PRIME MINISTER PHILIP DAVIS AND GOVERNOR GENERAL DAME CYNTHIA PRATT: the two were at the Junkanoo parade on Boxing Day. Our photo of the week. The A group contest was won by One Family and the B contest by Colours. Photo by Patrick Hanna of the Bahamas Information Services.
The rumour is that the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Kamla Persad Bissessar has a drinking problem and that it is manifesting itself into the public policy of Trinidad and Tobago. The drink of choice is said to be Gray Goose vodka with a touch of Vat 19 every day. She visibly shakes. This is the explanation some of her political opponents in Trinidad and Tobago have given for the wild and wooly statements being made by the Prime Minister about Trinidad and Tobago’s largest market that of CARICOM countries.
In a series of statements since she came to office in the summer time, she has attacked her CARICOM partners. She has issued gratuitous insults, and statement after statement about the political and economic union of CARICOM. In her latest statement she has accused the body of being an unreliable partner and badly managed. The latter was an unwarranted attack on the staff of the CARICOM secretariat who as international civil servants cannot defend themselves.
Some have suggested that there is a racial element to it with her Indian ethnicity coming out against a largely African based organization. But then Suriname and Guyana that have similar Indian based populations and their presidents have not ventured down the bitter and vituperative road that she has.
What she has said is improper. There is no doubt about it. Her explanation privately to some is that she is cozying up to the Secretary of State of the US in order to get him to approve the right to process gas and oil, in a shared field that Trinidad has with Venezuela. But she has now made a bitter enemy of the Venezuelan government, so it is hard to see how that works either.
One hopes that calmer heads prevail as the Heads of Government of CARICOM meet in convocation in February in St Kitts.
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Gaston Brown, the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda, at the best of times is a man who does not mince words. He was furious at the attack of Kamla Persad Bissessar , the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago on CARICOM and in particular on Antigua and Barbuda, reeling from a decision of the United States government to ban citizens of Antigua and Barbuda from travelling to the United States. The proclamation issued by the U S president banned citizens from that country and from Dominica from coming to the US as at 1 January 2026. It was walked back some when a clarification was issued that it did not apply to those who already had visas. It appears that it was a ban on the citizenship by investment programmes of those countries and the US said that this was a security risk to their country. That information is almost certainly false and both countries said that the U S embassy had recently signed off on the arrangements. The United States has the same programmes. The Trinidad Prime Minister went out of her way to say when CARICOM issued a statement in support of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica that Trinidad would have no part of it. That CARICOM was cozying up to a dictator in Venezuela and that the zone of peace claim for CARICOM was fakery. Mr. Brown was having none of it and pointed out the folly of the Prime Minister of Trinidad’s statements. She came back with even worse rhetoric. Some say Mr. Brown should simply have left her to her own devices since she does not speak for any country except herself and even in her own rhetoric. She does not represent the views of the local population of her country. They said she has a drinking problem and that is why she is so publicly unstable.
CARICOM, the regional political and economic union, is quite a success. It has come a long way since the four original countries Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Guyana, Jamaica singed the treaty at Chaguaramus in Trinidad to create CARICOM. It had come after the bitter experience under the colonial rule of the British that led to the collapse of the West Indies Federation. The leaders decided to try again to get the small countries newly independent into some kind of union that would make it easier to move about and easier to trade, despite their new found independence. For seven years though, the heads did not meet. Some kind of bitter row ensued, it appears after Guyana refused to honour its debts to oil rich Trinidad. In 1983 when the United States invaded Grenada, it was Eugenia Charles, Prime Minister of Dominica and then head of CARICOM who invited the US to come in. The Bahamas. Trinidad, Jamaica, Barbados and Guyana did not agree. However the organization has continued from strength to strength and in 2001 in Nassau, the new treaty was signed by all but The Bahamas to create the single market and economy. Now comes the external pressure of the blocs largest trading partner and military might the United States that wants nothing to do with multilateralism and has picked off Trinidad and Tobago to start a war with Venezuela. Venezuela helped all CARICOM countries during a tough period of oil prices, so it is hard for that to be forgotten. But Venezuela is also a potent threat to Guyana and CARICOM has to stand up for Guyana and it does. Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holeness who is very pro- American agreed to issue a statement though supporting Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica in an unfair attack by the United States on them. Trinidad then attacked CARICOM. Antigua and Barbuda attacked Trinidad and Tobago fired back. The body next meets in St Kitts when a the new head takes over. Let us hope that heads will be calmer in balmy St Kitts.
