NASSAU-Two people have been charged in connection to last weekend’s fatal boat crash off Harbour Island.
A ferry boat captained by Marvin Minns Jr reportedly slammed into an unlit 22-foot boat that was operated by Renaldo Grant near Man Island on March 14.
The collision occurred around 9pm and the passengers on Grant’s boat were thrown into the water.
Prosecutors allege that both captains, while concerned together, caused the deaths of Candice McDonald, Leanna Cartwright and Jose Roberts Jr. Two others, Rozette Carey and Shaquelle Cash, were injured and remain in hospital.
Minns and Grant are charged with manslaughter by negligence and causing grievous harm.
Grant is also charged with operating a vessel without a license.
The men were not required to enter pleas to the charges.
The magistrate remanded both men to prison until March 24 for a bail hearing.
However, a Supreme Court judge freed each man on $4,000 bail hours later.
The men still have to appear before Magistrate Ferguson-Pratt on March 24 to learn the date that they will receive a voluntary bill of indictment that will sent the case to the Supreme Court for trial.
Attorneys Ian Cargill and Julika Thompson represent Minns and Keevon Maynard represents Grant.
