THE LUCAYAN REBUILD: We extend are warmest congratulations to the government of The Bahamas on the conclusion and signing of the Heads of Agreement with Ancient Waters to redevelop the Lucayan Beach property in Freeport. After the debacle of the Grand Bahama Port Authority and Hutchison Whampoa’s perfidy, compounded by the incompetence of the Free […]
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Each time the Leader of the Opposition Michael Pintard speaks in the House of Assembly, he has to engage in some scatological nastiness in order to make his point. His favourite is to engage in calling everyone a thief except the thieves in the Free National Movement whom he leads. JoBeth Coleby Davis was having […]
The Tribune reported that their publisher Robert Carron has inked a deal that will help improve weather forecasting for The Bahamas and overflight of The Bahamas. The report came by Fay Simmons on 16 May 2025. This followed the agreement of The Bahamas government. The Tribune said: “A Bahamian company has become the first in […]
Michael Halkitis, the Minister for Economic Affairs has a right to feel proud about the state of the economy. Last year, the figures show that despite strong headwinds following the great leap forward from Covid, the Bahamian economy grew by an unexpected and unprecedented 3.4 per cent. It was great news. Congratulations. As usual the […]
The Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell spent two days in the Dominican Republic 15 and 16 May 2025. The centrepiece of the visit was a one on one with the Minister for Foreign Affairs Roberto Alvarez. The Bahamas is seeking to build a strong trade relationship and a number of political agreements are on the table […]
There is a world in which one rule applies to one and the other to another. There is a Cuban Hospital in the State of Qatar. This is the country where Donald Trump, the President of the US visited last week and received a gift of a 400 million dollar Boeing 747 jet that he […]
All through last week, the racist social media site “242 In The Know” was passing round pictures of the arrivals hall at the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA). There were long lines of mainly black people. The captions said something like who is watching over the influx of all these Haitians in The Bahamas, as […]
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Pat Rahming has a song that goes something like this: they are coming out of the woodwork just like worms…another five years gone by. So all the FNM deadweights are back in the public domain. The drunk drowning his sorrows in Eleuthera of the three birds and a goat fame. Then there is the one […]
These are photos taken by Ambassador Brian Seymour at the memorial service for the late Mario Donato, the Freeport businessman at Mary Star of The Sea Catholic Church in Freeport on Saturday 17 May 2025:
Minister for Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey Widow of Artis Neely MP for West Grand Bahama Kingsley Smith Senators James Turner, Kirk Russell and Randy Rolle Ambassadors Brian Seymour and Keith Russell He was a well-loved and well known figure in the West Grand Bahama community. His community of West End turned out in masses at […]
Duane Sands, the voluble FNM Chair, was in the press last week writing in chapter and verse all the things he says that the PLP has to accomplish. They are fixated on the issue of single source contracts. Let’s get this straight: the PLP and the FNM have a philosophical difference between us on this. […]
From Facebook: Two of my former colleagues in portraits by Andrew Owen as a gift to me. I remember them today Bernard J Nottage on the left and A Loftus Roker on the right. Two good men. Miss them. 13 May 2025. They belong to the ages. Fred Mitchell MP Chairman Progressive Liberal Party
From Facebook: I joined Prime Minister Philip Davis with his luncheon meeting with the Progressive Young Liberals at Kyma, led by newly elected Chair Bryant Lowe. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 12 May 2025
Rev Scott Glinton,Minister Patsy WilliamsonRev George BodieMiss Shanique RahmingRev Laura GlintonEvangelist Maygon WoodsideMinister Evangeline RahmingHon. Fred MitchellBishop Dr. J.Carl Rahming Suraj RolleLakeisha MackeyCierra GlintonFred Mitchell MPSasha RahmingJacob Mackey From Facebook: I was able to get to St Paul’s this morning in Fox Hill to welcome the Mothers of The Year for the church. Congratulations to […]
From Facebook: Me in the kitchen with the ACM of St Agnes serving breakfast to the women of St Agnes on Mother’s Day. Henry Dean is at the stove and among the helpers Ding Cambridge, George Turner, Mike Foster and many other ACM members. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 11 May 2025
From Facebook: Upon landing in Miami, I paid a courtesy call on the airport’s Director at the Office of Protocol and International Affairs Desmond Alufohai. It appears to be a unique office certainly of all American airports I have visited. It makes MIA a more pleasant and seamless experience for those of us who have […]
