Picewell A. L. "Soca" Forbes (born 1 August 1961) is a Bahamian former Progressive Liberal Party politician and broadcaster who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mangrove Cay and South Andros from 2007 to 2021.
[3] Forbes received some negative media attention when he mistakenly caused a mistrial in the 2009 John Travolta extortion case by passing on an unverified rumour of the result.
[4] Then PLP PM Perry Christie appointed Forbes the Bahamas High Commissioner to the CARICOM secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana in 2012.
On 1 March 2021, Forbes announced in the House that he would not seek re-election in the 2021 general election and would resign from politics.
[6] There was speculation he was persuaded to stand down for Monique Pindling, but these claims were denied and the nomination ultimately went to Leon Lundy.