Commentary by Bradley B. Roberts Former Cabinet Minister and MP 4th February 2018 It is said that the health of a nation is the wealth of the nation. With that said I will cut right to the chase this week and ask some pointed questions to Prime Minister Dr. Minnis and Health Minister Dr. Sands, […]
Daily Archives: February 4, 2018
ROYAL BANK MAN CALLS BAHAMIANS DUMB
The Royal Bank of Canada has for the second year in a row had a speaker come to the Royal Fidelity Bahamas Economic Outlook Luncheon and trashed The Bahamas and its reputation, a country in which it has made billions of dollars of profits in the 110 years or so that it has been doing […]
“BUTU” SPEAKER MESSES WITH GLENYS HANNA MARTIN
Butu is a word in the Jamaican language. It means the following: Butu Definition A person who has little or no social graces or manners. Being a butu is completely independent of your social class. Professor Rex Nettleford once correctly said, “A butu in a Benz is still a butu.” This is an […]
WORK OF THE MISSIONS ABROAD
Headquarters (BIS Photo/Derek Smith) Nassau, The Bahamas – His Excellency Huang Qinguo, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, paid a courtesy call on the Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Senator the Hon. Carl W. Bethel, QC , February 2, 2018 at the Ministry. (BIS Photo/Derek Smith)
PLP STATEMENTS ON THE SPEAKER
Statement from the Office of the Chair Progressive Liberal Party On Purported Suspension of Glenys Hanna Martin For Immediate Release 31 January 2018 The PLP condemns the Speaker for his arbitrary capricious and injudicious acts in the House of Assembly today. These FNMs are clearly not used to power. He does not understand the quasi […]
LEADER OF THE PLP VISITS THE MUD IN ABACO
30th January 2018 After a devastating fire in the midst of 25 mile per hours winds on the night of 29 January and into the early morning, set by an arsonist, sixty homes were destroyed and 200 people displaced in Marsh Harbour, Abaco. This is an area that used to be a swamp, filled in […]
PLPS FIRED FROM BAIC…FNM CRUELTY WITHOUT BOUNDS
The Hubert Minnis administration is a special kind of cruelty. They have no heart. They have no moral underpinnings and no feeling of people. They are vicious, nasty liars. It is difficult to be civil in their company. Indeed civility is not a value which they value or understand. So the Prime Minister can blithely […]
Mark Hanna’s Funeral New Providence Community Church 3 Feb.
Sister of Mark Hanna, Mrs. Glenys Hanna Martin at his funeral service on 3 February at the New Providence Community Church Senator Fred Mitchell with the Williams sisters Jan, Sharon, Ethelyn, Elaine, Veronica at the repast following the funeral of Mark Hanna, son of the Hon. A. D. Hanna and brother of the MP for […]
Romi, The Environment Minister, Tries To Explain The Inexplicable
This was a photo of the Minister for the Environment Romi Ferreria trying to explain away the fact of the dump fire of last Sunday actually happening on the FNM’s watch and tried to blame the company Renew for what happened. They were kicked out of management of the site by the previous government. So […]
Fr. Michael Gittens Ascension In Freeport Dies
The Anglican Rector of the Church of the Ascension Rev. Fr. Michael Gittens had died. He was getting ready for mass on Thursday 1 February when he was struck down. He had recently celebrated 15 years on kidney dialysis and was suffering from a bout of the flu. The death of Fr. Gittens coming so […]
The Red Cross Ball
Dame Marguerite Pindling, the Governor General, arriving at the Red Cross Ball on Saturday 27 January at the Bahamar Convention Centre being greeted by Robert Sands of Bahamar, Craig Gomez, the President of the Red Cross and Patricia Turnquest, Red Cross Director, The ball is the biggest fundraising event of the year for the Red […]
Fox News Off TV
The Bahamas is in many ways a sub culture of the United States and especially in their TV offerings they want what they have in the United States. People are pissed off at getting HBO in Spanish for example. CNN playing that silly interlude music instead of the regular TV commercials. Now comes a decision […]
Why Would He Rejoice That A Man Is Fired?
This is the reaction of one FNM supporter on line to the dismissal of a PLP from BAIC. Priceless. Carl Culmer Jr who is the FNM’s Chairman tried to justify by supporting this reaction on line with the comment that the employee in question used to work with the former Prime Minister Perry Christie and […]
Happy Birthday George Cox
1 February 2018 87 years old. Happy Birthday to Uncle Georgie. He celebrated his birthday with this wonderful photo supplied by nephew Sean McWeeney Q C. All the best. Wish you many more. He is the father of artist John Cox. He is the widower of the late Setella Cox who would have celebrated her […]
Second RBDF Vessel Runs Aground… We Give The True Facts
A ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force vessel, the HMBS Rolly Gray, sustained damage in an accident on Tuesday 30 January. The partial report of The Tribune of 2 February is posted below. The story is a disingenuous response and incomplete one from the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. They are aware that their own negligence may be […]
The Fred Smith Roadshow On Immigration Matters
During the time that Fred Mitchell was the Immigration Minister, Fred Smith issued a statement in which he encouraged the illegal migrants in The Bahamas to sue the Government of The Bahamas so the Government could be bankrupted by the law suits. He has systematically gone about doing that. His recent victory that he procured […]
The AG Announces That He Is Appealing Immigrant Case Ruling
The Tribune reported this on 3 February By AVA TURNQUEST and NICO SCAVELLA Tribune Staff Reporters THE GOVERNMENT on Friday filed an urgent appeal against Justice Gregory Hilton’s landmark ruling on Bahamas-born deportee Jean Rony Jean-Charles, making its case that the administration of good governance could be significantly affected. Among the grounds for appeal, it […]
The Mistreatment Of The People Of Fox Hill
This is going on three months since The Bahamas government allowed the lights to be disconnected at the Fox Hill Community Centre in violation of the agreement with the Board of The Centre to pay the light bill, telephone and water bills and the staff. The Member of Parliament Shonel Ferguson has turned out to […]
Allyson Gibson In Joberg On Economic Crimes Panel
This message as posted on the FB page of former Attorney General Allyson Gibson: The photograph shows me sitting as a member of the first ever People’s Tribunal on Economic Crime – 3-7 February 2018 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The distinguished panel is receiving evidence from experts and others on economic crimes, sanctions busting and […]
No Gas For Police In Crooked Island
2 February 2018 The following note was posted on What’s App on 2 February from a PLP in Crooked Island: This is what the Police in Crooked Island have to recourse to because they and all of the other government agencies are place on a stop list from getting fuel due to non payments to […]