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PLP VOTE RISES AS SMITH WINS RACE • DAVIS: WE WANTED TO WIN FOR OBIE • VOTER TURNOUT LOW IN BY-ELECTION • FNM FEWER VOTES THAN IN 2021 • COI LEADER BAIN LOSES DEPOSIT By RASHAD ROLLE Tribune News Editor rrolle@tribunemedia.net THE Progressive Liberal Party’s Kingsley Smith comfortably won the West Grand Bahama and Bimini

by-election yesterday, buoying the Davis administration in a race some saw as a potential barometer of the governing party’s popularity near the mid-point of its term. Voter turnout, which had

been unusually low in the 2021 general election, was similarly low this time, with 3,765 out of 6,015 people voting, according to unofficial results. However, Mr Smith got more votes than his

KINGSLEY SMITH, centre, celebrating after his victory in the West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election. Photo: Vandyke Hepburn predecessor, the late Obie Wilchcombe, did in the last election –– 2150 versus 2034 –– while the Free National Movement lost ground. The FNM’s Bishop Ricardo Grant got 1276 votes, 34 per cent of the share, fewer than

the 1,484 Pakesia ParkerEdgecombe got in 2021. While the Coalition of Independents, through its leader, Lincoln Bain, improved on its 2021 performance, it was not enough for Mr Bain to get

back the $400 he deposited to run in the race. He got 307 votes for eight per cent of the vote. Two independents, Terneille Burrows and DaQuan Swain, got a combined 32 votes. SEE PAGES 2,3,4,5

Maritime contracts signed ‘maliciously’ GERMAN TOURIST By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net A SENIOR civil servant is alleging that two controversial multi-million dollar maritime contracts were executed “negligently, unlawfully and maliciously” in contravention of public service rules. Antoinette Thompson, the top civil servant in the then-Ministry of Transport and Housing until she was placed on “unrecorded

leave” in April 2023, is claiming in legal documents that the two “large contracts” were signed and executed by junior officials “without the knowledge or authority” of herself even though - as permanent secretary - she was the one required to sign-off. And she alleged that one of the contracts, which committed the government to pay $3.355m for the development of an online portal to capture private boat and yacht charter fees, was signed by Gaynell Rolle, the

Ministry of Transport and Housing’s under-secretary, prior to all the necessary documents arriving at the ministry’s offices. That contract, handed to DigieSoft Technologies, as well as the annual $3.57m award to Adolpha Maritime Group for the maintenance of navigational aids in Nassau and other harbours across The Bahamas, were both cited for procedural irregularities in Ms Thompson’s October 27 action. FULL STORY - SEE BUSINESS

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MISSING AFTER SHARK ATTACK

A GERMAN tourist is missing after a shark attacked her in waters near West End on Tuesday. Police said the woman was participating in a diving excursion in the Tiger Beach area when she encountered the shark. “After briefly surfacing, she disappeared and has not resurfaced since. Only her SEE PAGE SEVEN


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