C M C M Y K Y K WEATHER TINGS TOUGH McDOUBLE FOR $3.79 ANY TIME...ANY PLACE, WE’RE #1 HIGH 90F LOW 78F The Tribune PLENTY OF SUNSHINE BAHAMAS EDITION www.tribune242.com Volume: 105 No.266 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009 PRICE – 75¢ (Abaco and Grand Bahama $1.25) A peasant who CARS FOR SALE, Darling ready impacted the E S E HELP WANTED AND T D D I for the world I R S S O N N REAL ESTATE P I I WORLD championships S SEE PAGE SIX BAHAMAS BIGGEST SEE PAGE NINE Man faces NINE child sex charges A MAN was arraigned in Magistrate's assault. Court documents allege that Johnson Bank Lane, Nassau, had no lawyer present Johnson, of Hatchet Bay, Eleuthera, was Court yesterday for allegedly having sexual assaulted the boys between January, 2007, and was not allowed to enter a plea. remanded to Her Majesty's Prison in Fox intercourse with nine young boys. and August, 2009. It is claimed the youngsters The prosecutor in the case objected to bail Hill. Navardo Johnson, 29, was charged with were between the ages of seven to 14. on the grounds there may be more alleged The case was transferred to Court 10 and nine counts of alleged sexual intercourse Johnson, who was charged before Chief victims who may come forward, and argued adjourned to October 16 for a fixture date with a minor and one count of indecent Magistrate Roger Gomez in Court One, that Johnson may interfere with witnesses. and a bail hearing. CONTROVERSIAL POUND THROWS DOORS OPEN TO TRIBUNE Is this the right way to treat our pets? By MEGAN REYNOLDS Tribune Staff Reporter [email protected] THIS is starved and sickly pit bull pot- cake Lola. Just hours after this photo- strays who roam the streets of Nassau graph was taken at the government dog without food, water or shelter, to their pound ... she was killed. great suffering and at a risk to public Lola was one of 45 dogs collected by health. the canine control unit this week and Staff at the canine control unit say their euthanised yesterday morning in time for numbers are increasing as the poor econ- their carcasses to be collected by envi- omy and high rate of unemployment has ronmental health services for disposal, as left owners unable to care for their pets, they are every Friday. SEE page 12 Lola was one of tens of thousands of LOLA, who was put down yesterday afternoon. Former union president upset Christie ‘against any move Bahamasair probes claims by office manager’s ‘despair’ to oppose Moss nomination’ of passengers left stranded ESTRANGED former following a dispute between PLP leader Perry Christie yesterday said he would be against BAHAMASAIR is inves- her scheduled flight to the president of the Airport Air- executives. any amendment to the party’s constitution that would sup- tigating claims that the down- island on Sunday and has no line and Allied Workers Former Secretary General port any effort to oppose leadership contender Paul Moss sizing of flights into San Sal- guarantee of getting home this Union Nelerene Harding says Anthony Bain claims he is from nominating to challenge him. vador has left ticketed pas- week because all of the she is disturbed by reports now president of the union, “I would not support any effort to oppose his nomination on sengers stranded. remaining flights into the that an office manager who in place of former president a technical point. I’ve heard about some attempt to stop Moss In a letter sent to The Tri- island are full. served under her leadership Nelerene Harding, following from running but God almighty, when the day comes that Per- bune, frustrated traveller Gar- "My only recourse is to go is on the verge of suicide and years of intra-union strife. ry Christie would have to rely on technical intervention (to nell Williams — a resident of to the airport every day on pleading for assistance for her Ms Barry claims she is remain leader of the party), by God, I should go,” he told The San Salvador — complained stand-by. I've done that, but daughter after being caught owed around $26,000 by the Tribune. Mr Christie was responding to claims from some that her return to her home- so far without success," said up in the middle of union in- organisation for her five years SEE page 11 town has been delayed sever- Ms Williams, who added that fighting. of service, but has got nothing al times because the airline she has to bear the cost of In yesterday’s Tribune, 29- as the Department of Labour has started using smaller round-trip travel by taxi to the year-old