PRIME MINISTER CONGRATULATES: 78 new graduates from the Public Hospital Authority’s Academy have begun their journey of service. This year’s class: 32 Clinical Nurses, 16 Pharmacy Technicians, 9 Emergency Medical Technicians, 14 medical billing and coding graduates. Our photo of the week. 2 December 2025
For the past two months and largely during the unsuccessful campaign of the Free National Movement to win the Golden Isles seat, the FNM’s leader Michael Pintard has been on the tack of making specious allegations about public policy and public expenditure. During the campaign, he made the allegation that there was a bag of passports found on Bahamasair and that someone was fired as result of it. When challenged to produce the evidence, following denials by Bahamasair and other authorities, he could produce no evidence.
Then he and his colleagues switched tack and started saying that the passports themselves were insecure. They could again produce no evidence of that fact. They merely made a bald assertion.
Last week in the House of Assembly on Thursday 4 December 2025, he made the assertion that the government was spending unauthorized money on a housing project to the tune of 20 million dollars. Again he could produce no evidence that the expenditure was unauthorized or unaccounted for.
We repeat these stories because whenever Mr. Pintard is challenged on the facts and evidence, he is unable to substantiate his claims. The modus operandi of the FNM and Mr. Pintard is to throw mud and hope that it sticks.
When he is challenged face to face, he then starts with attacking the soundness of the other persons understanding. In fact he is the one who doesn’t seem to understand, and he is the one who seems to have an unsoundness of mind.
The constitution does say that when you run for office, you must be of sound mind. But we have to tell you that when you examine the public record of the some of the leaders the FNM, upstairs there is plenty parking space and a crew seems a little loose up there.
Number of hits for the week ending Saturday 6 December 2025 up to midnight: 837,483;
Number of hits for the month of December up to Saturday 6 December 2025 up to midnight: 730,612;
Number of hits for the year 2025 up to Saturday 6 December 2025 up to midnight: 36,260,641;
The Prime Minister Philip Davis moved a resolution in the House of Assembly on Thursday 4 December 2025 to facilitate a land swap that would allow the Government to give up two or so acres of land to Bahamar the hotel development on Cable beach. This would allow the completion of a brand new 350 room hotel built with Chinese capital to replace the building that was brought down that housed the hotel called Melia. Fred Mitchell praised the land swap and said that he was really annoyed at the former developer who had failed to pay his mortgage bills on two occasions, now claiming as a result of a case in New York that has been settled without admissions of liability on the part of the Chinese construction company, that he had been vindicated. Mr. Mitchell said: “Vindicated what?”
Fred Mitchell speaking in the House of Assembly on Thursday December 2025 told the House that the failed developer of Bahamar could not claim that he was in any way vindicated in the case of Bahamar. He recounted that the failed developer had not been able to pay the mortgage on the property on two occasions. Each time the government of The Bahamas intervened to help him out his problems. His response was to file for bankruptcy in the United Sates. The US courts had no jurisdiction and the company was put into liquation in The Bahamas and the assets sold to the present developer who has made a success of it. Yet the headlines in the local press claimed that the failed developer had been vindicated because he won a judgment in the courts in New York. We support Mr. Mitchell’s view that this is nonsense.
Here is what Mr. Mitchell said in his own words:
“I got to tell you what incensed me the other day, because I thought this was a dead matter was this headline about somebody was vindicated: “vindicated, what?”
“You know, when you don’t pay your bills, the bank forecloses on the mortgage right? Simple, you don’t pay the bank forecloses. And it didn’t happen once, it happened twice. And the government had to intervene twice under the Progressive Liberal Party to rescue a failed development.
“We stuck with it and made sure that it went, and then all this narrative going far and wide about what the PLP did and pressured this one, and not what, all of this is just absolute rubbish. Absolute rubbish and I say this Madam Speaker, when you saw the latest headline? The most important thing that I read in that statement that appeared in the newspapers was this with: no admission of liability.
“With no admission of liability.
“And we know how this works, those of us who are lawyers, you know. You know, you got no case. So the best thing you do is you try and apply pressure by bringing a case. And then you cause those to have to settle it because of the nuisance value.
“I have no idea what happened…I stay out of that. All I say, is the most important line in the case was no admission of liability. And today, we have 2 [other] hotels that are operating in the country by the investors who were involved in the construction of the hotel.
