By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
TWO Boxing Day murders and the decomposed bodies of two persons found in Andros last week has taken the country’s murder count for the year to one death past 2012’s total.
Police Superintendent Paul Rolle told The Tribune that police have classified the human remains found in Central Andros on December 22 as that of two murder victims.
His comments came after officials said they could only determine that the remains were that of an adult male discovered with “items related to a female”.
Mr Rolle yesterday declined to speculate on whether the remains of the persons were those of missing immigration officer Sean Gardiner and his girlfriend, Tishka Braynen, who disappeared on November 25.
He said police are still awaiting the DNA results that will determine the identities of the victims.
Two men ages 29 and 24 were also shot and killed early Thursday in separate incidents.
In the first incident, shortly after midnight the victim was sitting on an upturned bucket on the side of Dorsette Street in Fox Hill when several persons in a silver coloured four-door Honda approached and fired numerous shots, hitting him in his face before speeding off. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
In the second incident, shortly after 2am police received a report that a victim brought into hospital by a private vehicle was suffering from a gunshot wound in the abdomen, received during a shooting incident at Fowler Street off East Bay Street. The victim later died of his injuries.
The current murder count of 112 is already the second highest ever recorded in a single year. More murders were only recorded in 2011, when 127 people were killed.
Comments
crabman 10 years, 10 months ago
well we is still good at breaking records, I am so proud to call the Bahamas my home, and Bahamians my people.
We have become a shining example of how to take the greatest country in the Caribbean down the path to death,destruction,crime and hate. I look forward to proudly saying in 2014, yes we can break the old record and why not, we all know that we have finally found our niche, we is good at killing each other and destroying our country, I am sure that in the near future we will have a new direction in tourism, "Come to the Bahamas to see the best murders in the Caribbean"
Honestman 10 years, 10 months ago
We seem to focus on the official murder count as the barometer for the level of serious criminality in The Bahamas. There seems to be a morbid fascination over the annual record. The Government in understanding this National obsession has disingenuously tinkered with gun death statistics this year and shamelessly reclassified many fatal incidents. Frankly, folks ought to be concerned just as much with armed home invasion, armed robbery and rape. The fact that persons survive these incidents is often down to good fortune and the skill of our surgeons. The reality is that ordinary Bahamians feel that The Bahamas (and particularly New Providence) is a much less safe place to live than it was even five years ago. This administration hoodwinked the electorate into believing that it had the answer to crime (having had five years in opposition to study the problem). It was of course bullsh*t. The PLP has no more clue than the FNM as to how to deal with the problem. There seems to be no political will to go in where it hurts and sort out these thugs. Talk,talk, talk. Lines in the sand, bla,bla, bla. So long as a tourist isn't slain and the armed incidents remain largely "over the hill", government will plod on dishing out platitudes about having the right strategies in place. Doesn't the cabinet realize that we are so very close to the tipping point? The US State department has issued so many warnings, cruise ships have warnings placed on cabin doors. How much further do we have to slide before government takes some decisive action?
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