Picewell Forbes MP attending the Central Andros School District Christmas Festival @ the Central Andros High School, Love Hill 4 December 2019

The comment about the badly decorated tree There is certainly a political sign when people tell you that you cannot even choose and decorate the national Christmas tree correctly.  Such is the dilemma that the FNM found itself in last week when they  mounted a Christmas tree said to have cost 32,000 dollars and the public trashed it from day one.  That was Wednesday 4 December 2019.  By Thursday 5 December 2019., the work crews sere taking the offending tree down to be replaced by a more conventional Christmas tree: no word on the additional cost but the public were

Why do you think that the American government cannot mind their own business? An American diplomat one of the right wing’s school of conspiracy theorists was in Nassau last week to talk about hurricane relief. So the press asks him about China.  Instead of just shutting up and saying the relations between third parties and The Bahamas are none of our business, he proceeded to give a lecture on how we must careful in our relations with China.  No more carefully than with the United States. China has no hegemonic designs on The Bahamas. We cannot say that about the

From the Nassau Guardian: 6 December 2019 Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell said yesterday that Minister of National Security Marvin Dames must address concerns the party has with investigative practices in the country. Mitchell was responding to Dames’ defense of Assistant Superintendent of Police Debra Thompson. During the bribery trial of former PLP Cabinet minister Shane Gibson, Thompson testified that she held a joint meeting with key witness Jonathan Ash and public servant Deborah Bastian, who had worked closely with Gibson, to “synchronize” their statements. Thompson testified that the meeting was wrong in hindsight. Gibson was acquitted of

National Vice Chair Julian Sawyer, second from the left, presents the winners of the contest at PLP HQ in Freeport as part of the celebration to mark the founding of the Progressive Liberal Party in 1953 on 23 November. The Assistant Secretary General Chala Cartwright is at far left.