The Tribune

By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net FNM CHAIRMAN Carl Bethel yesterday challenged PLP leader Perry Christie to produce evidence of FNM supporters victimising PLPs. Mr Bethel's comments came after Mr Christie said in the House of Assembly that FNM supporters were not the only ones harassed in Grand Bahama. Mr Christie said: "I have read detailed accounts of stories of FNMs attacking PLPs. This is a story that is unfolding as we speak. There are accounts that when motorcades pass each other, there were some known persons who threw beer bottles and cans in vehicles, so these are matters that are being produced. "Today I read a long list of people by name, accounts from people who are Progressive Liberal Party supporters who spoke of violence that happened to them. "Some of them were people in the community who you would recognise. People who on the face of it you would think have no political reasons to do and say those things." Mr Bethel said the incident Grand Bahama in which FNMs were attacked by PLPs with a fire extinguisher, has been documented and he called for Mr Christie to produce his evidence. "We have no information to say what he is saying is true. All I can say is we have no proof to confirm Mr Christie's statement. "If it is true, he should produce the information - we have. The FNM candidate made a formal complaint to the police," Mr Bethel said. FNM candidate for East Grand Bahama Peter Turnquest claimed his teenage daughter and three other FNM supporters were sprayed in their faces with a fire extinguisher by PLP supporters while on a motorcade. After the incident, both Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and Mr Christie called for peace between supporters.