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NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander has proposed the implementation of key reforms, including an encrypted whistleblower platform, mandatory integrity testing for senior officers, and enhanced transparency measures, to restore integrity and public trust in the Royal Bahamas Police Force.  The police Commissioner outlined the reforms in an address Sunday night, which comes on the heels of the indictment...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Amid calls for his resignation following the indictment of two senior law enforcement officers from the Royal Bahamas Police Force and Defence Force, Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe has insisted that his future in the position is solely a decision for Prime Minister Philip Davis. Munroe, speaking on Morning Blend with Dwight Strachan on Thursday, addressed...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - The Opposition Free National Movement is now calling for the resignation of the Minister of National Security Wayne Munroe and an investigation into the Royal Bahamas Police Force following the arrest and charges brought against two high-ranking officers of the armed forces in federal court on Monday. Chief Superintendent Elvis Curtis, who oversaw aviation operations for the...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A senior Bahamian police officer, arrested in Florida on drug and firearms charges, has implicated a high-ranking Bahamian politician in a $2 million conspiracy to authorize law enforcement assistance for cocaine shipments to the United States. Chief Superintendent Elvis Nathaniel Curtis, a veteran law enforcement officer who oversaw aviation operations for the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF)...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Crime Scene Investigators are preparing to send DNA samples overseas to aid in the ongoing investigations into the murders of 12-year-old Adriel Moxey and 72-year-old Vernencha Butler, Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander revealed. Fernander emphasized the importance of preserving and analyzing the physical evidence gathered at both crime scenes, noting that it will be instrumental in solving...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander confirmed Monday that 12-year-old Adriel Moxey was strangled to death. The alleged suspect in Moxey’s brutal murder is being monitored at the Princess Margaret Hospital, and will soon be transferred to Sandilands Rehabilitation Center. The commissioner revealed that the man in question has a previous history of mental challenges and was a...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A 25-year-old man, recently released from the Bahamas Department of Corrections on charges of vagrancy and stealing, is alleged to be responsible for the death of 72-year-old Vernencha Butler. Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander revealed that investigators obtained video footage from a nearby establishment showing the suspect, shirtless and wearing only pants, consuming what appeared to be...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Social Services Minister Myles Laroda debunked claims by relatives of 12-year-old Adriel Moxey that ministry officials did little to nothing to assist Moxey’s family on the heels of her brutal death last week while admitting that the ministry could have done more to assist the young victim. The 7th grader was found dead and partially naked in...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - The family of 72-year-old Vernencha Butler is reeling in grief after she was reportedly raped and killed by an intruder early Saturday morning. Her nephew, speaking to Eyewitness News recounted the horrifying incident, stating that his uncle and cousin walked in on the assault and pulled the attacker off Butler. The tragedy unfolded just hours after the...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Senate President Lashell Adderley has called for the reinstatement of capital punishment in response to the horrific killing of 12-year-old Adriel Moxey. Adriel, a 7th-grade student at Anatol Rodgers High School, was found dead in bushes off Faith Avenue on Wednesday evening, just hours after police issued a missing persons bulletin. On the scene, Police Commissioner Clayton...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Tweaks have been made to the Marco’s Alert system to ensure that authorities will move to issue alerts the minute a child is reported missing, as opposed to the previous protocol which required authorities to wait up to 72 hours before alerting the public via the mobile text platform, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Zhivargo Dames....

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - A group of women activists has gathered in protest outside of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID); the demonstrators are calling on the government to review its legislation as it relates to laws that seek to protect the rights of children. The women demonstrated with placards in hand which read, “Broken Systems = Broken Lives”, “We Will Not...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Relatives of 12-year-old Adriel Moxey who was found dead by police in bushes off Faith Avenue on Wednesday expressed disappointment with widespread criticisms against the family, insisting that they did their best to protect the slain juvenile. Sasha Moxey, Adriel’s mother told reporters “Every child needs a village. Where was my village when I needed the village...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Sister Georgette Newbold, a churchgoer of Restoration Kingdom Ministries recalling some of her final moments she shared with 12 year-old Adriel Moxey. Newbold says she had taken Moxey shopping for Sunday attire just one week before the tragedy. Sister Newbold told reporters the discovery has left her heartbroken as the young girl had an entire life ahead...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Senior Pastor of Restoration Kingdom Ministries, Cleveland Wells, provided Eyewitness News with his account of the past 48 to 72 hours since 12-year-old Adriel Moxey disappeared and was eventually found dead by police in a bushy area in Faith Avenue south on Wednesday evening. Moxey was reportedly a member of his church and was in the process...