Family will see police bodycam footage at coroner’s inquest RBDF commander explains protocol for handling marines who may experience mental health challenges NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Commander Dr Raymond King advised yesterday that the investigation into the shooting death of Leading Seaman Rodney Adderley by police has been completed and will […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Free National Movement (FNM) chairman Carl Culmer yesterday accused National Security Minister Wayne Munroe of preempting and prejudicing the coroner’s inquest in the shooting death of a Royal Bahamas Defence Force marine by police. Culmer was responding to comments made by Munroe outside Cabinet regarding the body camera footage of officers involved […]
Some families finally able to receive death certificates for their loved ones after more than a year Coroner thanks those involved in rescue attempts, saying “much more lives would have been lost” without their efforts NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Nearly two years after Hurricane Dorian decimated Abaco and parts of Grand Bahama, a coroner’s inquest officially […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The sister of a woman believed to have been swept away during the deadly Hurricane Dorian in 2019 said yesterday that the last time she spoke to her then-26-year-old sister was hours before the storm ripped through Abaco. Dr Mpatrizzia Naclene Gozito testified in an inquest into 34 people presumed dead and […]
Court decision may allow some family members to get death certificates nearly two years after tragic storm Just 25 human remains of 59 recovered have been identified, pathologist notes NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Her Majesty’s Coroner yesterday heard the final testimonies in the first part of an inquest into people presumed to have died during Hurricane […]
“I have never been exposed to anything like that in my life” NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Officers sent to recover the bodies of people who died during Hurricane Dorian in the days after it decimated Abaco and parts of Grand Bahama were met with horrific scenes of carnage, a court heard this week. Sergeant Austin Bowles, […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Carlene Edgecombe said the last time she spoke to her two daughters was over the phone, as they told her in horror of the waters rising in an Abaco church shelter during Hurricane Dorian. Edgecombe was testifying via a Zoom call during an ongoing coroner’s inquest into victims lost during the deadly […]
Lab analysis of DNA samples hindered by onset of COVID pandemic, court hears “There is quite a number that have not been identified” NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Police have positively identified 11 out of 47 DNA samples of victims who were killed during the deadly Hurricane Dorian in September 2019. The revelation was made during the […]
