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News Article
September 10, 2010
Remands taxing manpower at police station

By ARTESIAâ DAVIS
Guardian Senior Reporter
artesia@nasguard.com
The workload for officers at the Central Police Station has increased dramatically over the past month, with hundreds of unsentenced inmates coming to court daily for remand,The Guardianhas learned.
By law, prison inmates who are not serving sentence must make weekly court appearances for further remand. However, before the Sup...

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News Article
September 16, 2010
Residents express concerns about crime at town hall meeting

By BARBARA WALKIN
FN Night Editor
barbara@nasguard.com

Freeport,Grand Bahama-Residents of Coral Reef Estates, one of the largest sub-divisions in the central Freeport area, have had enough and will no longer live in fear of being robbed by criminals targetting their homes. The residents told police last evening at a town hall meeting held in that community on the Zenobia Cooper Park that they are...

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News Article
September 24, 2010
Five held in alleged theft of magistrate's money

By ARTESIAâ DAVIS
Guardian Senior Reporter
artesia@nasguard.com

Police have detained and questioned five people in connection with the alleged theft of$500 from a magistrate's purse,The Nassau Guardianhas confirmed.
Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans, who sits in the Domestic Court in the Royal Victoria Gardens, reported the theft to police around 2 p.m. on September 15. The magistrate's handba...

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News Article
September 29, 2010
Son arrested after father shot and killed by police

A grieving son was arrested after his father, Reginald 'Cisco' Smith, was shot and killed by a police officer.

Nardo Smith confronted police officers on the same day of the police walkabout downtown, making accusations against the officers while using "profanities."

A downtown worker, who said she was giving the police the benefit of the doubt, said the son was handcuffed and taken to the Ce...

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News Article
June 14, 2015
Resort says police appropriately took charge

Access Industries and Kerzner International, the owners and managers of the One&Only Ocean Club - which recently made 29 employees redundant - yesterday thanked police for the manner in which they "appropriately took charge" of what resort management labelled "the disruptive and aggressive behavior of union officials".

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News Article
June 12, 2015
Hotel union leader arrested

Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) President Nicole Martin was taken into police custody yesterday after she refused to leave One & Only Ocean Club, which recently made about 29 employees redundant.

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News Article
April 23, 2015
Christie's and the PLP's 'Wonderland of make-believe and fantasy'

Even before the results of the May 7, 2012 general election, there were glaring signs that the election of the Perry Christie-led PLP would be another dark adventure down the proverbial rabbit hole popularized in Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's (writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll) "Alice in Wonderland".

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News Article
July 08, 2019
UPDATED: BPL announces load shedding schedule for Monday

AS load shedding continues in New Providence, Bahamas Power & Light released a schedule of anticipated power cuts for Monday evening...

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News Article
February 17, 2015
Prosecutors withdraw bail appeal in attempted murder case

The prosecution yesterday withdrew an appeal against a judge's decision to grant bail to a former United States marine accused of attempted murder.

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News Article
January 26, 2015
Punishment for jailhouse wedding does fall beyond commissioner

It seems Commissioner Ellison Greenslade was correct in suggesting that he is not solely responsible for disciplinary action against the senior officer on whose watch the infamous jailhouse wedding took place.

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