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PM suggests PLP will highlight why FNM MPs lost faith in Minnis
Prime Minister Perry Christie put Free National Movement Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis on notice on Friday night that the PLP intends to publish what his own colleagues in the FNM said about him, and advised Minnis that he should start working on the explanations for why certain things were said about him.
Christie was speaking to supporters at PLP Headquarters on Friday night after five more candidate...
Waiting game to see if rebels are serious about working with FNM
FREE National Movement Chairman Sidney Collie said yesterday he will "wait and see" if Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner or Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins are "serious" about wanting to work with the FNM to ensure the Progressive Liberal Party does not win the next election before he comments on their "public utterances".
Turnquest: No difficulties with 'Rebel Seven'
Turnquest: No difficulties with 'Rebel Seven'
Free National Movement (FNM) Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest said yesterday despite the actions of the seven FNM MPs who had party Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis ousted as leader of the Official Opposition, he has no difficulties with any of them and is open to whatever the party decides in terms of embracing the "Rebel Seven".
"Personally, I don't have any difficulty with anybody," Turnquest told The Nas...
Butler-Turner ready to join forces with FNM, others
Butler-Turner ready to join forces with FNM, others
Insisting that the reason the opposition forces cannot unite is because everyone wants to be the leader, Official Opposition Leader Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday suggested that she would be open to working alongside Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis to get the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) out of power.
Speaking to the media outside Parliament, Butler-Turner said, "I think ...
Major and Chipman: Boundaries dispute over
Major and Chipman: Boundaries dispute over
Despite writing a letter that launched a furor regarding the Constituencies Commission's report and later claiming to plan to address the "misinterpretation" of that letter in the House of Assembly, St. Anne's MP Hubert Chipman said yesterday he will "just let it die".
Chipman was contacted yesterday after the House of Assembly adjourned without him addressing the letter, even though he told The N...
Rollins says Fitzgerald has 'sold his soul to Devil'
Rollins says Fitzgerald has 'sold his soul to Devil'
EDUCATION Minister Jerome Fitzgerald has "sold his soul to the Devil", Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins said yesterday, adding that the "bumps" on his "big nose" are "devil horns"...
Rejected
Rejected
Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder yesterday denied the application filed by Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn and Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre Rollins for judicial review into the constitutionality of the Constituencies Commission Report, citing insufficient evidence to support their case.
However, Winder called the failure to have the report completed in the five-year timeline, "regrettable and unfortu...
MPs 'not surprised' by ruling
MPs 'not surprised' by ruling
Though disappointed by a Supreme Court justice's denial of their application for judicial review of the boundaries report, attorney Michael Scott and his clients, Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn and Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre Rollins, said they are "resolved to go on".
The applicants alleged the constitutionality of the report should be reviewed as it was submitted beyond the five-year limit outlin...
Rollins may have FNM future
Rollins may have FNM future
FORT Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins could still have a future with the Free National Movement (FNM), the party's Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest said yesterday...
Political prostitution and devil's horns
Political prostitution and devil's horns
The vitriolic exchange of words between Marathon MP Jerome Fitzgerald and Fort Charlotte MP Dr. Andre Rollins in recent days is nauseating, far from entertaining and does nothing to elevate political debate in The Bahamas.
They are hitting below the belt, slinging mud and going straight off the rails.
Sadly, they may be setting a sour tone for what we will hear in the coming weeks as the election ...