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MP says he wants God to end Earth now By KHRISNA VIRGIL Tribune Staff Reporter kvirgil@tribunemedia.net TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller has forcefully denounced the growing transgender community in this country while urging people to financially contribute to having this sect of society exiled to their own private island to ensure “they stay out of the way” of generations of Bahamians who are depending on the success of the June 7 referendum. While pledging to give the group its first $1,000 toward this relocation, Mr Miller told The Tribune that it was his constant prayer that “God would come now and just end the world” as their actions “go against His will”.

The former minister of trade and industry also dismissed the concerns of Bahamas Transgender Intersex United (BTIU), which last week made its debut at a press conference calling for equal rights for transgender Bahamians. In response, Mr Miller said: “If you want to like man, that’s your damn business but don’t try to impose your will on other people.” He told this newspaper that he was of the view that members of the transgender community were currently being treated equally because “they are men therefore you go and live like a man, you are a woman (so) you live like a woman.” This he said was equality in the eyes of God.

BAMBOO Town MP Renward Wells yesterday called for the government to immediately provide funding for the campaigns opposing the gender equality referendum. Mr Wells, a member of the FNM, said he would “proudly” vote against the fourth bill as he defended the validity of opposition campaigns, noting that there were credible arguments against all of the Constitutional Amendment Bills. He said the government was duty bound to provide equal funding for all campaigns. “If the government is going to promote and fund the ‘yes’ vote,” he said, “then the government, in a constitutional referendum, is duty bound to fund the ‘no’ vote campaign as well to the exact dollar amount. That is what happens in a democracy in order for there to be equity. SEE PAGE FIVE

By RICARDO WELLS Tribune Staff Reporter rwells@tribunemedia.net

SAVE Our Bahamas yesterday said the Christie administration has not shown any interest in “balancing the tables” ahead of the gender equality referendum, stressing that it has “unfairly” thrown its full support behind the government funded YES Bahamas campaign. Pastor Lyall Bethel, a SEE PAGE FIVE

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now faces. He said anyone who disagreed with this is “deluding” themselves. He was responding to the leak – which he called a “bad idea” – of a chain of emails sent among FNM members of Parliament after Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins wrote to party Leader Dr Hubert Minnis asking for his consideration in appointing Dr Duane Sands to the Senate. SEE PAGE THREE

By AVA TURNQUEST Tribune Chief Reporter aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

GOVT ‘NOT INTERESTED IN FUNDING RIVAL CAMPAIGN’

FORMER CHAIRMAN CALLS FOR EARLY FNM CONVENTION

By KHRISNA VIRGIL Tribune Staff Reporter kvirgil@tribunemedia.net FORMER Free National Movement Chairman Darron Cash was adamant yesterday that a “clean up” of the FNM must take place, as the party could not contest the next general election with “splintered leadership”. An early convention, Mr Cash said, was the only credible solution to the “current morass” the party

WELLS TO ‘PROBABLY’ VOTE NO ON BILL FOUR

RICARDO BAIN, aged 44, left, and Herman Pinder, aged 31, who have both been discharged from the police force and admitted stealing phones from BTC. Photos: Tim Clarke/Tribune Staff

POLICE OFFICERS GUILTY OF STEALING PHONES FROM BTC

By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net

TWO former policemen who took advantage of their former positions to commit theft may spend 18 months in prison if they fail to pay a $3,000 fine imposed on them by a magistrate. Within hours of their dismissal from the Royal Bahamas Police Force, exConstables Ricardo Bain, 44, and Herman Pinder, 31, appeared before Magistrate Andrew Forbes to face stealing and receiving

charges stemming from a break-in at the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) JFK location in the RND West Plaza. Magistrate Forbes, after the pair admitted guilt, expressed his perplexity at the poor judgment of Bain and Pinder who served 26 and seven years respectively on the force. “I’m always lost for words when I have persons, who have been designated with the principal responsibility of the protection of Bahamian society, finding themselves before me charged

with such facts,” Magistrate Forbes said. “I cannot quite grasp how two officers who had been attending an alleged break-in made the decision that they were going, rather than investigate the breakin, instead help themselves to (the) merchandise in the store. “How does one go from ‘I’m here to engage in protecting and serving the public’ to ‘I’m going to enrich myself’? How does one make that leap mentally?”

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CHIPMAN VOWS 100% BACKING FOR MINNIS

By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Satff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net ST ANNE’S MP Hubert Chipman said yesterday he supports FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis “100 per cent” and the party is investigating who leaked confidential emails between himself, other members of the FNM and Dr Minnis to the press. Mr Chipman told The Tribune that he feels like the “world is shooting at the FNM” and every time they begin to work on their internal issues, someone tries to sabotage them. SEE PAGE THREE


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