A smart and strong Kemp Road woman spoke for thousands of Bahamians on a New Providence based television station Friday, 16th April, 2021. She noted that our people are not moved by FNM government representatives showing up for the cameras after the hurt, pain, and damage have slayed our communities. Prime Minister Minnis and this […]
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PLP Chairman’s Statement On Fire At Potter’s Cay
For Immediate Release 12 April 2021 This morning early I reached out to the vendors’ association at Potter’s Cay following a devastating fire last evening after the thunderstorm. While the authorities need to determine a cause, I am advised that there is no insurance on the properties there. This means another economic blow to an […]
Clean Up In Monastery Heights, Fox Hill
Senator Fred Mitchell in Monastery Heights following the clean up there of an abandoned property. 16 April 2021
Hyland Smith PLP Branch Chair Bimini Dies
15 April 2021 The following statement was issued by the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party: The entire family of the Progressive Liberal Party are in mourning at the passing of our brother, friend and fellow political warrior Hylan Smith after a long and courageous fight against his infirmity. Hylan Smith was sixty-two years old. […]
Commissioner Of Police Inspects The Stations
14 April 2021
The PLP Around The Country
The Chair of The PLP Reviews The Weeks Events
Fred Mitchell Responds To Brensil Rolle
12 April 2021 Today Brensil Rolle, Minister for the Public Service, lowered the standards of the House of Assembly by engaging in dog do do talk in the House of Assembly about me. The Minister doesn’t have to be the snivelling coward that he appears to be and hide behind House of Assembly immunity. The […]
SHOULD THE FNM CANDIDATE RESIGN FROM BAAA
Hank Johnson, Nicole Martin, Drumeco Archer, FNM candidates There is a spirted debate going on in the Bahamas Association of Athletic Association (BAAA) about whether or not the FNM’s now ratified candidate for Ft. Charlotte Drumeco Archer should step down. The FNM announced on Thursday 15 April the following: The Free National Movement has ratified […]
PRISON OFFICER SPEAKS UP IN LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A Prison Officer Speaks Out As of Monday, 12 April 2021 EDITOR, I am a corrections officer at the Bahamas Department of Corrections (BDOCS), and feel that it is my duty as a public servant to speak out about what I am seeing take place at the institution. I must say that the statement given […]
THE SENATE DEBATE ON LAND IS A CHARADE
Senators Fred Mitchell and Michael Darville following the debate on the land resolution 15 April 2021 There was a debate on the Government’s proposal to organize what they say is an upscale development in the constituency of Hubert Minnis, the Prime Minister. The deal is that the lot will be set at 50k per lot. […]
Brian Seymour Writes On the Director General of Tourism Director General
Joy Jibrilu is the Director General of Tourism, she is the highest ranking technocrat in our country’s principal business,Tourism. Her principal job is to work for and on behalf of the people of The Bahamas in all things related to Tourism. Last week, the Director was seen on public television admitting that there was not […]
FRED MITCHELL VISITS EXUMA
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON: IN KEMP ROAD: SIX DIE
There was nothing unusual about Wednesday afternoon last 14 April 2021. There was a clear blue sky. Six people charged for offences were at the Wulff Road police station in Nassau. They were released by the police because someone confessed to the crime. Ten minutes later as they were being ferried to God knows where, […]
NICOLE MARTIN, THE GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING
The FNM must have lost their ever loving minds to nominate Nicole Martin, the former President of the Bahamas Hotel Catering And Allied workers Union. Under David Knowles, Bobby Glinton, Thomas Bastian and Pat Bain, this was the most powerful union in the country. When they handed it off to her, it became a shadow […]
SO JOHN PINDER IS LIKE HAMLET: TO BE OR NOT TO BE
Last week we reported in this space how Shonel Ferguson, the MP for Fox Hill, was forced out of office after one term. The FNM deselected her and she will not get their nomination to run again in the seat in the next general election. She sent her swan song letter last week. Enter John […]
MINNIS CANNOT MAKE UP HIS MIND
At the end of the last year, the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis, who is affectionately known these days as the incompetent authority, briefed his favourite ministers and told them to get ready, he intended to call an election one year and some months early, just after Lent this year. Turns out it was a false […]
The PLP At Potter’s Cay
12 April 2021Leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, the Hon. Philip Brave Davis, led an Opposition Parliamentary delegation on a walk about and fact finding mission of the Potter’s Cay vendors marketplace, located under the Paradise Island Bridge at Potter’s Cay. Accompanying Mr. Davis were Deputy PLP Leader Chester Cooper, Englerston MP Glenys Hanna-Martin, PLP […]
Pastor Charged With Criminal Libel
The Leader Of The PLP And Mrs. Davis At Easter Sunday Mass
St Christopher’s at Lyford Cay
The PLP On The Move During The Easter Holidays
Easter Monday 5 April 2021
Words Of Caution From The Chairman Of The PLP
Smokey Bullard Is Buried
SHONEL FERGUSON THE FNM MP FOR FOX HILL ABANDONS SHIP
After just short of four miserable years as the Member of Parliament for Fox Hill, elected in the FNM wave of 2017, Shonel Ferguson has announced that she is leaving the job and will not be running in the next election. So the people of Fox Hill she so badly mistreated and fooled will not […]
ALLYSON GIBSON PAYS TRIBUTE TO BASIL ALBURY
Dear Editor, I was very sad to hear the news of Basil Albury’s transition. I first met him during my late father, Sir Clement Maynard’s, tenure as minister of tourism. It was a golden era for tourism in The Bahamas. Smart and enthusiastic young Bahamians held the key positions in tourism, the main engine of […]
BAHAMAS FOREIGN MINISTRY IN THE STATE OF COLLAPSE
The press in The Bahamas quoted a U S General appearing before one of these endless committees in the U S legislature that China was seeking by the use of development assistance to buy influence with China against the United States. Here we go again. No question that the Chinese want influence but so does […]
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON
While Marvin Dames, the arrogant and insensitive thug that we have as Minister of National Security, is boasting about how crime figures are down, the carnage in our streets continues. This was the scene in broad daylight at 1 p. m. on Kemp Road, a main thorough fare in New Providence following the gunning down […]
STATEMENT FROM THE PLP ON PRINCE PHILIP’S DEATH
The following statement was issued by the Leader of the Opposition Philip Davis on the death of the husband of the Queen his Royal Highness, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh: Statement From The Leader of The Opposition, Commonwealth of The Bahamas On the passing of His Royal Highness Prince Philip For Immediate Release 9 April […]
PLP’S STATEMENT ON POLITICAL GATHERINGS IN COVID TIMES
For Immediate Release 8 April 2021 The Progressive Liberal Party takes note of the public comments attributed to the country’s Chief Medical Officer regarding political gatherings in the current COVID environment and attendant health and safety regulations. In light of these comments, the leader of the Progressive Liberal Party has ordered a review of all […]
ELEUTHERA SUFFERS FROM COVID REGULATIONS
The following statement was issued by Senator Fred Mitchell, Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party in the face of a decision on 31 March 2021 to impose the requirement of a PCR covid test on travelers to and from Eleuthera to other parts of The Bahamas: 9th April 2021 After the long Easter holiday weekend, […]
