Senator Fred Mitchell with his siblings seated Marva, Ian and Carla with Matthew standing next to him. Everyone is in town and so they took the photo of the whole family of Fred Sr and Lilla nee Ford at the plaque in St Agnes Church in Grants Town in New Providence 11 June.
Daily Archives: June 11, 2017
Minnis’ Idle Warning On Public Disclosure
Mister neat and clean and corruption free Hubert Minnis is busy threatening people every day. You never get to see the morals and ethics of a man until he has power in his hands. Power in the wrong hands is a dangerous thing. You see that now with Mr. Minnis in power. Now he says […]
Message To Minnis: Don’t Fall Into Error
You would have to laugh except this is serious. The word is that the government intends to assign ACP Paul Rolle and Superintendent Matthew Edgecombe as part of an anti-corruption unit in the police force to be newly established. Here we go again. This is the same playbook of the ill-fated Hubert Ingraham administration. The […]
WHO THE HELL DOES DIONYSIO D’AGUILAR THINK HE IS?
Son of a gun. The man who makes his money selling food to Bahamians of all stripes and washing their clothes, a fellow named Dionysio D’Aguilar is now a god. How did that happen? He lucked in on a wave of petulance in favour of a political party called the FNM and is now installed […]
PETER TURNQUEST FALLS FLAT
Peter Turnquest is the country’s new Minister of Finance. He can’t even add two and two together but never mind, he at least reads the speech that the officials give him. He reads it uncritically too. Whatever they give him he reads. That is what he would have us believe when Gleyns Hanna Martin, MP […]
GLENYS HANNA MARTIN’S STELLAR PERFORMANCE
The PLP’s Glenys Hanna Martin MP wowed the PLPs when she led off the debate as one of four MPs of the PLP in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 7 June. The cartoonist Stan Burnside was obviously impressed by her performance, comparing her to Wonder Woman which is now a movie current in The […]
Contribution By The Hon. Glenys Hanna Martin 2016-2017 Budget Debate
Nassau, Bahamas – Minister Of Transport And Aviation And Member Of Parliament For The Englerston Constituency Contribution By The Hon. Glenys Hanna Martin 2016-2017 Budget Debate delivered on Thursday, 16 June, 2016 in the House of Assembly: Mr. Speaker, I rise in this Honourable House to contribute to this 2016/2017 Budget Debate: Mr. Speaker, I […]
CHESTER COOPER’S MAIDEN SPEECH WOWS THE CROWD
PLPs were pleased with the maiden presentation of Chester Cooper MP in the House of Assembly on Thursday 8 June. In his presentation, Mr. Cooper took the line that the budget is helping the rich and not the poor. He gave examples of customs reductions which clearly halo the rich and do not help the […]
2017 BUDGET PRESENTATION BY I.CHESTER COOPER, MP
2017 BUDGET PRESENTATION I.CHESTER COOPER, MP – EXUMA & RAGGED ISLAND AND SHADOW MINISTER OF FINANCE Mr. Speaker, It is with great pleasure that I formally address this House for the first time. It is among the highest honours of my life and I pray that my time here will be fruitful and to the […]
THE WORK OF THE MISSIONS ABROAD
New York Forrester Carroll, the Consul General of The Bahamas in New York meets with a group of investors interested in investments in Grand Bahama on Monday 5 June. London FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bahamas Information Services June 3, 2017 STATEMENT FROM THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS Bahamas Staff in London Unaffected by Latest Security Incidents […]
Picewell Prepares
The presentation of Picewell Forbes on the budget is set to take place on Monday 12 June. He sent this shot around with himself and his son Demathio at his favourite Starbucks as he prepares for the presentation. Mr. Forbes will the third PLP speaker on the Budget.
Mitchell’s Travels
Senator Fred Mitchell with Nicholas Karathanassis and Terry Mitrogiannis in Harbour Island 9 June Senator Fred Mitchell with Senator Clay Sweeting in Spanish Wells 9 June Senator Fred Mitchell with Obie Roberts NPI head and Paul Farquharson Jr in Harbour Island 9 June. Senator Fred Mitchell will be away from The Bahamas for his annual […]
The Prime Minister Gives A Useless Assurance To ZNS
The photo is said to be that of the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis visiting the Broadcasting Corporation to assure them on Friday 9 June said the web that if they do their jobs, they have nothing to fear from the Prime Minister. This supposedly was to give assurances to PLPs who work there that they […]
Bradley Roberts Takes On The Washing Machine Man
Press Statement By Bradley B Robert National Chair Progressive Liberal Party 7th June 2017 Will Izmirlian surrogates recuse themselves from ALL Cabinet discussions on Baha Mar? Bahamians have not forgotten that in March 2017 Hubert Minnis told the world that he would seize Baha Mar and sell that resort to an investor of his choosing. […]
A Day At The Pool In Fox Hill
Senator Fred Mitchell with Mrs Kathleen McKenzie at the Fox Hill Community Centre 5 June Senator Fred Mitchell with Orlando Brown at the Fox Hill Community Centre swimming pool 5 June Senator Fred Mitchell getting his grill at the Moss Family reunion in Fox Hill 5 June
The Seawall Contract In Grand Bahama Is Cancelled
These photos are of the retaining sea wall partially completed at Smith’s Point in Grand Bahama, just east of Freeport. The seawall contract was granted to a local contractor who has now been dismissed, the contract stopped, reviewed and cancelled. No word on why or when the project is to be restarted. It is part […]
Alexander Thompson Dies
The following statement was issued by Fred Mitchell, PLP Shadow Minister of Labour: Statement by Senator Fred Mitchell Opposition Spokesman on Labour 5 June 2017 On The Passing Of Alexander Thompson On behalf of the Progressive Liberal Party, I wish to express condolences to the family of the late Alexander Thompson, a pioneering trade unionist […]
Lean Clarke Is Buried In Exuma
Senator Fred Mitchell with former MP Anthony Moss and MP Chester Cooper in Exuma at the funeral of the late Lean Clarke 10 June Senator Fred Mitchell arriving at the funeral of Mrs Lean Clarke in St Andrew’s Church in Georgetown in Exuma 10 June
Trump Is The Liar We Thought He Was
The whole world now has heard that the President of the United States is a liar. That is the word used by the former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations James Comey as he described to a U S Senate Hearing why he decided to document what happened in the meetings with the U […]
The British PM Gets The Surprise Of Her Life
Well these haughty and disgusting FNMs ought to take a page out of the playbook of the British. Here it is, not even two years since a general election in the UK when the Conservative Party won a solid victory in the House of Commons to govern, they had a huge setback on 8 June […]
