Daily Archives: May 15, 2016
Photographer Keith Dawkins
Mitchell Responds To FNM Trolls About An Old Speech
Tuesday, May 10th, 2016 The following statement was given in response to an inquiry by The Tribune about an old speech on Article 15 of the Constitution which FNM and DNA partisans have been using to get people to vote no. Mr. Mitchell is voting yes to all questions in this referendum on 7 June. […]
What The FNM Think About Each Other
PM With Commonwealth Labour Man
Congratulations to Paulette Zonicle And Charles Zonicle
Consul General Paulette Zonicle poses with her daughter Aaliah at her graduation on 12 May. The CG is on the left of the graduate and on the right is her father Charles. They are surrounded by friends and family. The mother posted this note on Facebook: “Thanks to all of you who joined Charles and […]
DNA’s Mass Rally
The extra parliamentary party Democratic National Alliance was in the news last week when they held the first political rally of the current political season on Thursday 12 May on Christie Park in Nassau. They spoke on the theme “ I have had Enough”. The crowd was respectable which raises the spectre of […]
Monday Is A Public Holiday In Nassau
Picewell Forbes Gets His Crab Biters
Minnis Crippled…Announces Sands As New Senator
(Rollins now setting policy in the FNM) The FNM and its Leader have now become the laughing stock of the country. The latest was the leak of the letter by Dr. Andre Rollins, who just reached in the FNM, telling Dr. Minnis that he must fire Kwasi Thompson as a Senator and appoint Dr. Duane […]
PLP Responds To Rolle’s Resignation
Lanisha Rolle Resigns After Tribune Article
Lanisha T. Rolle, Senator in the Free National Movement (FNM), issued the following statement resigning from the Senate: “Today I am announcing my resignation from the Senate with immediate effect. It has been a great honour and privilege for me to serve the people of The Bahamas in such high office. However, at this current […]
Nelarine Harding Dies
Nelarine Harding Dead at 52 Message of Condolences on the Passing of Ms. Nelarene Harding, President Of The Airport Airline and Allied Workers Union from the Hon. D. Shane Gibson, Minister of Labour, National Insurance and the Public Service: It is with great sadness that I learned of the passing of one of the […]
Karen Moss Timothy’s Special GIG At The UN
Farewell From The Indian High Commissioner
The High Commissioner for India to The Bahamas who is resident in Jamaica Pratap Singh is shown taking his formal leave of the Prime Minister on 12 May at the end of his term as High Commissioner. The photo is by Peter Ramsay of the Bahamas Information Services.
Men Talk
Mitchell At The Foreign Ministers Meeting
Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell with delegates to the Caricom Foreign Ministers at their annual conference in Kingstown in St Vincent and the Grenadines on 10 May. From left Nickeva Eve on secondment to Caricom Secretariat, Mr. Mitchell, High Commissioner Picewell Forbes, Ann Archer, Foreign Service officer. Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell at the conference of […]
The Judge Continues With This Injunction Nonsense
Michael Pintard’s Unstoppable Launch Flops In Nassau
Michael Pintard, the disgraced former FNM Chairman, announced with great flourish that he was launching his one man stand against the PLP called “ Unstoppable” At first we thought it was just one of these comic relief things that he did with David Wallace, the former MP. Turns out, it was a full scale attempt […]
Melanie Griffin Stands Up For The Children
Kishan Munroe’s Sinking Of Flamingo
Remembering the Sinking Of The HMBS Flamingo
THE DNA STARTS RALLY SEASON
BRADLEY ASKS FOR MORE INFO FROM AUDITOR
It was a long time in coming but the government of The Bahamas is doing the right thing in eliminating the archaic paper intensive processes at the Road Traffic Department and replacing this regime with a 21st century automated system that is less susceptible to fraud and lends itself to greater operational efficiency, cost effectiveness, […]
DOES THE AUDITOR GENERAL’s OFFICE KNOW WHAT IT IS DOING?
THIS WEEK CONTINUED…
In response to the tabling of the Auditor General’s report on the operations at the Road Traffic Department on Monday, the Transport and Aviation Minister the Hon. Glenys Hanna-Martin promised a police investigation into reported instances of malfeasance and alleged fraud at that department during a House communication.“The Road Traffic Department will, as the facts […]
THIS WEEK IN THE BAHAMAS (9 -13 MAY)
THE WORK OF THE MISSIONS ABROAD
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Bahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie (right) is pictured with United States Vice President Joseph Biden (left) and other members of the U.S. delegation on Wednesday, May 4, 2016 at the U.S.-Caribbean-Central American Energy Summit chaired by Vice President Biden in Washington, D.C. The Summit, which brought together Caribbean and Central American […]
