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Minnis: Davis ‘running scared’ and Chester is eyeing leadership role By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net WITH the general election just nine days away, the Free National Movement held two rallies over the weekend in Grand Bahama and Andros, with much of the rhetoric lambasting the Progressive Liberal Party. Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis criticised the PLP saying its leader, Philip “Brave” Davis was missing in action while he, Dr Minnis, was laying out plans for the future of the country. “Every night I speak to
you about our policies and plans,” Dr Minnis said while in Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama on Friday. “Y’all see Brave lately? Y’all hear from Brave lately? The man gone missin’! This is a campaign for the future of our country and the PLP leader can’t be seen. I hear he is dead scared. “Felicia Knowles makin’ big waves in Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador. So instead of coming and speaking to the whole country like a leader should do, Brave flyin’ PLPs into his constituency trying to save his seat.” SEE PAGE THREE
CULMER SAYS PLP ‘GOONS’ THREATENING ELECTORATE By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net THE war of the political chairmen continued this weekend with Free National Movement chairman Carl Culmer accusing opposition supporters of intimidating Family Island voters – a charge his counterpart in the Progressive Liberal Party quickly denied. Mr Culmer released a statement over the weekend stating PLP “goons” were on islands represented by PLP leader Philip “Brave” Davis threatening to victimise anyone who did
not vote for the incumbent candidate. In the statement, Mr Culmer said: “It has come to my attention that several senior civil servants and hired PLP goons and troublemakers from New Providence are threatening residents of Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador with impending victimisation if they support the FNM’s candidate, Mrs Felicia Knowles, in the upcoming general election. “Some residents have even been told that they will have to flee these islands because their entire livelihoods will be taken SEE PAGE FIVE
HUBERT: SANDS IS MY MAN
A FAMILIAR face on the campaign trail alongside Dr Duane Sands in Elizabeth as he is joined by former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, who said he hopes that Dr Sands can be prime minister himself one day. See PAGE THREE for the full story.
DESMOND - I’M CLEAN DOCTORS CONDEMN BUT WHAT ABOUT PLP? WEEKEND’S RALLIES DEPUTY Prime Minister and Minister of Works Desmond Bannister, pictured, has accused the Progressive Liberal Party of launching a “misleading and defamatory” attack on him in an attempt to distract the Bahamian people. He said he will not respond to the “scurrilous allegations”, adding he is tempted to
reveal the “tens of millions” in corrupt contracts he alleged were issued by the PLP. His statement on Friday was issued after allegations surfaced on social media last week regarding contracts issued by the Ministry of Works and a controversy involving contracts SEE PAGE FIVE
By TANYA SMITHCARTWRIGHT tsmith-cartwright@ tribunemedia.net
AFTER a weekend filled with political rallies, motorcades and other campaign events, the Medical Association of The Bahamas is expressing “grave concern” that those activities might turn out to be “super spreaders”. With only days left until the country’s general
COVID DEATH TOLL JUMPS BY 27 By FARRAH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter fjohnson@tribunemedia.net
THE Ministry of Health reported 27 additional COVID-19 related deaths over the weekend, bringing the number of people who have died from the virus in
the country to 439. The ministry’s September 4 dashboard recorded 13 COVID-19 deaths. The dead include seven males and six females, who ranged in age from 49 to 68 years and died between August 7 and 30 after suffering from COVID-19 complications.
The deceased include ten residents of New Providence, two from Grand Bahama and a 40-year-old Andros woman who died on August 21. Health officials also said two deaths that were
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election, major political parties were at the height of campaigning this past weekend, trying to secure votes and become the next government of The Bahamas. In a statement sent to the press on Sunday, the Medical Association frowned upon the campaigning and drew examples of other countries that held elections during the COVID-19 pandemic. SEE PAGE FOUR
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