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<<<Police guard a murder scene in the country. (file Photo)

Bailey Town, Bimini — The fatal stabbing of a young man on the island confirmed four things about the death of this country. It confirms that police are in the business of spinning information to the public. It confirmed that vigilante justice is alive and well in The Bahamas. It confirms that the healthcare system on the family islands are leaving our citizens lying at the steps of death, and lastly it tells us all that members of the WUTLESS media in this country are not doing their job!

Bahamas Press grabbed Sherlock’s hat on last even as the call arrived confirming that a young man, Vermon Rolle, was murdered on the island of Bimini. The source on the other end of the line never mentioned anything about a suicide. Nor did they say it was an accident. The source detailed how the young man was stabbed in his chest, whilst his attacker ripped the knife through his victim’s stomach, leaving his organs exposed to the elements. The young man was murdered; something the police simply tried to hide from the press in the early morning hours. Yes, they too are in the business of deflecting.

Understanding all this we began to dig, and discovered that Vermon is the twin brother of the late Veron Rolle, who died back in late May this year. Veron was discovered nearby the C.R Walker School on Blue Hill Road with a single fatal stab wound to his chest. Police said they were holding a young girl in her twenties for that murder. Hmmmmm! His twin brother [Vermon], we understand from our deep throat on the RBPF, went to Bimini to see his brother laid to rest. And whilst on Bimini last evening, he was fatally stabbed. Now this is incredible news. Two brothers [Who we understand were known to police] both died in less than one month apart of each other in the same manner. Both murdered, both stabbed, and both were twins. Now this is some news. Could this be a case of someone administering VIGILANTE JUSTICE ON THE BROTHERS? Our deep throat tells us, that is obviously the case here.

Blood is running down in the streets of the country like a mighty stream, and police themselves know they are paralyzed to do anything about it.

Police tell us Vermon met his fate outside Sue and Joy’s Variety Store around 5:30 p.m. Police said he was taken to the local clinic by a private vehicle where he died. But what both the police and members of the WUTLESS MEDIA did not say is this. The boy sat for hours at the island’s clinic and not a single doctor showed up to assist. Another source on the island said they believe the doctor was on the last list of retirees by the government. The nurse, according to sources on the island, never came to the clinic to assist the wounded victim. This tells us that healthcare on the family islands are in the ICU, and is on life support. Residents  are being left dying from simple stab wounds. How can a Tele-medicine system work if no doctor or nurse is ever present at the clinics? The patient was present at the clinic on Wednesday evening, but no physician was on the island.

WHERE IS THE SNITCH STATEMENT ON THIS SEEING THAT HE LOVES RUNNING TO THE MEDIA AND TALKING NEWS ABOUT HIS PARTY! WHERE YOU ARE ON THIS OBIE ‘SNITCH’ WILCHOMBE?

And finally we have some words for members of the WUTLESS MEDIA as we wrap up. MEDIA DO YOUR JOB! Like Hubert say, “Find ya own lunch money!” Why is it in this country members of the WUTLESS MEDIA in this town wait day after day for the police to tell them what to report? Why day after day the news in this city becomes the news of the RBPF and the courts? And when that isn’t the case, thank goodness for those red ribbon cutting events where food is, cause these WUTLESS people love to go where food can be found!

On Monday 5 managers at NIB were fired and every one in the WUTLESS MEDIA spoke to the director at NIB. NOT ONE NEWSCAST attempted to contact the workers that were dismissed to get their view of the exercise. NOT ONE decided to speak to an employee of the Board. But yet they call themselves the ‘ESTABLISH MEDIA’? Establish my - you know what! Where is the balance reporting? Where is the voice of the people affected in the story at NIB this past Monday? Where is the story from their family? What does their children have to say? And some reports of the NIB saga never included the comments of members of the opposition!

No report Thursday on this Bimini murder carried comments from residents on the island. No comments came from the commissioner or the MP! No reporter asked about the clinic being closed, or whether a doctor was present. NOT ONE MENTIONED OF A SOURCE AS IF THE PEOPLE DOES NOT EXIST. THIS IS INCREDIBLE! WHAT A DAMN SHAME!

The people of this country are demanding persons in media to STEP UP THEIR GAME! What the police or the government gives you is only information. Add it to your own investigation and STOP BEING WUTLESS!

WE NEED CHANGE IN THIS COUNTRY PEOPLE! WE NEED CHANGE!!!!!

