Time for Christie to admit he can't keep promise
LAST week, Prime Minister Christie confirmed that his government had no intention of selling the public any part of government’s 49 per cent shares in Bahamas Telecommunications Company.
There has to be an accounting of money spent
SUDDENLY, the Christie government has discovered that the world is in an economic crisis, which strangely is retarding the growth of the Bahamas’ economy. However, when the slump came shortly after the Ingraham government took over the administration in 2007, Mr Christie, then in Opposition, was apparently unaware that the world was in trouble, and that the Bahamas, as a part of that world, was also in financial hot water.
Are Wilson's 'shocking revelations' a political bluff?
FRANKLYN Wilson, reputed to be a clever businessman, persists in his mission to reverse ownership roles at Bahamas Telecommunications Company. Despite an ironclad contract, signed by the previous government, with Cable and Wireless Communications as majority shareholder of BTC, Prime Minister Christie has appointed Mr Wilson to head a committee to convince CWC to reverse ownership roles with his government.
Bahamians want answers to Government spending
HAS URBAN Renewal 2.0 failed? Surely not, after all this was supposed to be the panacea to solve all the Bahamas’ social ills and defeat crime – or was it in reality just a ploy to win an election?
US will not tolerate online gaming
ALTHOUGH the future of a web shop industry for the Bahamas remains locked in the bosom of the courts, we suggest to Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe that he should not depend too heavily on American tourists becoming involved in the game of the dice. One look at what’s happening between the US and the twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda should cool Mr Wilchcombe’s ardour about getting Americans involved.
Has the public tender been abandoned at NIB?
NATIONAL Insurance’s first forensic report is yet to be completed, but what is now happening at NIB, observed a concerned Bahamian yesterday, is paving the way for another forensic review at the end of this government’s five-year term.
Independent audit or a witch hunt is now the question
IS THE government-ordered forensic audit of National Insurance an independent audit or a witch hunt?
Are they shadow boxing with the NIB audit?
ON MONDAY, Labour Minister Shane Gibson accused former National Insurance Board Director Algernon Cargill of frustrating the current audit into NIB by making “unreasonable demands on them”. These demands, therefore, had delayed the completion of the audit, and obviously its delivery to government.
Start from the top to trim the debt
GOVERNMENT has ordered spending cuts in its ministries in an effort to relieve the financial strain on the Public Treasury.
Do our politicians live on a different planet?
IT WAS reported in The Tribune’s weekend newspaper — The Big T – that the operating budget for the College of the Bahamas will have to be reduced over the next two fiscal years because of the country’s present financial crisis. In short, the economy can no longer support the College’s current costs.
Short of money, but must have new House
ARE OUR politicians completely lacking in sense, or is it sensibility? Maybe they have screws missing in both departments.
Politicians attack editor over Freeport
DURING yesterday’s meeting of the House of Assembly, The Tribune editor was criticised for comments made in this column on Tuesday about the administration of the Urban Renewal programme in Grand Bahama under programme coordinator, Michelle Reckley.
Michelle Reckley must explain why she wasn't on the job
IT WOULD appear that Urban Renewal 2.0 is a disaster under the direction of the PLP-appointed Michelle Reckley, former party assistant secretary-general on Grand Bahama and school caterer, whose self proclaimed claim to fame is that she is qualified for her present position because she “comes from urban”.
Mismanagement at NIB should be investigated
LAST MONTH, after The Tribune reported a two-day sick-out in the NIB’s National Prescription Drug Plan department, Public Relations Minister Pandora Butler denied that such an event had ever taken place. In fact, she claimed that despite our reports, morale at NIB was not at a low, rather it was “on a sharp incline”.
International award to Cargill suppressed by NIB
WHILE FORMER National Insurance Board chairman Gregory Moss was busy drafting a letter to justify his arbitrary dismissal of Alegernon Cargill as Director and Chief Executive Officer of NIB, a rather inconvenient letter arrived from Geneva notifying NIB that Mr Cargill was to receive global recognition for an outstanding plan he had introduced at NIB.
