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FRED’S LAST DANCE • “I believe I have one campaign left, and that is the campaign to be re-elected in Fox Hill,” says Mitchell • Both major parties consider options over pre-election conventions
By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Digital Editor aturnquest@tribunemedia.net
PLP chairman and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell said he does not expect to campaign again for the party’s chairmanship as he signalled he has “one campaign left” focused on reelection in Fox Hill. The comments come as both major political parties buckle down on pre-election planning, with uncertainty whether the Progressive Liberal Party will hold a full-fledged convention ahead of the next general election and the Free National Movement looking to set a date for their non-voting convention. “I don’t expect to campaign for chairman of the PLP again,” Mr Mitchell told The Tribune. “The only reason I’m not saying it definitively is because you never say never in politics, you don’t know what’s going to happen in this life. But chances are not.” Facing a contested race for CONVENTION - SEE PAGE FOUR
PLP CHAIRMAN FRED MITCHELL
PLP ANNOUNCE 15 ADDITIONAL CANDIDATES
POLICE PROBE SUSPICIOUS FIRES IN WEST GRAND BAHAMA
Pair of siblings charged over vulgar shanty demolition clash By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net TWO Eleuthera property owners were formally charged yesterday over a confrontation that erupted during a government demolition exercise in Spanish Wells earlier this month, an incident that was purportedly captured on video and widely circulated on social media. Siblings Blake and Dominique
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Pinder appeared before acting Magistrate Gwendolyn Patram and pleaded not guilty to charges of disorderly behaviour, obscene language and abusive language. Blake Pinder also faces an additional charge of obstruction. The charges arise from a clash between the siblings and members of the Unregulated Community Action Task Force during the demolition of Blake Pinder (centre) and sibling Dominique Pinder (second from left) as they protested demolition of DISORDERLY - SEE PAGE THREE shanty buildings on Russell Island on January 14.
By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net TWO separate house fires in West Grand Bahama on Wednesday have left several people displaced, with police investigating both blazes as possible criminal matters. The first fire broke out around 3am in Hepburn
Town, Eight Mile Rock, while a second incident later that night, around 10pm, destroyed an eightroom structure in West End. Superintendent Nicholas Johnson confirmed that no lives were lost in either incident, adding that both fires remain under active police investigation. FIRE - SEE PAGE 12
Davis administration reaffirms ‘zero-tolerance’ for corruption By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
Director of Communications Latrae Rahming.
WITH its term nearing an end and little tangible progress to point to on corruption and accountability, the Davis administration yesterday reaffirmed its “zero-tolerance” stance after a US defence attorney
publicly accused Bahamian institutions of being steeped in drug money and corruption. Director of Communications in the Office of the Prime Minister Latrae Rahming acknowledged the attorney’s remarks in a statement and said the Davis administration continues to cooperate
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with international law-enforcement partners while strengthening internal accountability, oversight and enforcement across government agencies. “Individuals who betray the public trust face consequences, and the actions of any one person do not RESPONSE - SEE PAGE THREE