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UPDATED: Female MPs blast Lightbourn over "shocking and despicable" sterilisation speech

LEADING Progressive Liberal Party female MPs have called for the resignation of Montagu MP Richard Lightbourn over his contentious proposal for state-sponsored sterilisation of women as an anti-crime initiative.

Butler-Turner: I'm best choice to avoid country going to ruin

PAINTING a picture of a country trampling toward ruin if the Progressive Liberal Party remains at the helm, Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner last night made her case for why she is the best person to lead the Free National Movement even as she urged the party to move past the bitter infighting that has gripped it for several years.

UPDATED: Lightbourn proposes sterilising mothers

UPDATE: Richard Lightbourn has released a statement apologising for his remarks.

Angry scenes at FNM convention

PETER Turnquest took an angry swipe at Free National Movement (FNM) leadership candidate Loretta Butler-Turner last night amid fractious scenes at the party’s convention, insisting “respect must be earned”.

Rooms issue ‘not political sabotage’ insists chairman

THE lack of accommodations for at least five Family Island delegates were the result of operational challenges at the Melià hotel and not political sabotage, according to incumbent FNM Chairman Sidney Collie.

Roberts: FNM trying to deflect from their own corruption

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts has hit out at Free National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis’ “pathetic attempt” to “throw mud” at the PLP, charging that the Killarney MP’s “empty rhetoric” is nothing but “deflection and political bluster” from the FNM’s own issues of corruption.

Plan to overhaul inner city areas

THE city of Nassau and the historic Grants and Charles Towns communities could undergo major overhauls in the coming years if the government decides to move forward with plans presented by the Economic Development Planning Unit on Thursday.

Sex attack suspect denied bail

A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday after he was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on a sexual assault charge.

Women demanding money from failed asue after court ruling

SEVERAL irate women who had together paid over $6,000 into a failed “asue” are demanding their money from a woman who was ordered by the court four months ago to pay them.

A summer with the horses of Camperdown

CAMPERDOWN Riding Club’s popular summer camp ends today after five weeks, with children having enjoyed the chance to have riding lessons, groom horses and take them into the sea to cool off.

Heritage tour for young students

Students from the Mt Olive Baptist Church 23rd Summer Youth Programme were given a cultural and heritage tour and lecture by church pastor and chairman of the Coalition to Save Clifton Rev Dr CB Moss on July 21, 2016.

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Charter Institute of Arbitrators. - The newest executives of The Bahamas branch of the Charter Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) gathered recently with chairman Dr Richard Demeritte to discuss their plans.

Into the blue

FORTY Bahamian teenagers from nine islands have been enjoying six days of ecological camping on Andros under the guidance of the Bahamas National Trust (BNT).

F.N.M. Convention Day Two: As it happened

Live coverage from the Melia Resort.

Govt insists it took right decision over Baha Mar

A DAY after former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham called the Christie administration’s push to have Baha Mar liquidated a bad move, the government hit back saying provisional liquidation “was the only sensible option available”.

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