PRIME MINISTER DAVIS IN MAYAGUANA: The Taylor brothers (Eddins and Elvin) are living out their dream of building a marina in their home island of Mayaguana and they got the Prime Minister to come and see it on Thursday 13 March 2025. The Prime Minister had his colleagues from Parliament in tow. Our photo of […]
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Last weekend on a wintry Sunday afternoon in March, the United States sent a special envoy to speak with CARICOM foreign ministers about the new policy to deny them access to the United States if their countries continued to hire Cuban doctors. The case made for the United States in public in this matter is […]
Congratulations to the Minister of Transport JoBeth Coleby Davis on the launch of the re-election campaign of The Bahamas for a seat on the IMO Council Category C. Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell joined Mrs. Coleby Davis as she laid out the plans for The Bahamas for green shipping and for the continuation of a rules […]
Fred Mitchell congratulates Albert Ramdin, the first CARICOM Secretary General of the OAS We wish to extend warmest congratulations to Albert Ramdin, the Foreign Minister of Suriname, as he was elected by acclamation on Monday 10 March 2025 in Washington D C. Mr. Ramdin has been seeking the job for almost 30 years. In addition […]
For the past three months in particular, the FNM has been on a tear. They have been finding fault where there is none. Scandal where there is none. The problem we have is the fact that while we as PLPs come back to answer the false news, we do not do so vigorously enough. There is […]
The propensity of the newspapers in The Bahamas to publish attacks on public figures anonymously or under non de plumes is wrong and it should stop. Last week one of the cowards writing under the name Gatekeeper was in a full throated attack on Fred Mitchell and signed themselves the Gatekeeper. Whose gate is that […]
Health Minister Michael Darville We are urging you all if you do not have a measles rubella and mumps vaccine please go out and get one. Listening to the idiot that the US President Donald Trump appointed as Health Secretary in the U S, many people have refused to get their children vaccinated. These diseases […]
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Each year on 15 March, the day that Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome, was assassinated in 44 B C, Fred Mitchell MP exchanges phone calls with his friend and lecturer at the University of The Bahamas Zendal Forbes with the words of Shakespeare from the play Julius Caesar. Caesar passed the seer and joked, […]
The following was reported by the Nassau Guardian on 12 March 2025 at the RF Bahamas Economic Outlook Conference in Nassau at the Bahamar Convention Centre by Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Bahamas: “We have always understood that a country’s voice is not measured by its size, but by the clarity of its convictions, the […]
From Facebook: A stop at The Bahamas Consulate in Washington DC with Ambassador Wendall Jones, Consul General Patrick Adderley and his staff. Thank you for your service. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 10 March 2025
From Facebook: It was a privilege to meet Hon. Mario Lubetkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay, at the OAS this morning with Ambassador Chet Neymour, Kristi Lightbourne and Mikhail Bullard. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 10 March 2025
From Facebook: At the Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D C, where they are saluting Women of the Americas and one of them is Dame Doris Johnson. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 10 March 2025
From Facebook: With Kache Hanna, Bahamas Youth Ambassador and one of the regional finalists for Youth Awards from the Commonwealth. I’m with her in London. Congratulations. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 12 March 2025
From Facebook: Congratulations to those who attained special honours at Doris Johnson Senior High. Thank you Principal Kent Lightbourne who allowed me to participate. Photos by Dominic Lightbourne. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 6 March 2025
Public Disclosure Chair Victor Cooper ( Tribune Image) The annual ritual of Members of Parliament and Senators filling out their disclosure of income, assets and liabilities came and went on 1 March 2025. When the Chair of the Public Disclosure Commission was asked by the press the annual question about who had disclosed, he said […]
From Facebook: So I was pleased to be back in the straw market with my friend Franklin Ferguson owner of I Dream Of Sugar, the ice cream and candy store on Bay St, and son of fallen Stalwart Councilor Franklin Sr, who is also a friend and promoter of the straw market, and I happened […]