The United States declared last month that the airspace over Venezuela was closed. That is the sovereign airspace of Venezuela and so how can another country declare the airspace closed. Then ships by contract bound from Venezuela and heading to Cuba were seized on the high seas by the American military in an attempt to enforce a blockade of commerce between Venezuela and other countries. Again what is the legal basis for doing so? Venezuela poses no threat to the United States and the action does not have the support of the United Nations. The Americans have also said that they are working to use their intelligence agency to overthrow the government in Venezuela. They have also said they will bomb land targets in Venezuela. They have 15,000 troops on ships around the southern Caribbean. And landing rights for their military on the Dominican Republic and Trinidad and Tobago. This suggests that war is about to come.
In the end neither of the two Valley Groups: Way Forward or the Valley Boys will be Boxing Day Junkanoo Parade 2025. The winner was One Family. The breakaway Valley Boys that now claim the name won over the Saxons so they have boasting rights. Now on to New Year’s Day. Saxons in the belly.
Chairman of the PLP cautions voters about devaluing their vote in a voice note on Boxing Day 26 December 2025:
All my political life I’ve tried to preach about values. Let me give you one example. A very rich man, multi multi-millionaire treated me to lunch one day in Nassau. There was just the two of us at the restaurant.
The bill for the lunch came back and the price was $250. He paid it, but he said to me that the lunch wasn’t worth $250, and I thought it a curious comment because he was worth multi hundreds of millions, but still had a sense of what the value of his money was. Voters and electors have value. They have a vote that is a valuable thing.
There are lessons to be we learned about this in this country. And there are laws put in place by political leaders, our political leaders to ensure, for example, there’s a secret ballot. This was to stop the practice of bag of flour politics, as described by HM Taylor in the age of open voting when you got 5 pounds of flour before you voted, then you declared for the candidate, and then he gave you another five pounds after you declared. So you actually concluded the end of the bargain. That has stopped, and there are prohibitions since then, to stop importuning and solicitation, by the use of money for votes and other inducements. There are laws against bribery as well.
But you can put any law in place that you like, nothing can protect against a voter or elector who chooses to devalue the vote. Exchanging his vote or her vote for what is being called in the vernacular these days, being “tingsy”. When it gets to that and someone is elected on the basis of elections for being “tingsy”, then there can be no complaint after the person who gets elected simply goes out and does whatever the heck he wants, without any regard to a voter or in the general good or in the particular good.
So one of the reasons I chose, for example, to go to the schools to distribute the general largesse for children is because it is a controlled environment where teachers are there. And the teachers can instill values like order obedience, gratefulness, loyalty, the teachers can instill values of how to think of other persons and not just of yourself, that is the value and the ideal of Christmas: to think of others first, of the needy; to appreciate that, we should not be so self-absorbed that everything is about me, me, me. That remains the old religion. It was good enough for Lilla and Fred Sr and it’s good enough for me.
Our children should learn that there is nothing in this life that’s free. There is a benefit and there’s a burden. The late Elwood Donaldson used to say a fair exchange is no robbery.
MPs have their roles, but citizens have their roles as well. One of them is not to demean and devalue their vote.
The general election is to take place in Nassau by 10 October 2026. This means that when 1 January cerebrations are done, the horses will be lining up in the gate. We are asking the Bahamian people to support Philip Davis and his team from the PLP as the general election fever heightens. We ask you to vote PLP when that time comes. The PLP needs a second term.
