The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

I was surprised at how inaccurate a Wikipedia article is on the Free National Movement leadership. The article, which was last edited in December 2022, asserts that Peter Turnquest serves as deputy leader to Michael Pintard. The readership would know that the FNM deputy leader is St Barnabas MP Shanendon Cartwright. Turnquest isn’t even an MP, which the writer of the Wikipedia article seems to assume.

Turnquest resigned as Finance Minister in November 2020 under the Minnis administration, and didn’t offer himself for renomination in East Grand Bahama in early 2021, after it became apparent that the FNM leadership was looking in a different direction for that constituency.

Kwasi Thompson would receive the nomination and would subsequently win the seat in September 2021. All of this political information is fully documented on the Internet. Wikipedia really needs to do its homework on the FNM before posting poorly researched articles about the party.

KEVIN EVANS

Freeport, Grand Bahama.

February 27, 2023.