Category Archives: News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 1 April 2021 The sudden change in travel requirements for people travelling from Harbour Island and Eleuthera are grossly unfair to residents. Last night (Wednesday, 31 March), the government issued a new requirement as part of it latest amendment to its Emergency Powers Order, requiring travellers to take a RT-PCR COVID-19 test […]

So Charles Sealy, the long serving CEO of Doctor’s Hospital, has left the job and the immediate speculation was that he is headed to a career in politics. It appears that there has been a falling out with the company and with the FNM establishment that he was said to support.  The back channel issues […]

So Fred Smith Q C with his wacky self was in the press complaining about the fact that the Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPL) refused to give them additional time to find money as security for costs to fight BPL.  You know Fred Smith’s forte is to come up with these fake environmental and human rights […]

Tribune photo There are continuing reports that people are having difficulties  with people registering to vote. The registration matter is supposed to be simpler now because there is no mass re-registration going on.  There is supposed to be permanent register and the dead and missing are supposed to be purged from the list. We don’t […]

The Department of Marine Resources wishes to advise the general public that the Crawfish Open  Season will come to a close on the 1st of April 2021 and will reopen on the1st of August, 2021.  During this time the capture of crawfish or any other marine resource with the use of air compressors is prohibited […]

The Democratic National Alliance (DNA), the rather grand sounding name, is an extra parliamentary party in the Commonwealth Of The Bahamas. It was formed as a breakaway from the Free National Movement largely because its first Leader Branville McCartney, the former Minister of State for Immigration under Hubert Ingraham, had a falling-out with Mr. Ingraham. […]

Chester Cooper, the Deputy Leader of the PLP and the MP for Exuma and Ragged Island issued the following statement on Friday 26 March 2021 following the announcement of layoffs in his constituency:I was concerned to learn that Grand Isle Resort on Exuma terminated some 40 furloughed workers today. I know that some of these […]

The Senate met on Thursday 25 March 2021. Presumably there was important business to conduct. In fact there was, since the Government was seeking to pass legislation which would enable to purchase of the Grand Bahama International Airport. Who was missing? None other than the Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes who incredibly the week before […]

The Senate and the House of Assembly are supposed to be the freest forums in the country. Basically, you can say whatever  you like in there without any legal consequences.  There are however certain rules of decorum. One of them is that you refrain from personal attacks. Carl Bethel, the Attorney General, continually runs afoul […]

( The writer is a well known sports journalist and commentator. He does a weekly internet based talk show and is the owner of the wedding business: Ed was a gentleman, peace-maker, quiet, humble, a true ambassador for the Bahamas through baseball.  The first time I met Ed was in late 1970s. I was a […]

19 March 2021 Dear Anglican Family, Today we thank God for where He has brought us. In 2020 we were introduced to COVID-19. As a church we weathered the storm, pivoted and kept on going. We even expanded our virtual and other ministries to respond to the COVID reality. In that respect we sought to […]

The following statement was issued by the Leader of the PLP Philip Davis on the passing of the baseball great Ed Armbrister:  I join with Bahamians of all walks of life in celebrating the life of and mourning the passing of a sports icon, a giant of a man and a national hero, Edison Rosanda […]

The following statement was issued by the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party: For Immediate Release 19 March 2021 Speaking in the Senate yesterday, the Attorney General was clearly confused and plain wrong when he accused the PLP government of abandoning Grand Bahama. It was the FNM who abandoned and failed Grand Bahama. The decision […]

It is the job of the Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes to conciliate industrial disputes.  On Wednesday 18 March 201, there was a major dispute when 300 odd prison officers walked off the job and marched down to the Minister of National Security’s office where they were met by barricades and a phalanx of policemen […]

Friday 19th March, 2021 The following statement was issued by the Progressive Liberal Party’s spokesman on National Security Glenys Hanna Martin: We have apprised ourselves of the issues affecting Prison Officers which have led to the extraordinary action recently taken by officers in order to draw attention to their long-standing matters. It is clear that […]

