Peter Graham, the founder of the law firm Graham Thompson and Co died on Thursday 25 June 2020. He was 93 years old. His firm said that he had been coming to work every day and was considered to be in good health and so the death came as a surprise. He was regarded as […]
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The Deputy Speaker Don Saunders Stands Up To Peter Turnquest
The Budget Debate in The Bahamas is usually just an empty talk fest. This one this year is no exception. What it is useful for however, is that it gives the public and the pundits a chance to look behind the veil of public secrecy and determine what is really going on within the government’s […]
PETER TURNQUEST: PIPER PICKING PICKLED PEPPERS
An old nursery rhymeIf Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppersHow many pecks of pickled peppers did Peter Piper pick? That is the question everyone is asking about Peter Turnquest, the Minister of Finance. He is lost. He came to office saying he would run the lowest deficit and cut the national debt. In […]
PETER TURNQUEST PULLS A MARIE ANTIOINETTE
Peter Apologises For His Boss
Minister Of Finance Peter Turnquest Speaking at the Old Fort Bay Rotary Club on Monday 20 April 2020 by Zoom, the Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest had this to say about the Prime Minister’s attack on the business community made in his national address on 19 April 2020, reported by Neil Hartnell of The Tribune: […]
PETER TURNQUEST FALLS RIGHT INTO THE TRAP SET BY BRAVE
We had a good laugh at Peter Turnquest who came out blazing on Friday morning in the press 17 April 2020 to denounce Philip Brave Davis, the Leader of the PLP, for daring to suggest that the Government was considering cutting the salaries of public servants by 20 per cent. He said it was not […]
CHESTER ON PETER TURNQUEST
Chester Cooper MP for Ragged Island and Exuma and the PLP’s Deputy Leader spoke on Wednesday 12 February 2020 about the requests of the FNM for additional borrowing authority. He told the House that the people of the country no longer have confidence that what they are being told by the FNM is true and […]
PETER TURNQUEST’S RANT ON FACEBOOK
The Finance Minister Peter Turnquest has taken up the habit of the Acting Financial Secretary Marlon Johnson of answering people on Facebook. Last week, he didn’t like the fact that the Facebook personality Joseph Burrows published a report that his brother had meat that he brought into Freeport taken from him at the harbour by […]
PETER TURNQUEST SPINS A YARN… FNM LYING THRU THEIR TEETH
In this column, we have stopped putting up these statements issued by Ministers of the Government because too often they have borne no semblance to the reality on the ground. This FNM Government has got to be the most lying Government in the history of Bahamian politics. We quote that line from the Lion in […]
Clint Watson Has A Go At Peter Turnquest
It appears that Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest went a step too far when he personally attacked Clint Watson, the News Director at Eyewitness News. Mr. Turnquest described the work of Mr. Watson as propaganda. Mr. Watson was having none of that and struck back on TV. Candia Dames, the wicked journalistic witch of the […]
The Good Old Days By Peter Ramsay
PETER TURNQUEST ENDS ON A SOUR NOTE
When you form a government, everyone is supposed to be singing from the same hymn sheet. The music is supposed to be in time and everyone on the same note. That is the way the Government has credibility. If it sounds like a choir and the chorus is concordant then the country may be […]
Peter Young Does He Have A Say?
