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Triple top: Here are my leading MPs of the Year
THIS year was not a good one for the average Bahamian. On balance, since the advent of the ruling FNM regime, the economy has contracted and things are 'tough' for the bulk of the lower and middle classes. The upper classes, as usual, especially the politicians, apparently, and their cronies, have increased their net worth and appear to be living large on the proverbial hog.........the Adrosian one.
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Developer's 'final chance' on disputed $944k deal
An Exuma developer has been given “one final chance” by the Court of Appeal to produce the subdivision approval necessary to resolve a disputed $944,192 real estate deal.
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Albany's 'rock and roll' via 72% Marina unit sales
Albany’s developers yesterday said there was a “possibility” its high-end Marina Residences could be sold-out by summer 2013, telling Tribune Business this could trigger further expansion after achieving $400 million in real estate sales to-date.
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. . . or Animal Farm 2.0?
Some have said that it is too soon to critique the performance or lack thereof of the PLP.
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Bahamas can't remain WTO's 'odd man out'
The Bahamas will find it impossible to maintain its status as free trade’s ‘odd man out’, a former Barbadian PM yesterday warning that its World Trade Organisation (WTO) accession terms will determine whether Value-Added Tax (VAT) is successfully implemented.
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Sunwing demands $9m GB airport upgrades
SUNWING Travel Group is demanding a $9 million upgrade to bring Grand Bahama International Airport up to its standards, Tribune Business can reveal, before it launches services to the island this fall.
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Bahamas First ‘not desperate’ to make further acquisitions
Bahamas First is “not desperate” to make further acquisitions, even though its top executive concedes this is the only viable route to growth.
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New Road Traffic HQ stalled amid partnership concern
A $25m public-private partnership (PPP) to establish a new Road Traffic Department headquarters on Tonique Williams Darling Highway is stalled because the government has yet to decide how it will deal with PPPs arranged by the Christie administration
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Court of Appeal sinks auto-dealing plumber’s $55k damages demand
The Court of Appeal has rejected a Government plumber’s $54,650 damages claim against a local customs broker, finding that injuries he sustained in a traffic accident did not cause the closure of his auto dealership.
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FNM anticipates 2016 election
FREE National Movement Chairman Michael Pintard yesterday forecast that the country could expect a snap election in 2016 in his defence of the party’s decision not to hold a national convention this year.
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WORLD VIEW: Informed political discourse required on immigration and trade
In the first part of this commentary on immigration and trade in politics, the focus was on the present primaries of the United States Presidential election.
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Loss adjuster notentitled to 50% Ivan profits share
A Bahamian insurance loss adjuster is not entitled to a 50 per cent share of “catastrophe profits” stemming from work done for RoyalStar Assurance in the Cayman Islands post-Hurricane Ivan, the Court of Appeal has ruled.
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EDITORIAL: Dame Joan condemns the referendum without reading the Bills
WE ARE more than surprised, in fact we are shocked at the position taken by the first Bahamian woman to serve as Chief Justice of the Bahamas (1996-2001) and President of the Bahamas Court of Appeal (2001 to 2010) on the referendum to be held on June 7 to decide whether Bahamian men and women should have equal status in our country.
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We need our own airline
THE national airline of The Bahamas – Bahamasair – has been operating for decades in the ignominy of being a “burden” to the citizens of the Bahamas. We hear the narrative all the time “shut it down” when the facts remain that the airline is a tool that has not been utilised effectively to assist in the growth of the Bahamian economy, instead it has been a convenient tool used by the politicians who hypocritically lambaste its lack of performance from the confines of the House of Assembly.
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WORLD VIEW: Strongman-ism in the House of the Americas
In one year and eight months’ time the present holder of the Office of Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States (OAS) will end his current term. Judging from his recent utterances, Luis Almagro, might not offer himself for a second term although he has not said so specifically.
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‘Grave concerns’ on NIB financing BOB
An FNM MP yesterday said she still harbours “grave concerns” that National Insurance Board (NIB) funds will be used to ‘bail out’ Bank of the Bahamas, despite Cabinet-level denials.
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Dive operator 'begs' Gov't for oil exploration rethink
A prominent Bahamian dive operator yesterday "begged" the Government to reconsider its approval of oil exploration in Bahamian waters, arguing: "The environment cannot take any more stress."
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Pointe work permits making Bahamians ‘second rate citizens’
The 500 work permits granted to The Pointe’s Chinese developer were yesterday branded “a slap in the face” of unemployed construction workers, and a sign Bahamians “are second class citizens in the own country”.
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'VAT should be part of broader economic reform'
FREEPORT – Former Prime Minister of Barbados Owen Arthur says the introduction of a Value Added Tax should be viewed as an essential part of the broader sweep of economic reforms in the Bahamas.
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INSIGHT: Why vilify Symonette? The white oligarchs were replaced by black ones who have failed us
This past week potentially marked former Minister of Financial Services, Trade and Industry and Immigration Brent Symonette’s last time in the Cabinet - and if we are brave enough to look ourselves in the mirror, it may be an instructive moment in our history.
