52 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE: The leaders of the country, headed by the Governor General Cynthia Pratt, gathered Government House to mark the occasion in the drawing room. The Prime Minister and Mrs. Davis, the Leader of the Opposition and Mrs. Pintard, the Chair of the Independence Committee Leslia Miller Brice and Mrs. Brice., Deputy Prime […]
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The late professor of the University of the West Indies Rex Nettleford used to call them “ladies of quality”. These are black and mulatto upper and middle class women in CARICOM societies that feel they are the cat’s whiskers and could pronounce with harsh judgments their social policies upon the world. They have strong opinions. […]
Congratulations to Health Minister Michael Darville and Prime Minister Philip Davis for getting the 200 million U S dollar loan from the Chinese across the line to get the new hospital in New Providence built. This was a signature promise of the last campaign and we are in the midst of the next campaign. Not […]
Before the Prime Minister of The Bahamas looked to China to get the money by loan to build a new hospital in Nassau, he asked the foreign ministry to look to the United States to provide the 300 million dollars that the country needed. The United States considered it then came back and said they […]
There is an odious media commentator by the name of Ann Coulter on Fox Television in the United States who said in a social media post that in America they just didn’t kill enough of the Indians. She was referring by Indians to the native Americans who were displaced by Europeans when they landed without […]
The CARICOM Heads of Government meeting wrapped up its 49th session in Montego Bay, Jamaica on Tuesday 8 July 2025. The conference was headed by Prime Minister Andrew Holeness of Jamaica. While much of the conference focused on internal CARICOM matters, the conference was most concerned about events in Gaza where killing and genocide of […]
Now declared a National Hero, Pompey Rolle of Steventon, Exuma Government House has announced the names of those honoured in this year’s National Honours announced on Independence Day each year. Heading the list is Pompey the slave who led the revolt in 1830 from Steventon, Exuma who is now declared a national hero of The […]
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10 July 2025 in Georgetown, Exuma with Officers Moss and Cash
1 a.m. 8 July 2025, the session just broke up and Jamaica’s PM Holeness demanded a selfie form left: Fred Mitchell of The Bahamas, PM Holeness, John Biceno of Belize, Philip Davis of The Bahamas, Irfaan Ali Of Guyana and Ralph Gonsalves of St Vincent and the Grenadines.
From Facebook: After dinner with T’anna Riley, godchild, in front of the Henry Moore statue in the Intercontinental Lobby in Miami on my way to Georgetown, Exuma. She is 3 years old. Nice evening. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 8 July 2025
From Facebook: My farewell photo from exuma with Maryann Rolle, the owner of Kermit’s Lounge at the Exuma International Airport. Independence 52 is in the history books. And then I was joined a few minutes later by Elvis, her husband and co-owner of the business, and son of the founder Kermit Rolle whose picture you […]
From Facebook: I was honoured to witness in Nassau the ordination of my friend Tristan Lockhart to the priesthood at Christ Church Cathedral along with his colleague Rev Anatol Ferguson. I wish them both God’s richest blessings. Tristan: many nights in Freeport we sat at Mario’s table talking about your ambition to be a priest. […]
From Facebook: There was a small ceremony in the wee hours of Independence morning 52nd edition at police h q in Exuma to say farewell to Chief Superintendent James Moss upon his retirement from the Royal Bahamas Police Force. I joined Deputy Prime Minister and Mrs. Cooper to say salud. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill […]
It’s a long story but he is one of the youngsters who took the picture with me at the Junkanoo shack last Christmas in Exuma. He and his friends. The photo was enhanced and framed by Ambassador Jamaal Rolle. I wish Kaiden Burrows well. He came by to say thanks. I presented them each with […]
Fred Mitchell, Chair of the PLP, had this to say about an allegation that the government of The Bahamas was deficient in defending the country against illegal immigrants. He said this on Wednesday 2 July 2025: “A well-known citizen video note man said in an attempt to trash the immigration policy of The Bahamas government […]
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4 July 2025 at Winnie Ann With her son Sean Jr.
