EDITORIAL: No hope of Bahamas becoming preferred destination for data services
ON Thursday, October 10, 2014, Prime Minister Perry Christie, speaking at the second annual National Data Protection Symposium, recognised the importance of data protection. It had, he said, become “an international issue of great concern.”
EDITORIAL: It’s time for Bahamians to wake up before they lose all
DATA Protection Commissioner Sharmie Farrington-Austin, cautioning against tabling private citizens’ correspondence in the House of Assembly, has warned that it is “a most dangerous trend that leaves society open to chaos”.
EDITORIAL: The Tribune is trying to get the truth
THE ANGRY words being exchanged in the House last week have been building up from the last Christie administration over a six-acre piece of property owned by fashion designer Peter Nygard.
EDITORIAL: Beware of the false rumours - let the court decide
“CANADIAN fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been accused of orchestrating a murderous plot against his billionaire neighbour Louis Bacon and lawyer Fred Smith, his chief opponents in an ongoing campaign against development at Nygard Cay, according to court documents filed yesterday.” This was the lead article in The Tribune on Thursday, March 10 . . .
EDITORIAL: It’s now time for the PLP to ‘walk the talk’ instead of just ‘talk’
IN GOING through some of our old files, we have come across a statement in the House of Assembly revealing that the then PLP government had allowed international fashion designer Peter Nygard thousands of dollars in tax exemptions on imported goods, presumably to build his Lyford Cay home.
EDITORIAL: Tribune can’t publish until documents filed
“THE use of an untested affidavit to make allegations that smear my character is irresponsible,” declared Deputy Prime Minister Philip Davis in a statement on March 11 condemning The Tribune for printing documents filed on March 9 in a court case brought against Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard and his lawyer Keod Smith in which Mr Davis’ name was mentioned as having known two “hit men”, allegedly hired by Mr Nygard.
EDITORIAL: In time of crisis - urgent need of strong Opposition leader
AT a time when The Bahamas needs a strong Opposition, it seems that the FNM is at its weakest.
EDITORIAL: The Tribune makes no apologies - it has done its duty
DEPUTY Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has taken grave exception to The Tribune conducting what he has called a “shameful” smear campaign against him by publishing from affidavits of covert recordings filed in the Supreme Court last week that suggest he had a close relationship with two criminals, who were delegated to protect Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard’s interests in the Bahamas.
EDITORIAL: Time for Fred Mitchell to give accounting of his travels
FINANCIALLY, The Bahamas is in trouble, unless it increases investments or drastically cuts back on spending – or can achieve a combination of both.
EDITORIAL: Still playing games with the people’s business
PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts is so anxious to blame the FNM for the failed attempt of the 2002 referendum to give Bahamian women the same gender rights as their male counterparts that he has no qualms about distorting history.
EDITORIAL: Fred Mitchell should be removed as Immigration Minister
YESTERDAY, members of the public kept us busy by phone and e-mail asking how the two Cubans, being actively sought by Immigration because, according to Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell they were considered a “security risk”, could possibly be with their families in the US, each with a job and one with a driver’s licence. Hadn’t Mr Mitchell informed the public that the US had refused to accept them because of their questionable record?
Christie calls sex discrimination against women ‘abhorrent’
LORD save us from politicians!
Go ‘suck salt’, Fred Mitchell’s CHOGM choice tells Dominicans
“AS the Foreign Minister of this country, I was bound to support who I thought would have provided for the best interests of The Bahamas. That in my view was Baroness Scotland. She in my view has the ability to increase the complement of Bahamian and Caribbean persons at the Commonwealth in London and to ensure that the ABCs – Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand — re-engage.”
Fred Mitchell has still to answer the ‘security risk’ question
THE SCENE in the House of Assembly yesterday was disgraceful.
Does Mitchell want his Immigration Department to be above the law?
“THEY respect neither tradition nor the law and should be exposed for the dictatorial tendencies they secretly harbour.” These were the prophetic words of the late Sir Lynden Pindling in 1990 as he roundly condemned his once admiring protégé Fred Mitchell, who had by then left the PLP and formed his own political party. Sir Lynden, dismissing the young lawyer as a “flag burner”, predicted that those “who burn the constitution one day, would bury the people another day”.
