EDITORIAL: Recovering from Matthew
BEFORE we begin, we must praise the men and women behind the scenes who gave up the comforts of home and moved into newspaper offices and radio stations to keep citizens informed of what was happening during the height of hurricane Matthew.
EDITORIAL: Inagua’s hurricane myth shattered
TODAY’S Hurricane report in which residents were advised to rush the completion of their hurricane preparations as Hurricane Matthew had already started to affect Inagua reminded us of the day that Inagua’s hurricane myth was shattered.
EDITORIAL: Why are Keod Smith and a Bahamian police officer investigating a judge?
TODAY — from early morning—our e-mail has been clogged by Bahamians sending us an article with a headline that reads: “Is CARICOM being used by Bahamas Government and Peter Nygard in Official Investigation by Bahamian Officials into Judge Indra Charles of the Bahamas Supreme Court?” It was published in St Lucia Today and, thanks to the web, is quickly making its way around the world.
EDITORIAL: As elections near, a warning over spending wars
AS ELECTIONS near, there are certain things we know to expect in The Bahamas.
Buck-passing honed to perfection in The Bahamas
THE BAHAMAS must be one of the world’s greatest buck-passers. Everything that goes wrong is never the fault of the one in charge - the finger is always pointing in another direction, where it continues down the line until it stops at an unfortunate wretch caught napping under the coconut tree and failing to do his job.
Disgraceful refusal to co-operate with Public Accounts Committee
COME hell or high water, the long-awaited and fought over Urban Renewal Report, completed at last by the Public Accounts Committee, will be presented to the House of Assembly next Wednesday — October 5.
George Smith owes PAC an apology - PLP should lift the roadblocks
FORMER Cabinet Minister George Smith was quick earlier this year to condemn the Public Accounts Committee for dereliction of its duties, branding it as the worst committee he had ever seen. Not only had it “failed miserably”, he said, but it was “impotent”.
EDITORIAL: Bahamas murder rate among highest in Caribbean
AFTER succeeding in their demand that MP Richard Lightbourn be removed as a contender for the Montagu seat in the next election because of his unacceptable solution to our crime epidemic, it would be interesting to know what plans these same PLP women now have to solve a problem that is steadily destroying our society.
Barnett speech is essential reading
THE speech delivered by former Chief Justice Sir Michael Barnett at last week’s graduation ceremony of the Eugene Dupuch Law School should be compulsory reading for all members of the legal profession in this country, since the uncompromising views which he expressed so lucidly about two main issues – the rule of law and the separation of powers – go to the heart of our nation’s democracy.
Is the FNM transforming itself into a second PLP?
“WE are in a very curious time when people are looking for a new kind of vision for the country and obviously in terms of what is available to us in terms of leadership, Dr Minnis comes out above the rest, I believe that is saying something,” commented FNM Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest over the weekend.
Bahamas is slowly putting itself out of business
ON August 22, Moody’s credit rating agency downgraded the Bahamas’ credit worthiness to a notch above “junk status” with the warning that this country’s economic and fiscal fundamentals— especially its economic strength — had “materially decreased.”
Bahamas Bar slams its doors shut on legal expert
ON TUESDAY, The Tribune reported that the Bahamian law firm representing Sarkis Izmirlian, the developer of Baha Mar, had expressed frustration over the Bahamas Bar Association’s rejection of its application to bring in a foreign Queen’s Counsel to join their legal team.
President Donald Trump - threat even to Bahamians?
THE end of Tuesday, November 8, 2016, cannot come and go soon enough for us. Hopefully when the ballots are counted at the end of the US elections that night, the pointing index finger, inflammatory and often crude rhetoric spewed from the pouting lips of Donald Trump will be gone from our TV screens forever.
The right to free speech being questioned?
A MOST unusual case came before Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes yesterday when a lawyer, who was a former police constable, now an outspoken defender of the rights of police officers, appeared before him charged with committing “intentional libel” against two top officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force.
Christie criticised for not interfering with private enterprise
WITH THE spectre of another Moody’s downgrade of this country’s credit worthiness – after being dropped to a notch just above “junk” – the Christie government quickly grabbed onto the completion of Baha Mar as the lifeline from its economic woes. It had hardly dodged that bullet when it was faced with union bullies threatening to “shut the country down”.
