Dr Hubert Minnis and Loretta Butler-Turner.
By RASHAD ROLLE
Tribune Staff Reporter
rrolle@tribunemedia.net
FREE National Movement (FNM) officials have denied claims that Dr Hubert Minnis would disrupt Loretta Butler-Turner's annual Christmas party in Long Island, on Friday night.
Mrs Butler-Turner, the MP for Long Island who led a group of seven rebel FNM MPs in a vote of no confidence in the party leader in Parliament earlier this month, told The Tribune she had reason to believe the event would be disrupted as she prepared to board her flight from Lynden Pindling International Airport on Friday afternoon.
"Intelligence is telling me that there are efforts by the leader to disrupt my function," she said on her way to Long Island. "I am advised by security that Dr Minnis and Adrian Gibson have gone there to try to counter a family affair that I'm having in Salt Pond tonight.
"Police are on it. As leader, I have not taken any of the trappings of the office because I don't want to embarrass anyone. Dr Minnis has the security detail. I am concerned about my safety. I spoke with (Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade) and I was assured my party won't be disrupted.
"The Commissioner has advised that because of the alert for what we are understanding will be a disruptive activity, there will be precautions taken."
On Wednesday, Dr Minnis and the FNM revoked Mrs Butler-Turner's ratification as the party's candidate for the next general election.
Mr Gibson, who has been nominated to run for the FMN in Long Island at the election next year, said: "I am home in Long Island, interacting and mingling with Long Islanders. I am an officer of the court and have no interest whatsoever in disrupting a family event - or any event - that Mrs Butler-Turner is having in Long Island."
A spokesman for the FNM said Dr Minnis has no plans to be in Long Island this weekend.
"Dr Minnis is not travelling this week," the official said. "He will be in Nassau all weekend. In fact, he will be at the Cousin McPhee church on Carmichael Road on Sunday and invites all Bahamians to attend."
Comments
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
WTF?????????? ............. Sandy Point is in Abaco?????? .......... Please fire this dumb-ass reporter .............. The correct name is Salt Pond (Regatta Site)
Alex_Charles 8 years, 11 months ago
The reporter made a simple name-error. I don't think it should lead to him losing his job over, but there should not be a repeat of the mistake in the future.
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
I forgive you ........ Go in peace to wherever you desire
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Forgive me, who the F do you think you are, God, I'll go in peace when you stop robbing us you PLP piece of slug? Please don't tell me your also one of the many Pastors in your so called Christian Nation that doesn't want capitol punishment because they know they will be the first to be hung for Pedophile rape; stay the F out of politics and try to practice what you preach. Who is greater than God O Mighty, he who has given me intelligence to recognize these wolves amount sheep's.
banker 8 years, 11 months ago
dat you Youri? Sounds like anger-management nutbar I once knowed!
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Banker...LOL! The only thing I can bank on is that your a thieving PLP piece of $hit and your days are number....LOL! Jan. 9th will be our true Independence day from the likes of a$$hole$ like you.
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Isn't it beautiful the way the media disables all comments on any Peter Nygard news. Here's a Canadian man who is not even liked in Canada, a well known a$$hole to his employees, and a best friend to your corrupt leader; a youth chasing egomaniac, who will die old just like we all will. Someone tell this paranoid jackass "for hire" that he will never invent anything to stop aging. God O Mighty created life and death, who the F does this a$$hole think he is that he can change what perfection God has created? Tell Dracula God created the universe not him, the jackass is going to continue getting old, die, and the maggots are going to eat every inch of his body; but the Dracula hair and Dracula finger nails will continue to grow. BahhhhhhRammYooooooou.....BahhhhhhRamYoooooou, Sheepf$$$$r.
DillyTree 8 years, 11 months ago
Yes, I'm also wondering where Sandy Point, Long Island is. The Tribune is getting sloppier and sloppier in their reporting these days -- something easily fixed by having editors and proofreaders doing their jobs.
In any event, I don't see any of these cowards disrupting anything -- they will, as usual, get their little minions to do their dirty work for them. This is a family Christmas event for ALL Long Islanders -- red, blue, yellow, green or purple, so why make everything political?
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
Am enjoying the cool, windy, moonlit night on Da Regatta Park with my kids in the bouncing castle, bopping to the music and enjoying a hamburger and a cold one with da crew ......... its all about love and good cheer here tonight ........... the mud-slinging will commence tomorrow!!!!!!!!!!
ThisIsOurs 8 years, 11 months ago
What is wrong with ?Loretta??? She's always placing herself as the centrepiece of some drama. Now she's talking about shock and awe senate appointments. Five more months of the Loretta Campaign Circus Act
proudloudandfnm 8 years, 11 months ago
Adrian Givson is fool to get involved in this.
