Category Archives: News

It was obvious to even the uninitiated that the deadline for National Insurance pensioners to verify their identities had to be postponed.  It caused panic in the population and long lines at NIB offices: the demand to go on line, download a form and then turn up to National Insurance with the form duly notarized. […]

Shadow Health Minister Dr. Michael Darville  The following statement was issued by the PLP’s Covid 19 Task Force in answer to the announcement that the Centre For Disease control in the United States has mandated a Covid 19 PCR negative test to enter the United States: Once again, this FNM Government finds itself in another […]

PLP ISSUES STATEMENT ON 20K MISSING THE TEST 13th JANUARY 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The following statement was issued by Dr. Michael Darville and Dr. Melissa Evans, Co-chairs of the PLP Covid 19 Task Force : The PLP’s Covid-19 Task Force is deeply alarmed by the negligence and indifference displayed by the Minister of Health […]

Former Attorney General Alfred Sears Q C with Senator Fred Mitchell, Shadow Attorney General at the opening of the legal year in Rawson Square 13 January 2021. The Progressive Liberal Party’s spokesman on Legal Affairs and the Shadow Attorney General Fred Mitchell  with Alfred Sears Q C at the opening of the legal year on […]

Last week both the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis and the Chairman of the Free National Movement felt the need to answer Senator Fred Mitchell who claimed in the press a week before that the signs were clear that the Prime Minister intends to call an early election. They both claimed with their eyes wide open […]

The Leader of the Progressive Liberal Party Philip Davis led a team of the PLP for a site visit to Eleuthera on 13 to 14 January 2021. The delegation included Senator Fred Mitchell, Chairman, Senator Clay Sweeting, Deputy Leader Chester Cooper and Vaughn Miller MP for Golden Isles.  There were meetings in Harbour Island, North […]

The Progressive Liberal Party’s leader Philip Davis met around the Pindling Mausoleum at St Agnes Grave Yard to mark the 54th anniversary of the first  government  of people of African descent.  On that day Sir Lynden Pindling led the men of the PLP into government. The first time in 319 years after the first European […]

The following statement was issued by the Leader of the Opposition Philip Davis in response to the Prime  Minister Hubert Minnis’ National Address. In the address, the Prime Minister boasted about relief to the employed and food to the poor.  He seemed to think that was a good report . having presided over a  wrecked […]

The following statement was issued by Senator Fred Mitchell, Opposition spokesman on Foreign Affairs in The Bahamas: For Immediate  Release  7 January 2021 The Progressive Liberal Party calls on the Government of The Bahamas to condemn the violence in the United States by partisans of the sitting President of the United States Donald J. Trump. […]

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Thank you to Big Daddy William Patton who although he is mourning the recent loss of his mother was able to lead this effort on behalf of the Men’s Branch of the PLP on Saturday 9 January 2021. It is a food distribution programme by the PLP Men’s Branch. Thank you to the PLP’s Men’s […]

The PLP has asked the government to say what the position is on the administration of a vaccine for Covid 19 in anticipation of a third wave of mass infections in our country. The following is the full statement of the PLP’s Covid 19 Task Force. Progressive Liberal Party PLP COVID-19 Task Force Co-Chairs Dr. […]

So the National Security Minister Marvin Dames has suddenly discovered that there are no easy answers to stopping the crime and homicides .  That was his sentiment in the press last week in the face of 6 murders in 6 days in the New Year.  This is the same feckless boastful fellow that said he […]

The following statement was issued by the Leader of the Progressive Liberal Party Philip Davis at the death of the Sir William Allen, the former Finance Minister, Senator and MP for Montagu. 6 January 2021 I am deeply saddened to learn of the death of my friend, fellow Toastmaster and Parliamentary colleague, Sir William ‘Bill’ […]

As reported by LEANDRA ROLLE of The Tribune ( The interview took place on 5 January 2020 ) PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Fred Mitchell said yesterday Bahamians can look forward to soon seeing a “full slate” of PLP candidates as the party expects Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will call an early election.  “The schedule […]

31 December 2020 The Chairman of the PLP Senator Fred Mitchell issued this statement in response to the latest attack by the FNM on the Leader of the PLP, who criticized the FNM for bungling the orders on Christmas day which stopped Bahamians from going into restaurants: In reading the FNM’s latest mindless statement, I […]

PLP Chairman Fred Mitchell in his New Year’s statement told people to be wary of FNMs pretending to be PLP by saying to us that they are willing to vote PLP but they aren’t “feeling Brave”.  He told them that if they don’t feel Brave they will feel Minnis with one foot kicking them in […]

The Government sent out an announcement late on Friday 1 January 2021 that they were extending the deadline.  The bungling of the implementation of this law is another example of the insensitivity and clumsiness of the management of public policy by the FNM. Here is the statement of Senator Fred Mitchell on the subject: 31 […]

Imagine the Minister of National Security Marvin Dames boasting about 79 homicides in 2020 at a time of national lockdown.  What would the figure have been if he did not have us all locked up in our houses at night?  These FNM people are shameless.

Senator Fred Mitchell issued this statement: “This evening it was my privilege to attend the ordination to the Anglican diaconate of Rev Deacon Kristopher Higgs at St Matthew’s. His mom was the late Joan Butler and his grandmother Princess Butler both of whom died tragically. The new deacon has made an extraordinary journey. Let us […]

The double standard between how the PLP is treated and how the pundits treat the FNM was again laid bare when the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis went campaigning at police stations on the Christmas Holiday. The video was out almost as soon as he left the station, telling the police, instructing them that the curfew […]

Uh oh, the rift between the former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and the now Prime Minister Hubert Minnis seems to have widened. In a letter to the Editor, published on 21 December 2020, Mr. Ingraham laid into the FNM Government because he said that the FNM was supporting a fisheries bill which was discriminatory against […]

26 December 2020 So Brent Johnson and his wife  Eulona are dead.  Sometime around 6 p.m. on Christmas Day, their lives ended in a car crash. Some say it was a drunk driver who crashed into them and brought their lives to an end. Senator Fred Mitchell issued this personal statement: I met Brent Johnson […]

The Nassau Harbour Club Hotel and Restaurant Latitudes The following statement was issued by the Latitudes Restaurant following a mass ticket exercise by the Royal Bahamas Police Force and the Covid Police at their restaurant on Wednesday 23 December 2020.  The tickets were issued because they were accused of violating the curfew rules by having […]

The Leader of the Progressive Liberal Party Philip Davis led his end of year press conference on Tuesday 22 December 2020. Mr. Davis said about the Peter Nygard matter: he is looking to the future not concentrating on the past and the lies that the FNM are telling about the Nygard matter. Here is the […]

The Prime Minister’s schedule shows that he travelled to Matthew Town, Inagua on Christmas Day 25 December 2020.  He arrived there in the late afternoon and spent two nights. Early this morning 27 December 2020, he and his party departed for a Mayaguana where they will spend a few hours and then head back to […]

So Peter Turnquest jumped to his feet in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 16 December 2020 to say that the bill which the FNM Government that he sat in two or three weeks ago was passing a bill on fisheries that would discriminate against Bahamian women. The bill prohibits non Bahamians from fishing in […]

You know for sure that election time is coming when the second half of the Fred Smith Q C, Joseph Darville surfaces to protest some environmental issue. We call them the ventriloquist and the dummy. He is the dummy. So now he is on a tear, this time he is trying to stop oil drilling […]