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Progressive Liberal Party

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Name: Progressive Liberal Party

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Activist seeks prison reform after release on bail from Fox Hill

POLITICAL activist Omar Archer yesterday announced plans to lobby for international support over his alleged firsthand experience of inhumane conditions at Her Majesty’s Prison.The former PLP member and one time chairman of the Bahamas Democratic Movement ... [Published The Tribune - 21 hours ago]

Entities: prison, Dr. Bernard Nottage, Bail

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

MPs debate bill to protect homeowners

Members of Parliament yesterday debated the Homeowners Protection Bill which is designed to give borrowers more protection for home loans.Minister of State for Finance Michael Halkitis, who led debate on the bill, said it is a significant step in the ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 24 2013]

Entities: Michael Halkitis, Mortgages, Foreclosure, Progressive Liberal Party

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 2 reports

Minnis wants emergency committee on crime

A national emergency plan that is non-partisan is needed to address the high crime rate in The Bahamas, Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis said yesterday.Minnis said he will request an urgent meeting with Prime Minister Perry Christie ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 22 2013]

Entities: Hubert Minnis, Crime, Dr. Bernard Nottage

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Smith thinks mortgage plan was ‘noble’ effort

Royston Jones Jr., Guardian Staff ReporterPrint eMailJames Smith.NASSAU (TNG) -- Former Minister of State for Finance James Smith suggested recently there was not much more commercial banks could have done to guarantee the success of the government's ... [Published CaribSeek - May 21 2013]

Entities: James Smith, Mortgages, Commercial Banks

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

PLP should post crime stats at roundabouts

During the last election, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Deputy Leader Philip Brave Davis insisted that as a matter of truth that certain crime statistics should be posted on public billboards for the world to see.Well, now as deputy prime minister, ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 16 2013]

Entities: Crime, Philip 'Brave' Davis, Progressive Liberal Party, Lynden Pindling

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

The march for equality

Renowned talk show host and patriotic Bahamian Darold Miller organized an equality march on May 1, 2013. The march was in protest to the continuing discrimination that Bahamians face no matter which government is in power.I was unable to attend the march ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 15 2013]

Entities: Equality, Bahamas, Free National Movement, Progressive Liberal Party

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Why subject oil production to a referendum?

As the government approached its one year anniversary in power, at the urging of various talk show hosts, all and sundry, it seems; eagerly called in to voice their opinion on the Progressive Liberal Party’s performance thus far. For the most part, public ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 13 2013]

Entities: Oil Production, Referendum, Progressive Liberal Party, Mortgages

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Gray rejects hiring favoritism claims

ACKLINS – Claims of political favoritism have emerged regarding last week’s confirmation of government part-time workers in Acklins and Crooked Island to full-time status with full job benefits.Most people involved worked for central government as janitresses ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 08 2013]

Entities: Nassau (Bahamas), Progressive Liberal Party, Bahamas, Workers

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

PM: Mortgage relief plan might help ‘four or five’

Taneka Thompson, Guardian Senior ReporterPrint eMailPerry Christie.NASSAU (TNG) -- The government’s mortgage relief plan might not be such a failure after all.Though it was supposed to help more than 1,000 households, Prime Minister Perry Christie ... [Published CaribSeek - May 07 2013]

Entities: Perry CHRISTIE, Michael Halkitis, Mortgages

First reported May 06 2013 - Updated May 06 2013 - 2 reports

PM touts lower crime, more jobs as year-one achievements

Reflecting on his government’s first term in office, Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday touted a decrease in crime and unemployment numbers, but expressed disappointment that the mortgage relief plan has so far failed to help one struggling home ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 06 2013]

Entities: Perry CHRISTIE, Michael Halkitis, Crime, Unemployment

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 2 reports

Rollins hits out at proposed gaming bill

When asked if the final version of the government’s proposed Gaming Bill should afford Bahamians the same right to gamble legally as non-Bahamians, Gaming Board Chairman Dr. Andre Rollins said yesterday that Bahamians should be able to do anything in ... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 02 2013]

Entities: Gaming, Leslie Miller, Progressive Liberal Party, Bahamas

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

We want your views on the government's first 12 months

Prime Minister Perry ChristieON May 7, 2013, it will be one year since Perry Christie led the Progressive Liberal Party to victory in the 2012 General Election.One year on, how has the new government fared?The PLP made a number of promises, some of which ... [Published The Tribune - May 01 2013]

Entities: Perry CHRISTIE, Philip Davis, Progressive Liberal Party

Quotes

"...It was none other than (former Prime Minister) Hubert Ingraham who gloated to a Nassau Guardian reporter that the NIB scandal was the making of the PLP and washed his hands when he boasted: 'I hired Cargill. I thought he did a wonderful job at NIB...We left the place in good shape'."

