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Volume: 122 No. 6, November 28, 2024
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MUNROE DENIES ROLE IN COCAINE SCHEME s Munroe: I have not received $2 million s ‘I did not authorise police to facilitate wrongdoing’ s Davis vows decisive action against ‘those who betrayed trust’ s PM will table bill to strengthen oversight of law enforcement s Pintard calls Davis’ ‘The tree will be shaken speech ‘empty rhetoric’ until every bad apple falls’ with no real actions By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis vowed decisive action against those “who have betrayed the trust of the Bahamian people” and pledged to soon introduce new legislation to strengthen oversight
of law enforcement agencies after a US federal indictment highlighted explosive corruption allegations involving law enforcement officers and government officials. His remarks in the House of Assembly followed the arrest of Chief
OPPOSITION leader Michael Pintard criticised Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis’ response to the US arrest of high-ranking police and Defence Force officers. See PAGE SEVEN for story.
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By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said he is not the “highranking politician” who was allegedly expected to authorise Bahamian law enforcement officials to facilitate a cocaine trafficking scheme to the United States for $2 million. “I have not received $2m,” he told The Tribune. “I have not been asked to accommodate any wrongdoing. I have not offered to accommodate any wrongdoing, and I state that categorically.” A federal indictment by the United SEE PAGE FOUR
MAN CHARGED WITH RAPE AND Four Bahamians arrested in Canadian gang bust MURDER OF GRANDMOTHER By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A 25-YEAR-OLD man charged yesterday with last week’s murder and rape of a 72-year-old grandmother allegedly received death threats while in police custody, prompting a magistrate to order that he be isolated while on remand at the Bahamas Department
of Corrections. Javon Forbes was arraigned before Assistant Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans, accused of breaking into Vernencha Butler’s Ross Corner home on the night of November 23, attacking her after she returned from celebrating her sister’s 75th birthday. Forbes allegedly raped SEE PAGE THREE
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FOUR people from The Bahamas are among two dozen people Canadian police have arrested as part of an investigation into a street gang with allegedly close ties to a Bahamasbased gang. Eric Hilton Stuart, 35, Robert Mader, 41, Devon
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Deon Laing, 29, and Rashad Cooper, 36, are among the arrested, according to Canadian news organisations. Three of the men were already wanted for offences in The Bahamas: Laing is wanted for attempted murder, Cooper for breaching bail, and Stuart for possession of dangerous SEE PAGE 13