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‘PLP BACKBENCHERS DON’T GET FAIR PLAY’ MP: Cabinet Ministers using public resources for their political gain LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net A SITTING Progressive Liberal Party MP is openly accusing his party of sidelining backbenchers, warning that Cabinet ministers are using public resources for political gain while neglecting equitable representation across
constituencies. Southern Shores MP Leroy Major, in a rare act of dissent, said he is unsure whether the PLP will renominate him and said there is growing internal frustration among MPs not seated at the Cabinet table. “There’s got to be fair play to the backbenchers SEE PAGE FIVE
Officer’s father: ‘i’m gOing tO seek justice fOr my sOn’ By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net ROBERT Wright Sr says he never doubted his son was murdered. For three years, he has fought to prove it. On Monday, a jury finally agreed, ruling that the death of Police Constable Robert Wright Jr was no suicide but a homicide.
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“I am going to be seeking justice,” Mr Wright said, his voice resolute after the inquest verdict overturned the police’s original classification of suicide. “The murderer needs to be found. No question.” Constable Wright Jr, 23, was found dead in his car with a gunshot wound to SEE PAGE FOUR
MANY roads across New Providence saw significant flooding after hours of rainfall making commuting challeneging. See PAGE TWO for more photos. Photo: Chappell Whyms Jr
Davis dismisses criticism of PLP’s prOsecutOr Labour Day campaign launch plan defended in fnm senatOr sOn’s gun case By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has shrugged off criticism over the Progressive Liberal
Party’s decision to launch its re-election campaign on Labour Day, declaring the PLP and the labour movement have been “joined at the hip” since the party’s founding. “There are others who
are saying this is the launch of a political movement. I say it is what it is,” Mr Davis said. Mr Davis dismissed concerns that the PLP was SEE PAGE THREE
By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE Office of the Direc-
tor of Public Prosecutions PM: FOIA implementation will not will appeal a magistrate’s that acquitted the significantly increase govt transparency ruling son of a Free National By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis appeared to downplay the significance of the Freedom of Information Act yesterday, describing it as “esoteric” and suggesting that fully implementing
Movement (FNM) senator on firearm charges, with Director Cordell Frazier defending the lead prosecutor against the magistrate’s criticism that he was “deceitful and dishonest.” Ms Frazier described attorney Terry Archer as an “honest professional
the law would not significantly increase government transparency. For the second year in a row, the government has allocated just $140,000 to the Freedom of Information, far less than what is needed to operate a functional access-to-information SEE PAGE THREE
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