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McCartney: ‘Look elsewhere’ for Baha Mar purchaser

The Democratic National Alliance’s (DNA) leader yesterday said Baha Mar’s potential purchaser would not be granted a casino licence if the Gaming Board “did proper due diligence”, as he accused the Government of “playing with fire”.

‘Letter of intent doubts make Wells a bad choice’

DNA Leader Branville McCartney yesterday questioned the Free National Movement’s decision to make Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells leader of opposition business in the House of Assembly despite not knowing the full story surrounding his controversial signing of a $650m letter of intent with Stellar Waste to Energy while a member of the Progressive Liberal Party.

Bran’s ‘living nightmare’ over Tax Certification

The DNA’s leader yesterday said “the living nightmare” of business in the Bahamas was brought home when the National Insurance Board (NIB) effectively tore up the contract with his family’s pharmacy via its Tax Compliance Certificate (TCC) demands.

DNA: Christie saying no one else in his party is fit to lead

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said Prime Minister Perry Christie’s assertion that the Progressive Liberal Party may become unstable without him is a “slap in the face to other persons” in the governing party.

Bran: I left the FNM after watching it fail the country

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said his 2011 decision to leave the Free National Movement was “not made lightly” and came after months of watching the then governing party fail to enact policies to rescue the country from its struggles.

Bran: 'Very dodgy' to interfere with business pricing

The Government will be "in very dodgy territory" should it seek to interfere with how Bahamian businesses price their goods and services, the DNA leader has warned.

DNA call for power company to present plan to improve supply

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney is calling on Bahamas Power and Light to produce and publicly present its plan of action to improve power generation and transmission amid rolling blackouts.

DNA leader swayed by Dame Joan’s view

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday said his perspective on the constitutional referendum bills have evolved in the months leading up to the vote, thanks in part to the arguments laid out by former Court of Appeal President Dame Joan Sawyer.

DNA leader: Heads should roll within FNM over threats to Minnis

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday said “heads should roll” within the Free National Movement over recent threats from six FNM MPs levelled at party Leader Dr Hubert Minnis.

Roberts: DNA leader ‘should humble himself’

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday issued a strong rebuke of Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Leader Branville McCartney, telling the former MP to humble himself and stop trying to hustle his way back into the Free National Movement (FNM).

Bran: Fear spreading through the PLP over possibility of FNM/DNA coalition

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday said fear was spreading through the Progressive Liberal Party like wildfire as he forecast the possibility of a coalition between his party and the Free National Movement becoming “more and more real”.

DNA: Minnis will have to ‘shape up’ to lead country

DESPITE courting the possibility of a coalition, Democratic National Alliance Branville McCartney would not reveal yesterday whether he thought FNM leader Dr Hubert Minnis would be better for the country than Prime Minister Perry Christie.

Minnis open to coalition - but says Bran is arrogant

FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis said yesterday that while he is “open” to forming a coalition with the Democratic National Alliance, he is “turned off” by DNA Leader Branville McCartney’s arrogance.

Bran open to FNM coalition

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday confirmed he had been approached “several times” by senior members within the Free National Movement, as well as sitting FNM MPs, to join the official opposition.

Minister blaming FNM in road traffic row ‘a sad excuse’

DNA Leader Branville McCartney yesterday blasted Transport and Aviation Minister Glenys Hanna Martin for seeking to blame a previous FNM administration for the chronic financial problems plaguing the Road Traffic Department.

DNA: Prosecute festival organisers

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday called on the government to take whatever steps necessary to ensure the $650,000 seed money invested in the stalled Caribbean Muzik Festival was recouped, and its organisers prosecuted.

DNA asks for clarity over sale of the Grand Lucayan Resort

WITH hundreds of hotel jobs now at stake in Grand Bahama, Democratic National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney stressed that Bahamians are again “sadly left in the dark” as the government remains quiet about the matters concerning the sale of the Grand Lucayan Resort.

DNA leader raises concerns over landfill developments

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance (DNA) leader Branville McCartney has raised concerns with operations at the Department of Environmental Health Services (DEHS), suggesting that "political corruption" had "stymied" proposed landfill developments around the country.

DNA: Miller talk of corruption just way PLP does business

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said a recent reaction by Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller to the United States’ claims of corruption in government illustrates “the way the PLP has done business” for the last 40 years.

Branville: Both FNM and PLP to blame for corruption

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday scoffed at recent comments made by Dr Hubert Minnis, insisting that both the Free National Movement and Progressive Liberal Party are to blame for the current level of systemic corruption that exists within public systems.

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