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Salvage what tourism is available
I am the owner of travel agencies in the Rochester and Syracuse area of New York State. Our family are also winter residents of The Bahamas.
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Colts’ Strachan makes his season debut
FOR the second consecutive season, Mike Strachan factored into the Indianapolis Colts’ passing game.
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The cost of hosting sport events
July 10th, 2023 will be our 50th anniversary of Independence — certainly we should celebrate and celebrate but let’s use some sense and purpose.
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Ingraham: My advice was not wanted
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said he did not feel like his advice was wanted or appreciated by the Free National Movement for the past several years.
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Bahamian teacher finds strength to face man who sexually abused her as child
New book details her journey to forgiveness
IT WAS through a letter written to her mother when she was 16 years old that Markel Williams finally unburdened herself of the terrible secret she had been carrying for over a decade.
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Two men charged in connection with fake $4,349 cheque
TWO men were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday in connection with a fake $4,349 cashier’s cheque.
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No respect for Queen’s 70th Jubilee
We show enormous respect to our mothers - grandmothers and great grandmothers in that case if we have the privilege of still having her. We treat them with enormous respect - never forgetting their birthdays - anniversary’s and in many cases even if they have left us, we memorialise them on their anniversary of their births and deaths.
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If you owe, then pay up
It is disturbing that seemingly there was a very relaxed policy in the Minnis Administration concerning the basic collection of taxes. The mention by PM Davis that there is a single person a developer who owes $1.4m sends cold shivers down my back... friends can be friends but bills — tax liabilities have to be paid or Government will have to be forced to raise taxes. Hope the tax collection reinforcement group will sweep and act... zero discounts Minister... you owe, you pay others have.
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A second Christmas of COVID
My thoughts recently have been over how is Christmas going to be this year – year two of COVID? Will there be the usual true Bahamian celebrations – free-willy style – oh, yes, how will junkanoo be impacted ... hear virtual this year .... how will this all pan out?
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Decision is keeping tourists out
It was with disbelief that I read your article today that Tourism Minister Chester Cooper has declared that the Health Visa for Bahamian residents will be abolished. He says this is because of “too much complications”! What about the same problems facing international visitors wanting to come to The Bahamas?
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DIANE PHILLIPS: Who really named The Bahamas? Was it Lucayans, not the Spanish and does it really mean what we think?
FOR AS long as any of us can remember, we have believed what we have been tol that the Spanish who first discovered these islands in 1492 gave them their name, Bahama, meaning shallow sea.
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Homer for Chisholm, Fox makes second start
Jazz Chisholm Jr homered for the second time this season and Lucius Fox received his second Major League Baseball start Tuesday night.
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The right use of official titles
TITLES - right to use prefixes before ones name an issue as there is unfortunately many who abuse and are never corrected.
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‘No need to fear’ over Scotiabank-NUA deal
Bahamas First’s top executive yesterday dismissed concerns over its wholly-owned agency’s tie-up with Scotiabank, saying: “The market doesn’t need to fear there’ll be unfair competition.”
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Raising the rates for NIB
So, PM Davis will not increase the level of NIB Contributions although the experts, the IMO actuaries say NIB must have higher contributions and experts for 10 plus years have been telling Government it is a must..
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Grove businesses: Murder rise ‘too close for comfort’
Businessmen in the Coconut Grove area yesterday urged the Royal Bahamas Police Force to “step up patrols” as the recent surge in murders is “just a little too close for comfort”.
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Trampling on the Constitution?
Is our Constitution being trampled on?
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FACE TO FACE: Trying to turn young people away from a life of crime
IN a time when there are rising concerns about the rate of crime, and after a bloody weekend on the streets of the inner city, one church elder is calling for all sectors of society to pour into the youth the right spiritual principles, self-esteem, respect and love to bring the Bahamian society back to what it used to be.
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FRONT PORCH: What’s the actual plan for vaccine booster shots?
A FRIEND recalls a recent exchange with an employee of a utility company who came to read a meter at his home. Asked by the friend if he was vaccinated, the utility worker replied: “No, I don’t believe in that stuff.”
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Cartwright the future for FNM
This year of 2022 is the second year of the arrival of our long lost and not missed cousin, COVID-19.
