STEVIE AND SHAUNAE THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS: The Golden Twins in Tokyo. It was Steven Gardiner's turn on 5 August 2021 to win gold in the 400 metres at the Olympics. The next day 6 August 2021 day belonged to Shaunae Miller Uibo. Gold again for The Bahamas in the 400 metres. We predict one day she will be our Minister of Sports. CONGRATULATIONS and well done. 6 August 2021. OUR PHOTO OF THE WEEK. They celebrated each other in the stands.
The Bahamian public has to wade through the words of a trickster again. Michael Pintard the man who literally wrote the book on Politricks, gets to put some stolen document in the House of Assembly that tells only half the story.
His government when he was a Minister and that of the hapless and hopeless colleague Senator Darren Henfield agreed to loosen the standard by which passports could be renewed. The result is that an investigation was necessary when cases of fraudulent documents were discovered. Not fraudulent passports.
The work of the present Chief Passport Officer brought this to the attention of the government and he moved expeditiously to review the policies and reversed what the FNM had put in place. The end result is a number of cases were turned over to the police for them to investigate whether or not they were fraudulent.
Some cases have been brought to the courts.
Yet others await investigation and adjudication. But the Leader of the Opposition has gone and put all these documents in the public domain in a serious act of irresponsibility. Suppose it turns out that all these cases were in fact innocent people. Look now what he has done. But he does not care whom he hurts.
The problem we have is that every time this happens with this joker, the Bahamian public including the press go running off the deep end without hearing the other side.
They have no concern of the prejudice that this causes and the harm it can do to innocent people. All of this is done for politics and to win an election.
Michael Pintard has misled the Bahamian public. He is not fit to lead. He needs to tighten up the screw that is loose up there. Shame on you for making up stories again.
Number of hits for the week ending Saturday 21 March 2026 up to midnight: 911,005;
Number of hits for the month of March up to Saturday 21 March 2026 up to midnight: 2,981,259;
Number of hits for the year 2026 up to Saturday 21 March 2026 up to midnight: 10,961,750;
It was a privilege to introduce to the Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skeritt, the Chair of the Bahamas Striping Group of Companies Dominic Sturrup and the President of the group Atario Mitchell with their General Manager Melanie Roach at the Office of the Prime Minister in Roseau.
I attended the birthday party of my constituent who is 7 years old today. She is Lisa Pugh’s grandbaby. Alaysha Darling Happy birthday.
Then there’s Jackie Pratt’s grand with the PLP sign and then there is RBDF Officer Bullard towering on the side of me. Very best in your career officer.
We gathered at breakfast Andrew Young, former Mayor and Ambassador, at Bahamar Convention Centre to mark his 94th birthday. With former High Commissioner Richard Demeritte and Mrs Ruby Ann Cooper Darling.
Walkabout in Fox Hill in the Garden View area and the Fox Hill Police Station and at Miss Essie’s Chicken Shack with Kimberly Ferguson and Tony Brown’s Jerk Pit.
At the funeral of Leonard Johnson of Gleniston Gardens in the Fox Hill constituency. Condolences to the family at St John’s Native Baptist Church in Nassau.
The arbitration law Lords have declared that Grand Bahama Port Authority is broke. It was not the Davis Administration, or the PLP, who said so but the distinguished arbitrators. The company is broke because it was skillfully allowed to sell off its valuable profit-making subsidiaries and share the profits. The law Lord’s further stated the company is left with only two streams of income: the licensing and service charges for the upkeep of Freeport. This is not enough income to continuously upkeep a modern-day City. The Taino Beach Bridge have not been repaired and is at a standstill. The roads in East Freeport are washed out. The side streets have become unkempt and a quasi- dumping ground. Boat ramps and seawalls on the canal systems are beginning to crumble. These remedial repairs require substantial reinvestment in the Millions of dollars to set the infrastructure of the city on a solid footing. Prime Minister Davis has called the company to account. No other leader has held these Rascals to account. The shareholders of the GBPA in 2019 (after the passage of hurricane Dorian) demonstrated who they were to the people of the Bahamas. They were not honorable partners; collected Millions in insurance claims for the damaged Airport and shared the money amongst the partners leaving the liability of reconstruction for the taxpayers of the Bahamas. Rascals, indeed! It was the FNM administration who allowed the Port to abrogate the Hawksbill Creek Agreement . Today, an unrepentant Michael Pintard has become the principal cheer leader for the Grand Bahama Port Authority; a company the arbitrators have determined that its balance sheet is insolvent. Shame on you Mr. Pintard!
