It’s Easter Weekend so that can only mean one thing. Everything takes longer, everything get’s done slower but as sure as Night follows Day, The Peanut Gallery will produce. CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR Social media has a way of reminding us who is supposed to be fighting what in this country, even when the fighters […]
Daily Archives: April 1, 2018
Kelly Burrows Visits St Christopher’s With Nat Adams
1 April 2018 Lyford Cay
THE PASSING OF GEORGE COX
George And Setella Cox If you were born in the 1950s 1960s and 1970s, maybe even the 1980s, and a stranger asked you to name the Bahamian couple who epitomized panache, grace, class, quiet elegance, unobtrusive good sense, beauty and serenity, a good marriage, great professionals, a perfect family, you would think of Georgie and […]
THE CARIFTA GAMES ARE IN FULL FLIGHT
31 March 2018 Nassau at the Thomas A Robinson Stadium
LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION SNUBBED AT CARIFTA OPENING
This picture was taken shortly after the Leader of the Opposition Philip Davis and his wife arrived and were seated by the protocol people of the Government of the FNM in the general admission seats on Friday 30 March. He and his wife had been given passes to the VIP session with Government officials. In […]
THE GEORGE COX FUNERAL IN PICTURES
By Peter Ramsay Of The Bahamas Information Services 28 March 2018 St Anselm’s Church, Fox Hill Son the artists John Cox with his wife Erica and children Xelter and Story Archbishop Patrick Pinder with Senator Fred Mitchell Archbishop Patrick Pinder greets nieces Mary El Faturi and Denny Burnside Archbishop Patrick Pinder greets John Cox Son […]
REECE CHIPMAN MP FNM THROWS MINNIS A CURVE BALL
They say that 24 hours is a lifetime in politics. Last week proved to be just that. Reece Chipman, the MP for Centreville, who won his seat for the FNM by 4 votes against the incumbent Prime Minister Perry Christie was fired on Saturday 24 March as Chairman of the Antiquities Corporation. There was a […]
MITCHELL ADDRESSES FOX HILL PLP
The monthly branch meeting of the Fox Hill PLP Branch took place on Wednesday 28th March. Senator Fred Mitchell, PLP Caretaker for the Fox Hill Constituency, was the guest speaker. He spoke to the current issues: the Fox Hill Community Centre, the Post Office building, the Americans lying on the PLP, Marvin Danes comments about […]
Prime Minister Ducks Carifta And Goes To San Salvador
These days the Prime Minister’s office has no idea about protocol as in if you’re going into someone else’s constituency for a meeting, you should tell the MP. No such thing for Mr. Minnis. He landed in San Salvador and didn’t tell MP Philip Davis he was coming there. The speculation is that he is […]
MP Fox Hill Wandering Around The Road
This is said to be an image taken of the MP for Fox Hill Shonel Ferguson by herself wandering around Adderley Street in her constituency on Holy Saturday. Could it be that she needs directions?
The Olympic President Trashes The Sports Minister
The US Embassy Tells A Lie On The PLP
Last week, the press reported that in their annual International Narcotics Report, the United States Embassy made the allegation that cooperation in law enforcement waned during the PLP. That is a contemptible lie and one of a number of lies that the U S Embassy personnel tell in these reports which they are mandated to […]
Haitians Keep Coming
The HMBS Cascarilla intercepted an American sailing vessel early on 28 March approximately 16 nautical miles south west of Governors; Harbour with 89 undocumented Haitian migrants on board: 14 females, 7 boys, 68 adult males. They have been repatriated to Haiti.
The Court Of Appeal Gets It Wrong On Bruno Rufa
Once again The Bahamas must suffer the decision of Judges in place of that of the Director of Immigration as to whether or not someone is a fit and proper person to be in The Bahamas and the circumstances under which they can be removed from The Bahamas. The Court of Appeal in the case […]
Leader’s Easter Greeting
Banquet For BJ
29th March 2018 Friends and well-wishers gathered in advance of the Carifta Games opening on Thursday 29 arch to honour Bernard J. Nottage, who passed away last year. Dr. Nottage brought the Carifta Games to The Bahamas. The games are being held in his honour. Lord Sebastian Coe from the International Association of Athletics Federations […]
Dean Of The Anglican Cathedral To Retire
Dean Patrick Adderley has reportedly announced to the congregation of the Christ Church that it is his intention to demit office as Dean of the Cathedral of Christ Church in the third quarter of this year.
