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Power to the people?
We said that the former Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC), now the Bahamas Power and Light (BPL), belonged to The Bahamian people.
The rising cost of food
Many Thanksgiving dinner ads are popping up all over Facebook.
Taken aback by how FTX met its demise
Greetings and thank you yet again for the opportunity to address these several points of national importance, I appreciate it.
Is this a parking zone?
West Bay opposite OPM the Wynn property the centre green median – is this a parking zone? The past few weeks obviously construction workers are using this green no parking zone for a convenient parking area – one, it obstructs the view for oncoming traffic, secondly, if there was an accident certainly potential for fire in a number of vehicles.
DEADLIEST YEAR FOR NATION SINCE 2017: Body found dumped on Cowpen Road in latest murder
THE Bahamas reached a grim milestone yesterday morning after another murder was recorded, surpassing last year’s murder count.
Phones and drugs seized in prison
SOME 400 cell phones have been confiscated by officers at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services for the year as officials enhance their efforts to crack down on contraband smuggling.
Miller-Brice ‘stands with women’ on gender violence
LESLIA Miller-Brice, the Bahamas High Commissioner to CARICOM, vowed yesterday to “stand with any female” that is facing gender-based violence in The Bahamas.
Plans made to build new high-medium security correctional facility
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe revealed yesterday that officials are hoping to break ground in the coming weeks on the construction of a new high-medium security correctional facility at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services.
Deltec tight-lipped over 17 accounts tied to FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried
A Bahamian bank and trust company was yesterday tight-lipped over court documents showing that FTX and entities controlled by its besieged founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, held no fewer than 17 accounts with it.
‘Stellar 2023’: Crowdfunding platform targets $26m raises
A Bahamian crowdfunding platform yesterday predicted 2023 “will be a stellar year” for capital raises with investors seeking a collective $26m set to approach the market between now and end-March.
Cable to appeal URCA fines over TV ‘quality’
Cable Bahamas is pledging to appeal the adverse findings and fines levied against it following a probe into the “quality of service” provided to its pay-TV customers during the 2021 calendar year.
FTX customers
I have seen a pie chart from, https://twitter.com/whalechart/status/ 1595384133827854336?s=21 – about the global distribution of FTX customers as of “The Petition Date”.
Charlotte St roadworks
People have said much about what the former Prime Minister Hubert Alexander Ingraham did, and what he did not do...attempting to penalise him for not being a Saviour to many of them, etc?
Christmas is back
The Bahamas has been on a rough economic, mental and societal roller coaster over the past several years. First we had assorted storms and hurricanes, Dorian being the most destructive in many years.
FACE TO FACE: The first in line to change The Bahamas
ON November 26, 1962, women in The Bahamas voted for the very first time. It was an occasion that will forever be etched in the annals of Bahamian history.
FRONT PORCH – The insurgency of Mia Mottley: 21st century philosophy and vision for national development
MUCH of The Bahamas is stuck in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. During their three terms in office, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham and the FNM did much to reform and modernise a backward-leaning and mostly paralysed state creaking with crumbling infrastructure and moribund mindsets.
STATESIDE: Special counsel Jack Smith and the Elliot Ness comparison
JACK Smith is Elliott Ness. Or is he? Especially before he grew a scraggly beard, Smith resembled Kevin Costner playing the Treasury Department’s legendary crime-fighter and nemesis of notorious Chicago Depression-era gangster Al Capone, depicted by the peerless Robert DeNiro in 1987’s celebrated movie “The Untouchables.”
ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: Opening a path to a brighter future
CONFESSION time - I sat down to write this article and after several hours of skillfully crafting the wording I looked at the sea of words on my screen and scrapped it, deciding to start from scratch. Why you might ask?
DIANE PHILLIPS: Island hopping, anyone? Kudos to Bahamas.com for whetting the appetite – now what?
BY any measure, the Ministry of Tourism’s website, Bahamas.com, is breathtaking. Packed with beautiful beaches, dazzling experiences and perfect people, it is sheer eye candy, promising the best of everything in a sun-kissed destination.
PETER YOUNG: Back after a tumble - and with a thank you to Doctors Hospital
TO MY great regret, for the first time in some four years I have failed to produce this column for three successive weeks. This is because I have been laid up in hospital with a broken hip. I should like to write about it today in order to draw attention to the excellent treatment I received at Doctor’s Hospital here in Nassau.