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Volume: 122 No. 26, December 30, 2024
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‘MY ORDEAL IN DEADLY ATTACK’ Fox Hill barber tells of trauma at double killing By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net A BARBER grazed by a bullet during a mass shooting at his Fox Hill shop is grappling with trauma as he reopens his business and considers leaving the area — or the profession — altogether. Jordeny Joseph, owner of
Gas explosion injures nine
New Horizon Hair Cutz on Bernard Road, described the December 21 shooting as a life-altering tragedy. Two men were killed, and three others — including a seven-year-old boy — were injured when gunmen opened fire in his shop. The episode highlights the wide-ranging impact of SEE PAGE THREE
New Year’s JuNkaNoo tickets still available By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net TICKETS for the New Year’s Junkanoo Parade remain available, as excitement builds following the Boxing Day Parade. Dwayne Davis, chief information officer for Cable Bahamas Group of Companies, said last
Wednesday’s parade saw nearly 100 percent of tickets sold, with only a few seats left. For the New Year’s Parade this Wednesday, Mr Davis noted that tickets typically sell slower than the Boxing Day event. In 2022, the Junkanoo parades returned after SEE PAGE THREE
SCENE of explosion that happened on Baillou Hill Road south involving Discount Propane at a home across from Commonwealth Bank yesterday. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr By JADE RUSSELL children and three adults was reduced to rubble. Tribune Staff Reporter who were left in critical When The Tribune visited jrussell@tribunemedia.net condition. the scene, debris — includThe explosion occurred ing glass, shingles, and A POWERFUL gas during a gas refill, sparking broken windows — littered explosion tore through a a loud noise that was heard the area. home in Blue Hill South miles away. The light brown, yesterday, injuring eight The home, located across people, including three from Commonwealth Bank, SEE PAGE TWO
Canadian: Police beat me with bat By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS AND PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporters A CANADIAN said his visit to The Bahamas with his girlfriend turned into a nightmare when police allegedly abused him –– beating him with a bat while he was handcuffed. Tanner Cartwright, 23, and his girlfriend Amelia Niederhauser, 27, visited Mr Cartwright’s family early this month.
Mr Cartwright claims officers subjected him to a brutal assault while in police custody. He claimed an inspector took him to a private room, ordered other officers to leave, and viciously beat him with a bat while he was handcuffed. He said the inspector placed a phonebook on his body to minimise visible bruising, all the while SEE PAGE FOUR
THE SWOLLEN hand of Tanner Cartwright that was allegedly caused by police in Abaco.
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MiNister saYs adriel suspect coNfessed to other Murders By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said yesterday that a man has confessed to killing schoolgirl Adriel Moxey, 12, and a number of other people in Grand Bahama. He could not confirm reports that the person, a 38-year-old man, confessed to killing five people overall, but said he was informed the man claimed he killed others and covered it up with arson. “They took him over to Grand Bahama to follow up SEE PAGE FIVE