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<<< A suicide drill at a public school. Every time Ingraham goes to parliament and burrow money, he’s placing your child under a tight, TIGHT noose. The people we TRUST are enslaving the young of this country. Bahamas We Need Change!  (file photo)

Nassau, The Bahamas — There was a time in The Bahamas when suicide happened once every 20 years, but not so today. Today in the Bahamas police are classifying deaths as suicide every 20 hours. All in all, Bahamians are getting tired of this miserable life, a life becoming more and more difficult for Bahamians thanks to Hurricane Hubert.

NEMA is talking about Hurricane readiness. We at Bahamas Press know of a category 7 already here, and his name is Hurricane Hubert. Now beating down on the islands of the Bahamas, killing men, women and child!

Ingraham’s victimizing policies are leaving scores of Bahamians hanging from ropes all across this country. Some of the latest suicide victims were found hanging from trees, some in closets, some in the bathroom, some from the stairways leading to the bedrooms, one in the churchyard and one recently inside a small security booth.

From schoolboys to pastors, to marriage councilors, to faithful church members all are now committing suicide here in The Bahamas! But why is this happening? WHY? There has been recently an incident where one hung himself whilst in the custody of police. The teenager had just completed a police interrogation.

Never in the history of this country has Bahamians seen so many people taking their own life in 6 short months, the number is STAGGERING. This is amazing for a ‘so call’ Christian nation. This sounds like a nation under the a gale force wind of the DEVIL! The rise in suicides, are a direct result of Hubert’s policies and rash decisions, which are oppressing this people:

• More than 2,500 public servants dismissed, retired, made redundant or contracts not renewed in the public service. Ingraham FIRED them all as promised!

• Some 5,200 residential consumers at BEC lights were turned off due to an Ingraham Cabinet decision to have them turned off.

• Billions of dollars in development contracts on islands all across the country were REVIEWED, STOPPED and CANCELED by Ingraham.

• The cancellation of Carifesta 2008, a world cultural event for the country. Ingraham ignored THE CULTURAL COMMUNITY!

• Ingraham and no one else, has delivered the largest TAX INCREASE on the POOR of this country. The largest ever in our history, where some 160,000 items were increased in 2008. (E.g. PENCILS, Pens, texts books, shirts, and underclothes) Taxes were also increased on the BIBLE, yet not a preacher said a word about the Devil’s actions against them! NOT ONE PROTEST!

• Created UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS of borrowing in the history of The Bahamas. First with $78 million, then $110 million, then $130 million, then $50 million, then another $200 million from China, now $550 Million for BEC? All done in an effort to enslave our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren for years to come. Hurricane Hubert is selling out the very birthrights of the unborn of this country! And where are the voices of the mothers and fathers of these same children?

• Hubert oversaw unemployment levels increase from 6.5% to 12.1% in two short years.

• Hotels in the north and smaller ones in the south saw closures and with thousands sent home.

• Let’s not forget, Ingraham as minister of finance, has delivered this year ALONE, 2009, the largest deficit ever seen in the HISTORY OF THE BAHAMAS, $422 million.

• Young boys getting sodomized for food by teachers, according to Carl Bethel and police are dragging their feet to capture pedophiles.

No wonder Bahamians young and old are looking for the wire, the rope, the belt, the pants string and the GUN! They are tired of this MISERABLE LIFE UNDER HUBERT! They cannot feed their families. They have no job, some no shelter, and many more no hope. And while this goes on, Ingraham often speaks about selling everything left owned by the people of this country [BEC and BTC].

The way Hubert Ingraham has treated Bahamians reminds us of a story. One where the father became tired of this miserable life.

He came home late one night after being told he was no longer employed. He walked up to the front door of his home and saw it kicked to the floor. Bloodstains tracked all across the snowy white carpet. Mud tracks were also all through the house. He called out to his wife named NASSAU, she was gasping for her last breathe as a knife stuck piercing out of her chest. He cried for his eldest daughter FREEPORT, and she was already dead flat on her back, raped by the intruder they trusted inside as a delivery boy! He cried screaming for his youngest daughter BIMINI; she was missing. And he then hollered for his son EIGHT MILE ROCK, he too was hanging dead from a rope in the closet, sodomized by the attacker. The father lost his entire family that night. It was like a hurricane had passed through his house that evening. There he froze and slid his back to the wall, took out his Winchester and fatally shot himself. His name was Bahamas.

Before he killed himself, however, he wrote a note to the Prime Minister, which simply said, “THANKS HUBERT THANKS, you’ve done it again!”

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<<< Sen. Hon. Allyson Gibson.

We support the arrival of cruise ship passengers to The Bahamas as a key area of growth in the tourism sector.

