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Kansas City Chiefs WR Devard Darling is preparing to hold the inaugural Nassau Elite Devard Darling Football Camp in Nassau, Bahamas.

A federal jury found a Bahamian fishing boat captain guilty of second-degree murder in the drowning of three illegal immigrants he was trying to smuggle into the United States.

The bad news? Prices are up. The good news? Prices are up. Analysts are forecasting $200-a-barrel oil, which could put a gallon of gas close to $10 for Bahamians.

The government hopes to boost its revenue collection this upcoming budgetary year by hiking the price of work permit fees; funds that will be poured into training Bahamians.

Federal prosecutors say that the final drug and immigrant smuggling run of a Bahamian sea captain known as 'Tricks' came to an end in the churning surf off Jupiter Island when he forced 10 passengers to jump from his idling speedboat.

Moments later, the twin-engine boat ran aground on the rocky shore in the dark early morning of Dec. 28, 2006.

Not far from the boat, police later found the body of a 64-year-old Jamaican man with an orange life vest twisted around his neck and a black duffel bag containing 83 pounds of marijuana. The murder and drug smuggling trial of Rickey Thompson, 42, opened Wednesday with federal prosecutors painting a picture of a cocaine-snorting captain, who forced his passengers, sometimes at gunpoint, off his boat in rough seas far from shore. The immigrants, mostly from Jamaica and Haiti, each paid him $3,000 for the three-hour trip from Freeport. That December night, Nigel Warren, known as 'Pops,' begged to stay aboard because he couldn't swim. But Thompson wouldn't listen. And prosecutors say that at least two other people, both Haitian, also drowned on one of Thompson's smuggling runs the previous August to the same remote rocky spot off Blowing Rocks Preserve. Along with the murder of three people and the smuggling of 14 illegal aliens, Thompson is accused of importing cocaine, heroin and marijuana. If convicted, he faces life imprisonment and more than $37 million in fines. 'This trial is about three people who lost their lives when Rickey Thompson forced them off of his boat,' Assistant U.S. Attorney Adrienne Rabinowitz said in her opening statement. 'This is a trial about people who prey on illegal aliens, people who see a way to make money and charge them for sneaking into this country.'

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com The moral grandstanding turned media crush turned political football engulfing an ...

June 3, 2008 at 5:01 am Filed under Bahamas Business News Headlines Education officials have completed the latest draft of a new strategic plan for education, saying the government will over the next 10 years ...

Police have charged a Bahamian man with multiple felony charges after seizing marijuana, crack cocaine, firearms and thousands of dollars in cash from his home, court records show.

Sorry, but I have to say the good senator is wrong. There are more than two choices for ZNS.

Jack Holstein of Bahama, and Phill Trainor of Chapel Hill, put shingles on a home during construction of a Habitat For Humanity home construction project in Durham, North Carolina, May 8, 2008.

From marked increases in Social Service allocations to tax eliminations on food items, to pay raises for public officers and teachers to tax suspensions on fuel imports for the Bahamas Electricity Corporation, ...

Police responding to reports of a capsized speedboat discovered the bodies of four people believed to be Haitian migrants in bloody, shark-infested waters between Florida and the Bahamas, authorities said ...

Recent Links also in Americas>> Haitian blogger kiske city links to an interview with Nicholas Laughlin, who is at the Calabash International Literary Festival in Jamaica talking about "Caribbean literature, ...

By Michael Norby: Fan friendly lightweight contender Edner Cherry scored a status building and highly impressive victory on Wednesday night, after he knocked out former world title holder Stevie Johnston in ...

A developer named Tony Joudi made several attempts to get the government to back his cock-eyed scheme to grow corn on hundreds of thousands of acres throughout the country.

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com Like the mercurial nature of the weather, you never know how well or unevenly ZNS ...

And for all you alarmists out there, his latest project is about ways the world could end.

Yesterday, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent an urgent letter to Philip S. Weech - " director of the Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology Commission - " urging him to combat global warming ... via People for the Ethical Treatment of A...

“I had to use more heat to keep that apartment warm. And the apartment was smaller.”

Energy efficiency often comes standard in charity-built homes There's a flurry of activity on two Habitat for Humanity homes in the Hope Crossing subdivision in Durham. via News Observer

Recent Links also in Americas>> # Nicolette Bethel links to a video series "on the statelessness of children of Haitian parentage growing up in The Bahamas" and says that "every Bahamian should watch them - ' ... via Global Voices Online