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STEVIE AND SHAUNAE THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS: The Golden Twins in Tokyo. It was Steven Gardiner's turn on 5 August 2021 to win gold in the 400 metres at the Olympics. The next day 6 August 2021 day belonged to Shaunae Miller Uibo. Gold again for The Bahamas in the 400 metres. We predict one day she will be our Minister of Sports. CONGRATULATIONS and well done. 6 August 2021. OUR PHOTO OF THE WEEK. They celebrated each other in the stands.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

THE AVALANCHE OF DISINFORMATION BY AI

07/06/25 12:54 PM

We agree with Fred Mitchell, Chair of the PLP. AI is a tool that needs to be harnessed for good and not for evil.  It cannot be stopped but it must be harnessed and people in the country have to be more discerning to strain out truth from nonsense.

For the past week, the PLP has been engaged and batting away one set of lies after the next  The party was forced to respond not because it believed them or that they felt that there was wide currency about them,  but its own PLPS were calling up asking whether one thing or the next was true or not.  The fact is those people should have been discerning enough to figure out when something is nonsense.

For example, the claim that there are 300,000 applications for citizenship pending that the PLP will process to make citizens before the next general election.  It is stupid on the face of it.

But it took the Chairman of the PLP to go public and denounce the damn fool who calls himself a preacher for spreading the lies around.

In 2002, there was the battle of the talk shows and the callers of that era.  Then in 2012, it moved to the rallies on cable television.  In 2021 it was the WhatsApp chats and Facebook.  Now we add to that, AI.  It’s just another tool.

The PLPs ought to get used to it being around and seek to harness it rather than be passive players in the face of an expert disinformation campaign by the FNM and COI and other non-state actors.

Number of hits for the week ending Saturday 5 July 2025 up to midnight: 915,120;

Number of hits for the month of July to to Saturday 5 July 2025 up to midnight: 755,554;

Number of hits for the year 2025 up to Saturday 5 July 2025 up to midnight: 9,388,980;

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EDITORIAL

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IN PASSING

ANSWERING CAY MILLS MISINFORMATION IN ABACO

07/06/25 12:11 PM

Fred Mitchell, Chair of the PLP, had this to say about an allegation that the government of The Bahamas was deficient in defending the country against illegal immigrants. He said this on Wednesday 2 July 2025:

“A well-known citizen video note man said in an attempt to trash the immigration policy of The Bahamas government that we must thank God for the US Coastguard for catching 64 non Nationals, as they were trying to get into The Bahamas.  “The truth is RBDF and the US Coastguard in a joint operation with the RBDF tracked these people from the time they left Haiti. They were headed to the United States, not The Bahamas and RBDF stopped them in this operation, off Hole In The Wall, Abaco, stopping them from getting into the United States. They should now be back in Haiti.”

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180 Years Of St Agnes

07/06/25 12:01 PM

From Facebook:

Thank you St Agnes on your 180th anniversary for giving me my sense of well-being, confidence and identity. It’s their exhibition at the Mall At Marathon with Rector Keith Cartwright and Bishop Laish Boyd.

Fred Mitchell MP

Fox Hill

3 July 2025

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LJM Academy

07/06/25 11:59 AM

From Facebook:

Always an honour to join my friend Ambassador Rt Hon Lowell Mortimer CMG. He is the founder of the LJM Marine Academy. They had a commissioning ceremony for their sports project. Congratulations.

Fred Mitchell MP

Fox Hill

3 January 2025

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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NEWS

PINTARD TELLS MICHELL IT’S NOT US

07/06/25 12:51 PM

All week long, this past week there has been an avalanche of homophobic attacks on Fred Mitchell, Chair of the Progressive Liberal Party.  It started with a video note that was passed around on FNM and COI sites with Mr. Mitchell’s picture and AI generated voice where they said that Mr. Mitchell had an agenda once he was re-elected to office.  That agenda was to push LGBTQI rights in The Bahamas. Mr. Mitchell responded with fury accusing the FNM and COI of conspiring to defame.  Michael Pintard the Leader of the FNM, called Mr. Mitchell aside and claimed that it was not so and that the FNM does not subscribe to the views in the video note nor of the question of individual’s private lives. He has not said so publicly.  The FNM must disassociate themselves publicly from it. Their private denial rings hollow.

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COI CHIEF SAYS HE WILL NOT HELP PINTARD

07/06/25 12:48 PM

In the back and forth on social media over the homophobic allegations by FNM and COI partisans in their attacks on Fred Mitchell, Chair of the PLP, Lincoln Bain, Leader of COI, wrote the following in a private message to Fred Mitchell: “The COI would never do anything that would help Michael Pintard become leader of this nation.”

