Crime
It's time for the police to stop investigating the police - Davis
May 23, 2019
OPPOSITION Leader Philip "Brave" Davis has said the killing of three people by police on Friday and the competing narratives about what led to it are "troubling"...
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Police did what they had to do
May 22, 2019
ROYAL Bahamas Police Force officers "did what they had to do" when they killed three men at a Blair home on Friday, National Security Minister Marvin Dames has said, while insisting that, regardless of what allegations are made, the facts will eventually be made known...
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Man stable after stabbing in fight
May 21, 2019
A MAN is in hospital in serious but stable condition following a stabbing incident early yesterday morning at Taino Beach in Grand Bahama, police reported...
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UPDATED: Two shot dead at Potters Cay Dock, two more deaths hours later
May 09, 2019
Police are investigating after two men were shot dead at Potter's Cay Dock on Wednesday night...
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Baha Mar robbery: Three detained
May 08, 2019
THREE men are in custody in connection with the recent smash and grab robbery at John Bull's Baha Mar store...
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Mother who lost two sons to guns, warns: Too much killing. It has got to stop
May 08, 2019
THE pervasiveness of illegal firearms and the "kill or be killed culture" perpetuated by them are leading to the destruction of inner-city communities, a mother preparing to bury a second son in four months has said...
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UPDATED: Second brother dies in shooting
May 06, 2019
POLICE are investigating the country's latest murder after a man was shot dead outside an abandoned building on Hospital Lane early on Saturday morning. The killing brought the country's homicide count to 23 for the year, according to The Tribune's records...
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Smash and grab raid in Baha Mar: Robbers strike inside hotel and target John Bull
May 06, 2019
TWO men are wanted by police following a "brazen" smash and grab robbery at the John Bull store at Baha Mar yesterday afternoon...
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Tourist victim of PI sex assault
May 06, 2019
POLICE are investigating the reported sexual assault of a female tourist at a Paradise Island beach on Saturday...
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Home raider dies swimming canal
May 03, 2019
A BRAZEN daylight robbery ended in tragedy yesterday morning after one of three alleged robbers drowned in an eastern New Providence canal...
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UPDATED: Well-known American businessman shot dead in Bimini
April 29, 2019
A WELL-KNOWN American businessman in Bimini was shot multiple times and killed in his home at Bimini Bay opposite Resorts World early yesterday morning, the Royal Bahamas Police Force has said...
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UPDATED: Defence Force Marine shot dead at Government House
April 28, 2019
A Royal Bahamas Defence Force veteran was shot multiple times in his upper body and killed at Government House early Sunday morning...
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Montagu Beach: We want police on site
April 24, 2019
VENDORS are calling for increased police patrols in the Montagu Beach area as they expressed their frustration and fears about the rise in crime...
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Two die in holiday killings
April 23, 2019
TWO men are dead, including a father of one, following two separate shooting incidents over the Easter holidays...
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Five shot by automatic weapon
April 23, 2019
FIVE people were shot from an automatic weapon in the Montagu Beach area last night. Eight shots rang out at 9.30pm as residents enjoyed the final hours of their Easter holiday break...
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GOVT HIT WITH 11M DAMAGES CLAIM: 'Immigration is not a Super Police, a law unto itself'
April 18, 2019
KENYAN native Douglas Ngumi is suing the government for $11m with interest for illegally detaining him for six years and seven months at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, during which time he allegedly endured "numerous" beatings by immigration officials and contracted two diseases.
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Man guilty of Woods Alley killing
April 17, 2019
JAHMARO "Bingy" Edgecombe is guilty of murdering Kenyari Lightbourne in his Woods Alley neighbourhood three years ago, a Supreme Court jury unanimously found yesterday.
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South Korean arsonist kills neighbours fleeing fire - police
April 17, 2019
A man in South Korea has set his flat on fire and then stabbed building residents as they tried to flee, killing five people, police said.
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Immigration backlog being addressed
April 17, 2019
The backlog on work permits at the Department of Immigration has been cut down to two weeks, said Minister of Immigration Brent Symonette yesterday. Speaking to reporters outside Cabinet on whether there's still a backlog at the department, Symonette said, "I'm not sure about a [...]
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Man accused of indecent assault on co-worker
April 17, 2019
A WOMAN who claimed her Haitian co-worker fondled only did so to avoid the "unnecessary drama" of her police boyfriend finding out she had caught a ride home with the accused and that they had stopped at her former lover's house along the way, an attorney asserted yesterday.
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