Category Archives: News

Rosney Cooper, FNM community Leader in Eight Mile Rock, died last week, stunning the community. He  was found unresponsive at home and reportedly suffered a heart attack. But given the profile of many recent deaths of middle aged men and the prevalence of Covid in the community, it invited speculation.  Over the past week, there […]

Dr. Duane Sands, the former Health minister and now back doing surgery in the hospital set the cat amongst the pigeons when he told the reporter of the Nassau Guardian, published on 15 October 2020, given the situation in the health care facilities in The Bahamas, life and death decisions were being taken at the […]

Senator Jobeth Coleby Davis, Shadow Minister for Education, at her press conference yesterday asking the Government to answer questions on its virtual platform for students. Did you properly train the teachers? Why didn’t the contract go out to bid? Is the Government getting value for money? The Minister of Education must answer. Senator Fred Mitchell, […]

Peter Turnquest, Finance Minister, failed us again Chester Cooper, the PLP’s Shadow Minister of Finance, issued a statement in response to the announcement by the Government that its has secured a 600 million dollars U S loan at a rate of 8.95 per cent.  The FNM tried to be clever by circulating a document that […]

Sandals struck a blow against the people of Exuma by announcing that they do not intend to reopen their property in Exuma until next year in  February.  No reason given but we can bet it’s because of all these herky jerky regulations that the Government of The Bahamas has been putting in place. What a […]

There is information  that has come to this site that the agreement, signed with The Bahamas government and a  Bahamian company by the Ministry of Tourism last week  to test people entering the country for Covid 19 is faulty and has been rejected by the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States. The Government […]

Congratulations to the family of the late Sir Randal Fawkes, the legendary labour leader, who has been elevated to the status of National Hero. There is to be a ceremony to provide the honour on Monday 12 October 2020 at Government House. Congratulations also to the family of the late Rt. Hon Paul L. Adderley […]

The whole Cabinet caused  a scare to the nation last week when one of its members the Minister for the Environment Romauld Ferreira announced that he had tested positive for Covid 19 and he needed to go into 14 days quarantine. They said the other Cabinet ministers who were exposed to him would also isolate […]

The following statement was issued by the PLP on the dispute with Atlantis Workers: Statement From Senator Fred Mitchell Opposition Spokesman on LabourOn Redundancy Pay For Atlantis WorkersFor Immediate Release 7 October 2020 The PLP supports the just demands of the Atlantis workers for their redundancy pay. The PLP left in place a law to […]

Leader of the Opposition, Philip Brave Davis Press Conference Tuesday, October 6, 2020 Action Plan for COVID-19 INTRODUCTION Welcome to all of you. I thank you for joining me this afternoon. THE SHADOW CABINET Before we start, I wish to advise that with the addition of Mr. Vaughn Miller to our parliamentary caucus, the new […]

7 October 2020 THE SHADOW CABINET From The Leader Of The Opposition: I wish to advise that with the addition of Mr. Vaughn Miller to our parliamentary caucus, the new Shadow Cabinet is as follows: The Hon. Philip Davis MP: Prime Minister’s portfolio, Urban Development, Bahamas Power and Light, Bahamasair and the Ministry of Works. […]

( Editor: On Wednesday 8 October 2020 in the House of Assembly, the Prime Minister announced these new measures to keep us bottled up in our homes and the people oppressed by the military and the police.  Before he announced the measures he was giving a lot of : “the horse dead and the cow […]

Letters have gone out now to all branches, it is time for them to start making their recommendations for those they wish to be the candidate for their areas.  The process is fractious but people who are officers of branches should be reminded that they had a duty to act fairly, not to fetter their […]

“Mr Speaker, this spread in infections resulted in thousands of Bahamians contracting the virus over the past few months, along with fellow parliamentarians and members of staff of this place. I was one of them.  “While each of us is unable to say specifically how we joined in our fellow Bahamians as a dashboard statistic, […]

Travis Robinson, the FNM MP and Parliamentary Secretary for Tourism has not learned his lesson. He was fired for voting against government policy when he refused to support the raise in VAT.  He was reappointed after sucking up to the Prime Minister. Now he is vex because he didn’t get to speak on two bills […]

We cannot even get things done because of the misappropriation of funds, The manager they hired after firing the two PLP women has just been let go. We wonder why.

The flag of The Bahamas is flying over St Catherine’s College at Cambridge University in England to mark the start of Black History Month in the United Kingdom.  It’s been discovered that A F Adderley, former Member of the House of Assembly, Attorney at Law, Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils was the first […]

Wonderful tribute to the Hon A.F. Adderley, the greatest lawyer of his generation (as his son, Paul Adderley, was of his) and one of the finest Bahamian statesmen of any age. How did he and T A Toote ( former Attorney and  Black Member of the House of Assembly in the early 20th century) even […]

It was most remarkable.  A letter was released in the public domain signed by the Minister of Education Jeff Lloyd and addressed to Elma Garraway, the  Chair of the National Advisory Council on Education to say that he will no longer be speaking to Belinda Wilson, the President of the Bahamas Union Of Teachers, until […]

Pastor Hugh Roach, perhaps the most iconic Seventh Day Adventist Pastor, went to his grave in an ignominious way courtesy of the Bahamas Government and Hubert Minnis.  There is no secret that Pastor Roach was a PLP through and through.  His church members asked that the exception be granted to hold a church service and […]

A seven year old child Reyes Williams was killed by a stray bullet in Nassau Village last week. It moved the hearts of the nation. There was plenty of outrage to go around. The outrage reached the FNM back bench and the Speaker who is the representative for the area. The Speaker Halson Moultrie couldn’t […]

So the anti-Bahamas QC from hell Fred Smith is at it again trying to stop The Bahamas government from removing illegal structures on land owned by the Government up in Abaco. This is par for the course for him. He will do anything to help illegal squatters. He has been silent, the so called human […]

There was a public report and complaint from unnamed members of the Prison Department that there is a risk of Covid in the prison that the Government was not taking seriously. The next day the Commissioner of the Prison castigated the officers for violating the rules that said that the prison’s business should not be […]

The following is the statement of the Leader of the Progressive Liberal Party welcoming Vaughn Miller MP for Golden Isles into the Progressive Liberal Party. STATEMENT FROM LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION PLP Welcoming Vaughn Miller As A PLP MP For Immediate Release 23 September 2020 I received a call this morning from Vaughn Miller, the […]

For Immediate Release 16 September 2020 The PLP calls on the Prime Minister to clarify his deceitful, divisive and contradictory statement in the House this morning directed at the Leader of the Opposition who sits at home in quarantine by reason of the Covid rules. The Prime Minister has a bloody nerve. The Prime Minister […]

The PLP is opposing plans by the FNM to create a permanent register based on the existing register. This will depend on an FNM government to purge the list of all the dead people.  The FNM says because of Covid that want to keep the present list and go to elections on that list, once […]