Especially at his time of unprecedented debt, we believe that governments like citizens must prioritize and ensure that every dollar is well spent i.e. that returns on the dollar are maximized on behalf of the people.  The IMF essentially said the same thing in its recent country assessment.

There are many reasons why we believe that at this time, this harbor dredging is not the best decision on behalf of Bahamian people (now and future generations).

First, it does not significantly contribute to Vision 2020 about which I spoke in the Budget Debate (Vision at appendix).
The majority of the capital investment of $50 Million is leaving the country (just like the New Providence Road Improvement Program). Why are we borrowing money to improve the lives of non Bahamians? At a time when we should be investing in our future…

It is not evident that there has been any or any proper analysis as to why there could not be tendering of the 12,000 passengers could bring every trip. Tendering would have created a new business opportunity for Bahamians.  Cruise ship visitors quite happily go ashore by tender  in Belize.  Why not The Bahamas, at least for a while?

In this economic environment, will these ships actually come to The Bahamas after we have spent $55 Million dredging the harbour? There is no evidence that these 2 ships (there are only 2) will actually come.

Where is the written evidence of the commitment to come?
o We have enough capacity now for the existing cruise ships
o We could tender, for a while
o They are watching their bottom line, why aren’t we
o What if we dredge and they do not come
o What if any of the cruise lines goes into Chapter 11?

We have been giving concessions for 14 years.  I know that we have not been doing cost benefit analyses.   In 2002 we met a situation where the cruise business was in crisis.  The cruise lines were very concerned about the state of Prince George Dock. Used car tires were being used for bollards etc.  It was in a shocking state of disrepair. An FNM Cabinet Minister had signed an agreement to give incentives with the cruise lines without the consent of Cabinet. As well as the repair of Prince George Dock that had not been budgeted, we had to find money to honour the commitment, improperly made by the Cabinet Minister, and not budgeted for (neither the Prince George Dock development nor the FNM improperly given cruise incentives has been budgeted in the Budget we met that had been prepared by the FNM).

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<<<Cruise ships docked in Nassau Habour.

Nassau , Bahamas - Public Works and Transport Minister the Hon. Neko C. Grant urged Bahamians to take full advantage of “the many income generating opportunities” that new cruise incentives legislation offers.

“I encourage all concerned who are catering to cruise visitors to be creative and innovative,” he said. “Take advantage of the many opportunities it is intended to create.”

Mr. Grant was speaking in support of a Bill for an Act to amend the Cruise Ships (Overnighting Incentives) Act in the House of Assembly, June 29.

He highlighted some of the opportunities this Bill will provide for Bahamians.

“It should encourage the return of Bahamian night clubs with native shows,” he said.

“I am saddened when I visit Bay Street in the evening when a number of cruise ships are docked,” he said. “Bay Street is in darkness; shops are closed. There is nothing for our visitors to do. We must change that.”

Hours cruise ships spend in Freeport and Nassau harbors, with a larger amount of passengers, will allow taxi drivers, tour operators, straw vendors, shops and restaurant operators to earn additional income, said Mr. Grant.

The casino in Freeport will also benefit because cruise passengers would prefer to spend an enjoyable evening off the ship, he said.

“However, we must make them want to disembark by providing a memorable experience,” he added.

Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association research revealed that in this region a cruise passenger spends an average of $100 at some visiting ports and $150 at others, noted Mr. Grant.

“In the Bahamas, the expenditure is less than $70 per passenger. We are allowing each passenger to take back to the ship $30 to $35 that they could spend with us.

“If we can increase the average passenger expenditure by $30, we would be able to generate an additional $45,000,000 in revenue by persons and businesses catering to our cruise passengers,” he said.

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Nassau, Bahamas — We’re glad to hear that Troynico McNeil is back in the news. And if  you did not know, McNeil is the man being accused of the murder of fashion designer Hal Taylor. This case is important because if you do remember Bahamas Press reported that our deep throat on the Royal Bahamas Police Force stated that a young officer was put on leave after he discovered Taylor dead in his home.

Back then twenty-one years-old McNeil in 2008 was brought before the courts and charged to have allegedly murdered Taylor between November 17 and 18, 2007.

Taylor’s mutilated body was discovered on Sunday 18th. His murder came just a days following the discovery of Dr. Thaddeus McDonald, who was murdered at his home on Queen’s Street [the most guarded street in the entire Bahamas, the address of the United States Embassy].

News of Taylor’s death sent shock waves throughout the community and spawned a public scare that a “SERIAL MURDERER of SISSIES” was on the loose. Whoever started that scare in the WUTLESS MEDIA must know the killer or was VERY familiar with the lifestyles of those murdered.

