Sir Lynden knew the problem; Bell wants a scapegoat
KEITH Bell, State Minister for National Security, wasted much time in the Senate on Tuesday trying to blame escalating crime on the FNM government. What he should have been doing was explaining why his government’s solution to the crime problem was not working. He should also have been outlining his government’s proposals to get the guns out of the hands of criminals, and any other ideas his government might have devised to keep its election promise to reduce crime. Instead, he was finding excuses to wiggle out of his government’s election promise.
The Tribune’s predictions for Baha Mar’s future
YESTERDAY, Mr Justice Ian Winder granted a three-week extension to government’s winding up petition to settle the future of Baha Mar, the much anticipated resort that closed before it could open.
According to Bradley Roberts, we are ‘foolish, reckless and irresponsible’
BRADLEY Roberts, PLP chairman, is incensed that there should be any suggestion that “government interfered with the Baha Mar negotiations, a private contractual matter, and is therefore to blame for the recent lay-offs”.
Instead of opening, Baha Mar staff sent home; PM disappointed
WHAT an unmitigated disaster – the Baha Mar dream is over and 2,000 redundant Bahamian employees have been sent home to face a bleak Christmas.
Mr PM - avoid the ‘confusing debate’ and make a sensible decision
AS PRIME Minister Christie scratches his head to find money to rebuild the southern islands, badly damaged by Hurricane Joaquin, he anticipates having to face what he has called a “confusing debate, between the government, the Medical Association of The Bahamas and the insurance industry”.
Rescue mission mixed with politics
WHEN the first category 4 hurricane in 146 years to blow in unannounced so late in the year, not only did it devastate our southern islands, but it threw our government into a state of confusion.
‘Heads should roll’, but whose head should be first?
MICAL MP V Alfred Gray has suggested that “heads should roll” over the response of some government agencies to Hurricane Joaquin. He said the Department of Meteorology and NEMA could have done a better job with their advisories and warnings, insisting that the agencies were “seemingly caught off guard”.
Has the destruction of Hurricane Joaquin delayed NHI?
“A SCIENCE professor who sparked a costly four-year corruption scandal at the University of New South Wales has admitted spreading false allegations and apologised to the university,” reported “The Australian” on August 3, 2014. “The Australian”, Australia’s largest selling newspaper with a weekly circulation of 116,655, had much to say about the case of Dr Paul Barach.
Bahamians rise to the challenge as one people
IT IS said that in every cloud there is a silver lining. The only silver that we can find in the cloud that has hovered over these islands since Thursday is the spirit of the Bahamian people.
Citizens coming together to help fellow citizens
WHILE the government scrambled to discover the extent of the damage from Hurricane Joaquin, practical Bahamians immediately rose to the occasion and took matters into their own hands.
An unannounced hurricane takes a heavy toll
AS BAHAMIANS slept this week tropical storm Joaquin wandered into our waters “on little cat feet”, but unlike Carl Sandburg’s fog it didn’t move on, rather it moved up our island chain growing from nothing into a giant and destructive hurricane.
Bahamians being kept in dark about government’s NHI plans
IN his budget address in the House of Assembly on May 27 this year, Prime Minister Christie announced that his government planned to introduce its National Health Insurance plan on January 1, 2016.
Commissioner cries for help - wants criminals behind bars
AN EXASPERATED Commissioner of Police has given the authorities a choice: “Keep criminals behind bars” or his officers will continue to “pick dead bodies up off the streets”.
When will the referendum be held to protect Bahamian women’s marriages?
ON Thursday afternoon, death quietly closed the eyes of Mrs Inez Smith, 82, of Mathew Town, Inagua.
Criminals must understand that government is not their friend
YESTERDAY a worker was discussing crime —which is the main topic of discussion these days. Only this time, he was approaching it from a different point of view. He believes that it depends upon who a person is related to or knows as to how long an offender can remain under the radar in this country and not hear the clang of prison gates closing behind him.