Former and retired British High Commissioner Peter Young has been living in The Bahamas since his retirement from office. He served under British Foreign Ministers Robin Cook and Malcolm Rifkin from 1996 to 1999. He is as far as we know not a citizen of The Bahamas. He is a contributor from time to time […]
PETER AND BRENT FAIL US AGAIN
Peter Turnquest, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance (second from right) with Brent Symonette, the Minister for Financial Services ( third from left) were two Ministers of the hopeless and hapless FNM government who flew off to Europe they said to get the European Union’s ministers to take The Bahamas off the latest […]
PETER TURNQUEST A USELESS BEAN COUNTER
(SOULESS AS A DEAD FISH) The joys of Bahamian democracy: one day you are a bean counter for a three aircraft company flying domestic routes in The Bahamas, the next day you are the Finance Minister for a nation with a 2 billion dollar or so budget. Some people take to it like a fish […]
PETER TURNQUEST IS THE FNM’S ACHILLES HEEL
The PLP should for the next few months spend its time usefully picking away at the Minister of Finance and the conduct of his office. It is clear that what is happening there does not serve the country well. One gets the impression that this crew that now runs the Ministry is running it by […]
PETER TURNQUEST MISLED THE HOUSE
That was how the Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest tried to weasel out of his misleading accusation against the PLP first that some of the money (42 million dollars) for hurricane relief had been lost or stolen or was somehow misappropriated. Then he said he wasn’t saying that, he was saying it could not be […]
Peter Turnquest Gives No Hope To Grand Bahama
The following is the minute of meeting taken by an anonymous correspondent of what happened when Peter Turnquest MP, Minister of Finance and the MP for East Grand Bahama spoke with his constituents at a public meeting. No hope. He left them hopeless. 5 October WRITER WRITES: So tonight I went up east end to […]
PETER TURNQUEST FALLS FLAT
Peter Turnquest is the country’s new Minister of Finance. He can’t even add two and two together but never mind, he at least reads the speech that the officials give him. He reads it uncritically too. Whatever they give him he reads. That is what he would have us believe when Gleyns Hanna Martin, MP […]
LET’S ALL PAT PETER TURNQUEST ON THE BACK AND SAY WHAT A GOOD BOY YOU ARE
So let’s get this right. The PLP according to the FNM’s first Budget Statement delivered by their man Peter on Wednesday 31st May borrowed five billion dollars in 5 years. So that’s a billion a year if the math is correct. In the first week though of their reign, Mr. Turnquest, the last name of […]
FOX HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE OPENING BY PETER RAMSAY OF B. I. S.
1 April 2017 Dame Marguerite Pindlng, the Governor General, cuts the ribbon to the Fox Hill Community Centre while Mrs. Betty Mackey, wife of the late Georeg Mackey assists. 1 April The Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling looks on with other VIP guests at the opening of the Fox Hill Community Centre 1 April. Prime […]
PLP CHAIR HAS A FIELD DAY WITH STATEMENTS ON BUTLER TURNER AND PETER TURNQUEST
KELLY BURROWS COMPLAINS THAT PETER TURNQUEST WAS SNUBBED
Peter Turnquest’s Building Burns
MORE MAJORITY RULE PHOTOS BY PETER RAMSAY
Members of the Diplomatic Corp and the Clergy with the faithful at the Mausoleum. Prime Minister Perry Christie at the Mausoleum with Minister of Culture Danny Johnson and Terry Archer, Deputy Chief of Protocol. Producer Fred Ferguson after the Freddie Munnings retrospective with Prime Minister Perry Christie and Minister of Culture Danny Johnson. […]
PRIME MINISTER AT ELEUTHERA OUTLOOK (PHOTO BY PETER RAMSAY)
Peter Turnquest On The Carnival Tries To Have His Cake And Eat It Too
Peter Turnquest, sickness the Deputy Leader of the Free National Movement, had his say in the newspapers last week about the suggestion that payouts be made to vendors who lost money during the Carnival. He told he Tribune that he had lots of questions about the payout and basically he seemed to be against it. […]
Fred Mitchell A Study By Peter Ramsay
Peter Turnquest’s Father Geron Is Buried In Freeport
He was a lifelong educator and a former head of the Bahamas Vocational Technical College. When he died in Freeport, drugstore he was far from Long Island from which he had come population if – tionship between physiciansâprediction âring must be removed within 30 minutes of⢠physical decay.the medical literature: XIX. Applying clinical trial cialis […]
Deacon Peter Rahming Is Buried