We are interested in this case because to this very day, LITTLE IS SAID STILL about this officer, who was sent on leave out of the country by the ‘HIGH COMMAND’ of the RBPF. McNeil was reported to have a broken leg during the time of Taylor’s murder, which would’ve made it impossible for him to commit such violence.

There’s a question we must ask however. How come McNeil returned so quickly returned to The Bahamas? You would remember, that on July 4th, 2008, police in Miami arrested McNeil on a matter not related to Taylor’s murder. The Bahamian Gestapo police was ready to protect their own, therefore, according to them McNeil was a “person of interest” they were eager to get back in Nassau.

Within hours, they quickly made their request for McNeil to be brought back here to The Bahamas to face charges. On July 27th, twenty-three days later, Chief Superintendent of Police Glen Miller said, McNeil is still a person of interest.

“We do need to bring him home,” Mr. Miller said. “We are not sure when that will happen because there are some things that US officials are doing and whenever they are done with that we will bring him home.” Notice the stress, “WE WILL BRING HIM HOME!”

In less than one month of his capture in Miami, early August 2008, McNeil was deported from the United States and was formally charged before the Magistrate’s Court for the death of the fashion designer.

Here are some additional FACTS. Andre Birbal has been in US custody since Sunday May 4th according to Marvin Dames and our sources in New York. It took more than one month for the AG’s office to sign an official extradition request to the American government to have Birbal returned to The Bahamas.

It has taken MORE THAN A MONTH FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE BAHAMAS TO FORMALLY ASK THE US FOR A MAN, WHO RAPED SCORES OF YOUNG BOYS AT THE EIGHT MILE ROCK HIGH SCHOOL ON GRAND BAHAMA!

July 4th, this Saturday, would make two months since Birbal was captured. Again, he’s WANTED IN THE BAHAMAS for RAPING SCORES OF CHILDREN and has yet to return. The GESTAPO Police went out their way to get McNeil, but are tight-lipped on the return of Birbal. And we know why.

Carl ‘UNDERNOURISHED’ Bethel’s ministry allowed Birbal to come to Nassau, collect his package and aided in an escape out of this town. Soon, VERY SOON, BP will say why the police wants Birbal lost in the US! WHAT A SHAME!!!!!!!

Click and listen to this report from ZNS calling for Solidarity against Child Abuse. While we applaud their efforts, we ask these questions, where is the call for JUSTICE? Where is the call telling the government to ACT? And where were these people when Troy Garvey was the sole voice on Grand Bahama pleading for the arrest of a Andre Birbal? WE NEED CHANGE PEOPLE!

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<<< Professor Cal Mmacpherson conducting ultrasound examination with students of St. George’s University on Clinical Safari.

Monday 29th June, 2009: Students from St George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, have visited Kenya to take part in the first practical tropical medicine course to be held in collaboration with the African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF), one of Africa’s leading health development organisations.  Seven of the students were from Grenada and eight were from St George’s University’s Keith B. Taylor Global Scholar’s programme at Northumbria University in the UK.  The St. George’s University students were joined by five local medical students from Nairobi University who added greatly to the cultural interchange experience by the students. The addition of this selective underpins the university’s commitment to its highest purpose of providing a truly international education for students.

“Apart from visiting hospitals, research institutes and receiving lectures from experienced AMREF administrators in Nairobi,” said Professor Cal Macpherson, St George’s Vice Provost for International Programme Development, “our students also visited the AMREF health centre at Entasopia, in Kajiado District in southern Kenya. In collaboration with the regional health authorities and Dr John Nduba, Director of AMREF’s Sexual Reproductive and Child Health programme, an ultrasound clinic was conducted on reproductive health as well as liver disease.  More than 250 people were screened including 49 pregnant women. The clinic revealed no cases of cystic echinococcosis or Amoebic Liver Abcesses. The lack of these parasitic infections was a good sign, and it was hoped that the information on delivery dates for the babies would be useful to improve the health of the mothers and their children. All the information from the clinic was left with the AMREF team and feedback was provided to all. In the coming year, it is hoped that funds will be raised in order to provide an ultrasound scanner for the AMREF clinic.

“It was a tremendous learning experience for our students to see and hear first hand from the AMREF experts, both in Nairobi and in the field. Such a wealth of both practical and field experience that was shared had a profound effect on the students’ outlook on culture, health systems and health care delivery options.”