PLP, FNM chairmen hit out over NIB? [Published Freeport News - May 17 2013]

"Those less fortunate may still go on the three-year plan or that may be really reconfigured for a 24-month period,” Miller said in March."

BEC to reconnect more than 7,000 [Published Nassau Guardian - May 11 2013]

...will continue to pray to my God with confidenceconfidence in His omnipotence, for indeed we are admonished in the center of His word, Psalm 118: 8, "it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man."

Disappointed PLP supporter [Published Freeport News - May 09 2013]

"I hope that the Holy Spirit would anoint him (Prime Minister Perry Christie) and his Cabinet to pick up more speed. I know they have a lot of things on their agenda to help the people, but we need it more rapidly."

Readers rate PLP's first year of Government...your say [Published Freeport News - May 07 2013]

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Curiouser and curioser [Published The Tribune - 15 hours ago]
Activist seeks prison reform after release on b... [Published The Tribune - 21 hours ago]
MPs debate bill to protect homeowners [Published Nassau Guardian - May 24 2013]
Minnis wants emergency committee on crime [Published Nassau Guardian - May 22 2013]
Bell defends govt on crime [Published Nassau Guardian - May 22 2013]
Smith thinks mortgage plan was ‘noble’ effort [Published CaribSeek - May 21 2013]
Former BEC chairman supports new reconnection plan [Published Nassau Guardian - May 17 2013]
PLP, FNM chairmen hit out over NIB? [Published Freeport News - May 17 2013]
PLP should post crime stats at roundabouts [Published Nassau Guardian - May 16 2013]
Cargill responds to NIB report [Published Nassau Guardian - May 15 2013]
The march for equality [Published Nassau Guardian - May 15 2013]
Wilchcombe: Controversial portion of Gaming Bil... [Published CaribSeek - May 14 2013]
Neymour accuses Miller of hypocrisy on BEC reco... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 13 2013]
The Official Opposition: One year later [Published Nassau Guardian - May 13 2013]
Why subject oil production to a referendum? [Published Nassau Guardian - May 13 2013]
BEC to reconnect more than 7,000 [Published Nassau Guardian - May 11 2013]
The PLP must stand and deliver [Published Nassau Guardian - May 11 2013]
McCartney should be last person to complain abo... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 11 2013]
Disappointed PLP supporter [Published Freeport News - May 09 2013]
Gray rejects hiring favoritism claims [Published Nassau Guardian - May 08 2013]
PLP anniversary and the old landmark [Published Nassau Guardian - May 07 2013]
Reality and expectations a year later [Published Nassau Guardian - May 07 2013]
Readers rate PLP's first year of Government...y... [Published Freeport News - May 07 2013]
Roberts: I am confident that the Bahamian peopl... [Published Freeport News - May 07 2013]
Darville shares the success of Ministry for GB [Published Freeport News - May 07 2013]
PM: Mortgage relief plan might help ‘four or five’ [Published CaribSeek - May 07 2013]
Death penalty unit has cases under review [Published Nassau Guardian - May 06 2013]
PM touts lower crime, more jobs as year-one ach... [Published Nassau Guardian - May 06 2013]
PLP observes first anniversary in office [Published Antigua Observer - May 06 2013]
Roberts blames debt left by FNM [Published The Tribune - May 06 2013]

Blogs

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Caribbean: What Happened in 2012 (Part 1) [Published Global Voices Online - Dec 19 2012] This year, events in the Caribbean blogosphere were curiously bookended by hunger strikes. In January 2012, Cuban prisoner of conscience Wilman Villar Mendoza died as a result of a hunger strike he had undertaken about two months before. On December ...