FRED MITCHELL AT 71- 5 October 2024: with the charge of John F Kennedy in his address at his inaugural in 1960 that Mr. Mitchell describes as the driving admonition in his political life. The photo was taken on Sunday 29 September 2024 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Kennedy School of Harvard University where he […]
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The announcement by the Grand Bahama Port Authority that they will stop the process of considering the application of the Grand Bahama Power Company’s application to raise rates until the power company can provide a reliable supply of electricity was a clever piece of sleight of hand. The Grand Bahama Port Authority has no jurisdiction […]
From the Nassau Guardian by Taneka Thompson Thursday 3 October 2024 Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell yesterday asked the Free National Movement (FNM) what more the opposition party expects the government to do in the crime fight as he pushed back at assertions that the Davis administration is not serious about addressing the problem. […]
Adrian White, the FNM MP for St Ann’s, was in full flight with his stock in trade in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 2 October 2024. He has this great talent for pulling from here and pulling from there, then mixing it with generous doses of sarcasm and presenting it as an argument against […]
Standard and Poor’s the rating agency gave its report on the Bahamas and its economy and it was published last week. They could not be less straightforward. They seemed to give with the one hand and take with the other. According to them, the economy is stable and we get a B plus rating. Oh […]
The next PLP platform should include a policy promise by the PLP to end all real property tax demands for arrears, write off all arrears and the country will restart. The threat to sell of the properties of Bahamians is politically counterproductive for a tax that does not materially affect the bottom line of the […]
The airlines of the United States who benefit from fabulous profits and subsidies from the Government of The Bahamas: Delta, American, Spirit, Jet Blue, United have all filed a document with the U S authorities to block Bahamasair from flying into The United States. They claim that this should be done because the Government of […]
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The late report is that the JCNP which is the corporation in charge of the Junkanoo Parade and makes the recommendations as to what is an ‘A’ group or ‘B’ Group is to meet with the Leader of the Opposition Michael Pintard and his band of merry men and women. This is as a result […]
90 Years old 3 October 2024 National General Council Meeting, Lynden Pindling Centre
Because of the length of the House of Assembly meeting on Wednesday 2 October 2024, I didn’t get to South Beach until the branch meeting was over but in time for this photo with Collett Butterfield, campaign worker for Bacchus Rolle in the South Beach PLP Branch at C V Bethel Senior High. 2 October […]
(Posted on Facebook) An unfortunate incident, a robbery of missionaries to our country took place in the Gambier area on 2 October 2024. It resulted in loss of property and money and almost ruined the visit. But Christian charity was the lesson that Scott Campbell and his group from Revival Baptist Church in Orlando, Florida […]
Fred Mitchell attended the monthly meeting of the Seabreeze Branch of the PLP with Leslia Miller Brice MP, Pia Glover Rolle MP, Clay Sweeting MP, Jamahl Strachan MP at Sadie Curtis Primary School. 1 October 2024. A great meeting. Dr Don Roberts spoke about breast cancer.
Fred Mitchell visits the Bishop Neil C Ellis Museum and Library. An illuminating experience of a life well lived and exemplary service to Bimini and The Bahamas. He also met students from the schools in Bimini. 1 October 2024
Fred Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs, addressed the 7th annual CEO Leadership on Purpose Summit in New York on 26 September 2024. This is an aggregation of mainly private sector leaders who come together to discuss how market solutions might help with the issue of climate change. Many of them were there to hear about […]
23 September 2024 United Nations New York Statement to the United Nations Summit of the Future (Check against delivery) Mr. President This is a valuable forum for the discussion of our planet, in many senses the future of mankind. We are more than half way there to the year 2030 when the world through this […]
26 September 2024 Back in the day, Supt Garth Johnson was the policeman’s policeman. He was a sharpshooter at what was then called the Criminal Investigation Department, now called CDU. He, Basil Dean and Raymond Mackey, you just didn’t fool with them. You were asking for death in the afternoon, the morning or the night […]
We had a good laugh last week when the Governor of the Central Bank John Rolle announced that there is something which they are thinking about called a basic bank account. By description, this would be a low-level savings account with not much money or activity, below 5000 dollars and there will be no charges […]
