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‘We need answers on missing Taylor’ Family say they don’t feel ‘as confident’ as police in their efforts By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net MORE than a week after American Taylor Casey went missing, her relatives said they need more answers surrounding her disappearance and don’t feel “as confident” in police’s investigations. Ms Casey was reported
missing on June 20 when she failed to attend morning classes at a yoga retreat on Paradise Island. Police said they have used drones, retrieved Ms Casey’s phone and interviewed people from the retreat to help find her, but their efforts have been unsuccessful. SEE page five
Bahamian Students Hope to avoid Hurricane Beryl By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net AS Hurricane Beryl barrels towards the Caribbean, some Bahamian students in Jamaica are anxious and making plans to return home. Beryl, the first named hurricane of the 2024 Atlantic season, strengthened
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into a dangerous Category Four storm yesterday while nearing the southeast Caribbean, becoming the earliest storm with Category 4 strength on record. It is expected to pass just south of Barbados early today. The system led officials to postpone the 47th Regular SEE page four
Governor General Cynthia “Mother” Pratt offers a toast during a reception in celebration of US Independence Day and the arrival of US Chargé d’Affaires Kimberly Furnish (left) at the new US Embassy compound on Friday. See PAGE THREE for story. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Bahamian swim coach takes part in Woman and carrying the Olympic torch in France man killed in separate incidents By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
BEFORE the Olympics begin later this month, 11,000 people will have carried the Olympic Torch in a
relay. One of them is a Bahamian. Michael Guy, 43, got his chance on Friday in the northeast French city of Saint Dizier. Photographers and people of all ages,
many waving flags of different countries, crowded the relay route to capture the moment. The Olympic Torch Relay is a longstanding SEE page Four
He said on Friday that one of the main reasons he is discontinuing his action is that he is no longer a member of the party and has nothing to gain from pursuing the matter further. He told The Tribune on Friday: “It was fruitless, in my view. It was very taxing on me, very stressful on me and I just came to the
THE country’s murder count rose by two after a woman who was shot by her boyfriend last week died in hospital on Saturday, and a man was found stabbed to death hours later. Police in New Providence were alerted to the stabbing incident after 10pm Saturday. Police said a woman saw a man staggering north on Blue Hill Road after arriving at a home in the area. Shortly afterwards, he
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Johnson drops legal action against the FNM By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FORMER Free National Movement vice-chairman Richard Johnson has discontinued his legal action against the FNM, which he said was expensive for him to pursue. He had sued the party’s leadership after its council barred him from
Former FNM vice-chairman Richard Johnson.
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
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