A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The PLP is rushing us towards a China crisis
Move over Christopher Columbus, the Chinese have come to conquer us …. one island at a time.
Government denies agriculture deal with China
“THE story appearing in The Nassau Guardian under the headline ‘China in $2 bil. deal proposal – Govt eyes agri-fishery plan with Chinese in Andros – Project calls for lease of 10,000 acres of crown land’ is utterly false.
POLITICOLE: Voters’ apathy raises serious registration issues
The Tribune recently reported ‘Legal Advice Sought Amid Low Voter Registration’ and the Nassau Guardian reported ‘Voter Registration Plummets: Nearly 80,000 fewer sign up to vote compared to five years ago’.
EDITORIAL: Exigency Orders: Good intentions but poor execution
ON OCTOBER 14, one week after Hurricane Matthew cut a swath of devastation across the northwestern Bahamas, Prime Minister Perry Christie, acting in his capacity as Minister of Finance, signed an Exigency Order intended to make rebuilding
EDITORIAL: Come now, Mr Roberts, surely you can’t be serious
THE public is burdened today with more of PLP Chairman Bradley Robert’s superficial thinking and truth bending. In a news release issued yesterday, he warned former Baha Mar director Dionisio d’Aguilar about mixing politics with his former role as a hotel developer.
WORLD VIEW: Is the US making a stick to beat its own back over banking?
Caribbean governments have rightly focused on the severe consequences for their countries of the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations from regional banks by international banks, particularly those located in the United States.
EDITORIAL: Fierce debate on shape of Brexit
LAST week in this column, we referred to a court hearing in London about parliamentary sovereignty in face of the British government’s decision to start the process of leaving the European Union (EU) following the nation’s referendum in June.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Too many questions and not enough answers over Baha Mar
THE Chinese Government, the China Export-Import Bank (CEXIM) and their co-conspirators, the Bahamian Government, all appeared to have “gooseyed” Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian, ripping his brainchild from his hands and ignoring him like the rude child in the room.
EDITORIAL: Trying to understand Trump’s popularity
IN 1962, the movie, The Manchurian Candidate, spurred fears that far outlasted its popularity and gave rise to a remake in 2004 starring Denzel Washington. The title character in the original version was played by Laurence Harvey, and through hypnosis and other means his mother (Angela Lansbury) and other sinister characters manipulate him to favour the interests of an unfriendly foreign power.
EDITORIAL: Bahamians are watching carefully how their money is being spent
ALTHOUGH Bahamians have been given an assurance that there will be no politics in hurricane rebuilding, already complaints are starting to come in that — at least on Andros — the PLP are now first in line.
TOUGH CALL: After the storm is over
SOON after Hurricane Joaquin smashed into the southern islands a year ago, newspaper reports cited “critical weaknesses” in the national emergency management system, which “should worry us all”.
POLITICOLE: There’s a hole in the bucket, Dear Christie
I was born in the 70s, and I grew up in the 80s and 90s. Life in The Bahamas was so much simpler then. Everything appeared cleaner, easier, purer. It was long before we knew what a storm our leaders were brewing for us, though we would soon find out. And the Pandora’s Box has been spilling over since then.
EDITORIAL: Are unions losing their appeal?
FOR more than a century, the word union conjured up images of valuable, even life-saving protection.
EDITORIAL: Watchdog needed for $150m loan
ALTHOUGH the cost of hurricane damage by Matthew is estimated at $600m, Prime Minister Christie’s administration has negotiated a $150m loan with the banks to get reconstruction started. Mr Christie specified that the condition of the loan was “that the funds would be exclusively used for the reconstruction effort”.