Krystal Barry told claims it cannot act to settle planes on its routes to the airport from the Fox Hill area. how she and her daughter the matter until it knows who family island. "Right now Bahamasair Rayven’s quality of life has REMINDER: As Monday is Discovery Day, there Ms Williams, who is stay- plunged since she lost her job SEE page 11 ing with relatives in New SEE page 11 at the union earlier this year will be no Tribune until Tuesday. Providence, said she missed NASSAU AND BAHAMA ISLANDS’ LEADING NEWSPAPER C M C M Y K Y K PAGE 2, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2009 THE TRIBUNE LOCAL NEWS WORKER’S PARTY TO STEP UP PRESSURE ON GOVERNMENT TRIX: Hundreds expected to take PET OF THE WEEK part in ‘pro-hanging march’ By TANEKA THOMPSON freedom is symptomatic of the fact that muted to life imprisonment. Tribune Staff Reporter from fear of this country is in a free-fall In 2006, the country's [email protected] earning a into the abyss of hell, mayhem mandatory death sentence was decent and violence. All the indica- abolished by the UK judicial HUNDREDS of capital wage and tions suggest that we are head- body as a breach of human punishment supporters are enjoying it. ing pell-mell towards being a rights. expected to flood the streets We are liv- failed state," said Mr Moncur, David Mitchell, executed in this Discovery Day holiday for ing in fear January 2000, was the last per- Tommy who organised several similar a "pro-hanging" march. of taking marches last year. son to be hanged in the Members of the Worker's Turnquest our earn- Bahamas. According to pub- Party along with relatives and ings home lished reports, the Bahamas friends of murder victims will without being robbed and Rulings has hanged 50 men since 1929; agitate for government to killed on the way and we are five of them were hanged resume the execution of pris- being denied the inalienable National Security Minister under the Ingraham adminis- oners on death row and deny right and freedom to enjoy the Tommy Turnquest has main- tration; 13 were hanged under bail to those accused of vio- fruits of our labour as crimi- tained that rulings by the Privy the 25-year rule of the Pin- lent crimes. nals attack us in the stores, on Council have changed how the dling government; and the This comes at a time when the streets, on our doorsteps Bahamas can carry out capital remainder were executed the fear of crime is spreading and even in the sanctity of our punishment. between 1929 and 1967. among law abiding citizens homes," said Mr Moncur in a In 1993, a Privy Council rul- None were hanged during and "crazed criminals" are statement released yesterday. ing decided that the death the Christie administration, roaming the streets, said Rod- "The soaring crime rate is penalty can not be carried out between 2002 and 2007. ney Moncur, leader of the a clear indication that this if the prisoner in question has According to published Worker's Party. nation is spiralling out of con- been on death row for more reports, there are 17 people "The working class of this trol. The escalating incidence than five years; as a result the on death row at Her Majesty's country is being denied the of mindless criminal activity sentence is automatically com- Prison, Fox Hill. WHY TRIX is a stunning one-year- been owned before being YOU VEX? old spayed tortoiseshell female found, but was unfortunately "I vex because I purchased a microwave fat, dumb police who tions, how they make the attendants come with striking green eyes. She is either lost or abandoned. Please from a major appliance store in January. can't enforce the sim- in and pay for the gas while you in there strong-willed, talkative and help her out by providing her This is October and the microwave is not plest laws." trying to get something out the conve- loves to be in the middle of with a new, permanent home. working. – Concerned Citizen nience store. I been to one gas station on everything. Whether it be a box "They claim that they had a technician Thompson Boulevard one night round 11 that is about to be filled, a lad- Trix is just one of many beau- check it out and it was hit by a power I’m more than vexed. pm – they had five people inside the der that is about to be climbed tiful adult cats with lovely per- surge, but nothing else in my house was hit Why does a letter post- cashier's cage but in spite of that they was or a purse placed on a table for sonalities on offer at the BHS – by a power surge.