Category Archives: Editorial

The FNM has a whole campaign built on Hubert Minnis as a kind of wonder boy who saved us from the Covid pandemic. The more this goes on though it is clear that his covid strategy is not working.  Half of Eleuthera is totally cheezed off by him because at the last minute he imposed […]

Trudeau has let us down. So when the history of the covid 19 pandemic is finally written and the Bahamian part of the story is recorded, Hubert Minnis and his government will not fare well, We hope to be part of that group that writes the final chapter.  We intend to tell the story of […]

On Friday 26 March 2020, it was announced that a 14 year old had given some 7 children at S C McPherson Junior School, food containing marijuana which made them ill to the point where they had to be taken to hospital. The police announced that the 14 year old will be charged. While on […]

So there is a case now before the Supreme Court Justice Cheryl Grant Bethel Thompson about the Government’s move to remove squatters from the land in Abaco and other places in The Bahamas. Of course coming to the rescue is the legal eagle from Freeport who makes money and a habit of winning administrative law […]

So the smarty pants Peter Turnquest was sending private notes to PLP partisans last week saying that the Chairman of the PLP Senator Fred Mitchell was doing the party no favours by his conduct.  Presumably they were all stunned by the response of the Chairman to the low down dirty remark made by the Leader […]

In the past week there have been two front page stories written as headlines in The Punch, the down market rag that specializes in gossip and the personal business of other people. Largely the stories are made up by the publisher of the paper Ivan Johnson who if nothing else has a vivid imagination.  And […]

The nervous ones in the PLP who are walking on eggshells because in various constituencies there is one row or the other about who is going to be candidate should think carefully before they lose it. In the summer of 2016 Loretta Butler Turner, then MP for Long Island, challenged the now Prime Minister for […]

So half the Cabinet led by the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis went down to the Lynden Pindling International Airport to greet the Astra Zeneca vaccine doses as they were taken off the United Airlines flight on Wednesday 10 March 2021.  Looks like a rep for the Indian Government was there.  Dr. Hubert Minnis who had […]

The Leader of the Opposition Philip Davis and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition Chester Cooper introduced the party’s economic platform last Sunday 7 March. Amongst its main points: a livable wage with a first step as the raising of the minimum wage from the present 210 to 250. There is also a plan to […]

Reviewing the pricing of the Government’s bonds today show clearly that perhaps the crisis in financing for The Bahamas under the FNM is closer than we are aware. Please see attached the price of the Bahamas Government ten year paper in comparison to US$ debt issued by other countries in the region with a similar […]

The Free National Movement is feeling pretty good about itself these days.  They have gotten rid of the troublesome Lanisha Rolle, the disgraced sports minister.  The bump which the PLP got from that shock resignation was wiped off the front pages with a debate inspired by the PLP’s Picewell Forbes and his decision to quit. […]

The Minister of Health Renward Wells who despite his penchant for situation ethics and disloyalty, is generally thought to be a cerebral fellow not given to malapropism. But on Tuesday 23 February 2021, he pulled a real whopper. He meant the titular head of the country but instead referred to the Prime Minister as the […]

Dear EditorI am totally convinced that when the political history of The Bahamas is objectively told, this Minnis led FNM administration will emerge as the singular most corrupt government administration of the party era. The historical irony of the FNM is that it’s formation came amidst the dismissal of PLP ministers in connection with the […]

Since the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis now says that despite the fact his public statement said there was an investigation into his outgoing Minister, there is none, the Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee must act.  We expect that there should be some action on this front as early as next week.  It is imperative […]

The FNM Government is now about to commit another act of financial lunacy. The Government has tabled legislation which will enable it to purchase the Grand Bahama International Airport from the Grand Bahama Port Authority and the Hutchison Whampoa Group.  This is because the Port/ Hutchison Combo has refused to honour their obligations under the […]

Dear. Editor. Below is a quote from your Editorial February 16. 2016 from Mr. Michael Scott, he was rewarded for the attack on the Prime Minister as Chairman of the Hotel Corporation, now his open disagreement with the Minister of Tourism on the Lucayan Sale that he put together, also his involvement in the Deputy […]

EDITOR, The Tribune. The reasons for the upcoming snap election (the first in Bahamian history) are as clear as daylight. The unprecedented fiscal challenges posed by a year of lost economic activity have the government facing a dilemma long in the making. Any attempt to borrow money (the favoured tactic of this administration), will be […]

Following the press conference of the Leader of the Opposition Philip Davis on the FNM and the fake sites that it sponsors on Facebook on 16 February 2021, Carl Culmer said that the FNM does not do that. He said that they would never engage in such tactics.  We know that is untrue because the […]

( This letter first appeared in The Tribune) EDITOR: In a previous letter (published on January 12, 2021), I maintained that a legislative ban on oil drilling and extraction would not amount to compulsory possession or acquisition without compensation of BPC’s property under Article 27 of The Constitution. I also pointed out possible risks with […]

The weekend of 6 February 2021, Peter Turnquest, the disgraced former Finance Minister, wrote this to his campaign team: “By now you would have no doubt heard the report that I have been advised by the party leader that I will not receive the nomination for East Grand Bahama.  “I assume that council will give […]

The report in social media is that FNM Troll Xavier Knowles has had his contract to continue writing filth on line renewed by the Minister of Health Renward Wells to work as an amanuensis at the health ministry.  This is the same man who got married and then his guests were all fined for violating […]

This comment first appeared in What’s App on 10 February 2021: Not too sure who this unelected self appointed group is celebrating BPC’s exploratory stoppage, but if they were to examine closely the following wording that they quote (below) from BPC’s release, they might wish to sit down and consider how globalists think, and the […]

File photo not related Last week, the police without the review of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) charged a case of sex with a minor of the same sex. This is an offence which was created under the Hubert Ingraham administration which draws a life imprisonment punishment, which in itself is extraordinary.  However, given […]

Freeport News Image of Dr. Merceline Dahl Regis Anti Covid Consultant So the FNM has announced that the vaccine will soon be here. There will be 100,000 doses of it.  However, the vaccine will not be available to the over 65 population. They got a vaccine that is not tested and approved for that category.  […]

The Minister for Grand Bahama Kwasi Thompson was speaking in the Senate on Thursday 4 February 2021. He was boasting about the Government’s new internet platform. According to the Minister, this is supposed to allow the citizen to apply to any government office for a service without having to repeat information about the citizen to […]

The Save The Bays, Fred Smith et al nasty anti Bahamian crowd are at it again. They are using the same playbook from the last general election.  The arrest of Peter Nygard in Canada at the behest of the Americans has Fred Smith and is principals the nasty other man from Lyford Cay at it […]

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 […]

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 […]