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THESE LOOTERS ‘HAVE NO SHAME’
• Vendors awake to looters after businesses lost to fire • Six now arrested after Abaco net widens TWO separate incidents of looting in the span of days have cast a shadow over the country, stirring embarrassment and anger as Bahamians watched disaster victims and stranded cargo both get picked apart by opportunistic thieves. At Arawak Cay, vendors reeling from a fire that levelled six stalls woke the next morning to find looters rummaging through the ashes,
stealing what little had been saved. Goldie’s Conch House manager Kenya Mitchell, whose restaurant was among those destroyed, said: "I can't imagine the mindset of someone who would steal from people who have already lost so much - kicking someone when they are down. These people have no shame.” See PAGES 4 & 5
CHARRED remnants (left) of several establishments the day after they were ravaged by a fire at Arawak Cay’s Fish Fry. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
FNM and COI block removal of ballot box claiming breach of agreement on how it should be transported By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net
Residents from Abaco gathering at a stranded barge last week where many boarded and looted the vessel.
CHAOS erupted after advance polling ended in Golden Isles yesterday when Free National Movement and Coalition of Independents supporters blocked the removal
of ballot boxes, accusing officials of breaching an agreement on how the materials should be transported. FNM candidate Brian Brown said agents intervened because, he claimed, presiding officers were not honouring a Wednesday agreement with the
Parliamentary Commissioner that representatives from each party would accompany the boxes to the Parliamentary Registrar. The tense standoff eased only after agents were allowed to escort the boxes, which Mr Brown said were taken to the Parliamentary Registrar instead of police
headquarters. FNM leader Michael Pintard later raised broader concerns about the integrity of the process, arguing the returning officer — whom he claimed was formerly a campaign general of the prime minister — should BALLOTS - SEE PAGE TWO
PLP slams Pintard’s ‘phantom’ passport allegations By EARYEL BOWLEG Tribune Staff Reporter ebowleg@tribunemedia.net THE Davis Administration continues to forcefully reject Opposition Leader Michael Pintard’s assertion that “a bag of passports” was found on a Bahamasair flight, with senior officials now accusing him of spreading a false story
that stokes “xenophobic attitudes” and undermines national institutions. National Security Minister Wayne Munroe said the claim collapsed after the airline, the Passport Office and police all confirmed no such incident occurred, adding that anyone “with sense” should withdraw it. “It is trying to feed on xenophobic attitudes
amongst Bahamians,” he said. “It is as reprehensible as what happened in Abaco, and in some ways way worse, because it seeks to take advantage of what is not good character and good motivation. “The very sad thing about the leader the opposition, who says he wants to be PASSPORTS - SEE PAGE TWO
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FNM leader Michael Pintard.