From Facebook:
The PLP branch meeting on Fox Hill last night on the public Fox Hill Parade on 22 December 2025.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
Glad tidings of great joy to the people of North Andros. It was my honour to accompany the Parliamentary Secretary for the Ministry of Works and MP for North Andros and the Berry Islands Leonardo Lightbourne to his constituency to bring good news to our supporters care of Prime Minister Philip Davis. I was accompanied by SG Barbara Cartwright. We were joined by Baldwin Johnson and Stalwart Councilor Smith at the Comfort Inn at San Andros with PLP North Andros Branch Chair Cerone Dean.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
24 December 2025
From Facebook:
Hey hey the gang’s all there: the Fox Hill Branch members together with Foreign Service staff and Fox Hill constituents joined me at St Anselm’s Church on Christmas Eve to bring in Christmas Day, after all Jesus is rhe reason for the season. Merry Xmas.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
24 December 2025
From Facebook:
One of my favourite stops in the constituency on Christmas Day is that at the home of Brian and Paulette Higgs. The decorations are always amazing and the pot always sweet. This year the whole family is decked out in similar pajamas. Nice. Merry Xmas.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
25 December 2025
From Facebook:
Well it’s Mrs Kathleen McKenzie of Romer Street and today is her 92nd birthday. This is a ritual for me every year and I was joined by Charlene Curry our branch member. Happy birthday and we wish you many more from all of us at the Fox Hill PLP.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
25 December 2025
From Facebook:
It was very kind of Sonia Kemp, Manager Urban Renewal Fox Hill to invite me into her home for Christmas morning with her younger son. She loves Christmas although tinged with sadness given that her son Shaquille was killed in a mass shooting on the Fox Hill Freedom Park 27 December 2013. May he rest in peace. Amen.
Fred Mitchell MP
25 December 2025
From Facebook:
The three of Lilla and Fred Mitchell Sr’s children Ian, Carla and me at Christmas dinner. The twins are missing.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
25 December 2025
THE CABINET AT XMAS LUNCH AT GOVERNMENT HOUSE: This is the family photo of members of the Cabinet at the annual lunch with the Governor General at Government House, this year on 17 December 25. Our photo of the week.
The United States government without warning and without any thought about arguments about kith and kin announced unilaterally that it is banning the citizens of Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda from coming into the United States.
The reasons they gave were in a tortuously worded so called proclamation in which they accused the governments of those countries of not providing a secure enough vetting system for citizens of the country, particularly those who became citizens by investment
The Caribbean countries immediately responded by saying that the concerns of the United States were not warranted. They went further and indicated that the US Embassies accredited to their countries had assured them that the concerns that the country had about the programme were satisfied and then minutes later the unilateral proclamation.
Only two countries seem to have agreed that the present posture of the United States is correct: Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana. We can understand Guyana because they have the threat of Venezuela on their border. Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister has defended her policy on the basis of not wanting Trinidad’s citizens to be blocked from entering the United States. That would seem to be a legitimate fear.
CARICOM issued a statement calling for the United States to resume talks with the injured countries to resolve the situation.
Bottom line is the United States has the entire region in fear. Fear of a war and fear that if you speak up to disagree, that the United States will ban the citizens of that country from entering the United States.
