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• Woman, 19, shot to death
  A 19-year-old graduate of Anatol Rodgers High School was yesterday identified as the woman police said was shot and killed at Arawak Cay around 1:45 a.m. yesterday, by a male wearing a hooded jacket. Candice Clarke was murdered three weeks before her 20th birthday, her best friend, Halleyandrea Feliz, told The Nassau Guardian. Police said the […]
• Man axed to death; attacker killed by police
  A man was axed to death last night during a fight with another man on Kenilworth Street off Mount Royal Avenue, police said. When officers arrived at the scene, they met the victim lying in the road and a man standing over him wielding an axe attempting to chop him again, Chief Superintendent Chrislyn Skippings said.  […]
• Nine Jane Does from Haitian boat tragedy buried
  On Saturday afternoon, in the quiet of Loyola Hall on Gladstone Road, nine white steel caskets were lined off, each topped with a large arrangement of yellow and white flowers in a bed of lush, green leaves. On either side of the line of caskets stood the Bahamian flag and the Haitian flag. Eight of […]
• Bahamasair cancels flights due to sick-out
  Bahamasair said it experienced “major disruptions” and canceled flights after 80 percent of its flight attendants called in sick yesterday. The canceled routes included Rock Sound/Exuma, Freeport, Marsh Harbour, Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando. Neither Anthony Kikivarakis, the airline’s chairman, nor Tracy Cooper, the chief operating officer, responded to requests for comment last night on how many passengers […]
• Bethel concerned govt extending consultation period for marital rape 
  Attorney Marion Bethel is concerned the government is extending the consultation period for its bill to criminalize marital rape and argued that the Davis administration must take a leadership position and do what is right. The government drafted the bill and circulated it for consultation. The Department of Gender and Family Affairs recently held a […]
• Two accused of armed robbery to stand trial
  Two men accused of an armed robbery that took place in 2016 will go to trial after a judge on Friday rejected a constitutional motion aimed at stopping the proceedings. Jesse Rolle and Arion McKenzie, who are both on bail, are accused of a robbery that occurred at the Western Esplanade. Public defender Marianna Cadet […]