C M C M Y K Y K WEATHER TRY OUR Try our HASH BROWNS Big Breakfast Sandwich 2 FOR $1.15 HIGH 90F YOUR PASSPORT TO MISS UNIVERSE LOW 81F The Tribune SUNNY WITH T-STORM BAHAMAS EDITION www.tribune242.com Volume: 105 No.209 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009 PRICE – 75¢ (Abaco and Grand Bahama $1.25) CARS FOR SALE, Mackey gets S Miss Universe S E E T R D HELP WANTED No.24 WBC R I U S O T A N comes to NAGB P I ranking E AND REAL ESTATE S F SEE THE ARTS SECTION BAHAMAS BIGGEST SEE PAGE ELEVEN Man’s body is Davis announces found riddled with bullets 32-year-old A MAN's body riddled with bullets was found in the early hours of yester- is the 49th day in the backseat of a car. bid for PLP deputy The victim is 32-year- murder old Christopher Edwin Pratt from Abaco. He is victim of the country's 49th and Grand Bahama's seventh MP vows to fight the year murder victim for the year. Police made the grue- FLYING THE FLAGS some discovery while they FLAGS OF THE 84 were on routine patrol in corruption and different countries taking east Freeport at around part in this month’s Miss 12.15am. They found the Unviverse pageant are lining victim in the backseat of a violent crime both Paradise Island bridges gold coloured Chevrolet ahead of the event. Malibu, which was parked in bushes off Lindsell Dri- By PAUL G like many other ve, a sparsely populated TURNQUEST Bahamians, am not area just east of Casuarina Tribune Staff happy with the Bridge. Reporter direction in which So far police have only pturnquest@ our country is said the victim's body had tribunemedia.net sustained multiple gunshot headed and I am wounds. The body was lat- absolutely commit- er transported to the VOWING to ted to working with f f morgue at the Rand a fight corruption in you to change the t s Memorial Hospital. Inves- politics and the Bahamas. e tigations are still in the ini- n plague of violent “Ladies and gen- u tial stages and a motive for b i crime on the tlemen, my person- r the killing has not yet been T streets, PLP MP / al story of success e established. k for Cat Island, should be more r Officers of the Central a Rum Cay and San l Detective Unit are han- common. But the C dling the investigation and Salvador Philip government is let- m i “Brave” Davis for- ting us down. T persons with any informa- mally announced PHILIP ‘BRAVE’ DAVIS Crime and unem- tion concerning this latest his bid to run for ployment is rising, homicide are asked to con- the deputy leadership of the but the government is offering tact the police as soon as PLP at a show of force press the same old, failed ideas. possible. conference yesterday. “I have a new vision with Surrounded by friends, new solutions. We need to family, and supporters, includ- look ahead and create jobs of Slow initial 29-year-old ing Member of Parliament for the future, not rely on the Fox Hill Fred Mitchell, Sena- same traditional Bahamian charged with tor Allyson Maynard-Gibson, economic model. We need to ticket sales for former party chairman Ray- fight crime by investing in the Melvin Maycock Sr bail murder of man nard Rigby, Damien Gomez, latest technology and teach- Miss Universe Ryan Pinder, and former ing our police the latest tech- application is refused found in street Minister of Immigration Lof- niques — in addition to By TANEKA THOMPSON A MAN questioned by By NATARIO McKENZIE tus Roker, Mr Davis chal- toughening penalties for crim- Tribune Staff Reporter police after a man was found lenged Bahamians to be inals. And we need to fight Tribune Staff Reporter [email protected] [email protected] dead in the middle of a street in “brave” with him and corruption by empowering a the Grove was arraigned in “change the Bahamas.” new independent ombudsman DESPITE a massive media blitz, Magistrate’s Court yesterday. “Today, I am announcing to investigate and prosecute SUPREME Court Justice Jon Isaacs refused a Police have charged Marco my candidacy for deputy bail application by alleged drug lord Melvin May- initial ticket sales for the Miss Uni- Macintosh, 29, of Bahama leader of the PLP because I, SEE page 12 cock Sr, but agreed to an application for an order verse pageant have been slow with Avenue, with the murder of to improve the conditions of his detention at Her tourism officials blaming the lagging Kendall Hamilton. Mr Hamil- Majesty’s Prison. sales on plain old procrastination. ton was the country’s 46th Lawyer Roger Gomez Jr argued yesterday But the Ministry