Friends Of Shonel Ferguson MP Beg For The Keys To The Community Centre
It seems a bit of a shame that an MP for an area would have friends going around ten months after the general election telling people that the reason the MP for Fox Hill Shonel Ferguson can’t do her job is because the PLP is stopping her from getting the keys to the community centre […]
Happy Birthday Deaconess Lilymae Forbes
Picewell Forbes MP joined his siblings to wish their mother happy birthday on 31 March 2018
Charges To Be Dropped In Shane Gibson Matter
In a case management hearing in the Courts on Thursday 29 March, the Crown announced their intention to amend the charges against former Minister of the Government Shane Gibson. They intend on the resumption of the hearing on 4 May to drop the 15 extortion charges and continue with the 15 bribery charges. We roll […]
Barry Griffin On The Jerome Sawyer Programme On The Record
29th March 2018 Representatives of the two major parties in The Bahamas the PLP and the FNM sent their youth arm representatives to speak to the issue of youth in politics in The Bahamas on the Jerome Sawyer Programme On The Record. The programme aired on 29the March. From left to right Tevin Bannister Torchbearers. […]
The Winning Water Polo Team Meets The Governor General
27 March 2018
Theresa Moxey To Have An Official Funeral
Nassau, Bahama – The Cabinet Office announced today that an Official Funeral will be held for the late Hon. Theresa Moxey-Ingraham, former Cabinet Minister, Senator and Parliamentarian, on Friday, 6th April, 2018 at 11:00 a.m. at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill Road. Interment will follow at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums, J. F. Kennedy […]
Sebass Says Adrian Gibson MP And Dionysio D’Aguillar Don’t Know Anything
Tribune photo 28th March The Tribune has reported that Sebass Bastian hit back at critics of the sector Minister of Tourism Dionysio D’Aguillar and Adrian Gibson MP for Long Island. The two have been saying in the press that the sector is saturated and that it may have to be pared back. Mr. Bastian who […]
What’s Happening With The Post Office?
Frankie Campbell, the Minister responsible for the Post Office, says that the Government has decided that they will buy a building by compulsory purchase on Gladstone Road to house the post office to replace the present building in town which is falling apart. Mr. Campbell claimed that the cost of repairing the Post Office in […]
Problems With Non-Unionized Environment At Bahamar
Bahamar will be the largest employer in the tourism sector pretty soon, if the present trend of downsizing by Atlantis continues and the ramping up of the sector continues at Bahamar. The problem is that Bahamar as a behemoth in the sector does not have a unionized environment. The Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied […]
Chester Cooper Responds To The Prime Minister’s Threat
STATEMENT BY CHESTER COOPER, PLP DEPUTY LEADER, IN RESPONSE TO PM MINNIS’ OMINOUS ADVICE March 26, 2018 Having heard an interview conducted by local media with Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis today in which he urged me to “be careful” when pointing out the fact that he misled the House of Assembly on the Oban […]
Dames Needs To Butt Out Of Police Business
Chester Cooper reported to the country that since the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis had issued a threat to him, he was reporting that threat to the Commissioner of Police. Dr. Minnis, speaking last week to the press about the allegation made by Mr. Cooper that he mislead the House on the question of Oban Energy […]
Joan Hanna Passes Away
We deeply regret and with sadness announce the passing of Joan Hanna, the widow of the late trade unionist and former Senator Leroy “Duke” Hanna. Mrs. Hanna who was key to the development of the Small Hope Bay Lodge in Andros and later the Traveller’s Rest Restaurant in Western New Providence will be remembered for […]
