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Bahamas 'never better placed' to grow financial services
The Bahamas “has never been more well placed” to become “a dominant jurisdiction” in financial services, a Cabinet minister yesterday suggesting this nation needed to “integrate” its international co-operation regime.
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Self-righteous attack
As the self-appointed defender of this FNM government, the letter writer temporarily dubbing himself ‘the Graduate’ in Monday’s Tribune launched a silly and self-righteous attack on Nicki Kelly for suggesting that our Prime Minister seems weak-kneed before wealthy foreigners yet dismissive of poor and ordinary Bahamians. He suggests she was employing a ‘dog whistle’.
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78-year-old woman's death investigated
POLICE are investigating the death of a 78-year-old woman who died in circumstances that suggest a suicide.
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Collect the taxes
FINDING the $200m required to off-set catastrophic hurricane Matthew damage I suggest in a painless method should be through the collection of the large arrears of Real Property Taxes.
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Much ado about nothing
EDITOR, The Tribune.
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Poll says no fee for casino entry
Bahamians should NOT have to pay a fee to gamble in local casinos, according to the majority of voters in the Tribune242.com poll.
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Talking at the wheel
Didn’t we ban the use of cellphones when driving? Not any difference from what I see but then you never see a police vehicle let alone a traffic cop except for their once a month licence check. Suggest that law was all PR.
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French lesson
I have two phrases which I suggest students learning French should look up.
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Investigator denies ‘sweethearting’
A POLICE investigator has been accused of ‘sweethearting’ with a woman who reportedly resided at Yorkshire Drive where a decomposed body was found behind an apartment complex, the Marco Archer murder trial heard.
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Witness says he was one of four in surveillance footage
CROWN witness Virgil Hall continued his testimony in the Freeport Supreme Court on Tuesday, identifying himself as one of the four masked men seen in surveillance video footage of the armed robbery and murder of a couple in Deadman’s Reef on the night of September 12, 2015.
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Unions demand employers held to ‘same standards’
Labour leaders yesterday demanded that employers be held to the “same standard” over their calls for trade unions to be struck off if they are insolvent or fail to file their annual returns.
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Bloated health insurance
Re: All Homes Must Have Insurance’: Leading Insurer Warns Mandatory Cover Has To Be On Agenda After Dorian. – Tribune, Wednesday, Feb 5th.
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Warning on crime
I had written several Letters to the Editor in 2022 in The Tribune newspaper giving great recommendations and suggestions to deter gangs, reduce guns and prevent crime in the Bahamas.
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Dame Marguerite
Seems she did not receive an “official invitation” - who organises the national events? Cabinet Office and mostly Ministry of Foreign Affairs - suggest possibly the plot thickens here and now - so Foreign Affairs who invites presumably omitted Dame Marguerite.
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Death penalty does not work in reducing crime
IT was rewarding to read this thoughtful editorial.
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PM ‘clutching at straws’ over Baha Mar fate
A former Baha Mar director yesterday suggested the Government was “a little shocked” that its help in defeating developer Sarkis Izmirlian had yet to be rewarded by the China Export-Import Bank.
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Credit Bureau to stop ‘risky loans’
Bahamian commercial banks issue “more risky loans” because they do not have full information on borrower creditworthiness, the industry regulator last night suggesting this had exacerbated the sector’s $1.028 billion non-performing loans.
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‘We didn’t misuse funding’
A DAY after Deputy Prime Minister K Peter Turnquest said the former government diverted more than $40m from a $150m hurricane relief and recovery loan to win the most recent election, Opposition Leader Philip “Brave” Davis denied the allegation saying he was “confident” the Christie administration used the money for its correct purpose. To suggest otherwise, Mr Davis told reporters outside of the House Of Assembly yesterday, suggested the former government committed a criminal offence, which he called “damnable”.
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Rolle explains increase in national debt
MINISTER of State for Investments Khaalis Rolle defended the government’s fiscal policies yesterday after it was revealed in the Central Bank of the Bahamas’ Quarterly Economic Report that the national debt increased by $581.4m, or ten per cent, up to June of this year.
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Compulsory media coverage
I am unfamiliar with the laws in other jurisdictions around the world regarding the function of the media, with particular reference to The United States of America.
