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A Cherokee smackdown
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October 29, 2014
A Cherokee smackdown

It was a science lesson like no other for students in Cherokee Sound, Abaco, who competed to build boats that would float out of cardboard boxes and shrink wrap. In the challenge, the finished boats had to carry two people and be able to make it around a buoy and return to the starting place.
The members of four teams were allowed to use one box cutter, one pair of scissors, a roll of duct tape, t...

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October 21, 2014
1.05 bil. upgrade to LIME Caribbean networks

Cable and Wireless Communications (CWC) has unveiled a plan to spend more than $1 billion on network upgrades in the Caribbean.
The plan is known as "Project Marlin", and through the project, LIME Caribbean - CWC's Caribbean operation - will see a major network upgrade investment of US$1.05 billion, a 30 percent ($250 million) increase in capital expenditure over the previous year.
Project Marlin ...

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July 29, 2014
Judge sentences former lovers convicted of murder

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 h...

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July 22, 2014
Sentencing delay for killer couple

A judge yesterday afternoon adjourned the sentencing of two former lovers convicted of the 2011 love triangle murder of Elex Tina McKenzie to Thursday, after hearing submissions from defense counsel and the prosecution.
Prosecutors are not seeking the death penalty for Benjamin McPhee, 45, and Shanice Rolle, 35.
McPhee, who lived with McKenzie, was the beneficiary of her $150,000 life insurance po...

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June 25, 2014
Murder appeal postponed

A man convicted of a 2010 shooting death won't have his appeal heard until September.
Kevano Musgrove was sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment for the February 25, 2010 murder of David Bowleg Jr.
According to the evidence, Musgrove shot Bowleg when he entered Musgrove's home in Highbury Park without permission.
Musgrove then bound Bowleg with duct tape and placed him in the car in which he had arri...

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May 20, 2014
Guilty verdicts in love triangle murder

Two former lovers were yesterday convicted of the 2011 love triangle murder of Elex Tina McKenzie.
Benjamin McPhee, 45, and Shanice Rolle, 35, were both visibly shaken as jurors returned unanimous guilty verdicts against them.
Justice Bernard Turner remanded the convicts, who were on bail during the trial, to Her Majesty's Prisons until a sentencing hearing on July 15.
They were both teary-eyed as...

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May 01, 2014
Step into the Hibiscus Hotel

The play "Hibiscus Hotel" is an idea that was born over a beer at the Cricket Club between Kim Aranha and Robin Belfield -- and tonight the lights will go up on an eight-night run on the hilarious look at a Bahamian family. It's expected to be an evening filled with music and laughter in extraordinary surroundings at Jacaranda House.
The Bahamian comedy is about a run-down hotel on a fictitious fa...

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April 09, 2014
British man killed in home invasion

FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- A British man who lived in Canada was shot and killed in a home invasion in Emerald Bay, Grand Bahama, early yesterday, police said.
Police said the 56-year-old man and his family were bound and robbed by three armed bandits.
The man, who was in Grand Bahama visiting his mother, was shot after he got into an altercation with one of the intruders, police said.
Seven people...

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New U.S. crime warning
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January 29, 2014
New U.S. crime warning

The United States Embassy in Nassau has warned Americans living in and travelling to New Providence and Freeport, Grand Bahama to be on "heightened alert" and to take "appropriate steps" to enhance their personal security to avoid becoming victims of crime.
The embassy issued a statement yesterday which highlighted the murder of two American citizens in The Bahamas in the last eight months, and se...

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January 27, 2014
American man stabbed to death

An American man was bound with duct tape and stabbed to death at his home on Freeport, Grand Bahama, on Friday night, police said.
According to police, a Caucasian man, who is believed to be in his 40s, was found inside his home on Albacore Drive, off Midshipman Road, around 10 p.m.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Emrick Seymour, officer in charge of Grand Bahama and the Northern District, told T...

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