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‘Failed gender referendum was payback for the PLP’

THE failed gender equality referendum was “payback” from voters to the Christie administration, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham told The Tribune.

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McAlpine: Don’t cut anyone from the team

IN a rousing speech that often brought the crowd to its feet, former Free National Movement Senator Fredrick McAlpine last night urged whoever wins the party’s leadership race on Friday “not to cut anyone from the team,” stressing that the opposition needs “all hands on deck.”

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FNM leadership rivals united in dance; "no fracture" promises Minnis

AMID bitter party infighting and accusations that he has not organised a fair convention process, Killarney MP Dr Hubert Minnis last night embraced and danced with his rival Loretta Butler-Turner after promising there will be no “fracture” in the Free National Movement after he wins the leadership contest.

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U.S. firm's poll says most F.N.M.s would choose Loretta

A POLL conducted by a new American political research company has found that most Free National Movement supporters would choose Loretta Butler-Turner as leader of the party over Dr Hubert Minnis.

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Butler-Turner: Minnis trying to silence me

FREE National Movement leader hopeful and Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday accused Killarney MP Dr Hubert Minnis, who hopes to remain at the helm of the organisation, of doing everything possible to “silence” her voice and “steal” the party’s convention.

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Mixed views from delegates on comments by Ingraham

A DAY after former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham expressed distress at the state of the Free National Movement, interviews with party delegates yesterday underscored the complicated status he now occupies in the party he led for nearly two decades.

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Convention ‘stained by underhanded actions’ says Cash

FORMER Free National Movement Chairman Darron Cash claimed yesterday the party’s national convention had been “stained” as a result of alleged “underhanded actions” by the party’s incumbent leadership.

Pintard: I’m not running for anything at convention

FORMER Free National Movement Chairman Michael Pintard yesterday distanced himself from advertisements that indicated he was seeking to reclaim his post at the party’s convention.

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Gomez: I don’t know when audits will be tabled

HEALTH Minister Dr Perry Gomez said Monday he doesn’t know when he will table long overdue audits of the Public Hospitals Authority in the House of Assembly.

$13,000 seized from American man trying to travel to Jamaica

A COURT seized more than US$13,000 from an American man yesterday who failed to get formal permission to carry that amount of money out of the country.

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Pay back $522 by friday or go to jail, fraudster told

A MAN has until Friday to return $522 he stole from a woman’s Scotia Bank account.

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Migrants paid $5,500 each to be smuggled into the U.S.

FIFTEEN people who had paid more than $80,000 to be smuggled from Grand Bahama into the United States were left stranded on a disabled boat at sea by the captain, who promised to return after he had been picked up by another vessel.

Rise in visitors by air, but a drop in cruise tourists

THERE has been a two per cent increase in the number of visitor air arrivals, but a one per cent “downturn” in the number of cruise ship passengers in the first quarter of 2016, Tourism Director General Joy Jibrilu said yesterday.

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Tributes to artist and sculptor James Mastin

BAHAMIANS lost a champion of their national history and culture on Sunday with the passing of James Mastin in Miami, Florida,

‘Voter tried to bribe me for new card’

ASSISTANT Parliamentary Commissioner in Freeport Reno Smith revealed that a voter once tried to bribe him to issue a new voter’s card.

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