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Volume: 123 No. 185, Friday, August 21, 2026
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‘FNM NEEDS TO FIND A LEADER WHO CAN WIN’
Former PM Ingraham: Party needs leadership that can inspire people By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, FNM leader Michael Pintard, FNM deputy leader Shanendon Cartwright and other party officials mark the party’s 34th anniversary of its 1992 general election victory.
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has told the Free National Movement to find “someone who could win” if it wants to return to government, remarks some insiders interpreted as a sign that he does not believe Michael Pintard is the leader to take the party back to power. Speaking Wednesday night at the FNM’s 34th anniversary celebration of
its 1992 general election victory, Mr Ingraham said the party needed leadership capable of inspiring people rather than trying to force loyalty. “You have to inspire people to want to be with you,” Mr Ingraham said. “You can’t force them to be with you.” He pointed to former FNM leaders Sir Kendal Isaacs and Cecil Whitfield, describing them as good men who nevertheless recognised when they LEADER - SEE PAGE FIVE
State ordered to pay interim $80K BPL OUTAGES HIT DOWNTOWN to man paralysed in police shooting BUSINESSES AND TOURISTS By LYNAIRE MUNNINGS Tribune Staff Reporter lmunnings@tribunemedia.net A MAN left paralysed after being shot in the back by a police officer has secured an $80,000 interim payment from the state after developing a severe pressure ulcer that now requires surgery as the
By LEANDRA ROLLE Tribune Chief Reporter lrolle@tribunemedia.net
courts continue to determine how much he should ultimately receive for the 2016 shooting. Justice Camille Darville Gomez ordered the Commissioner of Police and the Attorney General to make the payment to Thorne Clarke, finding that his VICTIM - SEE PAGE FOUR
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TOURISTS cut short their vists to downtown Nassau yesterday, with some complaining about sweltering heat in shops and saying they would have spent more money ashore had hours-long power
outages not forced businesses to close or operate in darkness. The outages, which began on Wednesday and continued into yesterday, affected areas including Shirley Street and East Street Hill. BPL said technicians identified the problem CLOSED - SEE PAGE THREE
CLOSED notice on a business in Downtown, Nassau.
PI beach club loses final bid before Privy Council BY FAY SIMMONS TRIBUNE BUSINESS REPORTER jsimmons@tribuneemedia.net A PROPOSED Paradise Island beach club and lighthouse restoration project has suffered a final legal setback after the Privy Council ruled that the Crown Land lease at its centre was never binding on the Government.
Nassau & Bahama Islands’ Leading Newspaper
The judicial system’s highest court yesterday dismissed an appeal by Paradise Island Lighthouse and Beach Club Company Limited, finding that the proposed 21-year lease of five acres remained subject to formal execution by the minister responsible for Crown Lands. SEE BUSINESS FOR STORY