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Why the hold-up in turning college into a university?
RECENTLY, I caught the tail-end of a polite rant on JCN-TV by College of the Bahamas professor Nicollette Bethel. She was lamenting the fact that the College's move towards university status has stalled, threatening dire consequences for the future of the
Greek austerity meeting postponed again
Greek austerity meeting postponed again Greece's prime minister negotiated late into the night Tuesday with the country's international creditors, finalizing a proposal for new austerity measures to avoid a disastrous bankruptcy. Prime Minister Lucas Pap
Coming home to find house has a new number
EDITOR, The Tribune. The stupidity or lack of common sense displayed by some of those who govern us never ceases to amaze me. Yesterday, I received a notice from the Ministry of Works and Transport that they were engaging in a house numbering exercise in
Women's struggles in the Bahamas
Women's struggles in the Bahamas By JANET BOSTWICK IN the general elections in the Colony of The Bahama Islands in 1949, Mr Rufus Ingraham, the Member of Parliament for Inagua for two years, lost his bid to be re-elected. His wife, Mrs Mary Ingraham, t
Christie government was slow to act
Christie government was slow to act SPEAKING at the opening of Golden Gates constituency office, Prime Minister Ingraham said that the New Providence Road Improvement Project could have been completed "six or seven years ago" if it weren't for the incomp
POLITICAL POLICE UNIT? BRING IT ON.
By PACO NUNEZ Tribune news editor IT is generally accepted that the use of law enforcement to intimidate or suppress political rivals is the sign of an authoritarian government. Talk of secret police units invokes sinister nightmares from the past - the
Britons cry for return of death penalty
Britons cry for return of death penalty WHILE the Bahamas government, in an attempt to crack down on crime, this year made life sentences for murder mean just that -- "the remaining years of a convicted person's life" - there was an uproar in England when
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