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There are 15 members of the Parliament’s lower House in St Lucia, the Caribbean island nation. The general election was held on 1 December 2025. The results, the governing St Lucia Labour Party won 14 of the 15 seats. The Opposition party, led by former Prime Minister Allen Chastanet won 1 seat. It was a wipe out. It appears that the population is happy and satisfied with what the governing party of Philip Pierre has done. Foreign Minister of The Bahamas Fred Mitchell paid an official visit to St Lucia to represent the Prime Minister Philip Davis at the official opening of the Parliament in St Lucia on Tuesday 16 December 2025 and to hold informal discussions on relations in the CARICOM region. The Bahamas is considering appointing an Ambassador to the OECS countries that include St Lucia, Antigua and Barbuda, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada and Dominica. Watching the tradition of the opening of Parliament, a replica of other ceremonies in CARICOM countries and in the fashion of the British opening of Parliament, it is clear that the democratic traditions of the Caribbean region are strong. The democracy is strong. What is concerning now though is these small societies are more vulnerable than ever, fragile than ever. The United States is now engaged in a set of policies in the region that can topple all of this stability and there appears to be scant regard for all that has been accomplished in these peaceful societies and their democracies. Watching the old fashioned ceremonies and traditions in St Lucia, it is not impossible to wonder whether we are not watching another chapter of Gone With The Wind.
The Hon. Dr. Godwin Friday is an historian and an attorney. He is the new Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines. On 27 November 2025, he replaced the Hon Dr. Ralph Gonsalves who is also a PhD as Prime Minister after Dr. Gonsalves served in the position for 24 continuous years. Dr. Gonsalves said that he will stay on as the sole Opposition member of the Parliament and he intends to rebuild the party for the comeback. Anything is possible. For the moment though, the country that he led for 24 years is in a thrall. The new Prime Minister is at the height of his popularity and is just finding his sea legs. He has a connection to The Bahamas because he was a student of the late Professor Michael Craton of Waterloo University in Canada. Mr. Craton was once a teacher at Government High School and wrote the first definitive book on the History of The Bahamas. Later, he and D. Gail Saunders, the late Chief Archivist of The Bahamas, wrote a two volume set about the history of The Bahamas. Dr. Godwin was a student of Professor Craton on that project so he spent many days in the Archives Dept. in Nassau. He also wrote his master’s thesis on the external affairs policies of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Fred Mitchell MP was there in St Vincent on 16 December 2025 to pay a courtesy call and get a sense of where the new Prime Minister is on regional matters. The new Prime Minister promised to make a stop in Nassau soon as he spoke to Prime Minister Philip Davis by phone.
On Monday 22 December 2025, the Fox Hill Branch of the PLP will hold its final meeting of the year on the Fox Hill Park. It will largely be a social affair. But the larger theme is this. Fred Mitchell, MP for Fox Hill, has told the constituents and the nation that the PLP is about kindness and not meanness. He told the story of his police aide working with BARK, the animal support group, to rescue a lame dog in Fox Hill and how this was an unforced act of kindness. We hope that the message of kindness resonates this Christmas.
Fred Mitchell, the Foreign Minister, often tells the story of him as a would be politician and young man near the age of 22 or so talking to Lynden Pindling in his office and railing about the practice of politicians giving out turkeys and hams to constituents. Today the practice is ridiculous and constituents whether they need it or not as soon as November comes starts calling about turkeys and hams. Some of them have their own resources but just like free stuff. Mr. Mitchell says that Sir Lynden said to him about stopping the practice: “Not in my lifetime, maybe in yours.” Mr. Mitchell is now saying to the young politicians behind him about stopping the practice: “Maybe in your lifetime not in mine”.
It appears that Junkanoo will go on as usual, despite the earlier kerfuffle about who would run the parade. The Government now appears firmly in charge. There was a little ripple again when the Valley Boys old faction who had been told they could not use the name Valley Boys anymore and had agreed with the Government, went to court and the court has said they can use the name. So there will be two Valley Boy named groups. But the important point is the parade will go on. This year the Fox Hill Congos will not rush for the first time. They are victims of the row between the government and the old JCNP that ran the parade.
The FNM and COI are continuing to mislead the Bahamian people on the anti-smuggling bill that the PLP passed in the House of Assembly and Senate two weeks ago. The bill has nothing to do with migrants or with asylum. He bill is about criminalizing smuggling. The issue is how stupid so many people are in these chat groups on Facebook and on What’s App. They are so stupid its incredible. Everyone wants to play lawyer. Last week, the President of the United States, working of data that was not accurate banned citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica from coming to the US. These jackasses in the FNM and COI are working the stupid people in this country into a froth so that it will cause the same thing to happen to us if they are not careful.