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NO ROLL OUT OF PLP CANDIDATES YET

07/06/25 12:45 PM

Prime Minister Philip Davis told the press this week on Wednesday 2 July 2025 that the PLP’s candidates will be revealed in due course. This was followed up by Fred Mitchell, Chair of the PLP, who said the following on Thursday 3 July 2025: “I saw the prime minister today being quoted in the press, so you have to take what he says.

“I guess he’s not quite ready for a rollout. I suspect the Candidates Committee of the party will convene next month or sometime this month.

 “[However], as I’ve said before, we have members of Parliament and they’re all working in their areas.

“So, the question of candidates doesn’t really arise at this point because we have people who are there, and the presumption is that unless there’s something to the contrary, the incumbent has the first bite at the cherry, so to speak, although everybody has to be re-nominated.

“We’re not quite there yet, but we’re making sure that all members of parliament are busy working in their areas and the party is doing what it can in those places where people have decided they’re not going to run, that we have caretakers to support the work of the party.”

“South Abaco MP John Pinder is still undecided.

“Some MPs have announced they do not intend to run again, including Fort Charlotte MP Alfred Sears, MICAL MP Basil McIntosh and North Eleuthera MP Sylvanus Petty, who is deputy speaker of the House of Assembly.”

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DISCERNING TRUTH FROM FICTION WITH AI

07/06/25 12:40 PM

Fred Mitchell Chair of the PLP at press conference held on Thursday 3 July 225 said the following about AI generated images: “Bahamians must have a discerning spirit to be able to distinguish truth from nonsense”

Here is what he said in his own words on 2 July 2025: “The pity is that PLPs and people of goodwill do not have a more discerning spirit when it comes to this nonsense. All day long, you have people calling me, is it true? Is it true?

“That’s precisely what it’s designed to do: to distract us PLPs by trying to fight this nonsense? What I would say it is that those who are sponsoring this nonsense from the FNM and spreading it about a gay agenda, ask Michael Pintard if he knows who his candidates who are running for office are, amongst those just recently revealed. Ask him? You whistle, I’ll point and I’m prepared to go down that road if they want to persist, because I will have to meet iron with this stuff.”

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THE FNM CANDIDATE: WHAT THE HELL?

07/06/25 12:36 PM

They have denied it privately. The COI have disavowed any connection to it.  FNM supporters have sent private messages to the PLP saying it isn’t so. They have not disassociated themselves from the nasty innuendoes about the Chairman of the PLP Fred Mitchell but here is what Mr. Mitchell had to say in his own words on Monday 30 June 2025 by voice note and about the allegation by the FNM candidate in Fox Hill who is a doctor and claimed without evidence that the recent break in his medical officer was politically motivated: “It has been two times in the past week that I engaged in activity that I find generally counter intuitive. “One was to debunk the nonsense about a gay agenda using my picture and faking my voice, I had to point out if they are talking about secret agendas on that score, I ask if the FNM knows who they put up to run against me in Fox Hill and if they didn’t, I was prepared to tell them. “Then hard on the heels of that was an allegation by the neophyte FNM candidate in Fox Hill that politics was involved in the robbery of his office. There is no evidence produced to support this bare assertion.  “But a Republican once told me that in the old days of the Daley Democratic machine in Chicago, if something like that happened, you could bet it wasn’t the Republicans who did it, but the Daley Democrats who staged it to look as if the Republicans had done it. So physician heal thyself. “I ask this question that people of goodwill were asking: why would a doctor advertise that he had $2000 in cash in his office? Was he not inviting thieves to come back and by doing so putting at risk every other doctor’s office?  Because thieves now know that doctor’s offices are rich with cash. It’s just irresponsible.” 

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A LYING PASTOR IN GRAND BAHAMA NAMED BETHEL

07/06/25 12:30 PM

 In a voice note on Wednesday 2 July 2025 Fred Mitchell snapped back at a man calling himself a preacher named Glenroy Bethel in Grand Bahama who made false claims about Bahamians immigration and passport policy:   “We move on then up to Grand Bahama, a man calling himself a preacher, but a well-known purveyor of lies and conspiracy theories spoke about 300,000 applications for citizenship. That is a lie. The Bahamas government is planning, he says, to deluge the country with citizens of another nationality. That is a lie.  “He also said that passports were being put out willy-nilly. That too is a lie. “I can tell this phony preacher that thus didn’t say the Lord. “Ladies and gentlemen and people of goodwill: just do the math, and you will see what is being said makes no sense whatsoever, lies from the pits of hell.”

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