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MARKING MAJORITY RULE DAY: 10 January 2025  marked the 58th anniversary of the date when black people took over the government of The Bahamas for the first time.  The service was held at the Big Jumper Church on East Street and the Prime Minister and Governor General attended with the Cabinet and the Leader of […]

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THE MADNESS OF KING TRUMP

Someone should check the urine of Donald Trump since he became president again.   He seemed a cuckoo before but now he seems to have lost all reason. It may be that he is suffering from porphyria, the disease which is the subject of the historical comedy movie The Madness of King George III.  The problem is […]

BIDEN SHOULD NOT DITHER ON THE PARDONS

We hate to join the Monday morning quarter backing that’s been going on since the general election in the United States, since they elected the convicted felon Donald Trump to be their president.  We do so now. This is because it seems to us that President Joe Biden has not learned one of the lessons […]

WELCOME TAX RELIEF

We welcome the Prime Minister’s announcement on 8 January 2025 in his annual New Year’s address to the country of the tax relief on food.  The Value Added tax is to be removed on all food items as of 1 April 2025 by fifty per cent from ten per cent to five per cent. The […]

INGRAHAM’S FRIENDS DENY HE IS ANTI BRAVE

The column of last week quoting friends of Hubert Ingraham and his decision to oppose Brave Davis in the next election, excited an immediate response for one of the spokesmen for Mr. Ingraham, in the secret place of the almighty. The friend said that Papa has no time for politics.  He is busy trying to […]

THE PLP’S AND THEIR PROPENSITY FOR SELF INJURY

Every day, you can find some wise guy or wise woman trashing the PLP in their PLP groups usually with a few FNMs mixed up in the groups.  Its all doom and gloom, a zero sum game.  Some of them are PLPs who are collecting multiple contracts and serving on boards.  Yet, they are dissatisfied […]

THE NASSAU GUARDIAN WELCOMES THE TAX CHANGE

The day after the Prime Minister’s National Address, the Nassau Guardian ran an editorial welcoming the change in the taxes on all food items from now 10 per cent VAT to 5 per cent as of the 1 April 2025.  As usual the nutty Free National Movement had their own negative spin on things.  Problem […]

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THE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE ANNOUNCES PROMOTIONS

Shanta Knowles, the new Commissioner of Police, is wasting no time in putting her stamp on the Royal Bahamas Police Force.  She announced a new team of senior officers to help her with her work.  Congratulations to these men. This is the list: Senior Assistant Commissioners: Zhivargo Dames Roberto Goodman Dwight Adderley Assistant Commissioners Merono […]

CHARGES FILED AGAINST THE FORMER SENIOR POLICE OFFICER

The DPP has filed charges against two policemen for stealing money alleged to have come from an armed robbery. The names are Michael Johnson, former head of the Criminal Detective Unit and Sargent Deangelo Rolle along with lawyer Bjorn Ferguson. Let’s be clear. These charges arose out of some sensational audio tapes that the father […]

PLP SHOULD REVOKE THE LAW GOVERNING THE DPP

We believe that the law regarding the creation of the Director Public Prosecutions (nay a constitutional amendment if you please) should be revoked forthwith and a return to previous law governing prosecutions.

Gray’s Terrace Day In Fox Hill With MP Fred Mitchell

10 January 2025

Signing A Cooperation Agreement With Benin

From Facebook: Signing the cooperation agreement between The Bahamas and Benin in Contonou at the inaugural meeting of the Caricom/Benin Foreign Ministers meeting on 8 January 2025. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill

 Fred Mitchell Meeting The President Benin

From Facebook: I met the President of Benin Patrice Guillaume Athanase Talon at the official office in Contonou, their business capital along with Dr Vincent Henderson who is Chair of the Council of Foreign and Community Relations of Caricom (COFCOR) and with colleagues from Suriname, Haiti, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda. The occasion the […]

Happy Birthday Chef Creole

From Facebook: Gabriel Meme, Jerome Brown joined me at Chef Creole in Fox Hill to celebrate the 44th birthday of club owner Elliott Mellius. Happy birthday. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 4 January 2025

URCA ACTS AGAINST THE GRAND BAHAMA PORT AUTHORITY

We congratulate the Utilities Regulation Competition Authority for seeking to injunct the Grand Bahama Port Authority from reviewing any applications on utilities and in Grand Bahama. They have no jurisdiction to do so.  The amended law on the matter is clear. The Grand Bahama Port Authority persists in their treachery.  URCA has taken too long […]

AMERICA DRIVES THE CRIME AND DRUGS AND GANGS

For three years the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of the United States ran an operation to entrap Bahamians in a conspiracy to import drugs and firearms through The Bahamas and into the United States.  That is how their indictment reads between the lines. They by their own admission did not tell the government of The […]

Congratulations COPs Rolle

COPs Rolle, Commissioner Shanta Knowles and DCP Andrews We support the choice of the Prime Minister Philip Davis to appoint Anthony Rolle, known as COPs to the post of Deputy Commissioner of Police. The Prime Minister makes the appointment following consultation with the Leader of the Opposition. Michael Pintard objected to Mr. Rolle’s appointment.  He […]