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Miller: Biggest division within party in my time as an MP

TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller said yesterday that the tension with Marco City MP Greg Moss, Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins and senior members of the Progressive Liberal Party constitutes the most contentious division within a party that he has witnessed since becoming an MP 27 years ago.

Butler-Turner: If Minnis wins, party will abandon me

LONG Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner contended yesterday that if Free National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis scored another victory at the party’s convention next week, she believes the FNM would abandon her.

‘Point of no return’ on $500m tax hole

The Government is losing $500 million in taxes annually due to compliance rates that are below 50 per cent, an ex-Chamber chairman estimated yesterday, pushing the Bahamas to taxation’s “point of no return”.

Union chief: Employers are ‘resistant to change’

A trade union leader yesterday suggested the Bahamian private sector will eventually “come round to reality”, with its response to proposed labour law reforms showing it does not react well to change.

Ex-contractor chief fears ‘poor results’ on CCA collection

A former Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) president yesterday expressed fears that the industry will suffer “very poor results” in collecting the multi-million dollar sum owed to it by Baha Mar’s contractor.

Private sector has ‘no legitimate case’ over labour reform

The private sector has “no legitimate case” for opposing the Government’s proposal to criminalise a business’s failure to inform it and the relevant trade union of planned redundancies, the Trades Union Congress’s (TUC) president said yesterday.

A COMIC'S VIEW: Ducking, diving and running for cover over disclosure

Wow! What a week it was. I must say there were many ‘things’ that caught my eye in the headlines this week. Some happenings left me shaking my head in disgust, others made me laugh my butt off.

No evidence Gov’t received $7m for GBPA equity stake

There is no evidence to prove that the Government ever received the $7 million ‘balance’ for its 7.5 per cent equity stake in the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA), it has been revealed.

Shipyard: Just 39% of workers are Bahamian

The Government’s own advisers have warned that “noted deficiencies” in core and technical skills are impeding the hiring of Bahamians in Freeport, with less than four in 10 Grand Bahama Shipyard employees coming from this nation.

‘SECRET PAYMENTS’ TO FORCE SARKIS OUT: Claim Baha Mar contractor gave money to government officials and their associates

Sarkis Izmirlian is alleging that Baha Mar’s contractor make secret payments to unnamed “government officials, their family and associates” as part of a scheme to force him out from the multi-billion dollar development.

Wells should not get comfortable

I THINK it was Jones Communications CEO Wendell Jones who recently told a guest on his Love 97.5 FM radio talk show Issues of the Day that the House of Assembly is a slippery place to be.

Opposition: Baha Mar opening date is ‘quid pro quo’

Opposition politicians yesterday queried whether the timing of Baha Mar’s April 21 opening is “a quid pro quo” for the Government’s role in helping China to oust the original developer, Sarkis Izmirlian.

Nygard gave Gibson $94,000: $5,000 a month paid to minister’s US bank account

PETER Nygard sent thousands of dollars per month to a Bank of America account belonging to Labour and National Insurance Minister Shane Gibson between August 2011 and January 2013, documents obtained by The Tribune show. The payments totalled $94,131.10.

PLP told not to steal the vote

ON the heels of Wednesday’s chaotic and disorganised advanced poll, Free National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis warned the Progressive Liberal Party last night not to “further corrupt” the voting process or attempt to “steal” the general election.

Equipment at fault for series of BPL outages

THE “catastrophic” island-wide outages that plagued New Providence late last year stemmed from widespread equipment failures at the Clifton Pier Power Station, according to Bahamas Power and Light.

A COMIC'S VIEW: ‘I went to bed in Fort Charlotte and woke up in Mount Moriah’

The ‘Green Room’ in any comedy club can be extremely brutal, with comedians trading jabs and barbs.

Wells says boundary changes favour FNM

FORMER Cabinet minister Tennyson Wells yesterday challenged all Free National Movement (FNM) members “actually vying for a seat” to be wise and take advantage of the recently announced boundary changes, which he said “favours” the FNM.

Miller’s PLP nomination in doubt

SOME Progressive Liberal Party supporters in Golden Isles say MP Vaughn Miller is so vulnerable in the constituency that he would lose the seat on the PLP’s ticket in the general election, a challenge for party leaders who are leaning towards giving him the nomination.

Minnis: March was a wake-up call for politicians

DESPITE insistence by some that last week’s “We March Bahamas” protest was politically motivated, several Cabinet ministers yesterday praised the peaceful protest as a testament of democracy.

INSIGHT: Where is the shame?

The Black Friday march shows how an out-of-touch government is still badly misreading the signs, Malcolm J Strachan says . . .

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