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Club to hand out scholarships

THE Gentlemen’s Club will hand out its annual scholarship awards and programme prizes worth around $250,000 at its 27th Gala Ball on Saturday night at the Atlantis Paradise Island resort.

KB launches new album

BAHAMIAN rake n’ scrape artist Kirkland “KB” Bodie has launched his “Save the Bays” album – a compilation of 12 songs about marine and land conservation in the Bahamas.

Fresh questions over Las Vegas trip for PM, Gibson and Nygard meeting

DETAILS have emerged of a meeting between Perry Christie, Shane Gibson and Peter Nygard in a luxury suite in Las Vegas shortly before the 2012 election, again highlighting the close relationship between Progressive Liberal Party leaders and the controversial developer and raising fresh questions over the much-criticised stem cell legislation passed early in Mr Christie’s term.

PM hits out at vitriol in election season

PRIME Minister Perry Christie confirmed that his family was near a park where a man was shot last weekend, as he spoke out against “vitriol” and “bitterness” this election season.

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Lodge St Michael. - Lodge St. Michael 1634, Scottish Constitution, celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with a number of events to mark this occasion.

Hall avoids questions over polling problems

PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sherlyn Hall yesterday repeatedly dodged questions from the press as chaos unfolded at the advanced poll in the capital.

Voters frustrated by wait as only one site open in Nassau

VOTER frustration was obvious at the advanced polling station yesterday as thousands of people waited for hours in the hot sun, with some enduring the long queues only to be turned away for various reasons.

Sherlyn Hall has not sought an extension

SIX days before the general election, Parliamentary Commissioner Sherlyn Hall confirmed on Thursday that his contract has expired and that he has not sought an extension.

Christie’s Baha Mar deal adds $1bn costs

THE Baha Mar deal recently agreed by the Christie administration, as outlined in the heads of agreement (HOA) released on April 30, amounts to a “disgraceful betrayal” of the government’s sacred duty to protect the public interest, a former high ranking hotel executive told The Tribune last night.

Ingraham calls for retirement of Hall

FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham last night called on Prime Minister Perry Christie to “immediately retire” Parliamentary Commissioner Sherlyn Hall for the “chaos” at the advanced polls yesterday morning that caused the country “great international embarrassment” and discouraged Bahamians from voting.

Chaos at polls

PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sherlyn Hall’s ability to run a successful May 10 general election is a “matter under review,” according to Prime Minister Perry Christie as he told reporters he was “disappointed” over the process at the Kendal G L Isaacs Gymnasium where thousands turned out to cast ballots for yesterday’s disorganised advanced poll.

Fight breaks out at Grand Bahama vote

A FIST FIGHT broke out between supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party and Free National Movement outside the advanced polling centre in Grand Bahama yesterday.

Voting process starts late

TEMPERS flared and chaos erupted during yesterday’s advanced poll as members of the armed forces and others endured the smouldering heat in long queues to cast ballots ahead of the May 10 general election.

Christie denies treasury broke

PRIME Minister Perry Christie denied assertions from the nation’s former leader, Hubert Ingraham, who said on Tuesday that no matter which party wins the May 10 election, the government will be unable to give officers overtime pay as promised because the money is not in the Public Treasury.

PLP chairman says claim of no money to pay officers is bogus

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday fired back at former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham’s claims that the Public Treasury does not have the money to pay police officers overtime, calling his comments “bogus”.

‘Never a wrong time’ to give promotions, says Keith Bell

THERE is never a wrong time to promote law enforcement officers, State Minister for National Security Keith Bell said yesterday as he responded to criticism that this week’s mass promotion exercises in the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Royal Bahamas Defence Force were politically motivated.

Miller wants committee to investigate who is paying for political adverts

TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller yesterday said the Progressive Liberal Party should push for the formation of a “substantive committee” in Parliament to “get to the bottom” of which persons or entity are responsible for purchasing “millions of dollars” worth of “very negative” newspaper ads about the governing party should it return to office.

Two armoured vehicles are delivered as gift from China

THE arrival of two armoured vehicles at the Nassau Container Port at Arawak Cay last week has raised some eyebrows.

‘PM running from Fitzgerald controversy’

DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney yesterday accused Prime Minister Perry Christie of “running” from addressing the controversy surrounding Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald’s solicitation of contracts from Baha Mar while he sat in Cabinet.

Bulgarian guilty of laundering money returns for his appeal

A BULGARIAN who was convicted by a Supreme Court jury of money laundering has returned to The Bahamas for his appeal which is scheduled next week, The Tribune understands.

15-year sentence upheld for murder of Cash for Gold worker

THE Court of Appeal has affirmed the conviction and 15-year sentence of a man who a Supreme Court jury found guilty of having a role in the fatal robbery of a Cash for Gold employee four years ago.

Hearing for pair in $390,000 drugs case

A NEW fixture hearing date has been scheduled for a man and woman awaiting trial in connection with a recent major drug seizure.

On Da Hook

LUKE MAILLIS set a Bahamas national record for a CWT (constant weight) freedive this week with 48 metres (157 feet) at Dean’s Blue Hole, Long Island at the Vertical Blue 2017.

VIDEO: Chaos at general election advanced poll

THE advanced poll for the general election got off to a chaotic and late start in the capital this morning.

Observers on their way ahead of voting

ELECTION observers are on their way to monitor the country’s general election as the advanced poll begins today.