We acknowledge the passing of Patrick Bethel, the businessman and PLP supporter. Mr. Bethel passed away suddenly last week at home. He started out as the man Friday for Sir Garret Finlayson’s various establishments then leapt out on his own to become an investor and businessman in his own right and was hugely successful. He was a major contributor to the church of Christ the King in south New Providence, an Anglican Church. He was a supporter of the progressive cause. May he rest in peace. Our condolences to his wife Connie and his children.
From Facebook:
I chaired the last National General Council meeting of the year, We said thanks to Messrs Pintard, Richardson and for helping the party out at hq during the year. Prime Minister Philip Davis and SG Barbara Cartwright did the honours.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
18 December 2025
Thank you to the Ministry of Works with Clay Sweeting and Bacchus Rolle MPs, the Minister and Parl Sec and Calvernia Small, Chair of the Straw Market Authority for beginning the work to build a ramp for wheelchair access to the Straw Market.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
18 February 2025
Ambassador Herschel Waller at the Fox Hill Community centre on Monday 15 December 2025 with Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell and Mrs. Julie Walker.
14 December 2025 Eastwood Community Park
Politically I have been quiet for awhile. I watch in amazement at times how persons present information amended to their perspective. To those people I say in a free society or a democratic society that is your right. However, I hasten to say as a responsible citizen “thou shalt not distort the truth”.
Unfortunately, the old school training from our grand and great grand parents seems to no longer be remembered. I remember if it was raining outside, the truth was it is raining. Now a days we fix our words to tell half the story or to change the story completely. If it’s raining outside a verbal gangster may say it’s over cast or gloomy.
Unfortunately, it could be argued that they told the truth but the question is was what they said the truest depiction of the situation. The answer is No! The truth is, that is misleading and can encourage the uninformed to make the wrong decision.
Simplified, “if I’m supposed to go to an out door event and you call and tell me it’s raining at the event more than likely I will not go. If you told me it’s overcast or gloomy chances are I will still go. When I get there and it’s raining and the event is not happening I would have wasted my time and effort based on the misleading information presented.
I said all that to say this, so many statements and policies brought by our current Government and Its Leader or Prime Minister has some very beneficial components for the growth and development of The Bahamas and Bahamians. It is very unfortunate that Bahamians are creating a narrative to over shadow the much needed positive changes and actually try nullify attempts at positive growth and development to discredit the government in hopes of political advancement.
Regardless of political leaning it should be country first. If something is good for the country support it. If something improves the standard of living or stops hardship for any sector of our society support it.
Please remember that although we are an independent nation we are part of a global existence and regardless of feelings despite government in power we have to adjust to international standards to avoid sanctions or loosing a seat at the table which is usually needed to ensure our country is not disadvantaged and our citizens don’t suffer because we didn’t comply.
Many times decisions made by the government happens to avoid hardship to the citizens of the country from external forces.
Anyone seeking political power should be clearly aware of this and not criticize the obvious.
The back and forth about the new legislation baffles me to be honest. All one has to do is watch international news and the position of our neighbors to the north. They are not taking illegal immigration’s in any form lightly. Look at what’s happening near Venezuela. The short story is simply comply or wish you did.
My position is that legislation is not personal. That legislation is simply protection of the citizens of The Bahamas so that they can continue to enjoy the freedom of movement and economic opportunities offered by our long standing relationship with the United States.
Suggesting that this legislation is about giving the Bahamas to another Nationality tos merely social media sensationalization or lies for likes.
I’m sorry. I can not think of one legislation in the Bahamas or the world as a matter of fact that stands alone.
