Protestors Defended, after deaths threats made to Bahamas Prime Minister

By Sherrica Thompson

Staff Writer

#TheBahamas, February 7, 2023 – Lincoln Bain, is a vocal advocate in the Bahamian political landscape, and rubbing governments the wrong way is an unapologetic side effect of the boombastic stands the leader of the Coalition of Independents or COI often takes, but with fingers seemingly wagging at protestors who assembled near parliament last week alongside him… Bain is rejecting that any of his people were the ones who threatened the Prime Minister of The Bahamas with harm.  

Commissioner of Police, Clayton Fernander, did not like the insults hurled at Prime Minister Philip Davis as he walked, heavily guarded through Parliament street and mere hours after the masses disbanded, a press conference exposed that Davis was called and threatened.

Lincoln Bain, in a live cast of his own dismissed claims that he was leading a dangerous revolt.

“He [the commissioner] started out with his press statement by saying that there was a protest and connecting these threats to the protest somehow by leading out with that fact.

“We find it concerning, and we feel that the words of the commissioner can prejudice any possible case against the culprits who would do something wrong against the Prime Minister of the country,” Bain noted.

Bain, a former police officer himself agrees the threat is serious and condemned it.

“Ladies and gentlemen, we think it is wrong and condemns the actions of anyone who threaten any Bahamian, including the Prime Minister of this country. We think that the commissioner of police should take this matter seriously and has he said should throw the book at whoever did that,” Bain stressed.

During the urgent press conference on Friday, where Commissioner Fernander debriefed the public about the threats, he issued a stern warning to those involved.

“We ask individuals who are out there or who may have the intention to do that or who will try to continue to do this to stop now cause we will go at you with the full extent of the law,” he warned. 

In the meantime, Prime Minister Davis is expected to continue his normal duties under heightened security.