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, drafted by Bahamian Evolution, to be read in Parliament.
By MALCOLM STRACHAN
SOME of you may remember the famous game show, Who Wants to be a Millionaire? where contestants answered multiple choice questions that would allow them to cash in on one million big ones. But who knew being born Bahamian paved an even easier path to wealth? We often hear how our country is so resource rich our birthright has made each of us millionaires. This notion and the recent controversy among local activists and parliamentarians have certainly charged up the political environment with citizens, while not in unanimous agreement on what aragonite’s value translates to in the pockets of Bahamians, curious about our natural resources.
tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net
ACTIVIST Lincoln Bain says he has filed a police complaint against a Cabinet minister, a senator and social media “trolls” over “threats” made against him.
He posted a video outside the Central Detective Unit on Wednesday after he said he filed the complaint.
Last night, Assistant Superintendent Audley Peters confirmed that Mr Bain had filed a complaint and said police were investigating the matter. He would not go into specifics.
This comes after Mr Bain released an audio on Facebook of a secretly recorded conversation between several alleged members of an FNM association, revealing the purported work of the party’s “war room”.
krussell@tribunemedia.net
THE Progressive Liberal Party’s youth arm has called on the governing Free National Movement to condemn behaviour and claims featured in a recording recently circulated on social media revealing alleged “defamation and slander” by people purported to be FNMs.
Audio of a secretly recorded conversation between several alleged members of an FNM association made the rounds yesterday revealing the purported work of the party’s “war room”.
In the recording, they admit to being internet trolls and using fake profiles on social media to defend the FNM. They further allege this was an ongoing effort that had been used against organisers of a recent Progressive Young Liberals convention.