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Successive commissioners of police have expressed deep frustration over arresting suspects in relation to violent crimes only for them to be released on bail and become involved in more serious crimes. Police understandably feel that they are taking one step forward and three leaps backward in their fight against crime, particularly on New Providence. On
Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe yesterday expressed disappointment in criticism St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves made of Bahamian judges this week. Munroe said he supported Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) judge Jacob Wit’s rebuke of those criticisms when Wit addressed a CARICOM crime symposium in Trinidad this week. In comments
HEADS OF STATE gathered for the Caricom symposium on crime as a public health issue at the Hyatt Regency in Port of Spain, knocked the trend of judges and magistrates granting bail to people arrested and charged for murder. Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley recalled that in her time as a lawyer, this was something
Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has told senior officers to make sure they are not unnecessarily denying bail to marginalised people, as the force accepts all of the recommendations from the coronial inquest into Veronica Nelson's 2020 death in custody.
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The New Zealand Defence Force was called to dispose of the dynamite-like material.