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Volume: 123 No. 4, Wednesday, November 26, 2025
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WIFE THREW ACID IN FACE OF ‘LOVE RIVAL’ Court of Appeal rejects woman’s appeal for leniency on sentence By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net A GRAND Bahama woman who launched a devastating acid attack that left a suspected love rival blind and permanently disfigured has failed in her bid to win a lighter sentence after the Court of Appeal refused to reduce the seven-year maximum imposed by a magistrate who called the case one of the “worst of the worst.” Stephanie Braynen was left in agony, with flesh dripping off her face, after Pandora McKenzie
threw a metal cup of a corrosive substance into her face after her husband had taken Ms Braynen to their home to help convince his wife they were not having an affair. Ms Braynen described the pain as feeling as if “her entire face was on fire,” with the liquid searing down her throat, nose, chest, arms, ears, and hair. Her sight was immediately impaired. McKenzie’s husband Edward Deveaux testified that when he entered the room where what was described as the ATTACK - SEE PAGE FIVE
BODIES OF ABACO MEN KILLED IN HAITI IN JULY RETURNED HOME By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net THE families of two Bahamian men killed in a drug-related operation in Haiti in July will finally get to bury their loved ones
after their bodies arrived in The Bahamas this week, bringing some closure to what relatives described as a frustrating and depressing ordeal that cost them thousands.
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American granted $60,000 bail over Abaco crash that killed teacher and nephew By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net AN American man was granted $60,000 cash bail yesterday after being accused of causing a fatal
traffic accident in Abaco last Friday that claimed the lives of a teacher and her nephew. Prosecutors allege that John Griffith Porth, 63, of St Matthew’s, South Carolina, was driving dangerously on SC Bootle Highway when he
crashed his Ford Excursion head-on into Monique Williams’s vehicle as she drove her 13-year-old nephew, Terrance Williams, to school at around 8am on November 21. CHARGED - SEE PAGE THREE
BODIES - SEE PAGE THREE
Former AG: By-Election a boost for Pintard, ‘knock in the head’ for PLP By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Digital Editor aturnquest@tribunemedia.net FORMER Attorney General Sean McWeeney, KC, believes the Golden Isles by-election delivered a political boost for Free National Movement leader Michael Pintard while dealing a “knock in the head” for the Progressive Liberal
Party, despite its victory at the polls and the popular belief that the results prove the PLP has the momentum heading into the next general election. PLP candidate Darron Pickstock secured 1,873 votes to FNM candidate Brian Brown’s 1,636, with the Coalition of Independents finishing a distant third at 348 votes and
independent candidate Karen Butler receiving 16. Although the PLP won the overall count, the FNM captured more polling divisions, underscoring the constituency’s competitiveness. Against that backdrop, Mr McWeeney said Mr Pintard emerged from the by-election in a stronger position. RESULTS - SEE PAGE FOUR
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