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Roberts: FNM candidates a political scrap gang
January 11, 2016
Roberts: FNM candidates a political scrap gang
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts said yesterday the PLP is "amazed at the choice of hapless, perennial losers and visionless personalities comprising the initial group of eight" candidates ratified by the Free National Movement (FNM) last week.
July 15, 2015
Galanis calls for cap on foreign campaign contributions
Less than two years before the 2017 general election, accountant, former senator and former campaign general for the Progressive Liberal Party Philip Galanis said he does not expect campaign finance reform in this term.
August 22, 2010
Bishop Simeon Hall speaks out against electing lawyers to Parliament
By TANEKA THOMPSON
Tribune Staff Reporter
tthompson@
tribunemedia.net
BAHAMIAN voters should throw their support behind "ordinary" members of society instead of continuously electing lawyers to the halls of Parliament, said Bishop Simeon Hall.
The senior pastor of New Covenant Baptist Church reasoned that lawyers - many of whom profit from the "present culture of criminality" - cannot be expec...
Did Andre Rollins hijack the Bahamian Parliament
August 27, 2014
Did Andre Rollins hijack the Bahamian Parliament
There's a lot of talk lately on radio shows, in social media, in grocery stores, in line at the chicken shacks, on bank lines and in private and government offices around Nassau about what Dr. Andre Rollins did or didn't do, said or shouldn't have said, during recent debates in Parliament and in the time that preceded his election to the House of Assembly as a PLP member of Parliament.
So many peo...
The role of the media in today's Bahamas
June 23, 2014
The role of the media in today's Bahamas
"The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." - Malcolm X
Recently there has been considerable commentary from many quarters of our society about the media and its role in today's Bahamas. Politicians in particular - and from both sides of the aisle - ...
PM takes swipe at critics over PLP succession
April 05, 2014
PM takes swipe at critics over PLP succession
Bahamians should not be concerned about the question of succession within the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) but what the government is doing for the country, Prime Minister Perry Christie said on Thursday night.
Speaking at a ceremony to mark the inaugural night flight into the South Bimini Airport, Christie told residents and Genting Group officials to, "...Tell them, whoever they are, whenever...
Patterson: I would not support a gay candidate
March 07, 2014
Patterson: I would not support a gay candidate
RANFORD Patterson, Bahamas Christian Council President, says he would not support a gay political candidate amid a discussion as to the direction the country is to go with the rights of the LGBT community...
Fred Mitchell wrong to support gay rights
December 20, 2013
Fred Mitchell wrong to support gay rights
Dear Editor,
Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell said something that 99.9 percent of parliamentarians, both past and present, would never have dared say in a public forum. While paying homage in the House of Assembly to the late South African President Nelson Mandela, Mitchell decided to used that opportunity to voice his support for gay rights in The Bahamas by taking grave exception to those who oppose h...
Oil company canvassing church support
February 27, 2013
Oil company canvassing church support
Paul Gucwa, chief operating officer at the Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has spent the last four months meeting with various churches and union groups in The Bahamas in an effort to educate Bahamians on oil drilling, ahead of the government's proposed referendum on oil.
Gucwa said he's visited 20 churches in the country, and he has already met with members of the Bahamas Christian Council (BCC)....
January 03, 2013
National Address by National Security Minister Bernard J. Nottage on The Referemdum
My Fellow Bahamians, Good Evening;
In its Charter for Governance the Progressive Liberal Party committed that within its first 100 days in government it would provide details for a referendum on a National Lottery and gambling in The Bahamas.
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