A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Beleaguered government faces a summer of discontent
IT IS clear that sometimes in life, the truth is much stranger than fiction.
TOUGH CALL: Will our leaders ever get serious about a plan for the future?
I THINK most of us would agree that the country could do with a strategic plan that looks beyond our five-year electoral cycles and pushes the public sector to deliver.
VIEW FROM AFAR: A tax too far on hotels
WHEN a hotel bring travel agents, media personalities and journalists to the Bahamas and puts them up free of cost, the hotel is required to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) on a value of the rooms given to them.
Working together to strengthen the rule of law in The Bahamas
The IDB has granted a $20m loan to the Bahamas to help with the fight against crime. Robert Pantzer explains the technical co-operation that paved the way for the new approach.
POLITICOLE: Illiteracy and unemployability shame The Bahamas
If I hear one more person claiming to want to lead me and my people and can barely knock two letters together to make sense ...
A COMIC'S VIEW: Reconciliation in the air over Baha Mar
THEY say time heals all wounds. I guess when billions of dollars and thousands of jobs are on the line those wounds heal faster than others.
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Carnival strikes a discordant note - again
THOUGH the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is not likely to scrap the Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival (BJC) any time soon, this is one programme that deserves a stiff dose of stop, review and cancel.
POLITICOLE: Why we shouldn’t be afraid to move on
IT usually takes me quite some time to make up my mind about something, especially if it’s something of great importance or meaning to me.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Loose talk, leaks and lotteries - just another week in the Bahamas
My, what a week it has been. Filled with some of my favourite forms of comedy - innuendo and irony.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Chairman Moncur can put much-needed fight into the FNM
THE Free National Movement is in a ‘quagmire of web’. The so-called Official Opposition has become the laughing stock of Bahamian politics … and the jokes aren’t even funny.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Fred Smith’s decision to run will liven up 2017 election
Callenders Managing Partner Frederick Smith QC told me last night that he is so disappointed with the Free National Movement and that the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) is so corrupt that he has decided to run for election in 2017. Mr Smith stated that he is considering his options and will likely enter the political fray.
VIEW FROM AFAR: Overlooked change in restrictions on foreign exchange
WITH all the attention being paid by the media to the Free National Movement party leadership, Save The Bays disputes and Baha Mar, I am not surprised that when a fundamental move with long-term economic benefits was announced by the Central Bank, there was little or no public comment.
TOUGH CALL: Land grabs, law suits and gangsters - a guide to the Nygard saga
THE complex controversy swirling around Peter Nygard appears to have bewildered most Bahamians. And our government has deliberately contributed to this confusion. This fact sheet will help readers understand what is going on and what is at stake.
EDITORIAL: The reason outside investigators were engaged by Save The Bays
A RECURRING question behind the police investigation into death threats against the Save the Bays environmental group comes from Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade who wants to know why there were no complaints to police about the death threats before now.
YOUR SAY: Alleviating poverty starts with combatting climate change
WE HEAR about climate change in the Bahamas but greenhouse gas emissions are rarely spoken of.
