FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA — Police on the island of Grand Bahama are searching for a 34-year-old man believed to have sexually assaulted a 23-year-old woman who was known to him yesterday. According to reports, the woman was found lying in the street at Deadman’s Reef, West Grand Bahama sometime around 1.30am on Monday. “According to […]

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A woman who discovered she was married after attempting to register the birth of her child has had the record voided. In a judgment dated January 26, Supreme Court Justice Carla D. Card-Stubbs ruled the 2019 entry of marriage between Talia Destiny Duncombe and Myrtho Noel be deleted from the Register of […]

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The estate of a deceased Jamaican mother of four was awarded damages by Senior Justice Indra Charles after a nearly three-year-long civil case over her false imprisonment and sexual assault in 2014. In 2019, Claudia Bethel filed a civil suit against five defendants claiming that she was unlawfully detained by police and […]

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Traffic accidents have become alarming to government officials as fatalities continue to rise, according to the Minister of Family Island Affairs Clay Sweeting. In response to the accident on January 28 that took the life of 27-year-old Chara Major, the South Eleuthera MP said that the incident was “very unfortunate” and extended […]

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — An unemployed father of fourteen yesterday questioned whether there is a reason to celebrate the country’s 50th anniversary despite feeling ignored by the government. While there were residents in Bain Town who expressed similar views, Eyewitness News spoke to others within the community who reflected a more optimistic view of the July […]