of Tourism homicide victim for the year. that Maycock Sr has been in custody over a year (MOT) anticipates an uptake in tick- According to reports, police and that the maximum penalty for the escape et purchases as the activities draw received a call around 6.45am charge he is currently standing trial for in Mag- nearer. last Thursday about an injured istrate’s Court is only one year. "I understand the ticket sales are man lying on Poinciana Avenue Maycock, 43, is accused of escaping from a starting to pick up. We're last minute near 2nd Street in the Grove. holding cell at the Elizabeth Estates Police Sta- When officers arrived, they people, and so I think they're going found Mr Hamilton dead with a tion in February 2008 by switching places with his to pick up now because the (ticket- son Melvin Maycock Jr. Maycock Sr was cap- wound to the head. ed) events begin next week," said Macintosh, who is repre- tured four months later following a high speed Janet Johnson, director for onshore sented by attorney Murrio chase. US prosecutors requested Maycock’s communications for the Ministry. Ducille, was not required to extradition in June 2004 on allegations that he is When asked if she felt the prices enter a plea to the murder the mastermind of the Caribbean arm of a multi- — ranging from $50 to $1,000 — charge during his arraignment national drug gang. Thirteen other men, includ- before Deputy Chief Magis- ing Melvin Maycock Jr who are charged in the may have scared potential customers away, Ms Johnson said “yes” but trate Carolita Bethel in Court 8, same indictment as Maycock Sr, were freed on Bank Lane yesterday. bail in 2006. reasoned the fees are well worth it He was remanded to Her Mr Gomez said that Maycock Sr was willing to for the "world-class" event. Majesty’s Prison yesterday. The surrender his travel documents and sign in at a case was adjourned to August SEE page 12 18 for fixture and transferred SEE page 12 to Court 11, Nassau Street. NASSAU AND BAHAMA ISLANDS’ LEADING NEWSPAPER C M C M Y K Y K PAGE 2, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 2009 THE TRIBUNE LOCAL NEWS Claims of inhumane treatment during Immigration raid Sources say n a i families were n o c a b A torn apart / H P L By MEGAN REYNOLDS A R Tribune Staff Reporter D I [email protected] V A D : THE Abaco community s o t has been left reeling follow- n North Abaco was one of the settlements raided. o THE MUD I h ing an Immigration raid in P three Haitian settlements in any number of houses, so as people remained “rela- see the new immigrants which people were treated they give them to their tively calm”. come in either, they want “inhumanely” and families employers and have a copy And The Tribune had not to help the department, but were torn apart, sources at the house. received a response to the now, since the raid, they say. “But I have heard officers allegations from Immigra- feel differently. They are Witnesses of the dawn wouldn’t accept the copies tion director Jack Thomp- angry.” detained in the raids gather outside of the raids at the North Abaco RELATIVES OF THOSE in the raid and they even son before press time. The source said witnesses local Immigraiton office last week. settlements of the Mud and tore up some of them.” Thousands of Haitians of the raid have been con- Pigeon Pea in Marsh Har- Haitian-Bahamian and Bahamians of Haitian sistent in their reports, bour, as well as Sandbanks, men from their homes while Thursday, according to a Luzena Dumercy said a descent live in the three set- adding: “They have all said near Treasure Cay, claim barely dressed, and ordered Tribune source in Marsh woman was dragged tlements, the largest Hait- the officers broke down authorities broke down children out of their beds Harbour. through the dirt when she ian settlements in the coun- doors, kicked in things, doors, dragged women and between 4am and 5am on The Haitian-Bahamian resisted authorities, and try, and as housing, elec- dragged people out of families who have lived in children were taken from tricity and water supply is houses when women were the settlements for decades their beds. not regulated in the com- not dressed properly, and said they have been left She added: “They treat munities, the health and they took people off with- INDEX angry and upset, and are these people like animals safety of residents is at risk. out letting them get their now unwilling to assist the and they come hunt them documents.