A 25-year-old New Providence woman was charged in a Magistrate’s court on Tuesday with stealing by reason of employment, adding to a growing list of individuals recently charged with stealing from their employers. <\/p>\n
Kendra Bowe was charged with stealing $21,480 from Royal Bank of Canada in the Cable Beach Shopping Centre on May 6.<\/p>\n
She pleaded not guilty to the charge before Magistrate Marilyn Meeres.<\/p>\n
The accused was employed at the bank as a central teller, a position that requires the handling of large volumes of money.<\/p>\n
A central teller is also responsible for restocking the Automatic Banking Machine and handling business clients’ accounts, according to one bank official.<\/p>\n
Bowe was granted bail in the sum of $15,000 with two sureties.<\/p>\n
During the arraignment, Magistrate Meeres gave her the option of having her case heard in the Supreme Court or the Magistrate’s court.<\/p>\n
Bowe, who was represented by attorney Wilbert Moss, indicated that she would prefer to have her case heard in the lower court.<\/p>\n
Magistrate Meeres then scheduled a preliminary inquiry for August 3.<\/p>\n
Bowe’s appearance in court came several weeks after a senior official of The Bank of The Bahamas made headlines when he was charged with stealing from that institution.<\/p>\n
Back in April, Terry Gerard Murray, a former financial controller at the bank, was charged with stealing more than $139,000. <\/p>\n
Murray maintained his innocence during the arraignment, pleading not guilty to the 14 counts of stealing.<\/p>\n
He also appeared before Magistrate Meeres and was granted bail in the sum of $50,000.<\/p>\n
His preliminary inquiry is schedule for next month.<\/p>\n
Two other women also recently faced charges for allegedly stealing from their place of employment.<\/p>\n
The women – one a former employee of Majestic Tours; the other a former employee of Renal House – were both remanded and are awaiting a bail hearing.<\/p>\n
Authorities have indicated that stealing by reason of employment could carry a prison sentence of 10 years and the accused could also be ordered to repay the stolen funds. (Ed note:<\/em> Unfortunately, in the Bahamas, it is highly unlikely that a Bahamian<\/em> would ever be punished for their crimes. Which, of course is the reason the problem is so out-of-control in the first place.)<\/p>\n By: Bianca Symonette, The Bahama Journal<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Increasing number of employee theft cases highlights the very serious social problems in a country awash with immorality and dominated by the criminally-minded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}