We wish all of you in the Bahamas a happy Christmas
HAVE ANY of our readers ever heard of the rare condition of “affluenza”? No? Nor had we until we read of the unfortunate condition of a 16-year-old Texan boy, who with his buddies stole beer from Walmarts, jumped into a pick up truck and smashed into a woman whose car had broken down.
PM Christie still chasing the elusive rainbow
ALTHOUGH Prime Minister Christie has admitted that his government cannot afford to purchase the two per cent needed to get controlling interest in Bahamas Telecommunications Company, he continues to waste everybody’s time chasing that elusive rainbow.
An alternative to VAT outlined in letter
IN the letters column on this page today Garth Buckner, who was on the board that privatised BTC, has responded to the Prime Minister’s invitation for an alternative plan to VAT. What Mr Buckner writes makes a good deal of sense. We recommend that Mr Christie and his government give it the consideration that it deserves.
US Embassy's duty is to their citizens, not the Bahamas
TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe seemed peeved that the United States does not appreciate the efforts of the Bahamas to get crime under control. It’s as though Big Brother has let him — and the Bahamas — down.
Only a united nation can defeat crime
IT IS a tragedy that crime had to crash through the front door of the acting prime minister’s home as morning broke yesterday to make him and all of his political colleagues realise that crime is not a political problem, but a community problem. And that only a united community can solve that problem.
PLP deaf to warning signs from Bahamians
OBVIOUSLY, the PLP government is floating on a planet of its own making — so far removed that they are not getting the message being sent them by the Bahamian people. While the government is talking taxation, the people have made it clear they want government to cut spending before they will be lured into a debate that they neither understand nor are prepared to consider.
Bahamian government out of touch with the people
IT WAS not the best of times, but it was certainly the “worst of times” for a beaten Bahamas. The only bright light on the horizon was a belief that an “age of foolishness” was nearing an end.
Keith Bell has wrong 'facts' on Police Staff Association
ALTHOUGH Prime Minister Christie and National Security Minister Nottage have agreed to meet with the Police Staff Association to discuss compensation for the 12-hour shifts that police were assigned to combat escalating crime, comments made in October by Minister of State for National Security Keith Bell keep surfacing.
'Double dipping' still wrong, despite decision
THE BEC union was jubilant. The country was angry – even staunch PLPs who, regardless of what nonsense their government did always remained loyal, had broken ranks.
Warning on VAT from Barbados
OVER the weekend, Elcott Coleby, deputy director of Bahamas Information Services, sent a release to the press to announce the downgrade by Standard & Poor of Barbados’ financial rating – the second in four months. Barbados is listed in tenth place as one of the world’s most heavily indebted countries. From a rating of BB+ it has been dropped to BB-.
Showdown between Leslie Miller and BEC union
THE die is cast. Yesterday – November 21 – BEC chairman Leslie Miller gave instructions that from that day forward the electrical corporation will pay full salary for the first three days of a staff member’s sick leave.
Talk of VAT started under PLP during buoyant economy
THE mess to which Mr Bradley Roberts referred as the reason for the PLP’s introduction of VAT into The Bahamas began in earnest under the PLP’s watch between fiscal 2002/3 and 2006/7.
The reason your electrical bills are high
“FRUITLESS,” concluded Bahamas Electrical Workers Union president Stephano Greene as talks with government ended yesterday.
Government must be held accountable for public spending
SINCE THIS government has come on the scene, it has stumbled from one sink hole into another. Nothing seems to be going right, because there is no planning, no co-ordination, and, as we have said before, each cabinet minister seems to have his own agenda and his own game plan.
The iniquity of 'double dipping' for sick leave
TODAY, BEC chairman Leslie Miller is the Man of the Hour, and VAT is the vehicle that is going to send all of us — country included — to our economic graves.
