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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
EDITORIAL: We need to protect our democracy in The Bahamas
IN The Bahamas, we enjoy a vigorous democracy inherited at independence in 1973 from Britain as the former colonial power, we need always to be vigilant in protecting it in an uncertain world. It is all too easy to take for granted our liberty and constitutional rights guaranteed by the rule of law and judicial system which, despite its lack of efficiency and need for reform works reasonably well.
EDITORIAL: Bahamians kept in the dark about investments
FOR five years, with lips sealed on serious matters that affect the future of the Bahamas, this government has sat on the Freedom of Information Act. If ever this Act was needed it is now.
EDITORIAL: Again we ask PM Christie - whose side are you on?
ON MONDAY, we posed the question here to Prime Minister Christie: Whose side are you on - the Bahamas or Beijing?
EDITORIAL: PM Christie: Whose side are you on - Bahamas or Beijing?
PRIME Minister Christie keeps reassuring Bahamians that he is working in their best interest to get Baha Mar completed and opened. Now is the time to prove it.
EDITORIAL: US election grows nastier by the day
WITH the US presidential election less than a month away, the race for the White House is becoming uglier and nastier by the day.
EDITORIAL: Bahamians need reassurance
AS THE days drag on and large areas of New Providence remain in darkness, Bahamians without any definite word from government as to when the lights will turn on are starting to panic.
EDITORIAL: Nice guys don’t always finish first
NO MATTER what political party individuals identify with, it’s pretty hard to find anyone who doesn’t think that the current Prime Minister Perry Christie is a nice guy.
