member of its locally employed staff. SEE PAGE FIVE
‘NO WARNING SHOTS’ FOR POLICE SAYS FERNANDER
Police say gunman shot athlete dead outside nightclub By JADE RUSSELL jrussell@tribunemedia.net THE family of Olympian Shavez Hart said in the final moments of the athlete’s life he was trying to be a “peacemaker” in a fight, but unfortunately was killed in the process. Sidney Hart, the victim’s father, revealed that Shavez had just returned to his home in Abaco about a year ago after graduating from Texas A&M University, earning a degree in business sports. According to police, on Saturday a group of men got into
By LETRE SWEETING
a physical altercation in the parking lot of a local nightclub in Mount Hope, North Abaco around 2am, before one of the men left and returned with a firearm. The gunman then reportedly shot the victim in the chest. He was taken to the local clinic where he was pronounced dead. A suspect was later arrested and taken into police custody. The grieving father said when he initially heard that his son was killed, he was shocked and was in denial that it was him. SEE PAGE THREE SHAVEZ HART
MINISTER: END OF AIDS EPIDEMIC IN SIGHT By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville said The Bahamas has reached the moment where “tremendous progress is being made” and that the “end of the AIDS epidemic is in sight.”. He revealed that his ministry could report that 95 percent of persons in The Bahamas living with HIV now know their HIV status.
HEALTH Minister Michael Darville. Photo: Austin Fernander Moreover, 73 percent of persons who know their
status are on treatment while 81 percent of those on treatment are virally suppressed, which he said is the “gold standard” for HIV care. The minister highlighted the joint United Nations programme on HIV/AIDS leads and motivates the world to achieve its shared vision of zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination, and zero AIDS-related deaths. SEE PAGE FOUR
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POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said officers have “the right to do what they have to do” when confronted with armed people who put their lives in danger. He added that police are not “in the business” of letting off “warning shots” in these situations. His comment came three days after a man was shot dead during an encounter with police when he produced a handgun and engaged the officers, officials said. Commissioner Fernander spoke about police-involved shootings, rising crime and the establishment of a new task force while a guest on the Jones and Company SEE PAGE FIVE
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