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
OK smarty pants ........ name your FNM leader and LGI candidate
proudloudandfnm 8 years, 11 months ago
Why would Minnis be given the security detail? Since when is a party leader more important than the leader of the opposition. Greenslade better don't play. LBT must have the security detail! Minnis is leader of a rinky dink three seat third party. He don't count at all....
TalRussell 8 years, 11 months ago
Comrades here this "I" woman goes again that "Intelligence" is telling "me" that there are efforts by the leader to disrupt "my" Long island function.
All of Long Island laughs when she states that the "Police are on it. "That as leader, I have not taken any of the "trappings of the office" because I don't want to embarrass anyone."
Comrades, the only person she continues to bring embarrassment to is to herself. But this is not first time she has run to the Commish of the Policemans with her intelligence', complaining that her public saftey was at risk cause she's been complaining about people were out get her and do her harm and its not a new thing for her cause she's been running to the Commish with her claims going back years. Claims of even death threats having been made against her.
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
"This woman goes again", now I realize why the Bahamas is the rape capitol of the World. Because no Bahamian woman with half a brain would give these half a men the time of day, like little spoiled boys they act. Not even men enough to father the children they bare, rather be drugging and drinking in the streets till 3 in the morning. Grow up dumbasses, your living in the past, women are equal to men in everyway, give them a chance and you might get laid without having to rape them.
licks2 8 years, 11 months ago
How you get on this topic. . .yoon following the thread here. . .or do you see that LBT do childish "foolishness" again. . . it nothing about she being a woman. . .its the type of woman is portrays. . .one unstable at best. . .
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Comrade Russia, you need to stop drinking alone, give your liver a break my friend, your liver must look like a Swiss cheese with all the holes.
licks2 8 years, 11 months ago
Now you. . .gone up in the bushes and failing to admit that LBT doing crap "AGAIN". . .
TalRussell 8 years, 11 months ago
Comrade! Don't you thinks be more likes no Bahamalander woman's with half a brain, would have further nourished the done enlarged ego of Bran, by placing him as the chargé d'affaires, of all the green party's opposition's business up in the red senate chamber. I tell you this okay. Security should never have left the Governor General's refreshments unprotected cause for a "loyal" leader of a "red opposition party" to get a non elected green party's senatorial appointment pass the Governor General, she must have slipped something mind-altering into The Queen's Governor General's cup high-noon afternoon English tea?
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Pour me one Comrdae Russia, I won't let you drink alone. First of all the Governor General is a tax dodging PLP, I don't trust anyone who lives in a $10 million dollar mansion and won't pay her taxes, not can't pay her taxes, but won't; pure arrogance on her part. Second, where did she get the money to afford a $10 dollar mansion in the first place, every Bahamian knows the answer to that question. So any time her and her PLP crew have anything to say, I don't even give her or them the time of day. There is no dirt on Loretta, until you find and show me any dirt on her I will continue to trust her. Loretta and Branville will find their places in the Bahamas, but for now it's a breath of fresh air to know Minnis is out and finally we may have a team that will make "It's better in the Bahamas" a true meaning.
Regardless 8 years, 11 months ago
....pathetic! The whole thing is so fourth world.
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Have faith my friend, the Bahamas is a gold mine, it just needs the right miners to run her in the name of the Bahamian people, not for self interest only.
TalRussell 8 years, 11 months ago
Comrades I know they say that the Governor General had the power to remove Minnis as "loyal" opposition leader. On that it is my view and I believe it is shared by a great many Long Islanders, that The Queen through her representative the Governor General should have rejected Loretta's request to be appointed loyal opposition leader...cause by not doing so, she has thrown the recognized by the peoples red movement as the "loyal" opposition party into chaos. I see nothing that points to Loretta and her gang of rebels as forces to protect and safeguard parliamentary democracy either in the Peoples Honourable House of Assembly, or the red Upper Senate Chamber.
Comrades, isn't this move by Loretta and her rebels, not exactly what her late grandpa Milio was attempting to protect the people's parliament against when he on April 27, 1965, grabbed the Speaker's Hour Glass and proceeded to toss it out window Peoples Honourable House of Assembly, into the crowed which had gather below?
Hell no, hell no, not on our watch must shouts the people that the UBP through their political operatives now wish to regain control over the Peoples Honourable House of Assembly!