The first day of spring was Saturday 21 March 2026 in the northern hemisphere. In our Christian tradition that marks the countdown to Easter. Remember that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. But while we are still in Lent, we anticipate a happy Easter.
Wonders never cease. Here you have a man who had to step down from the Senate and from the chairmanship of the Free National Movement because he was caught up in a murder for hire plot, yet he now is grandstanding about passports in the House of Assembly based entirely on lies and false suppositions. Again we say: wonders never cease. What a damn fool Michael Pintard is.
The following statement was issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to the release of stolen documents in the House of Assembly by the Leader of the Opposition:
For Immediate Release
18 March 2026
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to advise the public to exercise caution before accepting at face value the documents the Leader of the Opposition has placed in the public domain.
Those documents may tell only part of the story. It may well emerge that, consistent with his usual practice, he has relied on documents that were improperly obtained and has presented them in a manner that is incomplete and irresponsible.
The public should be assured that Bahamian passports are, in the main, issued properly, lawfully, and with due care.
Having now chosen to cast doubt on the integrity of the Bahamian passport, the Leader of the Opposition must explain the conclusion reached by the Minnis Cabinet, of which he was a part, and which this Government has since reversed. That conclusion led to a loosening of the standards applied to the review of supporting documents, a matter that may help explain why these investigations became necessary.
A responsible government must proceed with care before making allegations against private citizens while investigations remain ongoing. The Leader of the Opposition has again placed political chicanery ahead of sound judgment.
It is the diligence of the present officials in the Passport Office that has led to the stricter standards now being applied.
The Ministry reiterates that the Government remains fully committed to protecting the integrity of the Bahamian passport and ensuring that any instances of fraud are identified, investigated, and addressed in accordance with the law.
Michael Pintard and the FNM are leading the war against Haitians in this country. They have started a campaign in their ads to cause hatred and division in the country toward a group of people that have done nothing except help to build the country. The latest was the stupidity of the nonsense over passport fraud. This is all fake news. The PLP has been enforcing the law on passports and that suddenly has turned into fraudulent passports. What a lot of rubbish. Our hope is that everyone of Haitian ancestry in this country remembers who is against them being here.
The world is in yet another cost inflation spiral brought on by policies that were neither necessary nor effective. The lead economy in the world decided to start a war that its own intelligence community thought was unwise. Today, we now look ta oil price rises and that means the cost of producing everything is going to rise. There is so far no end in sight
It is truly regrettable what the United States government has wrought on the people of Cuba, through an economic blockade that now does not even allow them to get oil to run their country. They have money. They have the expertise but they are not allowed to buy the supplies they need to run their country. The people are close to starvation and there is nothing to run the factories. The diplomatic life is hard but the people of Cuba are suffering. Meanwhile their neighbour to the north is gloating about how they are going to take over the country. Sad. This has huge implications for the Caribbean Community.
Muriel Lightbourne, head of nurse’s union in The Bahamas spoke in superlative tones about the hospital the Princess Margaret in which she works. She said that the hospital was the worst that it has ever been. The Minister of Health had to correct her and indicate that this is not the case. It is simply amazing how you work in a facility every day, and you continue to function there but yet it’s the worst ever. So what is saying that going to do? You must know the issues both financial, planning, management and logistics that are terribly complex to solve. The government is seeking to solve it, yet as they seek to solve it, you the chief nurse get up and say it’s the worst ever. A fisherman calling his own fish stink. How silly.
The Honorable Michael Pintard, leader of the Free National Movement and leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, is a colonialist, with communistic tendencies. But most egregious, disturbing and repugnant of all is that he appears to be a “House Negro”. All of which makes him woefully unsuited to ascend to the highest office in a free, independent and democratic nation, which happens to be predominantly black.
