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Volume: 123 No. 22, Monday, December 22, 2025
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‘POLICE BRUTALITY KILLED MY SON’ ‘You can’t trust the police,’ says mother of mechanic who died while in custody By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE mother of Lasheiko Pratt is demanding an independent autopsy after her son died during a struggle with four police officers inside the Fox Hill Police Station, saying she does not accept official claims about what happened and believes police brutality may be responsible. Cheryl Larrimore spoke with The Tribune after she and her daughter identified her son’s body at the LASHEIKO PRATT
RAHMING THREATENS LEGAL ACTION AGAINST COUSIN OVER ‘ATTACKS’ By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
THE Office of the Prime Minister’s Director of Communications, Latre Rahming, has threatened
BRUTALITY - SEE PAGE FIVE
Another arrest made in barge looting probe
legal action following what he described as sustained personal attacks, prompting a public and highly charged response from his cousin, social media COUSIN - SEE PAGE FOUR
morgue. She said she saw no visible bruises or marks and described her family as confused, grieving and distrustful of the police account. “Everybody is very upset and very sad about the situation, because, knowing the nature of him, he was a very nice, quiet person,” Ms Larrimore said. “It don't add up. It look fishy and suspicious. He gone in there, healthy, good as ever, and then come out in a body bag. That cannot be.
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS IN OPM LATRAE RAHMING
Attorney calls arrest of Andros man ‘unlawful’ By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net AN ANDROS man detained for more than 24 hours over a missing firearm allegedly belonging to a sitting Member of Parliament was arrested unlawfully, his attorney said yesterday, signalling possible legal action
against the police. Elsworth Johnson, who represents Zakari Campbell, said the circumstances of his client’s detention were “irregular and unlawful” and would be raised directly with the Commissioner of Police in an effort to resolve the matter UNLAWFUL - SEE PAGE FOUR
ANOTHER arrest has been made in the fallout from the mass looting of a container barge that ran aground off Abaco last month, as police continue to track goods believed to have been taken from the stranded vessel. Chief Superintendent
Michael Thurston said an adult male from Blackwood, Abaco, was arrested on December 12 after officers recovered six tyres suspected to have been stolen from the Brooklyn Bridge barge. The arrest comes as part of an investigation sparked by the grounding of the barge after its tow line LOOTERS - SEE PAGE THREE
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