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NEWBORN BABY SAVED FROM TRUNK OF CAR Teen leads police to MITCHELL WARNS US ENTRY RULES BECOMING ‘UNFORGIVING’ vehicle where infant was found in a box By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
AN 18-year-old who thought he heard a baby crying as he stepped outside his home triggered the rescue of a five-day-old newborn found inside the locked trunk of a vehicle in Pinewood Gardens, a discovery that led to the arrest of the child’s parents on charges related to child cruelty. Shavallo Pinder was leaving his home on his way to meet his cousins when the sound caught his attention near Sequoia Street.
As he moved closer to a parked vehicle, he began searching the area, trying to pinpoint where the crying was coming from. “I start to look by the bush, then I start to look by the window. I gone closer to the car. I was looking inside the car,” he told ZNS. Mr Pinder said the sound grew louder as he approached the vehicle, prompting him to place his ear near the trunk. RESCUE - SEE PAGE THREE
CROOKED ISLAND ELECTRICITY OUTAGE ENDS AFTER THREE DAYS By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net AN ISLAND-WIDE power outage that left Crooked Island in darkness for three days finally ended last night when electricity was restored shortly after 9pm. Bahamas Power and
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell warned that entering the United States is becoming increasingly difficult for Bahamians, saying immigration rules are growing “stricter” and more “unforgiving” with each passing week. Mr Mitchell said the question of continued access to the United States is a recurring issue in his discussions with US officials, including the new US Ambassador, Herschel Walker, and the previous Chargé d’Affaires - now Deputy Chief of Mission – Kimberley Furnish. He pointed to the deep ties between the two countries, noting that
Light (BPL) confirmed that supply was successfully reconnected last night, bringing relief to residents and visitors who had been struggling without power since late Saturday due to a generator failure. Residents of Crooked Island expressed mounting OUTAGE - SEE PAGE FIVE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS MINISTER FRED MITCHELL
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Terminally ill Roker asks to return home By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A FORMER Royal Bahamas Defence Force officer facing up to 20 years in prison for his role in a major cocaine trafficking conspiracy has asked a US judge to show leniency with sentencing and allow him to return to The Bahamas under supervised release, revealing he he has advanced prostate cancer that has returned aggressively. Darrin Roker, 57, a former chief petty officer, made the request before US District Judge Gregory Woods just weeks ahead of his January 21 sentencing for conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. He pleaded guilty in October, becoming the first of 13 defendants to do so in a sweeping case alleging
that traffickers moved tonnes of cocaine through The Bahamas into the US between 2021 and 2024. A new filing said that Roker’s PSA levels - the measurement for monitoring prostate cancer - has increased four times. Roker is “terminally ill”, the filing states. His attorney, Martin L Roth, said that the appropriate sentence would be supervised release no further prison time - because it would be “costly and burdensome” for the Bureau of Prisons to treat him. The filing states: “The progress of his disease will leave him in need of the care his wife and family can provide. He will suffer extreme pain, needing medication. He will likely be bedridden. He will be impacted psychologically. He has no family in the United States to visit him in
prison.” In a letter to the court, Mr Roth also asked that family ties and early cooperation with authorities be
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taken into consideration. He asked that the time his client has already spent in CANCER - SEE PAGE FIVE
DARRIN ROKER