Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Charles Maynard alleged yesterday that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) used file footage from 2002 during the live broadcast of its rally in Freeport, Grand Bahama, last Saturday.
However, PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts dismissed the claim as "absolute nonsense".
Roberts insisted the Free National Movement (FNM) is more "desperate than ever".
"Charles Maynard is a vey sick young man," Roberts told The Nassau Guardian. "How desperate are they?
"This is absolute nonsense, as far I am concerned. Maynard is a nonentity and he is on his way out, and he would say anything. He who alleges must prove."
During an FNM mass rally at R.M. Bailey Park on Thursday night, Maynard told supporters a Grand Bahama woman reported to him that she saw herself on television at the PLP rally, although she did not attend, and has not associated herself with the PLP for the last 10 years.
"We were getting comments from people in the media, who were in videography, and they have been saying that something was funny about the images that were coming across [during PLP rallies]," Maynard said yesterday.
"When that resident reported that [she] saw [herself], knowing full well that [she was] not there...that's what really caused us to have to bring it to the public's attention. [She] couldn't be two places at one time. They are actually doing these kinds of things."
Maynard also claimed that the PLP has used "a foreign company" to feed its broadcast footage into certain local channels, which he claimed allowed the party to "control whatever is presented".
However, he was unable to name the company.
Chairman of the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas Michael Moss said the source of the broadcast on Saturday would have to be verified, but to his recollection ZNS only covered some of the PLP's rally that night for news.
When asked if file footage could be edited into a live feed the chairman said, "It is easily possible. I cannot speak to the specifics on the occasion."
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