PRIME MINISTER DAVIS ADDRESSES LAW STUDENTS AT UB: Philip Davis KC gave sage advice as Prime Minister and as a lawyer of standing in The Bahamas to the students at UB studying law as they began their law week at the University. Our photo of the week.
When we in the 1950s and 1960s generation were little children there was a rhyme that we used to tease people with whose name was Michael, when in the schoolyard. We used to say” Michael! Michel! Motorcycle”. That came to mind after the press reported that on Wednesday 4 February 2026, the Prime Minister called Michael Pintard, the Leader of the Opposition, stupid, while speaking in the House of Assembly.
That seems apt. Stupid indeed.
For a hundred times, it has been explained patiently to this fellow that the hedge that he keeps promoting as the solution to BPL’s problems when they in the FNM were last in office was a failure. The PLP refused to follow it. They refused to follow it on the good advice of the public officials who manage the government’s finances.
Yet he runs on with this story about the hedge that the FNM left in place for BPL and how the government failed to follow the hedge. He clearly does not understand finance and clearly does not comprehend how the hedge system works.
The result is the Prime Minister called him stupid. We agree. We add: “Michael ! Michael! Motorcycle!”
Number of hits for the week ending Saturday 7 February 2026 up to midnight: 862,496;
Number of hits for the month of February up to Saturday 7 February 2026 up to midnight: 862,496;
Number of hits for the year 2026 up to Saturday 7 February 2026 up to midnight: 5,054,488;
The FNM has announced that Rick Fox, the former basketball star is to be their standard bearer in Garden Hills. He will be running against Mario Bowleg, the incumbent who is also the Minister for Sports, Youth and Culture. No one expects Rick Fox to do well. He is a faded star and comes off as a bit of loony tune. He was up to last week’s announcement parading around the country on the strength of an appointment by Prime Minister Philip Davis as Ambassador at Large. That appointment he now says expired in 2024 and he did not extend it. What he forgot to mention is that he is just now telling the nation that. He was insisting up to now that he would not resign as Ambassador. How then can you say you’re not going to resign as Ambassador as you told the press earlier, if you now say you were never an ambassador after 2024. Well he had an answer for that when the press asked him the question. He claims that he was always an ambassador for The Bahamas wherever he goes. That he has been so for 30 years. Clever dog but that is a lie in terms of the official appointment as Ambassador. This says a lot about the character of the individual who now wants to run for Garden Hills for the FNM.
The announcement of eight more FNM candidates landed in the public domain like a dull thud. They thought they would get a red splash with the announcement that Rick Fox, the former basketball star, was joining them and running in the Garden Hills constituency. The PLP was just waiting for the Rick Fox announcement. He is a traitor to his father’s memory and dishonest in his pubic life. He accepted an ambassadorship from the PLP and then went out and joined the FNM while doing so. He has been unable to fulfil any of the promises he made to the government about public housing and is rumoured to be flailing around for money. The only other point of note is that it is now confirmed that Shanendon Cartwright, the Deputy Leader, has fled St. Barnabas and gone to the new seat created out west called St James. In any event to quote the Chairman of the PLP: “ cut ass is coming”.
We congratulate the Prime Minister Philip Davis and the Energy Minister JoBeth Coleby Davis on the passage of the resolution in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 4th February 2026. This resolution will facilitate the Government’s energy reform programme. This will ultimately lead to better pricing of the electrical supply and a more reliable supply. The Opposition Leader Michael Pintard tried to ruin the debate by suggesting that the government had failed in following the hedge that the FNM had negotiated. The fact is the FNM’s hedge was a failure and the public officials indicated that the advice on that matter previously tendered should not be followed. The fact is power supply in New Providence is cheaper today and more reliable as a result of the actions of the PLP.
The Progressive Liberal Party will formally introduce the latest candidates for the party on Monday 9 February 2026 at a rally at the back of Gambier House, the PLP’s headquarters. The fun begins at 6:30 p.m. Please bring the crowd.
The Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell announced sweep week in the Fox Hill constituency. It began on Monday 2 February 2026. Teams of PLPs were fanning across the constituency to collect data about the state of Mr. Mitchell’s representation and about the level of satisfaction with the PLP. Sweep week has been extended for another week and will end on Saturday 14 February 2026 with the Congo Town Festival in Grants Street.
The United States government is aggressively pressuring CARICOM countries to sign defence agreements with them, the subtext of which is to allow them with the leave of these countries to march across the region as they wish removing whom they wish. All have capitulated. In The Bahamas, the US Ambassador Herschel Walker has now twice intervened in the public domain to interfere with the internal affairs of the country. He castigated the country for not being serious in fighting drug trafficking at the Business Outlook Seminar and last week he said that the Bahamas should rethink the deal with the Chinese on the new hospital that the government proposes to build in Nassau. The Ambassador said that the United States could give a better deal. The Minister of Health responded by saying that the deal was first offered to the US and they could not come up with a solution so the Chinese is the better deal. There is nothing to reconsider.
It is really amusing to see the US officials, the British and the Europeans scrambling like ants in the wake of the release of the Epstein files. This is named for the pedophile, convicted and now dead and worth billions at the time, who it turns out was a friend with everyone and their grandmother in society across the white world. Every name has now been called and they are all scrambling and trying to say it ain’t me. Like Shaggy. It wasn’t me. It would be amusing if it were not such a serious indictment of these societies and their immoral conduct while facing the world and lecturing us on moral behaviour. You are not surprised then that some Bahamian names got called. Two were called and they immediately said this is foolishness. We agree the whole thing ex post facto is stupid. But watch the British, they are going to dump their Prime Minister because of this fake moral outrage.
The following article was first published in the Nassau Guardian on 5 February 2026 and was written by Latonya Roberts:
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell said yesterday that the PLP is the better choice for voters.
“Everybody’s gone out into their constituencies now with marching orders to get themselves organized because we’ve got a campaign to fight,” he said outside Parliament.
“We’ve got a case to make.
“As I said, it’s a sober and reasonable case. I think it’s a case where people are going to consider, on the balance of probabilities, the Progressive Liberal Party is the better option for the continued governance of the country.”
He added, “We have a case which we have to make to the Bahamian public about re-election.
“I think the Bahamian people, in their considered judgment, I hope will support us. And that’s the spirit within which we will go to the Bahamian public. We take nothing for granted.
“Nothing has to be taken as if it’s inevitable. We know we have to make a case, and we will make the best case we can. We pray that the Bahamian public, in their considered judgment, supports the Progressive Liberal Party and supports the continuity of the governance which they have now, [and] which I think
has been good for the country. And the results are there to see.”
The PLP took office in 2021.
The next general election is scheduled to take place this year.
When asked about possible tensions within the party, Mitchell said, “There are no tensions.
“There were no tensions.”
He continued, “I don’t think there were any excessive tensions or anything.
“As I said, my view about these things is, this is [a] normal sort of jockeying for power. It’s emotional, so sometimes words get said that you might not ordinarily say, but I don’t think people really mean that deep down in their hearts.”
The PLP has ratified all 41 of its candidates for the next election.
The FNM has ratified 39 of its candidates. The latest batch, 12 candidates, were ratified on Tuesday night. The group included former NBA player Rick Fox, who served as an ambassador.
When asked about Fox’s ratification, Mitchell said he had nothing to say.
“I don’t have anything to say about Rick Fox,” he said.
“Nothing to say about Rick Fox at all. Nothing.”
From Facebook:
At Sandilands Primary School for their awards ceremony.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
6 February 2026
From Facebook:
It was my privilege to host a courtesy call by the High Commissioner of India to The Bahamas H E Mayank Joshi, at my constituency office in Fox Hill.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
5 February 2026
From Facebook:
I received copies of the letter of recall and of appointment from the Kingdom of Sweden. The new Ambassador Maria Velasco paid courtesy call on my constituency office in Fox Hill.
Fred Mitchell MP
Fox Hill
5 February 2026
4 February 2026
Nassau by Peter Ramsay
2 February 2026
