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Volume: 122 No. 206, September 18, 2025
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AZARIO OFFICERS SEEK JUDGE TRIAL Three police accused of killing Major waive their right to a jury By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net THREE police officers accused of manslaughter in the 2021 shooting death of 31-year-old Azario Major are seeking a judge-alone trial under legislation passed this year allowing defendants to waive their right to a jury. At a Supreme Court hearing yesterday, attorney
Keevon Maynard, who represents Sergeant 2825 Antonio Sweeting, Sergeant 3039 Jamal Johnson, and Sergeant 3726 Deangelo Rolle, indicated he intends to file an application for a bench trial. If approved, it would be one of the first major cases to test the reform. The move comes more than two years after a JUDGE - SEE PAGE SEVEN
HAITIAN ASSOCIATION HEAD AGREES WITH DAVIS ON VISAS By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE president of the United Haitian and Bahamian Association has backed Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis’ decision to review visa policies for Haitian nationals, saying many in the community
agree the system needs revision to ensure measures are applied fairly and effectively. Michael Telairin told The Tribune yesterday: “I think with the migration issue with the visa, I think the prime minister is in his rightful position to revisit, RESTRICTION - SEE PAGE 13
A SCULPTURE titled “Chickcharney Riding a Wild Boar” by Antonius Roberts at the newly opened US Embassy yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
US Embassy - jet ski crackdown needed for visitor safety By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net UNITED States Chargé d’Affaires Kimberly Furnish said
the death of a US serviceman in a jet ski accident in New Providence earlier this month was needless and should never have happened, stressing that arrest and prosecution of unsafe operators is essential to
protecting American visitors. Second Lieutenant Robert Rosa, 28, of the Alaska Air National Guard, was killed when a boat JET SKI - SEE PAGE FOUR
Mother of traffic victim ‘mixed emotions’ for workers told him to ‘go home’ on likely sale of morton salt By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
HOURS before she learned her son was dead in an apparent traffic accident, Hazel White urged him to “go home.” Edwin “EJ” Mark, 23, was later found unresponsive near a utility pole in Ramsey, Exuma, on FATALITY - SEE PAGE SEVEN
EDWIN “EJ” MARK
MORTON Salt’s 100plus Bahamian employees were yesterday said to have “mixed emotions” over the operation’s potential purchase by a Grand Bahama-based energy and natural resources group. Jennifer Brown, general secretary of BIMAWU,
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which represents the Inagua-based company’s line staff, told Tribune Business workers were unlikely to be “shocked” by the proposed sale to Lusca Group and its subsidiary, Grand Bahama Salt Company, given the frequency with which ownership has changed in the past two decades. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS