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C M C M Y K Y K WEATHER TRY OUR DOUBLE FILET-O-FISH HIGH 87F ANY TIME...ANY PLACE, WE’RE #1 LOW 77F The Tribune CLOUDY, T-STORMS BAHAMAS EDITION www.tribune242.com Volume: 105 No.239 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 PRICE – 75¢ (Abaco and Grand Bahama $1.25) CARS FOR SALE, S Larry Smith’s E Artists E E R D D HELP WANTED U I I T S S A N N Tough Call I I E 4Peace AND REAL ESTATE F SEE INSIDE ‘THE ARTS’ SECTION SEE PAGE EIGHT BAHAMAS BIGGEST Myles Munroe calls for wider debate on the marital rape issue By MEGAN REYNOLDS Tribune Staff Reporter Murder sparks mreynolds@ tribunemedia.net LEADING pastor, author and motivational speaker Myles Munroe is calling for a wider debate on the proposed amendment to outlaw marital rape now that the issue has divided the Christian community. Dr Munroe has out- lined a series of questions he wants government to ‘soft targets’ fear address before passing the amendment to the Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Act that would make it illegal Employee is WOMAN ATTACKED BY PIT BULLS SCARRED FOR LIFE for a man to rape his wife. The Catholic Archdio- cese, the Bahamas Con- ference of the Methodist gunned down Church, and the Seventh- Day Adventist Church have all expressed sup- port for the proposed outside of shop amendment. But the Bahamas By TANEKA THOMPSON be a wake-up call to Govern- Christian Council, the Tribune Staff Reporter ment to immediately buffer largest religious body in [email protected] the spill-over of violent crime the country, has rejected into the business sector. the proposed amend- MORE "innocent" blood "I feel that the crime now is ment. will be shed as armed bandits spilling into the commercial Former Council presi- home in on vulnerable "soft- area more than before. They dent Bishop Simeon Hall criticised the Council’s targets" in the business com- are hitting soft targets in areas munity, a local activist fears. not heavily policed and those SEE page six Reverend C B Moss, head who may not have their own By MEGAN REYNOLDS of civic group Bahamas private security force or the Tribune Staff Reporter Against Crime, spoke out as security systems which could mreynolds@ police probe the murder of offer them protection," Mr tribunemedia.net Chinese firm 44-year-old Nelson Goodman Moss told The Tribune. who may be the third in a "Unless this is addressed A MOTHER who was expects Baha string of employees shot by immediately, it is going to attacked by two pit bull armed robbers on company escalate to other areas of the terriers has revealed how property. business community and then she has been left scarred Mar resort to Mr Goodman, who worked it's going to hit the area every- for life. at Bertha's Go-Go Ribs take- one is concerned about — the In an exclusive inter- open by 2013 away on Poinciana Avenue, tourism sector, but by then it view from her hospital By ALISON LOWE was gunned down outside the will be too late," he warned. bed, Zelma Maura told shop shortly after midnight When asked yesterday if Tribune Staff Reporter how she was savaged by [email protected] yesterday. police were treating armed the dogs and is now in Police said they had not robbery-related murders as constant pain. THE Chinese company set ruled robbery out as a motive, an emerging trend, Commis- The 30-year-old reliv- but could not say if anything sioner of Police Reginald Fer- to build the 1,000-acre Baha ed the terrifying moments Mar resort at Cable Beach was stolen from the restau- guson was hesitant to brand when the dogs chased her rant or if Mr Goodman was the incidents as reason for has announced it expects con- as she tried to run away struction to go ahead early robbed of any personal or alarm. from them in Abundant company property. "Most armed robberies are next year in time for the Life Road, and sank their resort to open its doors by But Rev Moss said the teeth into her arm and recent string of attacks should SEE page six 2013. leg when she tripped and China State Construction fell in a grassy area and Engineering Company between Chelsea’s ZELMA MAURA, 30, was savagely attacked by two pit bulls last (CSCEC), which signed a $1.9 week and will have surgery at Princess Margaret Hospital today. billion deal with Baha Mar SEE page six Resorts Limited last Friday, also revealed in a statement to the Chinese media that by ‘Tentative’ date set for Harl Taylor murder retrial investing $99 million in the project it will obtain a 2.75 By NATARIO McKENZIE rio Ducille to have the judge Ducille informed the court he is Tribune Staff Reporter recuse herself from hearing the scheduled to be in Freeport for per cent equity stake. [email protected] retrial as well as the status of a case which is expected to run This latest update comes another trial in Freeport in from November 9 to 27. days after the Bahamas Gov- SENIOR Justice Anita Allen which Mr Ducille is also Director of Public Prosecu- ernment signed an accord yesterday set November 4 as involved. The hearing of the tions Bernard Turner said the with the Chinese on the “Pro- the “tentative” date for the start application is scheduled for matter in Freeport can com- motion and Protection” of of the retrial of Troyniko September 29. mence on completion of the investments made by The McNeil who is accused of mur- McNeil, 22, remains on McNeil trial. Mr Ducille said, Bahamas and China in each dering handbag designer Harl remand at Her Majesty’s Prison however, that the matter in other’s territories. Taylor. as he awaits the retrial. Novem- Freeport is an old case that had At the same time as that The date has been set pend- ber 2 was initially set for the been set for trial since Easter. agreement was signed, Prime ing the outcome of an applica- start. tion by McNeil’s attorney Mur- Yesterday, however, Mr SEE page six SEE page six NASSAU AND BAHAMA ISLANDS’ LEADING NEWSPAPER C M C M Y K Y K PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2009 THE TRIBUNE LOCAL NEWS Dire crime prediction as violence escalates Activist calls for immediate action AS violence continues to amazed, in some instances escalate, 2009 could end up shocked that the information being “the worst year ever for gathered had been part of pre- crime” warned Rev CB Moss, vious national reports, while it is executive director of Bahamas clear that in some instances sev- REV CB MOSS Against Crime. eral suggestions from previous Rev Moss issued a strong reports were implemented, in He said that while remaining statement yesterday calling for the main, we seem to be blow- thankful to members of past all crime committees and com- ing bubbles when it comes to crime councils and commissions missions to be brought to an seriously addressing crime and for their efforts, Bahamas end and action to be taken its causes.” Against Crime believes all such immediately. Rev Moss said: “There it is bodies still in operation should His comments follow the from the council. The clearest be dissolved immediately, shooting death of a 44-year-old evidence that the year it spent in including the House of Assem- man outside Bertha’s Go-Go deliberations was a shameful bly select committee on crime, Ribs on Poinciana Drive early waste of time while nearly 150 which is now holding hearings. yesterday morning (see lead sto- murders and thousands of other “We are aware of the prob- ry, page 1). serious crimes took place.” lems; let’s now implement the “This is madness,” Rev Moss He also went on to note that many recommendations in said, “58 homicides in addition in a 1994 report, the Consulta- reports sitting on shelves in offi- to countless other crimes in an tive Committee on National cial offices for many, many ever increasing tide is plunging Youth Development noted that: years,” Rev Moss said. our society into the depths of “Crime and violence of all He said responsibility for the social chaos.” kinds, namely armed robberies, situation now falls squarely at He warned that the “soul” of serious harm and other assaults the doorstep of Prime Minister the Bahamian people is at risk, against the person and gang vio- Hubert Ingraham. because there seems to be no lence had reached epidemic “As leader of the govern- concern about the well-being of proportions in our community. ment, he must accept the others. These acts of crime and vio- responsibility of his government “There is no outcry until our lence are uniformly condemned to provide a reasonable level of personal interests are invaded,” by our society, yet they persist.” security for the citizenry, which he said. According to Rev Moss, the is one of the primary responsi- According to Rev Moss, the situation has become “tremen- bilities of any and all govern- December 2007 appointment of dously worse” since that report ments,” Rev Moss said. the National Advisory Council was delivered 15 years ago, yet “The prime minister must on crime was “unnecessary and successive governments contin- step up to the plate and lead an absolute waste of time and ue to appoint committees and the nation out of this deep crisis. public funds.” commissions to examine the The time is now and Bahamas This, he noted, was confirmed problem of crime.

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