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Does Assistant Commissioner Reginald Ferguson know something or is this 2 different stories? Texkat asking here.
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Answers are still needed

The strain and trauma is over for Anna Nicole Smith but it will probably be many months before her name will be given a rest. She died yesterday in Hollywood, Fla, under circumstances that brought her name afresh before the news media of the world.

Anna Nicole Smith had undergone a tumultuous five months following the death of her 20-year-old son Daniel Smith on Sept 10 at Doctors Hospital, where she had given birth to a baby girl three days earlier. A private pathologist, hired by her, disclosed that the son died from a combination of methadone and two antidepressants in his system.

A coroner's inquest is yet to be held to determine the exact cause of death. Her troubles mounted after she left the hospital and moved into the Eastern Road sea front home Horizons, for which ownership came into dispute when North Carolina developer Ben Thompson claimed to be the owner of the property, as Ms Smith had allegedly reneged on paying the money that he had loaned her to secure the property and consequently permanent residency status in The Bahamas.

It also caused a ruckus in the Immigration Department where Minister Shane Gibson "fast tracked" the permanent residency application, which was said to be the result of the "improved efficiency' of the department.

But it didn't end there, as the paternity of her baby daughter, Dannielynn, remained a matter of dispute. The birth certificate lists the father as attorney Howard K Stern, Smith's most recent companion. However, Larry Birkhead, Smith's ex-boyfriend, is claiming to be the father and is waging a legal challenge to have DNA testing.

The former Playboy centerfold was no stranger to controversy, having married 89-year-old oil tycoon J Howard Marshall II, in 1994, she got into a feud with stepson, E Pierce Marshal, when the old man died a year later in 1995, with regard to whether she had a right to his estate. She waged a legal battle for his fortune all the way to the US Supreme Court.

Prior to yesterday the name of Anna Nicole Smith was beginning to figure prominently in the arsenal of opposition politicians as the 2007 general election campaign begins to heat up.

There is nothing to suggest that it will end with her death because there are still many questions that have yet gone unanswered and regardless of who lives or who dies, they will ultimately have to be answered.

Perception is reality

It is true that police officers are being transferred all the time and the transfer of Assistant Commissioner Reginald Ferguson will not be the last time a senior officer will be transferred, said National Security Minister Cynthia Pratt, as she asked what is so special about the transfer.

What is so special about the transfer is exactly what the people of this country will have to be told by the relevant authorities, recognizing that the public's perception is the reality.

Mr Ferguson is the principal officer with responsibility for crime, and the only person that admitted to being aware of the year-long drug smuggling investigation at the Lynden Pindling International Airport.

He was in a position to inform the political directorate of what was happening - if they didn't know - which it is claimed they didn't. And so, given all that has happened since the time that the five baggage handlers had gone on a training course and were arrested in Florida, the transfer will be perceived to be a result of that. The perception is the reality regardless to how it is explained otherwise.

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Anna Nicole's Son Dies, Daughter Is Born
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 08:00 AM EDT

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 2006 04:20 PM EDT UPDATED

By Stephen M. Silverman

Anna Nicole and Daniel Smith

Photo by: Lisa Rose / jpi

Daniel Smith, the 20-year-old son of Anna Nicole Smith, died suddenly in the Bahamas on Sunday, three days after the former Playboy Playmate gave birth to a girl, according to a statement from Smith's attorney.

Reginald Ferguson, assistant commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, tells PEOPLE Daniel was visiting his mother at Doctors Hospital when he was found in her room at about 9:00 a.m. Sunday morning.

"He was found in a condition of non-responsiveness," Ferguson says. "I am not certain who made the alarm, and doctors were called in but he was pronounced dead."

Ferguson says police officers were called to the scene, but there was no evidence of foul play: "There were no signs of violence to the body and there has been no sign of any unusual activities in the room that he was in."

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