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August 29, 2011
Hurricane Irene Damage Assessment Reports - Abaco

Pathfinders Task Force completed a Rapid Damage Assessment of Abaco Island, Bahamas on D+1 following Hurricane Irene. Rapid Damage Assessments contain information about individual structures and classify structural damage based on Type and Damage Condition. Geo-tagged photos are also attached to each Assessment, providing a picture of where critical areas are and what resources to allocate towards...

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August 29, 2011
Hurricane Irene Damage Assessment Reports - Eleuthera

Pathfinders Task Force, supported by The Eagles? Wings Foundation completed a Rapid Damage Assessment of Eleuthera Island, Bahamas on D+1 following Hurricane Irene. Rapid Damage Assessments contain information about individual structures and classify structural damage based on Type and Damage
Condition. Geo-tagged photos are also attached to each Assessment, providing a picture of where critical ...

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August 09, 2011
South Florida Man Aims to Pedal His Way from Bimini to Broward

Ernest Hemingway, who resided, fished and forever branded this tiny Bahamas out island with his writings in the 1930s, would have considered Bill Boes a kindred spirit--a man willing to challenge the sea for a personal goal.

The 61-year-old Boes, an asthmatic with one kidney and battling arthritis, this weekend will shove off in a 12-ft pedal boat from the marina at the historic Bimini Big Game...

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June 17, 2011
Police officers testify in drug case

Police took up surveillance of a go-fast speed boat several days before a similar vessel was seized in connection with a $4 million marijuana seizure, a magistrate's court heard yesterday.
Officers 971 Breon Davis and 2584 Patrick Clarke testified that they observed the vessel near a boat hangar at Arawak Cay in September 2009.
According to the officers, they saw Stephen Stubbs of Ridgeland Park, ...

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June 11, 2011
Nine on trial in connection with major drug find

Police arrested nine men in con- nection with the seizure of 852 pounds of marijuana earlier this year. However, during their trial there was some discrepancy as to whether the drugs were found in The Bahamas or international waters.
Lathario Rose, 36, of Rupert Dean Lane, who is also known as Dion "Buju" Minnis; David Colebrooke, 49, of Jasmine Gardens; Dwayne Henderson of Prince Charles Drive; N...

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March 23, 2011
Murder suspect with ankle bracelet goes missing

A monitoring agency has confirmed that a murder suspect was in the area where a man’s badly burned body was found Sunday night, The Nassau Guardian has learned.
However, ICS?Security Concepts has lost track of Cambridge Lane resident Brandon Humes since the discovery of a man’s charred remains in South Beach, according to a well-placed source.
In January, a judge released the accused t...

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March 03, 2011
Remarks by Rt. Hon Hubert A. Ingraham at the Opening of Third Agri-Business Expo

Agriculture and fisheries hold a special place in our national consciousness. Bahamian history illustrates the inextricable link between these sectors and the development of communities throughout our archipelago, whether sports fishing in Bimini or commercial fisheries in Spanish Wells; harvesting cascarilla in Acklins or growing pineapples in Eleuthera or onions in Exuma.

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March 03, 2011
Six-month jail term for tampering with monitoring bracelet

Officials will know exactly where Antonio Smith is for the next six months. Yesterday, Deputy Chief Magistrate Carolita Bethell sentenced Smith, 47, to six months in prison for cutting through the strap of an electronic monitoring bracelet placed on him.
He will spend an additional four months in prison if he fails to pay a $231 fine covering the value of the damage caused to the ankle bracelet.
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January 13, 2009
Nat'l Security Minister observes Jamaica's electronic monitoring system

The Minister of National Security, Hon. Tommy Turnquest, led a delegation of government officials to Jamaica on 8 January 2009, to observe the Government of Jamaica?s Electronic Monitoring of Offenders Pilot Project.

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