The Tribune

TALK show host Jeffery Lloyd will be ratified next week as the Free National Movement’s (FNM) candidate for South Beach in the 2017 general election, The Tribune understands.

The attorney said last month that he was under “active consideration” but had yet to receive an official offer, although there was speculation that he would run in the St Anne’s seat which had become available after Hubert Chipman, the sitting MP, had withdrawn his name from candidacy amid differences with the leadership.

Last night, according to senior sources in the FNM, the South Beach Constituency Association met party leader Dr Hubert Minnis and were informed of Mr Lloyd’s candidacy. His ratification for South Beach is expected to take place on Tuesday.

It leaves the St Anne’s seat, held by the FNM, free and last night there was speculation that Brent Symonette, the former Deputy Prime Minister and previous MP for the constituency, could make a surprise return to frontline politics there.