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Police Called In To Remove Bahamian Squatters

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Sometime after 6:00 pm on Saturday police were called in to a condominium complex on West Bay Street, the complaint? Squatters and not just squatters, but high profile squatters.

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11 months ago

June 4, 2023

Tanya Smith-Cartwright

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Sometime after 6:00 pm on Saturday police were called in to a condominium complex on West Bay Street, the complaint? Squatters and not just squatters, but high profile squatters.

Officers at the Cable Beach Police Station were called to a condominium complex in western New Providence to settle a dispute of alleged squatting.

The condominium complex owned by an expatriate, is on the market to be sold for some $1.9 million.

On arrival at the condo complex police met Warren Aranha a man known to them for practically the same allegations, squatting.

Our News went to the police station where sources said both Lincoln Bain and Aranha were being held, but an officer said Aranha was there of his own free will and Bain was never at the station.

We spoke with Aranha, who claims his great grandfather, Joseph Samuel Johnson owns the land in western New Providence and has claimed and lived in many abandoned homes in the area. He confirmed he was not in police custody.

Aranha later told Our News that Bain was living in one of the units with others under an agreement between himself and Bain.

Our News contacted Lincoln Bain who agreed he had an agreement with Aranha for one of the units but not to live there.

Bain goes on to say that he feels this is a direct plot of a political party because of the support his party, the Coalition of Independents, is getting.

Aranha has been arrested on more than one occasion under allegations of squatting in abandoned properties owned by the National Insurance Board in western New Providence.