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McAlpine says he has low expectations of getting nomination Frederick McAlpine. Pineridge MP Frederick McAlpine said he is prepared to remain with the Free National Movement (FNM) until the party decides to “cut the tie” and noted that he has “low expectations” of being renominated for his seat.  McAlpine also said he doesn’t believe the government will win the next election.  “I believe that if they continue on the trajectory that they are on, it is a high possibility that they can lose the next general election,” McAlpine told The Nassau Guardian. He said a loss for the ...

The official logo of the Free National Movement (FNM). NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The Free National Movement (FNM) ratified eight more incumbent members of Parliament, the party announced last night. According to a statement, FNM MPs Michael Pintard (Marco City), Frankie Campbell (Southern Shores), Iram Lewis (Central Grand Bahama), Pakesia Parker-Edgecombe (West Grand Bahama and Bimini), Reuben Rahming (Pinewood), Adrian Gibson (Long Island), Shanendon Cartwright (St Barnabas) and Ricky Mackey (North Eleuthera) have all secured a spot on the party’s ticket. The latest ratifications bring t...

Williams: “We voted them in and we could vote them out” NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Several nurses demonstrated outside of the House of Assembly yesterday in an effort to urge the government to pay money owed to them and protest against what they claimed is a continued lack of respect and unfair treatment. A nurse holds up a sign during a protest in Rawson Square on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (FILE PHOTO) The nurses chanted “we deserve better; we deserve respect” as they marched around the Lower Chamber in Parliament Square holding up placards that read: “Nurses don’t work for free”, ...

The dire implications of McAlpine’s Ocean Industries Incorporated Bill for Freeport’s economy Dear Editor, Perhaps in a move to get under the skin of the Free National Movement administration that sacked him from the Hotel Corporation in 2018, the outspoken Pineridge MP Frederick McAlpine tabled a private Bill for an Act to repeal the Ocean Industries Incorporated (Aragonite Mining Encouragement) 1971 in the House of Assembly in early December 2020. The readership would recall that, much to the annoyance of Bamboo Town MP Renward Wells, House Speaker Halson Moultrie allowed the bill, draf...