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JEAN RONY WINS AT PRIVY COUNCIL Case over detention and repatriation back to Supreme Court By KHRISNA RUSSELL Tribune Chief Reporter krussell@tribunemedia.net THE Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has awarded Bahamas-born Jean Rony Jean-Charles the right to have his case returned to the Supreme Court for consideration of an application of constitutional aid over his detention and repatriation from the country more than five years ago. This development is the latest in Mr JeanCharles’ legal battles concerning his expulsion
from the Bahamas to Haiti on November 24, 2017, after being detained from September 17 of that year. Subsequently, Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hilton made a landmark ruling that both his detention and expulsion were unlawful. At the time, Justice Hilton further found that Mr Jean-Charles was deprived of his personal liberty, unlawfully arrested and detained/falsely imprisoned in breach of his rights guaranteed him under the Constitution.
LAWYERS for former FTX CEO Sam BankmanFried have filed a bail application in the Supreme Court, after the disgraced businessman was sent to prison on Tuesday. The Tribune understands the matter will be heard in January. The former billionaire was first denied bail the day after he was arrested by police at the request of the US government. BankmanFried faces several fraud charges in the US, including wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy to commit fraud. SEE PAGE THREE
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
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his vision for the location and commitment to South Abaco. “I have been coming to The Bahamas for 30 years. My family has been coming here for 25 years — 15 years ago I was in Abaco and someone introduced me to this 700-acre property that I just couldn’t get off of my mind.” SEE PAGE FOUR
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Staff Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
BPL ENDS DEAL WITH WARTSILA - BUT FEAR OVER STAFF TRAINING
$800M SOUTH ABACO AGREEMENT SIGNED By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE government signed a heads of agreement yesterday for the Kakona South Abaco Development worth over $800m. The project is expected to provide hundreds of jobs. Steve Harrell, the senior trustee for the Harrell Family Trust, talked about
BID FOR BAIL BY LAWYERS FOR FTX’S FOUNDER
TEARS from mourners at the scene of yesterday’s fatal shooting of a man in the Broadfield Road area. Photo: Austin Fernander
MAN GUNNED DOWN AS HE ARRIVES AT HOME By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net A MAN was shot dead shortly after he arrived at a home in eastern New Providence yesterday. Police said the victim had just pulled up to the
home on Broadfield Road when he was accosted by a gunman who shot him several times. Chief Superintendent Michael Johnson, officer-in-charge of the Criminal Investigation Department, said the victim appeared to be in
his 20s. “Sometime shortly after 3pm the police were called to this area of Broadfield Road, where we received information of a male being shot in this area.”
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BAHAMAS Power & Light (BPL) is ending a deal that supplies around 50 percent of New Providence’s base load electricity generation despite concerns its own staff are not trained to operate the engines involved. Shevonn Cambridge, BPL’s chief executive, confirmed to Tribune Business that Wartsila’s contract to operate, and provide routine maintenance for, some 132MW of generation capacity at the Clifton Pier power station will not be renewed after it expires at year-end. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS
DIANE PHILLIPS: A TRUE STORY OF BROTHERLY LOVE
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