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
The reason the Queen didn't reject Loretta's request is because she's educated enough to know that most of you are complete hypocrites; the Christian Nation that sins 6 out of seven days. Comrdae Russia, only in the Bahamas does a ten year tax dodging crook gets appointed to position of Governor General and given a new BMW for her actions. And if you think it's O.K. that she got away with it,(because I notice you always ignore the subject), then you my drunken friend with a Swiss cheese for a liver are part of the problem that's destroying the Bahamas. If Al Capone was living in the Bahamas during his time, he wouldn't have been brought down the only way the U.S. government could bring him down; tax evasion. Hell no, in the Bahamas he would have probably been appointed Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the Alcohol Tabaco trade and given an island where he can fly his crew's flag.
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
Reports have it that Adrian Gibson has received a warm welcome in the many homes that he has visited since yesterday .......... this will translate into at least 1000 votes and a resounding victory for the articulate, humble, visionary, young man in 2017 ........ Adios LBT
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Post your reports Sheepf$$$$r, I want to see them and read them with my own trusting eyes. Because reports have it that Jesus Christ son of God just finished playing a set at Madison Square Garden accompanied by Jimi Hendrix and Keith Moon on drums. But sorry folks, not one proof of it even though 30,000 people were there. Adios with your misleading Sheepf$$$$r......"Bah Ram You"....."Bah Ram You"-----From the movie, Babe.....maybe you'll understand that Sheep$$$$r.
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
Are you one of Trump's imps?????????? ........ you write like them
banker 8 years, 11 months ago
One of Bran's self-appointed attack trolls.
sheeprunner12 8 years, 11 months ago
OK .......... I got it .......... BOL
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
I'm not even Bahamian you stupid jackass, I'm Sicilian/Cuban. I don't even know Loretta or Branville, but I can see right threw you. A F ing con man who only gives two $hit$ about money even if it means scarifying your own people. Your a blood sucking leech that needs to be ripped off the body because your so greedy you want more even though your fully engorged.
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
Banker...hahahahaha! Isn't crooked Christie in charge of financing, so he's your boss...hahahaha! I trust you like a trust a fighting pitbull....Banker, who the F in this World doesn't hate Banks....hahahahaha!
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
You a$$holes call whatever you like, I call it weeding out the PLP scumbag thieves out of the tall grass like the snakes you are. How can you steal from your own people and look in the mirror with no remorse, only a F ing snake can do that. On Jan. 9th the Bahamian mongooses are going to tear the F ing heads off every Bahamian snake that has stolen from them.
Franklyn 8 years, 11 months ago
...what an orgy of dumb comments. LBT has sealer her own political faith and would probably end up as a PLP candidate. Starting a new party would kill what drive she has/had outing Minnis as Opposition Leader; a short-lived reality. Like a teenage girl who leaves home, only to discover that the streets are a lonely place and friends are friends only when you are playing. This ill-advised move by LBT may have frighten a few party (FNM) supporters but the seasoned party strategist see a bright silver lining in the subsequent bad move by BranMc, a move that is calculated as (the DNA just destroyed themselves) and having no relevance in the coming elections. December 2016 will become known as the date of the biggest political blunder in our political history, a disastrous move - not for Minnis but for the DNA and LBT herself.
goodbyebahamas 8 years, 11 months ago
The day Loretta joins the PLP $hit gang will be the day Franklyn stops beating up and looking down on women. Your just another jealous a$$hole who can't except the fact the Bahamian women a stronger and smarter then you will ever be. Look at how far Loretta has gotten in a racist man's world like the Bahamas, what do you do for a living a$$hole, I would bet you don't even have two simple years of college.
Franklyn 8 years, 11 months ago
...money in the bank, two homes outside of this rat hole country (away from rats like you) and don't owe nobody a cent ... fool bitch ;)
Emac 8 years, 11 months ago
Sheeprunner, I see you have been drinking Tal's cool aid. One minute you support the ousting of Minnis, the next you're downplaying LBT's position and saying that Minnis is the right one. What's gives?
licks2 8 years, 11 months ago
it is called. . ."balance". . .it will do you and a few other good. . .it feels good. . .except when you have to "jook" someone ya like. . .but ya must call it as ya see it. . .not "how I want it"!
TalRussell 8 years, 11 months ago
Comrade Emac, tis the season make our lists and number one is Minnis has the passion to know what say to someone who's dying....maybe even give them a little hope. And on list is by the time you make it to Loretta in your stretched-out stiff position - it is done too late for more listening of her nonsense talk to matter. Finally on list is many reds would prefer to ride a Jitney with Minnis.. but none want ride in back Loretta's limo.
Emac 8 years, 11 months ago
Lol. Loretta gat a limo aye?
licks2 8 years, 11 months ago
That lemo have a TV in it? Lol!
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