A 19-year-old youth is dead after he was stabbed during fight at a nightclub in Andros early on Sunday morning.
According to police reports, shortly after 2am the teen was involved in an altercation with another man at a club that resulted in the victim being stabbed multiple times about the body.
He was rushed to the local clinic where he later died of his injuries. Police arrested the male suspect moments after the incident.
Police have not officially identified the victim but The Tribune understands he is Jamal Levy.
The country's murder count now stands 41 for the year, according to The Tribune's records.
Mr. Levy's killing came less than a week after Minister of State for National Security Keith Bell told The Tribune that the Progressive Liberal Party’s (PLP) crime plan has not failed, despite country’s problems with homicides and violence.
Nearly 500 homicides have been recorded thus far under this Christie administration, according to The Tribune’s records.
When asked by The Tribune last Monday if he thought the government’s crime plan has failed, Mr. Bell said he did not.
“It has not failed,” he said outside the Senate. “With any strategy, you have to make adjustments.”
The senator added that Prime Minister Perry Christie and National Security Minister Dr. Bernard Nottage are currently engaged in discussions with Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade to make “some changes” to the government’s crime fighting initiatives.
Mr. Bell also suggested the “formal establishment” of a national service to combat crime. “We have to do it,” he said last week. “We are at that stage. We have to do it. And for me, we have to combine the police and defence force. Whether people like it or not we have to do it.”
Meanwhile, a team of homicide detectives from New Providence traveled to Andros on Sunday afternoon to assist with the investigation.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at 328-TIPS.
By Sancheska Brown
Tribune Staff Reporter
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