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PINTARD CALLED OUT ON CARTWRIGHT SNUB Miller: FNM leader’s treatment of party’s deputy leader ‘spiteful’ and ‘mean-spirited’ By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net
FNM leader Michael Pintard speaks during a press conference in 2024 as deputy leader Shannendon Cartwright looks on.
FORMER Cabinet minister Leslie Miller accused Free National Movement leader Michael Pintard of being “mean-spirited” and “spiteful” yesterday, questioning why the opposition leader did not appoint deputy leader Shannedon Cartwright to the Senate after the FNM’s bruising general election defeat.
Mr Pintard, who retained his Marco City seat, appointed four senators after the May 12 election: former NBA player Rick Fox, attorneys Elsworth Johnson and Arinthia Komolafe, and Dr Trevor Johnson. Mr Cartwright, who lost to Progressive Liberal Party candidate Owen Wells in the newly created St James constituency, was not among them. SNUB - SEE PAGE FIVE
ORG chief taking Davis promise Campbell waits for own survey of transparency ‘with grain of salt’ on overfished marine species By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A KEY governance reformer said yesterday he is treating the Davis administration’s renewed promises on transparency with “a little grain of salt”, warning that the upcoming
By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net
budget will show whether the government is serious about long-delayed reforms or merely repeating pledges it failed to deliver in its first term. Matt Aubry, executive director of the Organization for ORG - SEE PAGE FOUR
ORG DIRECTOR MATT AUBRY
AGRICULTURE and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell said the government will wait for its own fisheries survey before deciding how to respond to a peer-reviewed study
warning that several commercially important marine species in The Bahamas are overfished. Mr Campbell told reporters during a community farming event that his ministry had read the Perry Institute for Marine Science STUDY - SEE PAGE THREE
Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Jomo Campbell.
Walker denies lack of trust in Bahamian govt By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net US Ambassador Herschel Walker denied yesterday that the redaction of a Bahamian politician’s name from a US court filing reflected a lack of trust in the Bahamian government. “It is strange because things like that happen,
people are so surprised by it,” he said. “But you know, I think things that just happen and sometimes people just don't understand the reason why. I don't think no one understood the reason why.” Asked whether he believes The Bahamas is doing enough locally to TRUST - SEE PAGE THREE
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