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Volume: 122 No. 5, November 27, 2024
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CHIEF Petty Officer Darrin Roker (mugshot inset) and Chief Superintendent Elvis Curtis (main photo) were indicted in the US on drug and firearmrelated charges yesterday. Main Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net A SENIOR police officer has alleged that an unnamed high-ranking Bahamian politician authorised the help and involvement of Bahamian law enforcement officials in a scheme to facilitate cocaine shipments from The Bahamas to the United States for $2m, according to a stunning United States federal indictment released yesterday that includes some of the most severe allegations of official corruption since the drug era of the 80s. SEE PAGE THREE
Win tickets ‘We have laWs that could have evicted helped’ prevent recent tragedy family of five for Baha Mar facing hard basketball christmas By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement (FNM) Senator Michaela Barnett-Ellis said timely implementation and enforcement of the Mental Health Act, passed in December 2022, could have prevented two crimes that have outraged the nation: the rape and murders of a 12-year-old girl and 72-yearold woman. Police said the suspect in the murder of Adriel Moxey, 12, is a mental
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net FNM Senator Michaela Barnett-Ellis. health patient, while the man believed to have killed Vernencha Butler was
A FAMILY of five is facing a difficult start to the holiday season, having been evicted and forced to sleep in their car after the father was stabbed earlier this month by a disgruntled former employee.
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