Andre Foster BTC CEO So Andre Foster, speaking to the press, said that 5 G is unlikely to come to The Bahamas until 2022 or 2023.  This only confirms what the PLP has been saying and we have been saying in this column, the phone companies in this country have no interest in national development.  […]

Watching the Minister of Education Jeffery Lloyd on television as he presented his budget presentation to the House last week, it struck us that there is simply something amiss in his attitude.  It is imperious, sneering and talking down to people.  Commentators watching on television were asking out loud who is he shouting at? There […]

( Elsworth Johnson, Peter Turnquest, Ruben Rahming, Brensil Rolle, Darren Henfield) The Chairman of the PLP Senator Fred Mitchell issued statements during the week to answer personal attacks by FNM Ministers on the Leader of the PLP Philip Davis.  There is a concerted political attack on Mr. Davis as part of the FNM’s campaign to […]

Senators Fred Mitchell, JoBeth Coleby Davis, Michael Darville after the Senate was convened and no government minister showed up and the Government failed to provide a quorum so the meeting had to be cancelled . 12 March 2021 The following statement was issued by the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party after the Ministers of […]

The Progressive Liberal Party is at a distinct disadvantage in the general election stakes. This is not unusual for an opposition party but it bears repeating as the party frantically gets itself organized to face what many believe will be an early general election.  We remind folk though that Hubert Minnis is not an ass […]

The Progressive Liberal Party is at a distinct disadvantage in the general election stakes. This is not unusual for an opposition party but it bears repeating as the party frantically gets itself organized to face what many believe will be an early general election.  We remind folk though that Hubert Minnis is not an ass […]

For Immediate Release 3 March 2021 In a bid to clean up the false information polluting social media in The Bahamas, Hon. Philip Brave Davis,  leader of the Progressive Liberal Party, sent a letter to Facebook’s California headquarters petitioning the multi-national company to change their internal policies that currently allow fake  organizations to advertise on […]

3 March 2021

It rocked the political firmament and seemed to come out of the blue.  The PLP’s Member of Parliament for the South and Central Andros seat including Mangrove Cay, announced at the start of the proceedings of the House of Assembly on Monday 1 March 2021 that he was taking his last political breath.  The news […]

The following statement was issued by the Progressive Liberal Party: 25 February 2021 The Progressive Liberal Party extends our sincere prayers and well-wishes to former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham who has been admitted to hospital after contracting the COVID-19 virus. COVID-19 has taken it’s toll on many of our fellow Bahamians, disrupting the health of […]

The following statement was issued by the Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party in response to a statement by an organization calling itself the Grand Bahama Human Rights Association: 26 February 2021 Just over a week ago, the Leader of the  PLP highlighted the desperate attempts by the FNM and their proxy organisations to spread […]

In with John Pinder? Out with Shonel? So a decree went out to the FNM world by Caesar Hubert Minnis that Fred Mitchell is to be defeated at all costs. The local executive of the FNM met with the Prime Minister and said that in order for them to deliver they needed a new candidate. […]

So all the speculation about the future of Dr. Duane Sands in the FNM has for the time being come to an end.  Dr. Sands whose heads was supposed to be on the proverbial chopping block as far as a nomination is concerned, has now received ratification by the Free National Movement’s Council. The announcement […]

Senator Fred Mitchell at the Pineridge PLP Meeting 23 February 2021 in Freeport, Grand Bahama This weekend the final local phase of the selection process for the PLP in Grand Bahama is being held. Primary elections are being held for East Grand Bahama Branches, Marco City, Pineridge, Central Grand Bahama and West Grand Bahama. The […]

What is sauce for the goose must be sauce for the gander. The Prime Minister Hubert Minnis who styles himself legally in these pandemic days as the competent authority, allowed a motorcade and a rally to take place in South Andros at Kemps Bay. The PLP will be calling soon and let’s see what the […]