9 January 2019 Acting Chief Justice Vera Watkins opened the legal year: at church, at the inspection of the guard and giving the opening address Photos by Peter Ramsay of the Bahamas Information Services
Daily Archives: January 13, 2019
REWRITING MAJORITY RULE DAY
The PLP enshrined in legislation the celebration of 10 January 1967 as Majority Rule Day. It became a public holiday after almost twenty years of argument for it by a group led by Senator Fred Mitchell and Fr. Sebastian Campbell called the National Heroes Day Committee. After we got the holiday, the question was how […]
WHY ARE PLPS GETTING INVOLVED IN THE WTO ARGUMENTS? RESTATEMENT FROM THE PLP ON WTO PLPS ADVISED STAY OUT OF THE WTO ARGUMENTS
On Majority Rule Day 10 January about 50 demonstrators organized a noisy, energetic march to stop the Government’s move toward joining the World Tarde Organization. The problem is the issue is being polluted by the FNM/PLP divide. This is not a PLP fight. The Government has made a decision. They are following a process which […]
Mitchell Addresses Women’s Branch On WTO
For Immediate Release 16th December 2018 PLP spokesman on international trade, Senator Fred Mitchell, addressed the New Providence Women’s Branch of the PLP on the implications of WTO on Sunday, 16th December 2018. Highlights of the presentation are as follows: 1947…General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) 1995…GATT was replaced by the World Trade Organization […]
GRAND BAHAMA BUS CHAOS (Deidre Martin loses the contract)
Deidre Martin is the widow of deceased Stalwart Councilor John Martin. She had a contract to bus children to school in Grand Bahama. The contract one of many throughout the island of Grand Bahama was a five year contract, so done because the banks needed a longer term than three years for the amortization of […]
BELINDA ALWAYS GETS HER WAY
Philip Davis, the Leader of the Opposition held his monthly press conference on Tuesday 8th January, at Gambier House, the PLP’s Headquarters. He pointed out that the Prime Minister Hubert Minnis has been strangely and inexplicably intervening to overrule Ministers on their decisions within their portfolios. The example that he gave was the recent opening […]
MAJORITY RULE DAY IN PICTURES
Grand Bahama New Providence Exuma
WHAT REV. KEITH RUSSELL HAD TO SAY
Good evening. I am delighted that you have invited me to this symposium to make a brief presentation on this extraordinary event in Bahamian history. I begin here. The day I was born; the day I graduated from college. I have eight siblings and I’m still the only one to date to have done so; […]
WHEN INRGAHAM WAS CHAIR OF THE PLP
PLP RALLY 16 JANUARY 2019
GORMAN BANNISTER IS ARRESTED
Governments often do stupid things when they are in power and think that they know it all. One such event was the arrest and questioning of Gorman Bannister, son of the late Everett Bannister, a confidante of the late Sir Lynden Pindling. Mr. Bannister, the younger, has been a thorn in the side of many […]
CHIEF JUSTICE CALLS FOR APPOINTMENT TO BE MADE
Tribune photo of the Judiciary at the opening of Church Service in Freeport on Friday 11 January 2019 Vera Watkins is the Acting Chief Justice. She has been the Acting Chief Justice for 8 months, ever since the untimely death of Stephen Isaacs who was appointed for three weeks and then died. He had been […]
Lights Not Working At Abaco Airport
Bahamasair has announced that it has had to change its schedule of flights into Abaco because of the conditions at the airports there. The lights at the Marsh Harbour Airport are not working so no evening flights can take place. The same applies to Treasure Cay. The result, the flights to Marsh Harbour will end […]
Miriam Roker Tribute In Fox Hill | 9 January 2019
Senator Fred Mitchell pays tribute to Elder Miriam Roker at the Fox Hill Community Centre 9 January 2019.
Mitchells At Work On Legal Opening Day
Before 1967 This Was The Bahamas Government
The Cabinet After 1967
Safety Concerns For The Flying Public
Please remember it here when something (God forbid) happens with a plane in the skies around here: There are concerns that the regulatory regime for flying in The Bahamas for both general aviation and commercial flying is slack. That since the General Election and the change in Government the FNM is not paying attention to […]
