Driver involved in accident in which two is to be charged
  by Vanessa Rolle
  Guardian Staff Reporter

(second article below this one)

   The driver of the car believed to have been involved in a traffic accident that claimed the life of 16-year of Cameron Deveaux and 18- year old O'Dingy Pinder last Thursday is expected to e charged this week.
   " He will definitely be charged, " Assistant Superintendent of Police Arnold Josey said yesterday. "But it is a question as to what he will be charged with. It all depends on what the police finds."
    In a report in The Guardian on Saturday, ASP Josey said that "it is believed that the men were deliberately knocked off their motorbike while on Ferdinand Drive, Regency Park."
    In an earlier report, he indicated that the police " could quite possible be investigating a homicide."
    During yesterday's interview, ASP Josey said, " We don't know if the fellas were forced off the road like everybody is saying, but investigations are ongoing, after which we will make a determination and we should have the results by tomorrow."
    One of Cameron's friends, speaking under the condition of anonymity, said that it was believed that Cameron, O'Dingy and another teenager were at the young lady's residence when her former boyfriend paid a surprise visit.
    "Words were exchanged and her ex-boyfriend left," the source said. "But he came back with his boys and they started arguing again. That's when Cameron and O'Dingy decided to leave. The other boy could not leave with them because he could not hold on the bike."
      Another source, also speaking under the condition of anonymity, said that Cameron's friends are ignited to retaliate and have already threatened to avenge his death.
      The source said that just the day before the fatal accident, someone driving a black Maxima had tried to knock Cameron off his bike while he was driving on Sea Breeze Lane.
      " After Cameron died, his friends were asking around if anybody knew who was driving that Black Maxima," said the source.
     According to the source, the driver of the car is said to be the resident of Sea Breeze Estates and the friend of the person that was driving the car involved in the accident that killed the two teenagers.
     " They have two different group of boys that hang out in Sea Breeze," the source said. "One set live in the area of Sea Breeze with the double lanes and the others live in the back nearer Fox Hill. They were warring with each other for almost two years. At one time, everybody was together but for some reason they just split."
      It was said that Cameron's family and friends rallied to his bedside before he died.
      Before succumbing to his injuries sustained in a motorbike accident, Cameron was said to have spoken to his family and friends on his death bed, according to a family member.
      " Yes, he was able to speak a bit about what happened," the family member said. " He died a short time later."


Three are charged with manslaughter
By Mark Symonette
Guardian Staff Reporter

  Two adults and a 16-year old were charged in the Magistrate's Court on Monday with unlawfully causing the deaths of Michael Pinder and Camaron Deveaux.
   Roger Smith, 18, Kyle Smith, 19, and a 16- year- old juvenile, all of Coral Lakes, were formally charged with two counts of manslaughter in the deaths of Deveaux and Pinder. The deceased were on a motorcycle when they met their deaths on Wednesday, August 19, this year.
    Deveaux and Pinder died after their rental moped, licence number SD 324, crashed into a wall on Ferdinand Drive. Speculation surrounding the deaths are rife, but defence attorney Michael Kemp, who appeared for Kyle Smith and the 16- year old, said that what was reported in the newspapers was far from the truth.
    Assistant Superintendent Police Arnold Josey was quoted as saying that the police believed that the two men were deliberately knocked off their motorbike while on Ferdinand Drive, Regency Park."
     Magistrate Linda Virgil set bail at $50,000 and imposed reporting conditions on Kyle and Roger, and a 7p curfew on the juvenile.
     Prosecuting Sergeant Hector Delva said the prosecution was not objecting to bail for the accused, but he asked the court to impose conditions to reflect the serious nature of the alleged offences.
     He also asked the court to set conditions which would ensure that the accused return to court for trial.
     "We are asking that bail be set in a reasonable amount in the circumstances," attorney Gus Harris- Smith said, adding that the accused had no previous convictions.
      "All of their parents, and indeed grandparents are here," he said.
      Mr. Harris-Smith said there was no question of the accused wanting to abscond.
      "We ask that bail be reasonable, with reasonable conditions," he said. "we have no objections to that, but let us be fair and reasonable."
     Mr. Kemp supported the bail application.
     HE said that both the 19-year old and the juvenile were students, the former being a student at the Hotel Training College, and the latter, a student at a local private school.
     "They are both Bahamians nationals,"  he said.
     He asked that a preliminary inquiry be fixed so as not to interrupt the studies of the two accused.
     "What is reported in the newspapers is nowhere close to what we expect the testimony to be in the case," Mr. Kemp said.
     Mr. Kemp said the accused and the deceased were friends, and that their families knew each other well.
     " This is very, very taxing on everybody because it is generations of friendship," he said.
     " The parents are very responsible individuals," Mr. Kemp added. "The boys come from a sterling Bahamian background."
    The three accused were surrendered to the police by their parents, Mr. Kemp said.
     After considering the arguments advanced by both sides, Mrs. Virgil set bail at $50,000 with two sureties.
" You are to surrender your travel documents to the court," the Magistrate ordered.
    In the case of the 16-year- old boy, Mrs. Virgil ordered him to observe a 7 p.m. curfew, and not to engage in any extra curricular activities.
   As Kyle and Roger smith are considered adults, she said they are to observe two conditions. The two were ordered to report to the Carmichael Road Police Station every Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening at 8 p.m. until the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry into the charges.
    "There are to be no contacts with the witnesses in these matters," Mrs. Virgil ordered.