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Minnis warns of ‘side Letters’ in Baha Mar project agreement
FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis has suggested that there are “side letters” concerning the Baha Mar project that his government will disclose to the public if elected to office.
GEORGE SMITH DISAPPOINTED EXUMA MP DID NOT GET CHANCE TO ‘STEP DOWN’
GEORGE Smith, former member of Parliament for Exuma, said yesterday he was “disappointed” that the PLP did not “extend the proper courtesy” to Exuma MP Anthony Moss and give him a chance to “step down” before making plans to nominate another candidate for the constituency.
Smith disappointed with decision to add only one more constituency
FORMER Progressive Liberal Party Cabinet minister George Smith expressed disappointment yesterday in the conclusions of the Constituencies Commission to recommend only one additional seat to Parliament before the next general election.
Collie: No chance in hell Minnis will be removed
FREE National Movement Chairman Sidney Collie said yesterday there is “no chance in hell” that FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis will be removed from his post before the next general election.
Miller: No point talking to We March organiser
TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller has again lashed out at We March Bahamas lead organiser Ranard Henfield, telling a talk show host that with a man like the activist there was no time for discussion, “you only could break one damn bottle upside their head”.
Dames hits out at govt preparations
MARVIN Dames, former deputy commissioner of police and the Free National Movement’s candidate for Mount Mariah, has criticised the government’s hurricane preparedness and response.
$700,000 bill to repair major healthcare facilities
REPAIRS to the country’s three main public healthcare institutions in the wake of Hurricane Matthew will cost more than $700,000, Public Hospitals Authority Managing Director Herbert Brown said yesterday.
Lightbourn has ‘no plans’ to run as an independent
IN spite of speculation to the contrary, Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn said he has no plans at this time to mount an independent run in the next election.
VAT drops Bahamas to 121st in ‘ease of business’ rankings
The Bahamas is now perilously close to dropping into the bottom third of the World Bank’s ‘ease of doing business’ rankings, after the country was ranked 121st out of 190 nations when it comes to facilitating private sector activity.
Enforce the death penalty
THE Bahamas now has a total of 87 murders for the first eight months of 2017. That is an average of a little over ten murders per month. At this rate, the country will once again reach the mark of 120 murders. The FNM government and National Security Minister Marvin Dames have stated that they will use everything on the law books, including capital punishment, to make The Bahamas safe for law-abiding citizens. Bahamians want a safe country. They are tired of the wanton bloodshed on the streets of New Providence and Grand Bahama.
To Sir with love
Congratulations, Sir Sidney on the occasion of having the Paradise Island Bridge named in your honour; an honour that you were entitled to.
Roberts hits out at Minnis 'flip-flop'
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts believes Free National Movement leader Leader Dr Hubert Minnis to be “double-minded” and lacking in credibility as he accused the opposition leader of changing his words to Bahamians concerning the upcoming gambling referendum.
'Vote reaffirms my faith'
VOTE No campaign spokesperson Pastor Lyall Bethel said that yesterday’s victory in the gambling referendum confirmed his faith in the church and confirmed that the majority of Bahamians “in their heart of hearts” know gambling is wrong.
Cable: Cellular battle 'two to three years away'
Cable Bahamas believes that competition in the Bahamian cellular market is “at best two to three years away”, making it “premature” to devise a pricing regime for calls between mobile phones.
Ending gender discrimination would correct PLP 'offence' says Loretta Butler-Turner
MOVING to end gender discrimination in the Bahamian Constitution would be correcting “one of the worst offences that the PLP perpetrated against half of the county’s population”, FNM deputy leader Loretta Butler-Turner told The Tribune.
Web shop owners speak to lawyer over recent searches
THE recent search of web shops in Eastern New Providence has prompted an attorney to take further instructions from the owners in preparing for the substantive Court of Appeal hearing that is a week away.
DNA: We need 21st century protection of our borders
IF the Bahamas wants to protect its borders from the dangers of modern illegal immigration, it must employ 21st century solutions, DNA leader Branville McCartney said.
Web shops: Licensing indicated we'd be legal
ATTORNEYS representing web shop operators yesterday said the Government knew full well what the industry involved, arguing that the licensing of such enterprises would have formed a “legitimate expectation” of their legalisation.
Cash questions Lamm 'reward' for PLP service
FNM chairman Darron Cash is questioning whether convicted drug offender Carlos Lamm was “wonderfully rewarded” for his campaign services to the PLP with “lucrative contracts” allegedly granted to him by the government.
'Flip flop' claim over oil drilling
FOLLOWING government announcement that exploration wells will be sunk ahead of a referendum on oil drilling, former State Minister of Environment Phenton Neymour accused the government of “flip-flopping”.