AN independent investigation has been ordered into the death of police officer Garvin Demeritte at the Rand Memorial Hospital, Freeport, in June.

A judge yesterday afternoon sentenced two former lovers convicted of the 2011 love triangle murder of Elex Tina McKenzie.
Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty for Benjamin McPhee, 46, and Shanice Rolle, 26.
Justice Bernard Turner sentenced McPhee to prison sentences of 38 years and seven months and Rolle to 29 years and four months.
According to the evidence, McPhee, who was estranged from his wife, lived with McKenzie. He was also the beneficiary of her $150,000 life insurance policy.
Rolle, who was also married, was also seeing McPhee.
Prosecutors alleged that both Rolle and McPhee played a role in McKenzie's brutal death on March 21.
Turner described McKenzie's murder as "callous and chilling" as she received blunt and sharp force injuries to the head.
Her mouth and nostrils were duct taped before her body was dumped off Prince Charles Drive.
At trial, the former lovers blamed each other for McKenzie's death.
According to Rolle, McPhee, whom she had dated for two months, came to her house around 3 a.m.
She said he took her to his home on Wulff Road after they smoked a marijuana joint.
Rolle claimed that she entered the home after a prolonged wait for McPhee in his truck.
She said she found McPhee in the room with a body in a pool of blood. According to Rolle, the person was still moving when McPhee duct taped her face.
Rolle said she tried to leave, but McPhee held her hand and closed the door.
Rolle said McPhee forced her to drive as they looked for a place to dispose the body.
By contrast, McPhee portrayed Rolle as an obsessed woman who attacked McKenzie in his presence with a hatchet.
Acting Director of Public Prosecutions Garvin Gaskin appeared for the Crown. Murrio Ducille appeared for Rolle and Roger Gomez Jr. appeared for McPhee.

Dear Editor,
I live in the Englerston area and recently I saw Dr. Duane Sands on a walking tour in my area. I was impressed and wondered what was going on.
When I approached Sands, he told me that he was there to see one of his friends - whom I later discovered that he helps to take care of every week, along with his 97-year-old mother - and to hail one of his former patients who he had befriended over the years and who is a paraplegic.
Hearing this, I said I would walk along and see if Sands knew where he was going and what he was talking about. Lo and behold, he enters the gate of his friend, a man who we all know in our community and both that man and his mother greeted him with a flair that was so heart-warming.
He likewise walked towards them grinning, hugging, exchanging pleasantries and inquiring about their day-to-day welfare. I, along with a couple of the boys, watched from across the road as Sands sat and chatted with the gentleman and his elderly mom before leaving an hour later.
As I watched Sands leave the yard, I figured he would walk to his jeep and drive of. But no. He went across the road and through another street to hail his friend, a local businessman who had been his patient many years ago after being shot in his back and losing his ability to walk. When Sands entered the yard, everyone was overjoyed and greeting him with a familiarity that cannot be faked.
I trailed along and watched when he entered the house and listened to the greetings and laughter coming from that gentleman's room window. I was impressed and then started to wonder about how I had never seen another person involved in frontline politics do that outside of election season.
The thing about it, as Sands walked around, some people would ask him for $1, $5 and $10 and he always tried to dig in his pocket to show kindness to those less fortunate. When he got back to his vehicle, he met a man cleaning it and instead of running him away or being upset, Sands was so impressed with this man's entrepreneurial spirit that he gave him $20. That man - my good friend - was too excited and grateful and said he only took a chance to clean the vehicle, as he felt it needed a "wipe down" and he knew that Sands would not discourage him from seeking to make an honest living. He sought to empower this young man, helping to encourage him by his words and deeds to continue to strive to make an honest living.
Let me say this, humility and caring for people can never be faked. And Duane Sands illustrated that a week ago to all and sundry, without any press around or anyone seeking to make him look good. I could not just see such goodheartedness and not speak about it. Sands, I respect you sir, and wherever you campaign, I am coming to support you. It's men like you who still give people like me hope!
- Andy "Smackie" Jackson

With an estimated 20,000 to 50,000 undocumented Haitians living in The Bahamas, Deputy Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said yesterday that the government will hold trilateral talks with Haitian President Michel Martelly and Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) Governor Peter Beckingham.
Davis, who is the acting minister of foreign affairs, said the talks are part of the Christie administration's thrust to get a handle on the issues involving Haitian migration.
During a preliminary meeting with Beckingham yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Davis noted that The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands are "prime targets for illegal migration from the south" because of their close proximity to the United States.
He revealed that the country will collaborate with Haiti and the TCI along with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to prevent irregular migration.
"As part of this collaboration, The Bahamas intends to help facilitate a preliminary study to be conducted by the IOM on Haitian migration from the north coast of Haiti to The Bahamas and TCI."
Davis said the findings of the study will help the government to construct future migration policies.
Beckingham said both the TCI and The Bahamas must unite to persuade Haiti officials to do more to prevent migration.
"Migration is costing human lives and it's costing our government money," Beckingham said. "So for those reasons and others we want to do more about it.
"...We believe that by meeting jointly with the government of Haiti there may be areas where we can insert some persuasion to encourage it to do more about the problem that it faces and we face jointly.
"I think that by showing Haiti that we are united in this enterprise and discussion, that we will underline the seriousness of the problem, and I hope that we can do something about it."
Davis said he welcomes the opportunity to work with TCI officials on the issue.
"As neighbors of the TCI, The Bahamas recognizes the importance of cooperation in formulating an integrated response to combating irregular migration."
Beckingham added that the TCI has formulated a number of measures to try and get a "tighter grip on the problem".
Also at yesterday's meeting were Immigration Director William Pratt and Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Commodore Roderick Bowe.
Martelly arrived in the country last night. He is expected to sign several bilateral agreements with Bahamian officials during his visit.