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March 05, 2024
FLIGHTS ARE HALTED AMID HAITI CHAOS: State of emergency declared in nation after prison breakout

ALTHOUGH Bahamasair has suspended flights to Haiti,  Immigration Acting Director William Pratt said repatriation flights to Haiti will continue even though that country declared a state of emergency after thousands of inmates escaped prison.

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January 19, 2024
Suriname: Manhunt Launched For Ex-pres. After No-show At Prison

SURINAME - Former Surinamese President Desiré Bouterse and his bodyguard are now wanted for murder after they failed to surrender on January 12th.

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December 22, 2023
Former Haitian Senator Sentenced To Life In Prison In 2021 Assassination

USA - A federal judge in Miami sentenced former Haitian Senator John Joel Joseph to life in prison for conspiring to kill President Jovenel Moïse in 2021.

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December 14, 2023
Funeral Director Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Relationship with Teen

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A funeral director has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment after admitting to having an illegal relationship with a 14-year-old girl.

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July 24, 2018
Debit card shopping spree lands teenager in prison

A MAGISTRATE yesterday sentenced a 19-year-old to two years in prison for multiple fraud charges due to expenses he racked up while on a shopping spree across two islands with a debit card he manipulated.Patrecko Maycock, of Pride Estates, stood before...

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April 11, 2024
Parents Of Michigan School Gunman Sentenced To Prison

UNITED STATES - The mother and father of a Michigan teen who shot and killed four classmates were each sentenced to 10 to 15 years a rare case of parents being held responsible in a school shooting.

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February 26, 2024
Former Inmate: Prison Did Not Prepare Me For A Life After Incarceration

GRAND BAHAMA, BAHAMAS - Grand Bahamian Kenyatta Lewis is calling for better conditions within the prison system. Lewis is a former inmate.

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July 06, 2019
Court of Appeal reduces prison sentence of man convicted of libe

A man who maliciously claimed on Facebook that his former girlfriend would perform sexual favors for a fee had his 18-month prison sentence reduced to 12 months on appeal.

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July 04, 2019
Prison escapee fails to overturn his 18-year sentence for armed robbery

A FORMER prison escapee's hopes at overturning his 18-year sentence for robbing a local jewellery store and two people at gunpoint of over $100,000 worth of cash and merchandise have been dashed by the Court of Appeal.

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June 29, 2019
Former prison officer fined after drug smuggling charge

A former corrections officer who admitted to having nearly two pounds of marijuana to smuggle to an inmate was yesterday spared an outright prison sentence and ordered to pay a $7,000 fine.

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