Doris Johnson’s role in the suffrage movement
ON SUNDAY Prime Minister Perry Christie spoke at a special Bethel Baptist Church service to commemorate National Women’s Month and the 50th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement in the Bahamas.
Yes, you too can succeed
WE NOW have a better understanding of Jesus’ observation that a successful man is not honoured in his own country after government’s announcement — followed by some public protest— that the northbound bridge to Paradise was to be officially named in honour of Bahamian Sir Sidney Poitier.
Are PLP voters disappointedin their governement?
ACCORDING to reports the grumbling among PLP “generals” is getting louder and others are complaining that if Urban Renewal 2.0 — one of the PLP’s major campaign promises in the May 7 election — was supposed to reduce crime as promised, it is not working.
Sandy unlikely to damage US economy, analysts say
WASHINGTON — Airlines have cancelled thousands of flights, stranding travellers around the globe. Insurers are bracing for possible damages of $5 billion. Retailers face shrunken sales.
Both political parties in state of unrest
THE AGE of Hubert Ingraham is over. Or is it?
Bahamians must be informed, says Archbishop
WITH PRIME Minister Perry Christie telling the press that he will announce the date for the gambling referendum after this week’s cabinet meeting, Archbishop Patrick Pinder yesterday released in all Catholic churches his seven-page reflections on the Bahamas’ illegal gambling.
Has the Westminster system been compromised?
PRIME Minister Christie now has the longed for icing on his cake, but it will be a very bitter icing and a hard cake to bite into if he doesn’t formulate and enforce a strict code of ethics on his parliamentarians and instruct them in the age-old precedents of a parliamentary system within which they are expected to function.
Undesirable election tactics in Abaco
IT IS not illegal, but is it right for a prime minister to be within the precincts of a polling station while citizens are voting — particularly when those citizens are government employees?
PLP wins, but democracy loses in N. Abaco
PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts, in thanking the people of Abaco for “ushering in a new day”, claimed that the PLP’s election win represented “a great victory for both democracy and the good people of North Abaco…”
Abaco by-election begins and ends today
BY THIS evening the new MP for North Abaco will have been elected. All the noise, fuss and bother of a bye-election will be over.
'We are looking out for PLPs' is the mantra
Today in our democratic Bahamas there are many frightened Bahamians.
The political chatter in North Abaco
BAHAMIANS in Nassau are now asking how much moving the cabinet to Abaco for a supposed one-day meeting will cost the Public Treasury.
Is Perry Christie Prime Minister of all Bahamians?
PRIME MINISTER Christie made his political philosophy very clear Saturday night when he took to the platform at his party’s rally in Treasure Cay, Abaco, in support of the party’s candidate in the North Abaco bye-election.
There is disappointment in the air
SUDDENLY, at lunch yesterday, in the middle of a conversation that had nothing to do with politics, one of our friends, his face taut with worry, interrupted.
Disaster of Hatchet Bay could be repeated
SANDALS Resorts International, although admitting that Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma is “facing severe difficulty in continuing operations because of the multitude of high cost” associated with operating on a Family Island, still believes that these islands are the future for Bahamian tourism.
