PHOTO OF THE WEEK

A NEW INVESTMENT: 8 December 2023 marked a milestone with the Legendary Marina Resort groundbreaking. Beyond boosting our economy by $158 million, this development in Eastern New Providence will create 200+ jobs, offering Bahamians new opportunities. The Prime Minister Philip Davis, the Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper and the Minister for Transport JoBeth Coleby Davis […]

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DUMB STUPID MARIA GETS KICKED OUT OF COURT

The Deputy Idiot of the Coalition of Idiots ( COI) also known as the Coalition of Independents, took a case to court against the Government, more particularly the police.  Looks like the Judge Loren Klein had the same question for her as the public at large: how the hell did you pass your law exams […]

MICHAEL STRIKES BACK 

Michael Pintard struck a confident pose throughout the week in the face of a vicious attack by Desmond Bannister, the former Deputy Prime Minister who wrote an open letter to the press calling for the FNM to call a convention.  This is a call he could easily have made by telephone.  Mr. Bannister in his […]

GETTING IT WRONG ON THE DEFICIT

Gowan Bowe, the distinguished banker, told the press that the Government’s response on the IMF report on deficit spending and the false controversy whipped up by The Tribune over it, was embarrassing. The question is embarrassing to whom? Suddenly everyone is getting religion over deficit spending. There is no problem with deficit spending so long […]

SHARK ATTACK

A woman Lauren Erickson Van Wart of Boston, an American tourist, was out in the ocean off New Providence on Monday 27 November 2023, engaging in watersports activity when the report is that she was set upon and attacked by a shark. We have been around long enough to be careful when you’re talking about […]

JOHN MARQUIS COMPLAINS ABOUT HIS PENSION

We saw a note somewhere in the press ( The Tribune no less) that John Marquis that foul former editor of The Tribune who helped to savage the reputations of thousands of Bahamians and helped to defeat the PLP when he was here, is begging for his pension from National Insurance to be restored.  Our […]

HUBERT MINNIS THE AUTHOR

Former Prime Minister Hubert Minnis announced in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 6th December 2023,  the launch of the first of three books about his life. There was a reception yesterday 9 December 2023. No doubt trying to outdo Hubert Ingraham. This is of course part of his well-orchestrated campaign to become Prime Minister […]

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Christmas Tree lighting ceremony in Forbes Hill, Little Exuma

The first Xmas Tree lighting ceremony took place in Forbes Hill, Little Exuma at their cultural centre of Saturday 9 December 2023. Chester Cooper MP, the local man made good, was the featured speaker. The Gray brothers and sisters showed up from Williams Town, Creswell Morley, Mary Dames who was born in Forbes Hill but […]

TRANSPHOBIA IN THE BAHAMAS

Attorney Mark Symonette Rolle held a press conference to announce that he was taking action against the owners of a club who excluded a transgender woman from the club and then the woman was set upon by a group of people because they discovered that she was transgender.  The comments on social media were scathing […]

CONDEMNING VENEZUELA

The following statement was issued by Prime Minister Philip Davis on the attack by Venezuela on Guyana: 8 December 2023 I wish to make it clear that The Commonwealth of The Bahamas supports the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, and its sovereignty and territorial integrity, as was settled in accordance with the 1899 arbitral award. These […]

Israel Vote Fails

The Bahamas joined the countries of the world in cosponsoring a resolution which would have caused an immediate ceasefire in Palestine where the Israeli government is involved in what Barbados; Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called televised genocide. The United States vetoed the resolution.

FRED MITCHELL’S TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA

6 December 2023 House of Assembly Nassau              File photo of Nelson Mandela at the Lynden Pindling International Airport with then Foreign Minister Orvile Turnquest, then Senator Fred Mitchell and Chic Hecht, then U S Ambassador. 6 December 2023 Yesterday 5 December 2023 marked ten years since the passing of Nelson Mandela, the late President of […]

Fred Mitchell At L W Young Empowerment Christmas Function

8 December 2023

Fred Mitchell At Retired Insp Rudy Stubb’s Funeral

St Agnes 8 December 2023

Fred Mitchell Christmas Tree Lighting in Rolle Town, Exuma

8 December 2023 Laurie Carroll, Fred Mitchell MP, Jen Dames, Chester Cooper MP, Mary Dames, and Mrs. Cecilia Cooper.

PLP Fox Hill Branch Christmas Function

7 December 2023 Fox Hill Community Centre

Congratulations To Those From The Alrae Foreign Affairs Institute

Graduation Day Fred Mitchell, DG Jerusa Ali, Parliamentary Secretary Jamahl Strachan, PS Luther Smith with Vice Chancellor Krissy Hanna and the family of the late Chancellor of the Bahamas Alrae Ramsey Institute of Foreign Affairs (BARIFA) at the induction ceremony of the cohort of 2023 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, held at the National […]