COI leader Lincoln Bain (left) and FNM leader Michael Pintard speak to reporters as members and supporters of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) and the Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) protest on Bay Street on October 15, 2025. Photo:s Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
By LEANDRA ROLLE
Tribune Chief Reporter
lrolle@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement Leader Michael Pintard yesterday condemned as “unfortunate” the defamatory remarks Coalition of Independents Leader Lincoln Bain made during a heated confrontation outside Parliament on Wednesday.
The public spat, captured on camera and widely shared online, erupted as dozens of public servants protested over pay adjustments. In the footage, the two leaders shouted at each other before being separated by guards and onlookers, as Mr Bain hurled insults that included unsubstantiated claims of drug abuse and mental illness.
After facing backlash, Mr Bain apologised to Mr Pintard during a Baptist Convention service, admitting the confrontation was “inappropriate.”
When asked yesterday if he accepted the apology, Mr Pintard said it was troubling that some people make false claims intended to harm others’ reputations without clearly retracting them.
He said: “(To) do so consistently, and when convenient, they don’t say what I said was false. I know it to be false. I intended it to be injurious, and I now withdraw and apologise. That’s an apology to me and so it is most unfortunate, and in short order, I’ll have another answer.”
The two men have clashed publicly before. Last November, during an FNM press conference
in the opposition room of the House of Assembly, Mr Bain repeatedly called Mr Pintard “weak” after a US indictment alleged Bahamian officials were complicit in cocaine smuggling.
Comments
TalRussell 1 month, 2 weeks ago
---- You judge Pintard/Bain alteration? ---
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cT6yDVGr…
birdiestrachan 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Good to see the tape it seems Mr pintard had his say he even turned back to have more say what he said was not clear. Mr Pintard stood on the house floor and made ms Hanna martin very upset about what he said. he is not without fault. Mr bain apologize it takes courage to apologize. These two men. Do not like each other.
DreamerX 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The apology that it was inappropriate but not that it was untrue? Legally the claims were not retracted... Pintard could be what he claims but without evidence or corroboration and his clear animosity discredits any assumed goodwill. Funnily enough Pintard's claims were widely supported by facts, while also being inappropriate. A material difference. Money being improperly withheld, a divorce and being legally evicted even if he claims he did not reside at the location are evidenced by reporting and independent third parties.
birdiestrachan 1 month, 2 weeks ago
King Pintard got into Mr bain bed room business where it hurts the most when people get down and dirty to hell with fact ms Ellis not sure of her title only see bain wrong but not king pintard wrong . Being as pintatd is king and Wilson is super woman they are right and every body else is wrong
TalRussell 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Oh dear, to playback what was talked and captured on 'as it was happening film'—during a boisterous confrontational closeup in ya faces incident down in the House of Assembly Square—does it rise to the 'unhinged level' for placing a call to tip-off Fox Hill's Sandilands Admissions intake, to start preparing a set freshly washed single/double bed linens for new arrival(s) —Yes?
birdiestrachan 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Yes indeed two flew over the cuckoos nest. Is very appropriate in this case
birdiestrachan 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Make it three add super woman
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