By his own admission, he supports the continuation of a colony, which Freeport is, and advocates to extend the illegitimate control over this jurisdiction and its people, by the descendants of the colonial masters. Tacitly, he justifies this undemocratic dominance by viewing it as the only way to bring order, stability and prosperity to the city of Freeport. And silently imbedded in this view is the offensive suggestion that the indigenous inhabitants of Freeport are too unintelligent, too unqualified or too uncivilized to chart their own destiny.
When pushed about his atrocious position, he pivots to his Communist leanings. His alternative to government of the people, by the people and for the people is to have a select Committee, made up only of the licensees of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, to govern and make the rules for the rest of us.
However, the most heinous notion, implicit in his grand performance, on that night of revelation at the town hall meeting, is that the people of Freeport should never have agency; they should never be free; they should never determine their own destiny; they need the master’s perpetual oversight. Some suggests that he is unrepentant in this flagrant miscalculation because he is compromised; he is meagerly benefiting from the status quo, from the crumbs off the master’s table.
Let’s be clear; in 1954 a group of white men, in a highly racialized environment, propelled by the doctrine of white supremacy, carved up Grand Bahama, giving themselves 99 years of economic and social rule of a section that would become the free trade zone, Freeport. They were mimicking history, just as a few European nations in the previous century, led by the same immoral doctrine, in 1884 at the Berlin Conference, carved up Africa, giving themselves rule over indigenous people.
In both cases, this colonial rule was brutal, savage, inhuman and immoral. In both jurisdictions, from day one, the original inhabitants resisted. In Africa, independence movements spread across the continent, gaining freedom, beginning with Ghana in 1957. They knew that the 1884 agreement, written into law, was immoral. They knew that their creator endowed them with inalienable rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We too in the Bahamas fought, gaining our independence in 1973. Still, the anomaly called Freeport (the colony) continued, undergirded by this infamous, diabolical Hawksbill Creek Agreement. Listen; inalienable rights are fundamental, inherent; they cannot be taken away, surrendered or transferred by any government, authority or legal document. Therefore, this Hawksbill Creek agreement should have become null and void from the day of independence.
Alas, The Honorable Michael Pintard wants this document, an affront to human dignity, to remain. He says the government shouldn’t manage Freeport. Obviously, he doesn’t understand democracy. We, the people, are the government. Pintard’s position suggests that we are incapable of self-governance. Does he think that we don’t have the mental capacity? The expertise? This renders him an enemy of democracy, an enemy of freedom and an enemy of progress. No private company should have governmental privileges and powers in a free state—period!
I applaud Prime Minister Davis and his administration for holding this private company to account. But, of course, I’m from that other school of thought. In my vision, I see padlocks and chains on doors and cessation of operations. Unapologetically, I’m from the by-any-means-necessary school.
Concerning that other school of thought, and Mr. Pintard seems to be of that tutelage, that the government can’t successfully manage Freeport, space nor time allows me to properly debunk the supreme idiocy of that impoverished, retrograde and nonsensical view. That school of thought also goes to great pains to point out all the wonderful things the GBPA and its wicked agreement has brought to the city (I hear echoes of Jacob and Esau). Again, it’s a matter of time and space. Because if I have to advance an argument here about the incongruity or the absolutely oxymoronic or odious notion of the “Good Master”, I would have to saturate this peace with expletives.
Mr. Pintard, we see you. You came out. Thank you. Maya Angelou made popular the saying that when someone shows you who they are believe them, the first time. The people of Marco City should not vote for a person who believes that they and their descendants should remain in a state of perpetual servitude; a state of affairs where they are always the laborers and never the owners. I understand why the owners want to maintain the arrangement. They are not like us. Sadly, Mr. Pintard appears not to be like us either.
