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On Wednesday 20 January 2021, Joseph Biden Jr became the 46th President of the United States. They are still arguing American exceptionalism. Kamala Harris, a Black woman and a woman of Indian descent , is now the 49th Vice President of the United States. That was history, they said, being made. There seemed to be […]
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Senator Fred Mitchell addresses a senior class at St George’s Senior High. Head boy Tony Munnings looks on.
(Editor’s note: this was delivered extemporaneously and is transcribed using voice recognition technology) It is still barely morning, so I say good morning to you all. Reverend gentlemen good to see you all and the members of the family in particular and this is quite a surprise because I thought all the official stuff was […]
So the Commissioner of Police Paul Rolle was having an otherwise good day. On 18 January 2021, he had plenty to talk about with regard to the crime report for last year. Under his direction, he argued that crime had fallen. He struck back at critics who said it was simply because the pandemic had […]
So we are taken by surprise again with regard to the FNM and the botching of the purchase and sale of the Grand Lucayan Hotel in Freeport, Grand Bahama. The FNM Prime Minister Hubert Minnis and his government got snookered by the Hutchison company in Freeport who collected the insurance on the hurricane damaged hotel […]
On 18 January 2021, the Minister for Social Service Frankie Campbell issued a statement saying that he was investigating a video shown on the Bahama Press site that children were being abused at the Government’s Children’s Home. The PLP’s Shadow Minister Glenys Hanna Martin issued the following statement in reply. There is a cultural issue […]
Where is Sandra Dean Patterson, the advocate for women who condemned former PLP MP Leslie Miller for his comments about beating women? She was nowhere to be found as the sordid story of Hank Johnson the FNM MP unfolded across the press. There was silence from every women’s group and no criticism from the anti […]
So one police officer boasted to Jasper Ward of The Nassau Guardian that the police had written some 395,000 dollars’ worth of tickets to motorists. He was boasting about this in a country where people are unemployed, no food and no housing. Is that anything to be proud about? In Grand Bahama it is ridiculous, […]