Will politics continue to divide this country?
WE HAD several calls over the weekend from a few Bahamians concerned about a statement made in the House of Assembly last week by Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell. Among the callers was a man who we have always thought of as a “true, blue” PLP.
Will the security of the Bahamas be put at risk?
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister Fred Mitchell’s statement in the House of Assembly yesterday is enough to give every serious-thinking Bahamian nightmares.
Have business owners lost confidence?
LOCAL and foreign investors are probably having more board room sessions about whether this is the right time to invest in this country. So far, the Christie government has done nothing to assure the private sector that they know the direction in which their government’s sails are set.
Prime Minister takes over National Security
WE WERE surprised, and yet not surprised that in the absence on medical leave of National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage, Prime Minister Perry Christie has added national security to his own portfolios.
Is the Bahamas slipping backward?
“IT JUST ain’t fair!” grumbled one woman. Tossing her head in the air and shaking a threatening finger. “Isn’t it so!” remarked the other, seemingly in total agreement, but also agitated about something.
Now is the time to rethink our security
SHORTLY before 10 o’clock last night a message flashed on our night editor’s computer: Police on way to investigate two murders. One occurred shortly after 6pm, victim died in hospital an hour later.
An Immigration squeeze is not the answer
DESPERATE TO win the 2012 general election, the PLP campaigned across this country with promises that in return for their votes they would give Bahamians “all the world and more besides”.
Time for action - the country is in peril
AS WE have said in this column before, at least Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe has had the guts to face the facts that crime is not only destroying our people, but it is also destroying our economy. We have always found that the best way to solve a problem is to face it.
This is your country - have a say
BRITAIN’S most famous son of the 20th century, Winston Churchill, once said: “When men have the habit of liberty, the Press will continue to be the vigilant guardian of the rights of the ordinary citizen”.
Gibson thinks he has unlimited power
AT LAST the long expected National Insurance Board’s forensic audit report — commissioned by the government last year — is public, leaving more questions than answers.
Citizens can no longer harbour the criminals
THE MURDER of an American visitor over the weekend has removed the rose coloured glasses from the eyes of at least one government minister.
Load-shedding to remove taxation threat
ALTHOUGH last week Moody’s cut Slovenia’s rating by two notches to “junk”, this proud central European nation —one of the EU’s most recent members – is determined not to become the fifth eurozone country to ask for financial aid.
Flyers not from Tribune
YESTERDAY, Tribune readers living in the Cable Beach, Lyford Cay area, complained that on Monday newspaper vendors were handing out a bright coloured flyer that defamed Lyford Cay resident Louis Bacon.
'Where is the beef?' asks Darron Cash
NO WONDER FNM Chairman Darron Cash yesterday demanded to know where NIB Minister Shane Gibson had hidden “the beef”.
Cargill NIB report released or leaked?
HAS THERE been another mysterious leak in the Cargill National Insurance Board inquiry?
