On 29th January at the signing of the new five year lease for the AUTEC Base in Andros (11.8 million per annum up by 4.15 per cent), the Head of Mission ad interim in The Bahamas Lisa Johnson made the following statement about Bahamian passport holders and the new Executive Orders by the US President […]
Daily Archives: February 5, 2017
STATEMENT BY BRADLEY B. ROBERTS IN RESPONSE TO FNM CRIME SPEECH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 5 FEBRUARY 2017 STATEMENT BY BRADLEY B. ROBERTS IN RESPONSE TO FNM CRIME SPEECH It’s a shame that after years of service with the Royal Bahamas Police Force, Marvin Dames is now trying to distance himself from some of the very anti-crime policies he designed and implemented. When the PLP entered government […]
BAD ADVICE FROM THE ROYAL BANK LADY
On 31 January Marla Dukharan, ( the lady in the picture) group economist for RBC’s Caribbean operations, said: “I am disappointed that despite having the most successful VAT in the whole region – despite getting more from this VAT than you expected to – the fiscal deficit was not reduced in the way it had […]
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT OUR YOUNG?
If you are a PLP MP, there is a heap of trouble on the horizon. The PLP’s Convention just held was a wake-up call to the country that the PLP can organize. This was certainly so when you contrast the hopeless FNM Torchbearers Convention was held during the last days of last week. Take Marvin […]
GRAND BAHAMA’S SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS
The city of Freeport is once again holding a wake it seems. The news that the Hutchison Group that owns the Container Port and who owns the Grand Lucayans 1200 room hotel refused to come to an agreement with the Sunwing Group of Canada and the Bahamas Government that would have allowed the Memories Hotel […]
THIS WEEK IN THE BAHAMAS BY ELCOTT COLEBY
30 January to 2 February Christie touts ‘multi-appealing tourism product’ of The Bahamas Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie addressed delegates at the opening ceremonies of the Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) Caribbean Travel Marketplace, January 31, 2017 at Atlantis, Paradise Island. At this tourism marketplace forum, the largest […]
THE WORK OF THE MISSIONS ABROAD
Chicago SKOKIE, Illinois -The Hon. Michael C. Fountain (second from right), Bahamas Honorary Consul to Chicago, attended the first meeting of the Bahamas Association of Chicago for the New Year on Saturday, January 28, 2017. Mr. Fountain presented highlights of consular activities for 2016 and discussed the collaborative opportunities available to the Bahamas Association and […]
BIRTH CERTIFICATES IN NORTH ANDROS
BIS Photo/Derek Smith ANDROS, The Bahamas — Jason Wilson Evans is the first baby in 2017 to be a registered birth in Andros, and to receive a printed certified birth certificate – online — accompanied by his proud parents, Britney Russell and Jason Evans, who used the specialized online registration services of the government’s public-private […]
The Anniversary of Fred Sr And Lilla Mitchell
The marriage certificate of the parents of Fred Mitchell MP 4 February 1951. Both his parents are now deceased.
The Deal: Brent To Be Deputy In FNM
Former Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette Deputy Leader of the FNM Peter Turnquest FNM Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis Here’s the story going around. Emissaries of the Brent Symonette political household have been off to see Dr. Hubert Minnis and made him an offer they think he can’t refuse. They will stop starving him of money, […]
Ingraham Crawls Out From Under The Rock
Tribune file photo. Hubert Ingraham turned up to register to vote last week on 1 February. He came with the press who asked him his thoughts on the FNM and the General election. Here is what he said in is own words: “In my opinion the FNM needs to give focused attention to resolving the […]
John Bostwick Is Guilty
John Bostwick, convicted felon with father and lawyer Wayne Munroe. The son of Q C John Henry Bostwick Senior John Jr, the former Senator, who proclaimed his innocence and said that someone had planted the bullets in his bag and the Magistrate didn’t believe him and found him guilty. Mr. Bostwick vowed to appeal, yet […]
What did Lester Turnquest Do Ingraham?
2 February based on interview 1 February: It is interesting how Hubert Ingraham, the former Prime Minister, emerges into the public domain and then makes these interventions which are designed to cause mischief. One such intervention was last week on 1 February, he dismissed the former FNMs who came on stage to support the PLP […]
Trump Proves To Be Even More Of A Disaster
It is shocking that the American Presidency is being run in such a haphazard and disjointed manner. Last week there was chaos in the United States. This was more like a third world country or the kind of stuff they throw at us. We don’t know what we are doing, can’t get our laws and […]
PLP Fox Hill Branch At Church
Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell with the Branch officers of the Fox Hill PLP at Church of God Faith Mission 29 January the Pastor Sherelle Saunders is at the centre in red next to the MP. From left: Branch Chair Charlene Marshal, the MP, Hazon Pinder, the NGC Member for Fox Hill, Rev Sherelle Saunders, […]
After St Agnes Mass Breakfast At Rudy’s
Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell with the breakfast group of St Agnes Church at Rudy’s 29 January.
What Do You Mean Where The VAT Money Went?
We have to confess that we think that the FNM harping on this stuff about where the VAT money went is the most stupid and idle debate of the political season so far. One guesses it will only get worse. What do they mean where it went? Everyone is getting their knickers in a twist […]
Congratulations Shaunae Miller
Husband Estonian athlete Maicel Uibo. Bahamian Olympic Gold Medlalists for last years Olympics got married yesterday in Nassau. Congratuations.
