THE NEW US AMBASSADOR MEETS THE PRIME MINISTER: US Ambassador to The Bahamas Herschel Walker and his wife, Mrs. Julie Walker with Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis during a courtesy call at the Office of the Prime Minister on December 9, 2025. (BIS Photos/Patrick Hanna) Our photo of the week.
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In his ever desperate campaign to win the government, Michael Pintard will not stop with the untruths and falsehoods. His entire campaign against the Anti- Smuggling Bill that recently passed the House of Assembly and Senate was and is built off falsehoods. The FNM and their Coalition of Idiots (COI) collaborators insist on saying that […]
In addition to the charge of racism, it appears that the country can now make the charge of homophobia against the MP for St Anne’s Adrian White. This is a man it appears that does not have any idea of what it is to be civil and to understand where he sits in the firmament. […]
The Barbadians have a wonderful expression that bears using in this column now. They say shyte to describe the dog do doo that sometimes comes out of the mouths of some people. We thought of this expression as Adrian Gibson, the disgraced and on trial MP for crookedness, was speaking in the House of Assembly […]
Attorney General Ryan Pinder shamed and embarrassed the FNM by showing the country that while they were making noise about protecting migrants and denouncing the anti-smuggling bill as a bill to protect migrants, they when they were the government proposed an asylum bill that would have done just that. Mr. Pinder was speaking in the […]
At the House of Assembly on Wednesday 10 December 2025, there was quite a dangerous situation that imperiled the safety of MPs and Senators. The area is enclosed, the public square, because of the Junkanoo bleachers on the one side and barricades on the other. The police allowed demonstrators with hostile intent to get into […]
The Central Bank and the banking sector of The Bahamas continue to lose their collective minds by announcing yet again that they propose to stop the use of cheques in The Bahamas. The government should move by legislation to prevent this, if the banks do not stop.
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Politically I have been quiet for awhile. I watch in amazement at times how persons present information amended to their perspective. To those people I say in a free society or a democratic society that is your right. However, I hasten to say as a responsible citizen “thou shalt not distort the truth”. Unfortunately, the […]
The Calculus of Sovereignty A short essay by Miguel Taylor The Bahamas stands at the geographic crossroads of despair and opportunity, a sovereign nation constantly assailed by the transnational crime of migrant smuggling. Against this relentless tide, a Government’s first and most sacred duty is to secure its borders and protect its citizenry. One essential […]
The word is the mandarins in the PLP have decided that the phone company that calls itself BTC is such a shadow of itself that the present owners need to go. We hope that this is true and that it soon translates into public policy. The phone system is a patchwork of dropped calls, poor […]
Rick Fox has let his father and family down by his conduct in The Bahamas. He is an ambassador appointed by the PLP and refuses to step down now that he is a FNM putative candidate. He is engaging instead in a polemic with the government in public. In no other country would that stand. […]
From Facebook: I joined the Deputy Chief of Mission Kim Furnish and her husband Michael at their home for the welcome reception of the Ambassador to The Bahamas for the United States Herschel Walker and Mrs. Julie Walker. It was a very pleasant occasion.Fred Mitchell MPFox Hill12 December 2025
From Facebook: This is my brother Ian. My parents took us to Max Stubbs photo studio in Market St to take photos. Ian was fine as long as we were together but they could not get him to stay for his own solo photo. So they had me stand next to him then when he […]
The new headstone for my mother’s grave in the Eastern Cemetery. Rest in peace Lilla Angelina Mitchell nee Ford. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 11 December 2025
From Facebook: I was pleased to deliver a lunch for Christmas to the hard working teachers and staff of the Sandilands Primary School. This is the last day in school for the children. Thank you Mrs. Renay Davis for the catering. Thanks Desiree Gibbs from the constituency office and to Principal Antoinette Forbes. The Education […]
From Facebook: I joined the staff of the Foreign Ministry and the Bahamas Alrae Ramsey Institute for Foreign Affairs (BARIFA) for the showing of the film Casablanca at the University of The Bahamas. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 11 December 2025
From Facebook: I joined my colleague Myles Laroda and my constituent Nioshe Bourne as they congratulated the awardees of the Empowerment Hour Programme of the Ministry of Social Services at the Fox Hill Community Centre 11 December 2025. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill
