FAREWELL TO VAUGHN MILLER: Cassandra Miller, the widow of the late Minister Hon. Vaughn Miller is shown presenting their son to the Prime Minister Philip Davis at the official viewing in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 22 October 2025. Our photo of the week. Bahamas Information Services photo by Letisha Henderson.
news
Here we go again. Late in the season with the waters in the Caribbean sea at their warmest, a category 5 hurricane appears to be forming south of Jamaica and headed there, then over to Haiti, then the Turks and Caicos Islands, the southern Bahamas and Cuba. The Bahamas government airlifted the students of The […]
Week before last, just after the second of the demonstrations by belligerent Belinda Wilson of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT), the Nassau Guardian opined that the tide was turning against the Prime Minister Philip Davis and his connection with the electorate. This was Candia Dames, the FNM ideologue at work, not Candia Dames the […]
The House of Assembly met on Wednesday 22 October 2025. The rumour was that belligerent Belinda Wilson, the union leader, was going to try another walk to town, with teachers taking time off. Perhaps the fact that they will all get their pay docked for following this ill-advised course had something to with it but […]
All the newspapers led with the story of the discovery of the body of a pregnant woman who at first had gone missing but was later found dead with child in the Pine Barrens near the airport in New Providence on 22 October 2025. This is another sad end for nothing sensible it seems. The […]
The Auditor General’s report on the food distribution programme by Hubert Minnis’ administration was released and published by the government last Wednesday 22 October 2025. It said that they found no malfeasance on the part of Susan Larson who ran the programme. She is a Holowesko by birth. Following the headlines, the press poured scorn […]
Suddenly, the newspaper reporters are concerned about the fact that three people who either mange or own media houses are planning to run for public office. They are Sebass Bastian, the owner of Eyewitness News, Robert Carron, the owner of The Tribune network and Clint Watson who is the general manager of ZNS. Both The […]
in passing
On Saturday 18 October 2025, there was a grill out on the Fox Hill Freedom park, sponsored by the Progressive Liberal Party’s head office. At the event the Bikers Club appeared and asked Fred Mitchell to pose on one of the bikes. This he obliged. Within days an image appeared not just of him on […]
There is an impatience in The Bahamas to get things done and at the same time a slothfulness in the culture that retards forward progress. The worst offender in the government is the revenue and payment system. The complaints are legion about the inability to get business licences, to get tax certificates, to get real […]
The former basketball star and actor Rick Fox of Canadian and Bahamian citizenship has been posing a series of interesting paragraphs on his Facebook page. It appears that he is convinced that he can play a role in front line politics. He said that people have been seeking his favour in that direction and that […]
The biggest faker in politics today is Nicholas Fox, the doctor who is under the shadow of allegations of selling growth hormones, an illegal drug for athletes and is the FNM’s candidate for Fox Hill. He is giving away 100 per cent beef hotdogs to unaccompanied minors at his FNM headquarters in Fox Hill. He […]
Former MP Vaughn Miller, the former Minister of Environment, was buried following a church service at the Diplomat Centre in Carmichael Road on Friday 24 October 2025. The Governor General Dame Cynthia Pratt led the mourners with Prime Minister Philip Davis and the cabinet and Leader of the Opposition. He was buried in the Lake […]
From Facebook: Christ Church Cathedral at the start of Diplomatic Week 19 October 2025 Fred Mitchell MP
From Facebook: Welcoming the evacuees from Jamauca in the face of Hurricane Melissa at the Lynden Pindling International Airport 24 October 2025 with Bahamasair’s chair Tanya Pratt and Managing Director Tracy Cooper. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill
From Facebook: The director general Jerusa Ali and I were present to cut the ribbon to officially open the consulate of Romania here in Nassau at 2nd floor Charlotte House. Their Honourary Consul is Bruno Roberts. Their Ambassador is stationed in Havana Cuba. She is Theodora Magdalena Mircea. A great moment in our relationship. Fred […]
From Facebook: I viewed our fallen colleague in death in the vestibule of the House of Assembly Hon Vaughn Miller. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 23 October 2025
From Facebook: An informal impromptu gathering in the margins of Diplomatic Week as we listen to what Julian Believe had to say to our Fox Hill branch executive. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 22 October 2025
