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As we outlined last year, one of the major issues facing The Bahamas criminal justice system and the speediness of trials is the fact that we have a constitutional guarantee of jury trials in the Supreme Court. When we pointed out, as have two constitutional commissions, that the constitutional right to trial by jury can
The House of Assembly is scheduled to reconvene on January 11, a day after the Majority Rule holiday, but it remains to be seen whether big-ticket, and in some instances what are likely to be highly controversial, bills will receive priority attention on the Davis administration’s legislative agenda. Attorney General Ryan Pinder did not yesterday
The Christmas and New Year holiday period reinforced the feeling of a return to normalcy in what many optimistically hope is a post-pandemic Bahamas. Junkanoo is back on Bay Street. And the Junkanoo groups generally did not disappoint. Tourism is rebounding strongly; cruise ships almost daily disgorge thousands of bathing suit-clad visitors onto Bay Street.
The Davis administration has hired a US law firm to help it with public relations and communications regarding the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The Nassau Guardian obtained a copy of the engagement letter between the government and Brown Rudnick LLP. The letter, from Clara Krivoy, head of digital commerce at Brown Rudnick, is dated
Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of crypto exchange FTX, appeared in a US courtroom in New York Thu...