It is now time for politicians to stop playing politics
CRIME is down, murders are up, therefore it should not be said that the PLP’s crime “policies have fallen short and that the sole basis upon which (the government’s) efforts should be measured is the murder rate”.
When will Americans give up their ‘inalienable rights’ - guns?
“AT some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries. It doesn’t happen in other places with this kind of frequency.
Does the Bahamas have special laws for those in authority?
RELIEVED that his political colleagues had let him off the hook, MICAL MP V Alfred Gray declared in his defence that he would never break the law knowingly.
Questions put to Jerome Fitzgerald still to be answered
FOR THE first time this year, we tuned in to the Parliamentary Channel and gave up Monday morning to listen to the time wasting political chatter.
Remember - The Bahamas still belongs to Bahamians
“I WISH to be very clear, and very frank. Unless your Government delivers on the much advertised partnership between the Government and Baha Mar, I am seriously considering whether investing billions of dollars in this country is the right decision……Indeed in order to meet firm board commitments of the partners, these matters must be finalized no later than the first week of February (2006).“
Bahamians open your eyes, and protect your future
JAMES Freeman Clarke, an American theologian and author, wrote that “a politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
Partial National Health without tax to be introduced
PRIME MINISTER Christie looked down the dark tunnel and found what we all told him he would find — darkness. The light that he had hoped would be there was not there, neither was there an economy, or a people who could afford to be taxed to supply his much-heralded National Health Insurance scheme.
China State now jeopardising the Bahamas’ future
A STATEMENT made by the Chinese Embassy in Nassau in January 2011, brushed off America’s growing concerns — revealed in cables released by WikiLeaks – that developments such as Baha Mar would “leave The Bahamas indebted to Chinese interests for years to come”.
China's Export-Import Bank has a responsibility to the Bahamian people
IN A recent edition of Global Gaming Asset Management’s circular, Pete Wu, a former Macau gaming executive, later senior vice president, international marketing and alliances for Baha Mar Ltd, commented on the importance of the Export-Import Bank of China being the financier of the $2.5 billion project.
An Out Island administrator should not suffer for Minister's mis-step
“MR SPEAKER, the constitutional system under which our country is governed is in my view a good one which can guarantee that good governments can govern uninterruptedly and successfully. But to do so requires complete dedication to and observance of the legalism of our Constitution, the laws of the land and the conventions and spirit of the Constitution by which the men who govern must be guided.…
Caribbean warneD: Get a handle on corruption
ALTHOUGH The Tribune reported Prime Minister Perry Christie’s attendance at the January 26 Caribbean Energy Security Summit meeting in Washington, it missed a most important message. The message was a warning given to all Caribbean leaders by US Vice President Joe Biden.
Face has been lost of the $3.5bn Baha Mar resort
THIS IS no longer a dispute between two giant investors. This matter is now of national concern, a worried Bahamian told us recently. Too many Bahamians, he said, encouraged by government to believe that Baha Mar was the Promised Land, have given up good jobs in anticipation of improved employment in the new hotel. Almost every profession has been affected and is represented among this staff-in-waiting, including a former police officer.
The most courageous act: Speak Out!
MARATHON MP Jerome Fitzgerald, himself a lawyer, is upset that through Facebook his lawyer wife has been unwittingly drawn into the secrecy surrounding the fuel leak controversy in her husband’s Marathon constituency.
Suggest ‘Brave’ Davis gets his friends to complete Baha Mar
IN JANUARY, Prime Minister Perry Christie announced his intention to request funding from China to support the Bahamas’ national budget, and refinance and restructure the country’s debt.
Why Panama before The Bahamas, Mr Deputy Prime Minister?
WE WERE surprised – rather we were shocked — on reading that our deputy prime minister was in Panama a few days ago celebrating the regional opening of China Construction America’s Latin American Regional headquarters while that same company has left so much unfinished business here in the Bahamas.
