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PRIME Minister Perry Christie rang the proverbial bell yesterday morning, announcing that the 2017 election will be held on Wednesday, May 10.
THE MINISTRY of Education yesterday announced that three national examinations have been rescheduled due to their clash with the May 10 date for the 2017 general elections.
TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller has criticised the two local academics who have campaigned for voters to spoil their election ballot as a form of protest, stating because of their comments the professors “should not be on staff” at the University of the Bahamas.
FREE National Movement North Eleuthera candidate Howard “Rickey” Mackey yesterday said that in no way was he concerned by Progressive Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts’ threat to “drop some more bombshells” about him as the 2017 general election campaign season progresses.
JUBILEE Gardens residents are planning to take legal action against the Christie administration as a result of the recent fire at the New Providence Landfill, an attorney representing some of them confirmed yesterday.
HOUSE of Assembly Speaker Dr Kendal Major yesterday forecast that the 2017 general election will be the last time voters will be subjected to a manual registration system, insisting that there was no excuse for the outdated practice.
DESPITE widespread backlash over a last-minute delay and ultimate revision of dates for the third Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe yesterday insisted that there has not been any “negative” feedback associated with the festival.
LAWYERS for Omar Archer Sr were given one week to file a formal challenge in the Supreme Court concerning the constitutionality of the criminal libel charge against him.
A MOTION was filed in the Supreme Court yesterday challenging the constitutionality of criminal libel on the law books.
With no wind gauge and insufficient lashing to hold containers in place, an aged US freighter was no match for the full fury of Hurricane Joaquin. Using recordings from the ship’s recovered ‘black box’, Jason Dearen pieces together the final moments before all hands were lost in Bahamian waters in 2015 . . .
TRIBUTES were paid to former Governor General Sir Orville Turnquest at the annual general meeting of the Governor General’s Youth Award as he steps down as the organisation’s chairman of the board of trustees.
PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sherlyn Hall yesterday pledged that his department “has the ability” to produce a clean voter’s register, but said that can only happen if Bahamians do not “contaminate” it by registering more than once.
THE selection of Trinidadian firm Teleios Systems to be the IT system provider for the National Health Insurance scheme has ignited security concerns over the disclosure of personal data.
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday denied that the organisation has attempted to entice voters by attaching money to PLP paraphernalia.
TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller yesterday railed against officials at various voter registration centres and accused them of encouraging voter apathy, charging that Bahamians are not registering to vote because they are being “frustrated” by workers who “don’t have the slightest damn idea what the hell they’re doing”.
DEPUTY Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis yesterday predicted that the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) will win 30 seats in the upcoming general election and the Free National Movement (FNM) will win nine.
LONG Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday blasted the Christie administration over the reported launch of a jobs programme in her constituency, claiming 28 people were handpicked for new employment as an election approaches.
PRIME Minister Perry Christie’s obscene hand gesture that rocked the country last month has resurfaced in a viral video featuring instantly regrettable actions.
Rashad Rolle takes the political temperature in Marathon and finds mixed reviews for sitting MP Jerome Fitzgerald . . .
THE Democratic National Alliance will hold commissions of inquiry into Baha Mar, the Bank of The Bahamas and value added tax disbursements within its first year in office if elected, DNA Leader Branville McCartney announced yesterday.
THE Democratic National Alliance has presented its plans to address crime should the party win the next election, noting in its Vision 2017 policy document the intent to legislatively define the “worst of the worst” as it looks carry out capital punishment.
VINCENT Peet, a former Progressive Liberal Party Cabinet minister, has launched an independent campaign for the North Andros and Berry Islands constituency, saying residents have urged him to return to politics.
MINISTER of State for National Security Keith Bell yesterday said more can be done in the fight against crime but defended the Christie administration’s initiatives this term, saying the government has made “significant investments” to counteract the problem.
A JURY heard yesterday that a man accused of being involved in a gunpoint robbery that turned fatal had told people he knew what had transpired.
FOX Hill MP Fred Mitchell yesterday lashed out at allegations that the Fox Hill Community Centre was paid for by “the Chinese,” calling the rumours racist and defamatory.