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FRED MITCHELL CONGRATULATES OFFICERS: the emerging leadership of the Royal Bahamas Police Force course, the first cohort. Congratulations! Our photo of the week. 29 November 2024
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THE COUNTRY THAT ELECTED TRUMP LECTURES THE BAHAMAS
Once again the United States, our friends and partners (so they say) have destabilized The Bahamas. In the past week, they released an indictment which showed that they had indicted two Bahamian officers, one a police officer and the other a Defence Force Officer for trafficking drugs and firearms through The Bahamas to the United […]
WHAT THE INDICTMENT SHOWS ABOUT U.S. ROLE IN DRUGS
The press and the FNM are busy concentrating as is the government on the allegations of corruption that the narrative in the indictment released by the United States last week portrays. We ask people in this country to take time to read the actual indictment. To us it reveals an act of dishonour by the […]
THE TEXT OF THE ADDRESS OF FRED MITCHELL TO THE POLICE
ADDRESS BY FRED MITCHELL MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS POLICE LEADERSHIP COURSE GRADUATION POLICE COLLEGE 29 November 2024 Check Against Delivery This is perhaps the most important address that I have delivered in my public life, since my capitulation to the attacks on the government’s proposals to join the CSME back in 2006. I consider you […]
BAHAMIANS MUST STAND UP FOR THE COUNTRY
It is so easy and predictable for the United States or any other country to destabilize Bahamian public opinion. The latest is the indictment by the United States which charged several Bahamians including two men from the military in The Bahamas for drug trafficking and firearms. The country is reeling. Everyone is wringing their hands […]
IDB REPORT ON BRIBE TAKING IN THE BAHAMAS
Just when the storm in a tea cup over the indictment of the defence force officer and policeman in the United States was settling down, the FNM and their trolls started passing around another bit of bad news. The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) released a report that said 75 per cent of the businesses in […]
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WHAT ABOUT OPERATION OPBAT?
Operation Opbat is now at risk. This is the anti-drug programme that has existed since the days of Loftus Roker as Minister of National Security. This must necessarily be a consequence of the indictment in New York last week where the indictment attacked he programme and indicated that it was being used to facilitate drug […]
The Police Course
29 November 2024
Thanksgiving Luncheon In Fox Hill
From Facebook: I had a great time at the Fox Hill Urban Renewal’s thanksgiving function. 28 November 2024. The little one is 2 year old Zalee Lewis. The man receiving the plaque and fruit basket is 93 year old Isaac Bain. The lady I’m hugging is Anita Bethel Williams is the first female recruit of […]
KINGSLEY CELEBRATES ONE YEAR
We congratulate MP Kingsley Smith for a job well done in the year that he was elected to office as a successor to the late Obie Wilchcombe. The first anniversary was 22 November 2024. Well cone.
THE IMF SAYS PM DOING A GOOD JOB
The International Monetary Fund has revised its projection for the growth of The Bahamas economy in this fiscal year from 1.8 to 2.6 per cent. The government of The Bahamas led by Finance Minister Philip Davis welcomed this news as a sign of its good management of the economy. Congratulations to the government. We warn […]
THE ETHICS OF THE TRIBUNE REVISITED
The press scrum waiting outside the House of Assembly was ready and waiting for the Minister of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday 19 November 2024. They all wanted some senior government official to comment on the IMF report on The Bahamas economy. In particular, they wanted a comment on the rise in VAT which the IMF […]
THE POLITICAL FIX IS IN OR IS IT?
The PLP is at the end of its third year. The grumbling is loud. It is now the world of gimmie, gimmie, gimme. I want. I want. I want. You haven’t done anything for me. The greed is palpable. People who have contracts want more. People who have jobs want a contract. Those who have […]
MINNIS HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE
The former Prime Minister Hubert Minnis claimed in the House of Assembly that some PLP general is on the carpet because of an allegation of sexual harassment. He used the cover of the immunity in the House of Assembly to make that stupid statement. It got the press he wanted. The problem is: who is […]
FALSE CONTORVERSY OVER JONQUEL JONES
Congratulations to Jonquel Joens for winning the WNBA championship in the United States in basketball. One would have thought that this great success from a humble lady born and raised in Eight Mile Rock would be enough for the Bahamian people. Once before though she lamented that the telephone company would not support her because […]
Fred Mitchell On Grafton Ifill Sr.
From Facebook: I was really pleased to join my old friend and I would say mentor Grafton Ifill Sr, one of the founders of the Security and Intelligence Branch of the Royal Bahamas Police Force at the ribbon cutting for their new offices in Montague Place in Nassau. He was recruited to the office as […]