PRIME MINISTER AND U.S. AMBASSADOR WALLKER: At the Carnival in Nassau on 29 December 2025. The Prime Minister was hosting the children to the rides and ran into the U S Ambassador and Mrs. Walker at the Carnival. Our photo of the week.
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The year 2026 is the year that the constitution mandates that we hold a general election in this country. There has been no repeat government in the country for 30 years. The PLP is trying to accomplish that hat trick. There are strong headwinds that work against the party on that score. One of them […]
It was in the middle of the Christmas season, at the Junkanoo Parade no less, when the Honourable Leader of the Opposition Michael Pintard was asked a question. Whatever the question, he in the middle of the Christmas season could have and should have punted the question’s answer for later, and simply wished everyone a […]
Fred Mitchell, the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party, makes an annual visit to Grand Bahama at the start of the year. This year was no different and he uses the opportunity to check on progress in the island. He stopped to check up on the repairs to the Taino Bridge in Freeport. This leads […]
The signs are there all around, there for all to see except the FNM politicians. Grand Bahama is growing and coming back from the dead of Hurricane Dorian. The stores are busy. The airport is busy. The churches are full. The tourists are packing the island. We have to thank the steady hand of the […]
The clock is ticking onward toward the general election that is due by 10 October 2026. The winds seem favourable, but there are some choppy seas ahead. Some of it has to do with the normal exigencies of four years of governing. You make mistakes. You cannot get some things done. Others are unforced errors […]
31st December 2025 My last note before the new year wishes. As far as I know in order to be Prime Minister of the Bahamas you must be Bahamian. My concern is as a constitutional Christian Nation why is it so prevalent that we assign another nationality to our leaders to create discontent or hatred […]
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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 […]
Statement On The Passing of Dr Franklyn Walkine. From Fred Mitchell MP Chair Progressive Liberal Party For Immediate Release 30 December 2025 I announce with deep sadness and regret the passing of former MP Dr Franklyn Walkine. He served as a Member of Parliament for Acklins and Crooked Island. Dr Walkine was a hugely successful […]
From Facebook: That’s Fr O J, the Roman Catholic priest, pastor at Mary Star of The Sea in Freeport, Grand Bahama, on the far left and he hosted us all to dinner and helped to memorialize the new year and welcome the new priest from Nigeria Fr. Patrick Igwe, MSP. It was good to gather […]
From Facebook: Ambassador Brian Seymour and me the Minister but before all that Diane Wildgoose and Rose Carson and McQuela Smith used to join Brian and me for coffee and tea at McDonald’s in Freeport in the morning before work. So for old times sake we gathered at Mario Donato’s restaurant in the Islander Hotel […]
From Facebook: Forgive me for thinking I was in paradise this day with ambient air like air conditioning, clear blue skies and we spent the afternoon inspecting the Taino Bridge repairs or the lack thereof. We had a look at the works at Smith’s Point as well. I was joined by Ambassador Brian Seymour. Fred […]
From Facebook: Scenes from the annual New Year’s Day Church of God of Prophecy parade from Sea Grape to Pinedale in Eight Mile Rock. Thank you Bishop Barry Morris for your kind invitation. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 1 January 2026
From Facebook: At the altar of St Bart’s in New York city after mass. The feast of the Holy Innocents. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 28 December 2025
From Facebook: Mass at Ascension Anglican Church in Lucaya, Freeport, Grand Bahama with Archdeacon Hepburn, Sandra Mortimer Russell getting fever grass tea, and with acolytes Kylon and Khai Vincent. Happy New Year 2026. With Allyson Smith and Cynthia Donaldson, her mother. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill
From Facebook: The PLP branch meeting on Fox Hill last night on the public Fox Hill Parade on 22 December 2025. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill
Glad tidings of great joy to the people of North Andros. It was my honour to accompany the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Works and MP for North Andros and the Berry Islands Leonardo Lightbourne to his constituency to bring good news to our supporters care of Prime Minister Philip Davis. I was accompanied […]
