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  • Two killed in shooting spree

    A police officer gathers evidence following a shooting spree that started on Kemp Road and ended in Nassau Village on the Whit Monday holiday yesterday. TORRELL ...

  • Man stabbed to death another shot dead

    Police are investigating the murder of a man stabbed on Saturday and the murder of another man found shot to death several hours later. The first victim was killed after an early morning argument escalated into a fight, police said. Police said the man was seen arguing with another man at a restaurant on Baillou Hill Road just before 6 a.m. During the altercation, the victim was stabbed ...

  • Families prepare to bury runway crash victims

    More than six weeks after three people were killed in a runway accident on Mayaguana, their families are finally able to bury their remains. The families had to wait for police to receive the remains from a lab in the United States that conducted a forensic evaluation. Former Cabinet Minister Sidney Collie, who lost his mother, sister and brother-in-law in the tragedy, said a funeral will take ...

  • Lauryn Rolle is 2013 Primary School Student of the Year

    Eleven-year-old Lauryn Rolle of St. Thomas More Catholic Primary School was on Saturday declared the Bahamas Primary School Student of the Year Foundation's '2013 Student of the Year'. Lauryn won the award over 122 other outstanding students from primary schools throughout The Bahamas. The prestigious title came with a $5,000 scholarship donated by Bank of The Bahamas and a ...

  • Group pushes for charges after custody death ruling

    A human rights group has called for two police officers to be tried in relation to the custody death of Aaron Rolle. Attorney Elsworth Johnson, president of the advocacy group Bahamas Human Rights Network (BHRN), said criminal charges before the Supreme Court were the "lawful and reasonable progression" after a coroner's jury found that Rolle was unlawfully killed. Rolle, 20, ...

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The Next Three Days

The Next Three Days

In The Next Three Days, Russell Crowe plays a Pittsburgh-based community college professor named John Brennan whose normal, everyday life is upended when his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested and convicted for murdering her boss. The films opening scene, in which J ... ...

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  • Johnson Both parties bear responsibility for shanty towns

    Both the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and Free National Movement (FNM) governments bear collective responsibility for the proliferation of shanty towns throughout the country, according to the head of a local human rights group. Elsworth Johnson, president of the Bahamas Human Rights Network (BHRN), said the Department of Environmental Health and the Ministry of Works have failed in their ...

  • Smith thinks mortgage plan was ‘noble’ effort

    Former Minister of State for Finance James Smith suggested recently there was not much more commercial banks could have done to guarantee the success of the government's Mortgage Relief Plan. Smith, chairman of CFAL, said the government's plan presented last September was an effort at best. "I think that it is noble in itself, but in terms of something happening, well something ...

  • Bahamians lost to Lupus remembered at Hope Floats

    On Whit Monday, more than 100 Bahamians gathered at the top of Fort Charlotte for Hope Floats, a balloon release ceremony to remember Bahamians who have died from lupus. For the second year in a row, Lupus 242 partnered with event sponsors The Balloon People for the ceremony, which included poems, tributes by loved ones and the reading of a list of names of Bahamians loss to lupus. Shortly ...

  • Aunt pleads for teen’s return

    The surrogate mother of an 18-year-old teenager is pleading for her safe return. Melony Thompson said she last saw her niece Michaela Thompson last Thursday evening at their home on East Street South. Thompson spoke to The Nassau Guardian after police released a missing person's alert along with the teen's photo to the media. However, Thompson revealed that Michaela left a note, ...

  • Cuba lifts ban on energy-hogging appliances

    FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2012 file photo, a man transports a new Chinese made refrigerator in the trunk of a old car in Havana, Cuba. Cuba has authorized individual imports of appliances such as air conditioners, refrigerators and microwave ovens, lifting a ban imposed in 2005 amid a wave of energy shortages and blackouts. Islanders can now bring up to two such appliances per person into the ...

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