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Minister of Financial Services outlines Ministry's agenda during the BFSB's Business and Finance Summit
February 07, 2015
Minister of Financial Services outlines Ministry's agenda during the BFSB's Business and Finance Summit
Newly appointed Minister of Financial Services, the Hon. Hope Strachan, gave an overview of her Ministry's agenda during the International Business and Finance Summit in Grand Bahama on Friday...
Opening of Legal Year in the Northern Bahamas
January 19, 2015
Opening of Legal Year in the Northern Bahamas
At the opening of the Legal Year in the Northern Bahamas, the Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett, and the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Senator the Hon. Allyson Maynard Gibson, Q.C...
January 31, 2011
Convicted of sex with students: The Andre Birbal news coverage
For more than a year news of Andre Birbal and stories of abuse have been published and talked about.
During that time Birbal was extradited from New York, a special committee decided that teachers should have reported what they knew about alleged sexual abuse at the school and a jury spent a little more than four hours deciding Birbal was guilty.
Bahamas Local has compiled a list of the st...
Murderer laughed as victim burned to death
June 25, 2010
Murderer laughed as victim burned to death
A judge yesterday imposed the death penalty on the mastermind of a plot to kidnap a young man for ransom that ended in murder.
Renaldo Bonaby and his friends Renaldo Armbrister and Kevin Harvey lured Philip Gaitor Jr to an isolated spot near Barbary Beach in Grand Bahama on December 7, 2006, according to the evidence. Gaitor was set afire when the attempt to extort $100,000 from his father, Phi...
January 26, 2009
Pleasant Bridgewater and Obie Wilchcombe arrested in Travolta extortion matter
At approximately 4:30 pm on Thursday 22nd January, 2009, Police Officers in Grand Bahama arrested Senator Pleasant Bridgewater while at her office following a complaint of alleged ?Attempted Extortion? made by Mr. John Travolta. Bridgewater was taken to Central Police Station, Freeport, where she was detained overnight.
Police threatened and beat us, claim suspects
August 13, 2019
Police threatened and beat us, claim suspects
TWO men charged with armed robbery yesterday in the Freeport Magistrates Court claim they were beaten and threatened by police officers while in custody at a police station in Grand Bahama...
Lucayan managers 'just want justice'
March 27, 2019
Lucayan managers 'just want justice'
A UNION executive at the Bahamas Hotel Managerial Association says that managers at the Grand Lucayan resort are not being unreasonable and are only asking for “fairness and justice” in the negotiations of their voluntary separation packages...
November 23, 2017
Communications to Play Major Role in Success for Women & Children in this Millenium
BTC Northern Vice President, Eldri-Ferguson Mackey, was honoured to be chosen a guest speaker at the third day of sessions at the 36th Triennial International Convention, hosted by the International Federation of Lawyers (FIDA)...
July 25, 2016
Dr. Gerald Forbes 'a wolf disguised in sheep clothing'
DR. GERALD Forbes was described as "a wolf disguised in sheep clothing" by the prosecution during closing arguments in the Supreme Court in Grand Bahama on Friday.
Five in court over murder of Holmes Rock couple
April 29, 2016
Five in court over murder of Holmes Rock couple
FIVE Grand Bahama men accused of the murder of a Holmes Rock couple appeared in the Supreme Court on Friday for a pre-trial hearing.
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