The Tribune

By KHRISNA VIRGIL

Tribune Staff Reporter

kvirgil@tribunemedia.net

FOLLOWING the country’s first Cabinet session outside New Providence, Labour Minister Shane Gibson yesterday revealed documents to prove that the FNM’s by-election candidate Greg Gomez resigned his post in the government’s 52-week programme.

The Christie administration held the meeting, attended by 17 ministers, at the Marsh Harbour administrative offices in Abaco.

According to the PLP, Mr Gomez voluntarily resigned as assistant administrator from the Marsh Harbour Administrator’s Office by a letter submitted on July 5. In that letter, Mr Gomez said he would not report to work after July 11, 2012. He began on April 30.

His opponent, Renardo Curry-PLP, said although he was unsure of all the details, there were a lot of “pieces to the puzzle” that the Bahamian public does not know.

Mr Curry said: “There is a whole lot of information that the public doesn’t know. All we know is that some of that information was revealed and it speaks of the truth of the matter. I can’t speak to exactly what happened, but we hope that in the end, it’s about the Bahamian people finding out the truth and knowing the truth. The evidence will benefit us at the end of the Abaco by-election.”

Last week, minutes after officially nominating as his party’s candidate, Mr Gomez told reporters that despite applying to the Department of Local Government and being recommended for an Island administrator’s position, the PLP had reversed that decision, which was sanctioned by the former FNM administration.

Mr Gomez said as a product of victimisation he would stand with all Bahamians in ensuring the same did not happen to them.

FNM officials up to press time seemed confused on exactly what the allegations were.

At one point, party Chairman Darron Cash told The Tribune that Mr Gomez had no knowledge of a resignation letter being submitted. He later stated that his information was second hand because he had not been able to “track down” Mr Gomez to refute the claims.