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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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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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The bridge and illusions
Another Christmas has come and gone. On that date this year we recorded yet another alleged homicide and, according to the police, another suspected suicide.
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Required by January - a medical miracle for NHI
During a recent trip to George Town, Exuma, I drove past the new government clinic - or rather the pink wall and gates behind which sits the handsome clinic edifice, still unopened and unusable.
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YOUR SAY: Change needed in the Bahamian judiciary
Finally, a politician has opened his eyes and spied the 800-pound gorilla that has now taken up most of the room and is sucking out the oxygen. Too bad that the keen-eyed observation had to come from a member of a government that is also complicit in the breakdown of law, order and public safety in The Bahamas.
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TOUGH CALL: Deafening silence in face of the roaring storm
THE response of the government and its emergency management agency to the recent smashing of the southern islands by Hurricane Joaquin has been astonishingly lacking in at least one important respect – the provision of public information.
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Are you flossing?
EACH day in my practice as a clinician in dentistry I put this question to all my adult patients. My patients are now so sensitised that they preempt me asking the question.
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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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S&P warned: Don’t ‘rush to judgment’ on credit downgrade
A well-known businessman yesterday urged Standard & Poor’s (S&P) not to “rush to judgment” and downgrade the Bahamas as a result of the Baha Mar impasse, adding that the only thing this country is losing is “time”.
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Fitzgerald must apologise
Jerome Fitzgerald will not question the Attorney General’s decision to withhold the damning report from the residents of Marathon, and by extension, the Bahamian people at large.
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FNM deputy blasts BAMSI oversight control absence
The Opposition’s deputy leader yesterday said it was “inconceivable” that a project such as BAMSI had not been subject to proper oversight, calling it “unacceptable” that taxpayers may be exposed to $3 million in additional costs as a result of the fire-damaged dormitory.
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YOUR SAY: Local government . . . at best, inadequate
“An informed citizen is one who participates fully, understanding that democracy is not only the time spent in a polling booth every five years, but rather, democracy is the active participation of that same citizen in the day to day affairs of his country.” Warren J Levarity – 1967
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Bert Williams exhibition may come to Nassau
AN exhibition at the Museum of Modern Arts (MOMA) in New York City on the late Bahamian actor Bert Williams, which has gotten rave reviews, may be duplicated in Nassau soon.
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Third party politics: Changing of the guard at the Palace of Westminster
The Conservatives have new energy and impetus but are unsure how to respond to the UKIP threat while Labour’s weak, left-leaning leader is an electoral liability. As the starting gun fires on the race to next year’s General Election in Britain Peter Young forsees the end of voting on traditional two-party lines amid the political uncertainties.
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Track borrowers via NIB numbers
The proposed Credit Bureau should use National Insurance Board (NIB) numbers to track Bahamian borrowers, a well-known businessman yesterday expressing hope it would relieve him and other entrepreneurs from having to check employee excesses.
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The FNM must be ash and cinder
EDITOR, The Tribune.
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BTC deal closing eyed for July 21
The Government and Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC) are now aiming to conclude their ‘2 per cent’ deal over the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) on July 21, Tribune Business has been told.
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Don't use Bahamians as 'rubber stamps'
Significant policy reforms must be undertaken to ensure Bahamian engineers are truly involved in multi-million dollar investment projects and not used as mere “rubber stamps”, one local engineer has told Tribune Business. He added that while there have been some reforms, the issue remains “totally unfixed”.
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Exile group offers to assist trial by providing witness contact details
CUBAN exile group leader Ramon Sanchez has offered to assist Bahamian officials in conducting a fair and transparent trial of the RBDF officers accused of abusing Cuban detainees at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre.
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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.
