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‘public should fund political parties’ Former PM: Pay up as part of reform to campaign finance By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis says the public purse should help fund political parties as part of campaign finance reform. He said parties that meet certain thresholds, like winning a percentage of the vote or securing seats in Parliament, should qualify as viable and be eligible for public money. He told reporters yesterday: “I’m just picking a figure; they are entitled to, let’s say, a quarter-million-dollar subsidy per year. That subsidy is utilised to pay the staff and for them to establish an inhouse library or museum with the history of their political organisation so that our students can have access to this information. I think that in itself is a form of campaign finance reform, starting just with subsidy.” FUNDS - SEE page four Former Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for Killarney Dr Hubert Minnis in the House of Assembly yesterday. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
Dad faces charges after his two Murdered children allegedly found starving son faced By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net A MAN was arraigned yesterday on charges of child cruelty after authorities allegedly found his two
young children wandering the streets and eating from garbage bins. The 39-year-old man, whose name is being withheld to protect the identities of the minors, appeared before Assistant
Chief Magistrate Carolyn Vogt-Evans on two counts of cruelty to children. He is accused of neglecting his six- and nine-year-old children and CRUELTY - SEE page seven
Mitchell: General election at least a year away By KEILE CAMPBELL Tribune Staff Reporter kcampbell@tribunemedia.net PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell says he doesn’t expect the next general election to go all the way to October 26, 2026, the final date of the current parliamentary mandate, but believes it’s “at least a year” away. “The mandate runs out
in October of 2026,” he told constituents at a recent PLP branch meeting in Fox Hill. “I do not expect that it could go to October 26, but I think it is probably not going to go right out to the end. I think we have at least a year before the election is called.” Mr Mitchell, who also serves as Minister of ELECTION - SEE page five
PLP chairman Fred Mitchell. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
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By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net YEARS of threats and unresolved conflict culminated in the murder of a 23-year-old man found shot off Springfield Road yesterday, his mother says. Wayne Marshall was found shot in bushes near Prince Charles Drive early Tuesday, marking the country’s 49th murder of the year. Michelle Gedeonn, his mother, believes her son was pursued by people who had been holding a grudge THREATS - SEE page three