Court
Staff Trio Accused of RBC Theft
November 20, 2018
A Royal Bank of Canada employee was charged yesterday with stealing just over $170,000 from his employer over a four month period and defrauding the bank of an additional $180,000 within that same period of time...
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Lion Air crash: Boeing sued by victim's family over aircraft design
November 16, 2018
The family of a passenger killed when a Lion Air flight crashed into the sea near Indonesia are suing Boeing over an alleged fault with the jet's design.
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Smith corruption cop grilled over inquiry
November 16, 2018
IT was revealed in court yesterday that the cleaning contract at the centre of former PLP senator Frank Smith's bribery and extortion trial was issued before the date the complainant told police she first met the accused...
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Too much hot air delays Frank Smith hearing
November 14, 2018
FORMER PLP Senator Frank Smith's bribery and extortion trial had to be relocated yesterday due to a three-week long air conditioning failure at the Magistrate's Court complex...
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Pair's conviction thrown out over man's death in bar brawl
November 09, 2018
THE Court of Appeal has quashed the conviction for a woman and her child’s father previously sentenced to over a decade in prison each for killing a man in the course of a brawl at a bar on Carmichael Road six years ago.
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Visa fraud suspect is out on bail
November 08, 2018
THE Haitian-Bahamian justice of the peace at the centre of an FBI probe into visa fraud in the Bahamas has pleaded not guilty to charges in the United States, The Tribune was told...
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New mass action over rights abuse
November 06, 2018
ATTORNEYS for 15 former detainees are suing the government for damages that could cost taxpayers millions...
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Cousins cleared of role in murder
November 05, 2018
A SUPREME Court jury has acquitted two cousins of the role they were alleged to have played in the slaying of businessman Leo Rahming at the car rental company and carwash he owned in the Marathon area last year...
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700k college clerk thief seeks appeal
November 02, 2018
FORMER College of the Bahamas employee Chimeka Gibbs is seeking to appeal her sentence and conviction for stealing over $700,000 from the tertiary institution over a seven-year period...
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4C's owner and captain given bail
October 31, 2018
FOUR C's Adventures owner Clayton Smith and one of his tour boat captains, Roderick Watson, were charged yesterday with causing the death of an American woman and injuring nine other people due to negligence when the boat they were chartering burst into flames earlier this year...
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4CS IN THE DOCK: Owner and captain face manslaughter over fatal explosion
October 31, 2018
FOUR C's Adventures owner Clayton Smith and one of his tour boat captains, Roderick Watson, were charged yesterday with causing the death of an American woman and injuring nine other people due to negligence when the boat they were chartering burst into flames earlier this year...
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The Hon. Justice John Isaacs Sworn in as Acting President of the Court of Appeal
October 23, 2018
The Hon. Mr. Justice Jon Isaacs was sworn in as Acting President of the Court of Appeal by Governor General, Her Excellency...
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49 Dominican men admit taking undersized grouper and crawfish
October 19, 2018
CLOSE to 50 Dominican poachers have admitted to illegally taking thousands of pounds of undersized grouper and crawfish from Bahamian waters over the weekend...
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Woman and teen charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into Department of Corrections
October 19, 2018
A 24-year-old woman and a teenager were charged in a Magistrate's Court on Friday with attempting to smuggle drugs into the Bahamas Department of Corrections in a plate of food earlier this week.
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US sailors murderers lose fight to go free
October 19, 2018
THE three men convicted of murdering American sailor Kyle Bruner during his attempt to prevent a robbery of two female tourists five years ago will remain behind bars, the Court of Appeal has ruled...
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Jean Rony dealt court setback
October 18, 2018
COURT of Appeal justices zeroed in on a "glaring defect" in process as they set aside the landmark Supreme Court decision that saw the dramatic return of Bahamas-born deportee Jean Rony Jean-Charles and caused ripple effects to the administration of the country's immigration laws...
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Jury rules dad killed attacker in self-defence
October 18, 2018
SENIOR immigration officer Ruis Gibson - who shot and killed a man who had stabbed his son to death during a beach party in Grand Bahama in April - will not face criminal charges after an inquest found that the shooting was lawful...
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Judges order 'killer' retried
October 17, 2018
THE Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial for a man previously convicted of stabbing another man to death five years ago...
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Nygard racks up new court setback
October 16, 2018
A Florida district judge's decision to dismiss Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard's lawsuit against an investigator hired by Save The Bays (STB) was upheld by a federal appeals court...
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Judges order retrial in McCartney killing
October 12, 2018
THE Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial for the man convicted of killing prominent businessman Kurt McCartney while robbing him of his Hummer SUV five years ago...
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