On a 90-degree weekend this month, Theophalis “Binky Bilal” Wilson moved into his first apartment since he was a teenager. He couldn’t afford movers, so he and a few friends carted his possessions across the city in sweaty repeat trips.Wilson was exonerated in 2020 after 28 years in prison for a 1989 triple murder. He left prison with his legal files and little else. Pennsylvania is the .
A lesson for Bahamian gangsters
Dear Editor,
The April 15 murders of six young Bahamians laid bare to the nation the root cause of the perennial murder crisis which has gripped New Providence for over two decades.
The root cause is the proliferation of violent gangs roaming the streets of the inner-city areas of Nassau, with certain impoverished communities being unofficially designated as the turfs of the said gangs – areas which are completely off limits to gang rivals, and possibly their close relatives as well.
The presence of a rival in an opposing gang territory would be interpreted as trespassing by his enemies, an offense that carries a stiff penalty.
Barbara Gayle/Gleaner Contributor
Deported Jamaican, Richard ‘Storyteller’ Morrison, is fed up with the long delay by the court to conclude his negligence case against the Jamaican government for wrongful extradition. Morrison, a building contractor, says he does not know what else to do but to bring his plight to the attention of the Appeal Court. All I know for sure is that this has been an extraordinary persecution not prosecution for an ordinary man, he told
The Gleaner. Morrison said shortly before midday Monday, he went to the Court of Appeal to file documents requesting that the Supreme Court be compelled to deliver its judgment on the compensation to be awarded to him in the claim he brought against the Minister of Justice and the Attorney General.