EDITORIAL: Thanks to those who helped bring Christmas cheer
ON BOXING DAY, hundreds of under privileged children crossed Paradise Island bridge — many of them for the first time — to attend the Santa Claus Committee’s Christmas party organised especially for their enjoyment.
EDITORIAL: Standard & Poor’s Christmas gift to The Bahamas
WHAT a gift to be dropped into The Bahamas’ Christmas stocking a mere five days before Christmas!
EDITORIAL: The gift of selfless giving this Christmas
“It is because people feel they can make a difference that they do.”
EDITORIAL: Time for Dr Minnis to step down
TODAY’S politicians don’t seem to understand that Bahamians are no longer impressed by their promises, yet they continue to throw out the attractive-sounding bait still believing that there are enough voters out there of borderline intelligence to bite.
EDITORIAL: Time for Opposition to get its act together
ON a radio programme over the weekend, FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis described himself as the “people’s candidate”. He dismissed FNM House Leader Loretta-Butler Turner as the “Queen’s candidate”.
EDITORIAL: Who’s naughty, who’s nice...
It’s the holidays and that means we get to rub our hands together, scratch our chin, ponder awhile and pronounce who’s been naughty and who’s been nice in 2016.
EDITORIAL: Put your country first, Dr Minnis
FROM TIME to time, one hears the suggestion that the Westminster system of government does not suit The Bahamas. In our opinion, the only reason that it doesn’t suit The Bahamas is because we don’t understand it and have, over the years, bastardised it.
EDITORIAL: Will the European Union collapse?
RECENT events affecting the European Union must be causing concern in Washington.
EDITORIAL: Is the era of Minnis now over?
“THE era of Ingraham is over,” declared a self-satisfied Hubert Minnis who inherited the FNM leadership from former prime minister Hubert Ingraham, who resigned his North Abaco seat after serving as prime minister for 15 years – three terms.
EDITORIAL: Govt’s due diligence of CTFE must be thorough
AS a Bahamas government delegation jetted to Hong Kong over the weekend, to meet with and conduct a due diligence investigation of the conglomerate that wants to purchase Baha Mar, it would seem by announcements being made in Nassau that the trip is only a formality.
EDITORIAL: Time to pull the plug on BPL deal
ON SUNDAY, as hundreds shouted and cheered the sailing at the Best of the Best Regatta at Montagu Park and as others revelled in the elite world of Albany with golf greats like Jordan Spieth, Bubba Watson and Tiger Woods vying for a $3.5 million purse, the Bahamas must have seemed from the outside to be idyllic.
EDITORIAL: The passing of a dictator
TO BE instantly recognisable worldwide by one’s first name or initials is a unique testament to fame or notoriety.
EDITORIAL: Bahamas Police Force needs help with crime
IN 2010, the Cayman islands brought in British police to tackle a rise in gang-related crime that business leaders feared could hurt the territory’s image as a safe financial and tourist destination.
EDITORIAL: After the march, what next?
ON Friday, November 25, history was made in The Bahamas.
EDITORIAL: Fred Mitchell now confronts a new political duck
WHILE Prime Minister Perry Christie attempted to extend a hand of cooperation to the many Bahamians who have lost faith in his government, his arrogant Foreign Affairs Minister, in an audio recording released on social media only hours before the organised demonstration was to begin, forbade his party’s supporters to attend. Despite this warning three Cabinet ministers did attend.
