Archive for October 23rd, 2023
Man’s body pulled from harbour late Saturday night
(CNS): The RCIPS is in the process of identifying the body of a man that was recovered from George Town Harbour late Saturday night. Staff at the Port Authority contacted the 911 call centre to report what appeared to be a person in the water. Police and fire officers attended the location and conducted a search, during […]
Man assaulted on his doorstep by acquaintance
(CNS): Police are investigating a report of an assault right outside the victim’s home in the early hours of Thursday morning at an address off Hirst Road, Bodden Town. The man had just returned to his residence when he was confronted outside by a man he knew. The victim fled inside his house, but as he […]
Civil servant seeks $750k for minister’s crude joke
(CNS): Bernie Bush, the minister for youth, sports and culture, has issued a written apology to a well-known female public servant over a dirty joke he made to her, which she has said left her shocked and upset. Despite the written apology, the woman is seeking CI$750,000 in financial compensation from the government over the […]
Elliott murder was ‘robbery gone wrong’ says crown
(CNS): Candia James-Malcolm, the deputy director of public prosecutions, told a jury that Harry Elliott (63), a former prison officer who was gunned down at a numbers shop in George Town on 25 April 2022, was murdered during “a robbery gone horribly wrong”. As she opened the crown’s case against Justin Kyle Jackson and Eric […]
Tattoo artists acquitted in sex assault case
(CNS): Yeng Chang Guerra, a tattoo artist accused of sexually assaulting a woman he knew at the Savage Ink Studios on the West Bay Road last year, was found not guilty of all three counts against him Friday. The jury returned the not guilty verdicts after deliberating for about an hour following a four-day trial. […]
