Kino Tynes called the newspaper from the Turks and Caicos where he works. "“I never got to meet my dad,” he said. “I have been asking questions all the 28 years I have been alive.”
Defending its decision to publish a story that suggested former Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling may have been connected to the pilot's disappearance, The Tribune said PLP leader Perry Christie contradicted a statement he made when he was fired from Sir Lynden's cabinet in 1984.
“For the better part of this year, the extent to which commitment to service with integrity has been eroded in the Bahamas has proven the cause for concern at every level of our society.
“Indeed, it has gone beyond our national boundaries and brought our nation’s integrity into question."
Chauncey Sr, who's supcisions that his son was killed for "knowing too much" formed the basis of the controversial story, said he has no regrets about what he said.
Dr Ian Strachan, head of the English Department at the College of The Bahamas, said the issue is one that should be debated objectively and nationally.
“I think the conversation coming from the opposite end is so shrill, so angry, and condemnatory, and also so grand-standing, and even opportunistic, I don’t think it’s actually helping us have a public conversation about it," Dr Strachan said.
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