AT THE PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE: Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper, Prime Minister Philip Davis and Speaker of the House Patricia Deveaux at the annual parliamentary service that leads off the parliamentary session for the year. Our photo of the week at Church of God at Lily of the Valley Corner
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The PLP will mark the date of Majority Rule Day at a service at Harvest Church on John F Kennedy Drive at 10 a.m. 12 January 2026, followed by a march to the PLP’s headquarters in Farrington Road at 11:30 a.m. This marks the 59th anniversary of a black government in our country.
This piece first appeared in the Jamaica Observer and was written by the former Prime Minister of Jamaica Bruce Gelding. We agree entirely and could not have said it better. Thank you—Editor THINGS fall apart, the centre is clearly not holding, and anarchy seems to have been unleashed upon the world. I was born two […]
Every day since the United States invasion of Venezuela and the kidnapping of its president by the U S military, the leaders of the CARICOM region have been walking a tight rope. The Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago and the President of Guyana both embraced the invasion and kidnapping. The other states have been […]
IN 1962, there was something that went down in history as the Cuban Missile Crisis. The drama was that the then Soviet Union, today Russia, was planting nuclear missiles in Cuba that the U S perceived as offensive weapons toward them. The US President John Kennedy implemented a blockade of the island to prevent any […]
Last week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Bahamas issued an advisory statement that indicated that Bahamians should not travel to Venezuela, given the hostilities in that country. The statement said that The Bahamas stood by the principles of territorial integrity and sovereignty. It also added that a Bahamian citizen was unlawfully held in […]
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 […]
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Members of Parliament reconvened following the Christmas break in Nassau on Wednesday 7 January 2026. They met to receive the report of the Constituencies Commission that outlined the boundaries on which the General Election of 2026 will be fought. The bet is that the election will be held in the first half of the year. […]
There will be 41 seats up for grabs in the next House of Assembly. The Constituencies Commission laid its report on Wednesday 7 January 2026 in the House of Assembly and it creates two new seats up from the 39 that we now have. One seat will be called St James and that is to […]
The PLP will be a much morphed organization once the general election is done. Should it accomplish the hat trick of winning a second term that no party has done in 30 years, there are some fundamentals that must change in the country. First it must fix the laggard bureaucracy including that of the Ministry […]
We wish to congratulate Aljournal Nathaniel Miller who was the founder of the Montague Ramp fish market way back in 1981, starting with a single table and 25 conchs. He resisted the opposition of the Royal Nassau Sailing Club and the police and enlisted in his battle to survive the help of then activist Fred […]
From Facebook: Lunch with the head of consular at tge US Embassy in Nassau Carina Canaan. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 8 January 2026
From Facebook: Mrs Sonia Kemp was the recipient for her stellar work at Urban Renewal; the Keith Bell Award at the Warwick at Paradise Is. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 9 January 2026
From Facebook: The Foreign Service Officers joined BARIFA for the showing of the film Margin Call. Interesting conversations at Balmoral. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 8 January 2025
From Facebook: Residents with me in Fox Hill at the constituency office. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 7 January 2026
From Facebook: Welcome to the new Foreign Service Officers as they start their careers in the Ministry. Photo by Dominick Lightbourne Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 5 January 2026