The visit evolves further the relationship between St. George’s University and AMREF.  Three years ago, St George’s awarded two full Master of Public Health (MPH) scholarships to AMREF’s Vicky Kimotho of Kenya and Edna Matasha of Tanzania. Vicky and Edna have both returned to work with AMREF in their respective countries. Vicky was instrumental in helping to co-ordinate the students’ programme along with Nicky Blundell Brown and Mary Wanjiru Kiragu from the AMREF Heritage & Special Events Department.

“I felt that the course was tremendously successful,” said Professor Macpherson.  “We hope to build on this experience to be able to offer a similar course on an annual basis.”

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<<< Anthony Allens, Port Chief.

Click to listen to a ZNS report telling us how Ingraham will fire a BLOATED Civil Service. Ingraham says he’s not firing anyone. NO, he’s just sending them home for good!

Nassau, Bahamas – Breaking News now coming to Bahamas Press confirms what we warned early in the year. A mass layoffs exercise in the civil service is now underway by the FNM government.

Bahamas Press has learned four senior officers in the top management at the National Insurance Board have felt the axe of Hubert Ingraham’s government on Monday. Sources deep inside NIB told BP that senior assistant director Anthony Curtis and assistant directors Merliciana Bethel, Andre Bethel and Cecile Bethel were all fired Monday.

The firing exercise at NIB is said to be the beginning of things to come from Ingraham’s FNM government. Derek Osbourne, a Montserrat national, is said to be advising the PM on his decision to roll heads of Bahamians at NIB.

Another department, where news will soon come of more terminations, will be at the ministry of tourism. BP can now confirm that more than $3 million has been cut from the budget assigned to staff salaries. Our deep throat at MOT confirms that the cuts will be severe and hard for some to handle. “Some will be sent home outright, some others will be retired, as Ingraham tell us ‘it is what it is.’”

And today, former defense force officer and Port Chief Anthony Allen will spend his last day on the job this Tuesday, as Hubert will also send him home on July 1st. Earl Deaveaux announced on last week that Patrick McNeil will takeover the port department. Allen at age 17 joined the Royal Bahamas Defense Force and was one of the survivors who sailed on the Flamingo, which came under attack by the Cubans. Today Allens, who was a rising star on the RBDF, will feel the payback from an unthankful leader [INGRAHAM], who disrespects people who put their life on the line for country. SHAME ON YOU HUBERT!

Yes Ingraham in an address at a meeting with public officers on last week said, “We’re not firing anyone” [Listen to the audio above]. But today Ingraham is not firing anyone, he is just sending persons home. And whilst he is sending them home one by one, group by group, his longtime law partner Perry “Pussy CAT” Christie sits quietly and says nothing. Christie also had these names today during the sitting of the House, but he too like Hubert would never defend the people of this country. Christie is busy creating chaos within his own party, WHAT A DAMN SHAME!

Oh, in case your thought we forgot, members of the WUTLESS MEDIA are also very quiet on the workers now being axed by Hubert. WHAT A DOUBLE DAMN SHAME!

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Nassau, Bahamas — On July 4, Americans around the world will observe the 233rd Anniversary of Independence of the United States of America.  Here in Nassau the celebration will be commemorated in an official ceremony to be held at Liberty Overlook on July 2.

This year’s celebration theme is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, who served as the 16th President of the United States of America from 1861 – 1865.  To mark the special occasion, the Embassy will feature a special appearance by character actors representing President and Mrs. Mary Todd Lincoln to be held at The Bahamas Historical Society on Tuesday, June 30, at 6:00 p.m.  The event is open to the public at no cost.

Dressed in period costume, re-enactors Larry and Mary Elliott will present a historically correct dramatization of the lives of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln.

Larry Elliot portrays Mr. Lincoln in the first person, from his humble roots in Kentucky, to growing up in Indiana, to becoming a self taught lawyer in Illinois, to becoming the sixteenth President of the United States who preserved the Union and freed the slaves, to his untimely death at Ford’s Theatre.  Mary Elliott will talk about the tragedy of losing a son and the health challenges she faced.

In 2003 Mr. Larry Elliot entered a Lincoln look-a-like contest in Hodgenville and began reading about Abraham Lincoln.  After an extensive study of his life, Mr. Elliot decided to purchase a complete period-correct Abraham Lincoln costume and began portraying him.

In 2005, Mr. Elliot says that when he learned that his great, great, great, grandmother (Mary LaRue Enlow) was the midwife who helped delivered Abraham Lincoln, he knew this vocation was for him.

After much reading about Mary Todd Lincoln and the integral role she played in history, Mr. Elliot’s wife, Mary began portraying the First Lady with him. Together they tell their story of just how much their life initially contrasted. They include their childhood years, how they met, and events leading up to that new birth of freedom speech, The Gettysburg Address.

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