STATESIDE: We can see the cracks – but haven’t they always been there?
NATIONAL Days. Independence Days. Canada had its special day last Friday. We have ours coming up this weekend – and a very special 50th one to look forward to next year. The US stumbled through its own Fourth of July on Sunday. On an occasion meant to be a celebration of national pride, it’s pretty difficult to remain optimistic about the US these days.
FRONT PORCH: A new mission for a new monarch
THE helmeted Britannia figure, a Corinthian-like female warrior armed with a trident and protected with a shield, is the personification and symbolic representation of Great Britain and the now defunct British Empire.
Davis defends minister over cop assault claim
PRIME Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis yesterday defended Housing and Transport Minister Jobeth Coleby Davis after Killarney MP Dr Hubert Minnis called for an update into investigations concerning allegations made against the Elizabeth MP.
Darville: $50m in unbudgeted debt when I took office
HEALTH Minister Dr Michael Darville said yesterday that upon taking office he found about $50m in unbudgeted debt in his ministry.
FNM founding member hopes Gibson will win legal fight
FNM founding member Maurice Moore is hoping the outcome will be successful for Long Island MP Adrian Gibson when he faces the court in connection with numerous abuse of power allegations during his tenure as executive chairman of the Water and Sewerage Corporation.
Teachers respond to govt
BAHAMAS Union of Teachers president Belinda Wilson says a response has been sent to the government on its counter proposal regarding a salary increase for educators.
Banks’ fee income doubles in decade
Bahamian commercial banks are generating an ever-increasing share of their income from the fees detested by many consumers, which now account for more than $1 out of every $5 in earnings.
COVID’s $9.5bn blow nearly a triple Dorian
The Bahamas will never recover $9.5bn in economic losses and damage caused by COVID-19, it was revealed yesterday, with the pandemic combining with Hurricane Dorian to deliver a shattering $13.1bn blow to this nation.
Bahamas’ 20% shrink ‘not seen in worst crisis’
Bahamian economic output shrunk by a “remarkable” 20 percent in 2020, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economist said yesterday, branding this COVID-induced plunge as “something you don’t see in the worst crisis”.
Gov’t to avoid global bond market for year
The Government last night affirmed it plans to avoid the international bond markets for the next 12 months while raising 57 percent of its $1.761bn financing needs for 2022-2023 from domestic investors.
Clean-up held in Bimini
WATERKEEPERS Bahamas alongside 4Ocean hosted its second annual beach clean-up on Radio Beach, Bimini, where the event saw the removal of 1,500 pounds of garbage.
‘We must have independent body to probe corruption’
A GOVERNANCE reformer yesterday echoed calls for the establishment of an independent body to vet matters of alleged corruption as the Michelle Reckley case has failed to be heard in the courts.
EDITORIAL: Twin disasters of COVID and Dorian
WE ALL knew that COVID-19 had inflicted a hammer blow to the Bahamian economy. The scale of that impact is still only now becoming clear.
Activist condemns Bahamas efforts on environment
AN environmental activist has described The Bahamas as being in an “embryonic stage” in terms of its enforcement of environmental laws.
FNM holds Rawson Square gathering over crime issues
THE Free National Movement and some of its supporters gathered outside the House of Assembly yesterday where they spoke out regarding the Davis administration’s response to crime.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Britain's Boris Johnson resigning as PM amid scandal
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his resignation Thursday amid a mass revolt by top members of his government, marking an end to three tumultuous years in power in which he brazenly bent and sometimes broke the rules of British politics.
‘I’m here on my merits’
NEWLY appointed Deputy Commissioner Leamond Deleveaux says it is “unfair” for people to assert his rise to the police force’s second-in-command came about in a bid to pacify him after being sidelined by the Minnis administration.
‘Speed up system on disaster missing’
EAST Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson wants the government to consider allowing the Magistrate’s Court to hear missing persons cases “in circumstances of peril”, noting the need to make the death declaration process faster for affected families.
Minnis asks: Where was my invite?
DR HUBERT Minnis yesterday called on Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis to “investigate” the reason why he was not invited to police Commissioner Clayton Fernander’s handover ceremony on Tuesday.
