A 21-year-old man in The Bahamas has been remanded into custody until Thursday after he appeared in a magistrate’s court on Monday charged with threatening to kill the island’s Prime Minister Philip Davis.
The man denied the accusation when he made his initial appearance in the Magistrate’s Court of making the death threat on February 18.
Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt remanded him to prison until Thursday when he will return for a bail hearing.
The charges against Roberts comes nearly two weeks after a 58-year-old man was questioned for making similar death threats against Davis, who led the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in September 2021, defeating the incumbent Free National Movement (FNM) government of Dr Hubert Minnis.
The police said that around 8:20 am (local time) on Saturday, a man called Central Police Station and threatened to kill Prime Minister Davis.
On February 3, the Bahamian Office of the Prime Minister received two anonymous death threats over the phone in the span of 15 minutes.
