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April 26, 2011
PLP Hypocrisy on National Investment Policy

The PLP Statement on the updated National Investment Policy is not surprising but hypocritical and disappointing, particularly coming from a political party which has never found it necessary, nay possible, to either produce or comply with any National Investment Policy in our country.

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April 15, 2024
PM Unable to Say if PLP MPs Met Disclosure Deadline

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - It's still unclear if all Progressive Liberal Party members of Parliament met the March 1st deadline to declare their assets as mandated by law.

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March 11, 2024
Letter to the Editor: The PLP and the FNM are the same

Editor, In about 30 months or less, we will go to the polls to elect a new government under our democracy. We have had a duopoly of power between two major parties over the past 60 years. The pendulum has been swinging back and forth between the two major parties over the past twenty years. [...]

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May 17, 2011
Perry Christie 'disappointed' by PLP leak

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Perry Christie said yesterday he intends to remain focused despite controversy that has emerged over the selection of candidates for the upcoming general election.
Christie’s response came amid widespread discussion over an exclusive Nassau Guardian story yesterday that revealed three prominent PLPs wrote to Christie suggesting that certain PLP MPs ough...

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May 16, 2011
Christie: PLP not distracted by letter leak

EXPRESSING his disappointment that an internal letter criticising would-be candidates for the PLP was leaked to the media, PLP leader Perry Christie said that his party will not be distracted by this latest debacle and that he remains focused on supporting the "excellent candidates" and hardworking activists that comprise his party.

"This year, the PLP is putting forth an extraordinary group of c...

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May 18, 2011
Rigby resigns from PLP committee

A day after The Nassau Guardian revealed that three influential members of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) were seeking to block the re-nomination of several PLP members of Parliament, former party chairman Raynard Rigby resigned from a crucial party election committee.
The Nassau Guardian confirmed that Rigby resigned yesterday as the coordinator of the southwest constituencies for the party ...

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May 17, 2011
Ex-PLP MP defends controversial letter

By PAUL G TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

pturnquest@tribunemedia.net

DEFENDING the letter he co-penned calling for the withdrawal of certain PLP candidates from the upcoming general election, former PLP MP George Smith said that in the passage of time he hopes his party's supporters will see the wisdom in his words.

Speaking with The Tribune yesterday, Mr Smith said he, with former PLP chair...

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May 18, 2011
MP attacks PLP over candidates

By PAUL G TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

pturnquest@tribunemedia.net

FRIENDS and supporters of South Andros MP Picewell Forbes claim the PLP is "showing great disrespect" by allowing two candidates from his own party to openly campaign against him for his seat at the next general election.

And Mr Forbes himself told The Tribune yesterday how he feels a "disservice" has been done to him by hi...

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May 19, 2011
PLP youth arm party in Jell-O shots controversy

A PARTY organised by the Progressive Liberal Party's youth arm in Grand Bahama, which advertised "free Jell-O shots all night," has come under fire for promoting excessive drinking for young adults.

The latest to criticise the event is FNM MP for Pineridge and Deputy Speaker of the House Kwasi Thompson, who said political groups should uplift young people with wholesome events, not alcohol-fuelle...

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January 18, 2012
PLP: Atlantis jobs in jeopardy

The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) said it is willing to help the 'incompetent' Ingraham administration negotiate with international creditors in a bid to save thousands of jobs at Kerzner International's Paradise Island properties.
News broke yesterday that Brookfield Asset Management, the Canadian conglomerate that agreed to take over Atlantis and two other Kerzner properties in a $175 million-...

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