When I read the document tabled and passed I see no mention whatsoever of the repeal or f illegal immigration. So can someone please show me in factual documentation, the support that this act that relates to smugglers giving illegal immigrants special privileges for citizenship or residency in the Bahamas.
Alfred Poitier
The Calculus of Sovereignty
A short essay by Miguel Taylor
The Bahamas stands at the geographic crossroads of despair and opportunity, a sovereign nation constantly assailed by the transnational crime of migrant smuggling. Against this relentless tide, a Government’s first and most sacred duty is to secure its borders and protect its citizenry. One essential truth is, a nation’s sovereignty and its humanity are not mutually exclusive. The Smuggling of Migrants Bill, 2025, recently passed in the House of Assembly, is a necessary response to this challenge, an unassailable imperative that provides robust tools to combat organized criminal enterprises, while binding the state to international human rights law. It acknowledges that justice must be two-fold, 1. relentlessly pursuing the perpetrator and 2. steadfastly shielding the victim.
Now, I am no Attorney, but from my layman’s view, after reading the Bill, the law is clear and puts forth a direct action against the architects of human misery, those who traffic in desperation for “financial or other material benefit.” It enhances our jurisprudence, extending the reach of Bahamian law to organizers and financiers operating outside our territorial waters. With penalties including fines up to $300,000 and prison sentences up to fifteen years, paired with asset confiscation, the Bill decisively raises the cost of transnational crime. It preserves this country’s absolute right to enforce its immigration laws, to arrest, detain, and repatriate illegal migrants, while simultaneously providing safeguards for urgent medical care and protection against violence.
Despite this clear purpose, politically motivated voices of opposition have manufactured an extraordinary public hysteria. Their claims were based on fiction, asserting that the Bill provided a pathway to legal status for illegal migrants, a disinformation campaign that willfully ignored the statute’s clear text and subsequent amendments. Such reckless sophistry undermines a vital national security measure.
For those who opposed the bill based on fiction rather than the statute’s clear text, their outcry, however misguided, is an unyielding reminder of what justice demands from those brave enough to seek it. It demands clarity over cacophony. It demands that we look beyond simplistic narratives to complex solutions that reject both lawlessness and cruelty. The Smuggling of Migrants Bill achieves this difficult equilibrium. It is a bold step toward a more orderly and more just society, where the rule of law serves as both a shield for the helpless and a scale for the guilty. The passage of this bill is not a triumph of isolation. It is a commitment to principled order. Let the implementation begin, and let the record show the critics were wrong.
THE NEW US AMBASSADOR MEETS THE PRIME MINISTER: US Ambassador to The Bahamas Herschel Walker and his wife, Mrs. Julie Walker with Prime Minister Philip ‘Brave’ Davis during a courtesy call at the Office of the Prime Minister on December 9, 2025. (BIS Photos/Patrick Hanna) Our photo of the week.
The Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holeness had on full display a photo of a visit by American officials from the Department of Defence in the United States, now named the Department of War visiting Jamaica. The caption said that the officials were in Jamaica to discuss security cooperation with the region. The rumour is they are visiting other capitals. No word on whether The Bahamas is included.
This is interesting given the fact that the United States has unilaterally decided to engage a country in war that does not harm to it and that has no ability to harm it. That country is Venezuela. There is an ideological problem between them and this has now come from push to shove or so it appears.
The U S has enlisted Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago and Suriname to join the fight against drug trafficking by blowing up extra judicially people out of the water and it appears in a recent case even after people survive summarily killing them as they float helplessly in the water.
The United Nations Human Rights Commissioner has called this extra judicial killing.
Even in the United States there are protests against these actions and legislators have described them as extra judicial killing.
The question that must be asked is what does security cooperation mean across the region. What are the countries being asked to sign up to?
The region has been declared a zone of peace. In other words there should be no hostilities within the zone. The unfortunate thing in this case is the Caribbean has only moral suasion to stop the peace from being disrupted. They have no way of enforcing, if the major actor in the theatre is intent of making war instead as they should be studying war no more.