“The [Bahamar] hotel is functioning as a proper facility for tourists in the country and tens of thousands of American citizens have been guests in the hotel and have been pleased at the service they receive from the Bahamians who work there and I want to thank therefore, on this occasion, our tourist officials who help promote the facility. I want to thank the Bahamians who work there.”
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Darville, the Minister of Health, who was able to get the resolution through the House to support the building of a brand new hospital for the country. This is a great accomplishment and will serve the Bahamian people well. The usual suspects in the FNM were damning it with faint praise, but there is nothing left but to go ahead. There has been too much delay with regard to the upgrade of the health care in The Bahamas, and the urgency of now is what we face. We are coming to the end of yet another term and National Health Insurance is still not done. We have been at this since 2002 and we have allowed our critics to delay and frustrate the march forward. Let’s get this done.
The following was posted on the Facebook Page of the Minister of Foreign Affairs the Hon Frederick A Mitchell:
I got a football as a courtesy from the new Ambassador former businessman and footballer who is now the first Ambassador of the United States to The Bahamas Herschel Walker in 14 years. I took the chance at third and ten and he caught it. It was a joy to meet him. I got the football autographed. This begins a new chapter in the ongoing relationship of good relations with the U.S. I welcomed him to The Bahamas. He has a familial tie to Long Is and I offered to visit Long Is with him as it is one of my favourite islands. Next step is to present credentials to the Governor General and then the Prime Minister. I wish Ambassador Walker a great tour of duty. I indicated that we are a friendly country and we look forward to his tour of duty.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
5 December 2025
The Chinese Ambassador at a gift giving at the Demetrius Home for Seniors in Fox Hill on 5 December 2025
When Lynden Pindling spoke at the United Nations and committed himself to that body and that of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, he committed The Bahamas to being friends of all and enemies of none. That remains our creed today. There is in this present dispensation an attempt to play out the geopolitics of the world stage in Nassau. Some think that there is contest between the United States and China in The Bahamas. It should be made clear by the government here that there is no contest. We are safely within the orbit of the United States but we are also friends with China. Chinese capital has enabled the development of our country with no strings attached. There are no demands to do this or that, one simple thing we have been asked to do and that is to stick by our agreement that there is only one China and that includes Taiwan. That we do.
The 27 December 2025 was a day of reckoning for the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines, our CARICOM partners. General Elections were held that day. On that day they elected a new Prime Minister Godwin Friday for the first time in 24 years. He is a Ph D and a lawyer. His master’s thesis at the University of Waterloo was the policies of the external affairs of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell reached out to congratulate Dr. Friday and also spoke with Dr. Ralph Gonsalves to thank him for his service and wished him well.
After the devastating results for the incumbent Ralph Gonsalves in St Vincent and the Grenadines, the thought was that there would be contagion and a repeat in St Lucia just a few yards away. Turns out the circumstances were quite different. The former Prime Minister Allan Chastnet went down to resounding defeat and only one member stands or sits now in the Parliament of St Lucia as the lone MP for his party. That is he himself. Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell extended congratulations to the re-elected Prime Minister and sent expressions of best wishes to the Leader of the Opposition.
From Facebook:
I joined DPM Chester Cooper, MP for Exuma and Ragged Is for their Xmas Tree lighting at the Regatta Park in Georgetown. With Jason Ferguson of Fox Hill and Marcus Delice of Sandals. The park and tree were resplendent.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
5 December 2025
From Facebook:
I was pleased to join the family of the late Preston ” Brother Mac” McPhee at the memorial service for him at the Lynden Pindling Centre at Gambier House. He was a faithful member of St Mark’s Baptist Church in Fox Hill
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
5 December 2025
From Facebook:
I visited with the Demetrius Home for seniors with the Chinese Ambassador to The Bahamas Yan Jairong who provided a donation to the home that serves the Fox Hill Village. Thank you to Jennifer Munnings and Georgette Gardiner.
Fred Mitchell
Fox Hill
4 December 2025
From Facebook:
A luncheon was held in the gardens of the Bahamas Mortgage Corp to mark the first day of MP Darron Pickstock in the House of Assembly. We were joined by the Prime Minister, his parliamentary colleagues, his wife, mother and children.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
3 December 2025
From Facebook:
Well I got back just in time for Santa with the help of the elves from SG Barbara Cartwright her team at PLP hq and our own local team headed by Ida Symonette to distribute toys and food to every boy and girl at school today.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
4 December 2025