C M C M Y K Y K WEATHER ! EW N McCOMBO OF THE DAY HIGH 92F THE PEOPLE’S PAPER – BIGGEST AND BEST LOW 79F The Tribune SUNNY WITH A SHOWER BAHAMAS EDITION www.tribune242.com Volume: 106 No.209 TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010 PRICE – 75¢ (Abaco and Grand Bahama $1.25) MOURNERS IN DRAMATIC BOARDWALK RESCUE e d i By AVA TURNQUEST s d Tribune Staff Reporter o o [email protected] W c i r l THESE are the dramatic moments when U / bystanders and tourists rushed to rescue the victims s o t of a horrific boardwalk collapse. o h The terrified victims were among a 50-strong par- P ty of mourners who had turned up on Saturday morning to pay their last respects to 32-year-old Sharmaine Smith-Downy. SEE page nine HORROR WEEKEND Fishing guide is murdered in Exuma WOMAN QUESTIONED AFTER MAN STABBED TO DEATH By AVA TURNQUEST addition to the four men Tribune Staff Reporter assisting police two others are [email protected] being sought. Chrislyn Skippings, press POLICE are questioning officer of the Royal Bahamas four men following the mur- Police Force, said there was der of a well-known fishing no information to suggest the guide in Exuma. incident was drug-related at Cely Smith, 45, was at his this time. home in Stuart Manor on Police have also disputed Sunday morning when four claims that the incident was gunmen with dreadlocked linked to a fight which took hair kicked down his door and place yesterday in a nightclub fired gunshots in his direction. in Black Point, a settlement Mr Smith later died of his 15 minutes away from Stuart injuries at a local clinic. Manor, where two men got Sources close to the inves- into an altercation which tigation report that four men resulted in one of them being helping police with their gun butted and flown to hos- inquiries were arrested by pital in Nassau. Drug Enforcement Unit offi- According to relatives, Mr cers off the Montagu fore- Smith had seven children and shore. had lived at his two-storey It is believed that after home in Stuart’s Manor for shooting Mr Smith, the cul- nearly 15 years. prits fled to Staniel Cay where On the morning of his they commandeered a white shooting, four of his sons were THE BODY is removed from the scene on East Bay Street. Felipé Major/Tribune staff coloured go-fast boat and present – two of whom are headed for New Providence, still in high school. By ALISON LOWE band was stabbed to death Bay Street. death, said Mr Williams was however police were last night A family member said: Tribune Staff Reporter in a parking lot. While the victim has not arriving for his work shift at tight-lipped over the details. [email protected] The killing took place in been formally identified, about 9pm on Saturday as a It is understood that in SEE page eight the vacant lot located The Tribune understands his security guard securing A 43-YEAR-OLD between the Green Parrot surname is Williams. property belonging to US- woman was last night being bar and Bahamas Air Sea A manager at the Green based civil engineering firm PLEASE NOTE THAT, DUE TO TECHNICAL ISSUES, questioned by police after a Rescue Association (BAS- Parrot Bar and Grill, which SEE page eight THERE IS NO USA TODAY IN TODAY’S TRIBUNE man believed to be her hus- RA) headquarters on East is next to the site of the Two die in tragic opening $600,000 worth of drugs 400 attempt to illegally to the crawfish season seized after chase, shootout enter Bahamas in two days By DENISE MAYCOCK By DENISE MAYCOCK LOCAL and international law Tribune Freeport Reporter Tribune Freeport Reporter enforcement agents in the past two days [email protected] [email protected] have apprehended more than 400 people attempting to enter the Bahamas ille- FREEPORT – The opening of the FREEPORT: Grand Bahama Police gally. crawfish season on Grand Bahama was seized almost $600,000 worth of illegal The influx has caused the Royal marked with tragedy when two men died drugs and arrested two men, one of whom Bahamas Defence Force to increase its in separate crawfishing incidents in the was shot during a high-speed chase and patrols at sea and in the air. The US West End and East End areas. shootout with officers. Coast Guard has reportedly done like- According to police reports, the body Assistant Superintendent Hector Delva wise. of one man was pulled from the waters said police are searching for a third man The first group, 159 Haitians, were who escaped after the vehicle being pur- near Memory Rock on Monday. His apprehended on Friday north west of sued by officers crashed into a tree. Great Inagua by the US Coast Guard identity is being withheld by police. According to reports, DEU officers were SEE page eight SEE page nine SEE page eight NASSAU AND BAHAMA ISLANDS’ LEADING NEWSPAPER C M C M Y K Y K PAGE 2, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2010 THE TRIBUNE LOCAL NEWS Police in Florida confident they have EMANCIPATION DAY PHOTOS/FELIPE MAJOR found remains of Bahamian woman By ALISON LOWE missing. Her disappearance according to local reports. Tribune Staff Reporter was not reported to police The first signs that law [email protected] until three months later. enforcement officials may Foul play was suspected, have found Darice’s POLICE in Florida are but no one has ever been remains came on Friday confident they have found taken into custody in con- when police were able to the remains of a Bahamian nection with the matter. locate a foot bone at a woman who went missing A former Miss Bahamas wooded site off State Road there in 2006. contestant and law student, 524 in Brevard County. Cocoa Police Department Darice is the only child of They were reported to believe the body to be that Mario and Princess have unearthed yet more of 22-year-old Darice Knowles. According to bones yesterday, a week Knowles. They were tipped Darice’s cousin, Dana after police called in heavy off to the location by a Munnings, many of her equipment to begin clear- prison inmate. family members in Nassau ing the area where they Barbara Matthews, a MISSING WOMAN: have been locked in a state believed her body may have Darice Knowles spokesperson for the Cocoa of denial over the disap- been located. Police Department in Bre- pearance. "Part of the thing that has vard County, Florida, told a Ms Matthews. This weekend, detectives kept us driven for the last local newspaper that police The discovery of Darice’s were said to be unwilling to four years to find her body had not “positively identi- suspected remains revives discuss what may have hap- was the fact that we wanted fied” the remains, but were what had become a cold pened to Darice, but said it to give the family closure,” nonetheless “certain” that case file for local police. was likely she knew her said Ms Matthews. “Of they belong to the Bahami- Darice was said to have attacker. course, after we do what we an. flown to the US from Nas- One of the suspects in the need to do, everything will “She’s pretty much intact sau in March 2006 to visit matter went with police to be turned over to the fami- and you can make out the male friends from the the scene to help find where ly so they can give her a outline of her remains,” said Bahamas when she went Knowles’ body was located, proper burial." 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