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In his ever desperate campaign to win the government, Michael Pintard will not stop with the untruths and falsehoods. His entire campaign against the Anti- Smuggling Bill that recently passed the House of Assembly and Senate was and is built off falsehoods. The FNM and their Coalition of Idiots (COI) collaborators insist on saying that the bill that criminalizes smuggling is a bill about protecting migrants. This is simply not true, yet they continue on and on about it. The interesting thing about it is the stupidity and ignorance of so many of the Bahamian people who follow them. They listen to someone who was accused of being a crackhead and to another political misleader, a man who is simply a crook and a thief over the man who has been one of the most successful attorneys in the country and leads the country as its Prime Minister. This is quite sad but this is what we have and the PLP better take this falsehood platform seriously or to their peril.
In addition to the charge of racism, it appears that the country can now make the charge of homophobia against the MP for St Anne’s Adrian White. This is a man it appears that does not have any idea of what it is to be civil and to understand where he sits in the firmament. He exercises the privilege of birth to the extent that it betrays prejudices of every kind. He is married to a black women. Yet he exudes comments that are filled with racist dog whistles. In the House of Assembly on Monday 8 December 2025, he was embarrassed by Fred Mitchell, the Chairman of the PLP. Mr. Mitchell was responding to Mr. White’s incessant grumbling and when he rose to challenge Mr. Mitchell’s patriotism, and was told to shut up and sit down quoting the song by Tony McKay: “Damn Fool, you married a gawllin damn fool!”, Mr. White’s reply was that the only thing that was correct was that he was a married man. Mr. Mitchell said “and I am sorry for your wife”. Mr. White replied that he had a wife that Mr. Mitchell did not know what a woman is. Here we go. Mr. Mitchell told Mr. White he was a piece of filth. No doubt civility reined in Mr. Mitchell’s mouth, since he is capable of saying much more.
The Barbadians have a wonderful expression that bears using in this column now. They say shyte to describe the dog do doo that sometimes comes out of the mouths of some people. We thought of this expression as Adrian Gibson, the disgraced and on trial MP for crookedness, was speaking in the House of Assembly last Wednesday 10 December 2025. He was complaining about the fact that there are only two BTC technicians, he said, in Long Island. Why would he complain since it was the FNM that has us in the state that it is with the bad and underservice of BTC as a phone company? They sold the company at a fire sale and the new owners laid off all the staff and stripped the company of its assets. The FNM caused that. As our friend Prince Livingston used to say during the days of the FNM when Bahamians were complaining: “You voted for them. Now cry bitches cry.”
Attorney General Ryan Pinder shamed and embarrassed the FNM by showing the country that while they were making noise about protecting migrants and denouncing the anti-smuggling bill as a bill to protect migrants, they when they were the government proposed an asylum bill that would have done just that. Mr. Pinder was speaking in the Senate on Thursday 11 December 2025. Oh what a web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
At the House of Assembly on Wednesday 10 December 2025, there was quite a dangerous situation that imperiled the safety of MPs and Senators. The area is enclosed, the public square, because of the Junkanoo bleachers on the one side and barricades on the other. The police allowed demonstrators with hostile intent to get into the public square with one exit and entrance for both members and protestors. MPs and Senators must be the only workers in the country that have to run the gauntlet of hostile crowds in order to get to work. The Prime Minister Philip Davis was forced to exit the western door as a result of the hostile crowd at the eastern entrance.
The Central Bank and the banking sector of The Bahamas continue to lose their collective minds by announcing yet again that they propose to stop the use of cheques in The Bahamas. The government should move by legislation to prevent this, if the banks do not stop.
The word is the mandarins in the PLP have decided that the phone company that calls itself BTC is such a shadow of itself that the present owners need to go. We hope that this is true and that it soon translates into public policy. The phone system is a patchwork of dropped calls, poor reception and missed calls. This cannot continue and should be stopped.