I recall that powerful scene in the movie Amistad, about the slave ship that was taken over by slaves, somewhere in that unholy Middle Passage. Eventually, they were captured and brought to trial for the audacity of wanting to be free. During the trial, Joseph Cinque, the leader of the resistance, is watching the proceedings from the dock. His contorted face reveals that he is straining to understand the strange language, trying to weigh the outlandish contradictions; finally, his brilliant African mind pushes through the minutiae and the manure and comes to a certain clarity. The issue is simple: are we going to be free or be enslaved? This is when his frustrated, but thundering voice rattles the rafters, silencing the hypocrisy in the kangaroo courtroom: “give us free!” he shouts.
Leadership or Headlines? The Cost of Reckless Claims
Last week, Opposition Leader Mr. Michael Pintard stood in Parliament waving a list of individuals allegedly under investigation for fraudulently obtained passports. The moment quickly spread across social media, fueling concern and confusion. The government held two separate press briefings to correct what officials described as a serious misrepresentation of the facts.
This is not an isolated incident. During the Golden Isles by-election, Mr. Pintard made a claim about a “bag of Bahamian passports” discovered on a southbound flight—citing “credible sources.” Yet no evidence has ever been produced. That pattern raises troubling questions about his judgment and his approach to matters of national interest that demand accuracy and restraint.
The integrity of the Bahamian passport is not a political tool. It is central to our sovereignty and our standing in the world. Careless or unverified statements on such issues carry real consequences—greater scrutiny for Bahamians traveling abroad (secondary screenings), potential threats to visa-free access, and reduced confidence among international partners, investors, and even educational institutions, putting our children at risk. These are not abstract risks; they affect every Bahamian household, including Mr. Pintard and his family.
Mr. Pintard likes theatrics; his claims are idiotic and unsubstantiated; he is reckless; he is unhinged, and he will do anything to get a headline at our expense. He lacks the leadership aptitude required to run this country. He makes a mockery of systems that we have in place, and most of all, he is making a mockery of Bahamian people. He shows no discipline, takes no accountability, and he has no commitment to truth. Serious concerns such as those he mentioned should be addressed through established channels—engaging the appropriate authorities and verifying facts. When that standard is not met, the country’s reputation is placed at risk.
At a time when the Bahamas must protect its credibility on the global stage, the margin for error is small, and we understand that once reputations are damaged, they are not easily restored. The country deserves leadership defined by sound judgment and respect for the facts—not actions that create uncertainty and unnecessary risk for us all. This is why the polls say that Prime Minister Davis is most trusted to lead the country.
The Davis Administration will, more likely, suceed in the next general election soundly defeating the opposition FNM/COI. Make no mistake, they are one and the same.
The opposition platform 2026 stands on four pillars: firstly xenophobic rants about the Haitian takeover of the Bahamas; secondly, calling into question the patriotism of Prime Minister Davis and his cabinet; thirdly, trying to convince the Aging Population that we do not need two new hospitals: one in Nassau, and the other in Grand Bahama, but, instead only repair PMH and Rand Memorial. The fourth and final pillow is to defend the narrow interest of the Grand Bahama Port Authority and the other Oligarchs from a bygone era. In other words, acting as Waterboys for rich people. This is the essence of their campaign 2026.
The Davis Administration must stand proud of their record: Humanely tackling and dismantling the unregulated (Shanty town) communities throughout the country; The Defense Force, intentionally, protecting the borders and apprehending any person who illegally breach our country’s border. Regularly placing before the courts illegal migrants, and swift repatriation exercises follow. What other lawful steps is there that can be taken which is not taking place now?
The Bahamian reality is our people will not do entry level or “menial” work. Should we revoke all entry level work permit in our country today, I submit that the grass will grow as high as the windowsill. This is the reality.
The opposition has demonstrated for all the country to see when it comes to the G.B. Port Authority it finds itself looking like a master/servant entanglement.
Freeport has fallen into a state of disrepair and neglect. The owners must be held to account by the government.
The video tapes of the town meeting in Freeport is proof positive as to who is patriotic, and who is not. Who stands up for Bahamians, and who does not.
This country can only move forward with forward thinkers and men who own themselves, and does not see themselves as subservient, thus becoming Waterboys for rich people. For this reason the PLP should WIN.
