5 reasons for Spain's colossal economic troubles
MADRID— Spain's financial crisis is a lot like peeling an onion: remove one troubled layer and you expose another.
Bahamians must put party aside and work together
IN POLITICS they call it “pay back time” or “jobs for the boys.” Today it is so blatant under the new government that it is causing much chatter on both sides of the political divide.
The day they let a good man go
ON THE day that we should have been behind our desk or watching TV 13, we were at a morning meeting and so did not hear or see former prime minister Hubert Ingraham’s final farewell from front-line politics.
Urban Renewal being directed by government
WE HOPE that Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade will remain his own man and not let politicians influence his decisions and sully his fine reputation.
The lessons learned from 'urban' in GB
THE “all for me baby” crowd is back in town with their belief in entitlement — remember “God gave this country to the PLP” and “I only lookin’ out for PLPs.” Mixed in with their bag of political tricks is victimisation of those who don’t sit in the same political pew and the belief that jobs have to be found for the boys — whether or not the boys have the ability to do them.
Now choose your lady to head Urban Renewal
IN THIS column yesterday we promised to lay out the facts and let our readers decide which of two ladies has the best qualifications to head government’s Urban Renewal programme in Grand Bahama.
The Freeport lady who is an excellent cook
THERE has been much behind-the-scenes muttering about the PLP government’s selection of some of the persons appointed for a year to the various statutory boards. Some of their Urban Renewal appointments have also been criticised.
Echoes from 2002 being heard in 2012
IT IS interesting to browse through The Tribune’s “dead” files only to discover that they are not so dead after all. In the Bahamas history has a way of repeating itself at very short intervals.
Mr Prime Minister, is this not victimisation?
URBAN RENEWAL, the PLP’s solution to most of the country’s ills, has many Bahamians confused as to what it really is.
Police and public should share information
WHAT started in the sixties as a deliberate effort to suppress press freedom, over time morphed into an accepted tradition — the police gave scant information to the press.
There should be no secrets from the public
WHILE Bahamians slept, a handful of rapists were on the prowl in eastern and western New Providence. They were attacking women in their homes in the early morning hours -- but mum was the word. There was no warni
Brotherhood shelves Egypt's Islamsation - for now
THE MUSLIM Brotherhood has stopped talking about its longtime dream of an Islamic Egypt and expelling Israel's ambassador to Cairo. Instead, President-elect Mohammed Morsi is hurriedly building a diverse alliance with leftists, liberals and Christians to bolster his battle to end military rule.
What is URCA's role with BTC?
THE Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) came into existence on September 1, 2009. URCA replaced the Public Utilities Commission and the Television Regulatory Authority. URCA is supposed to act as an independent body and its main purpose is to regulate the telecommunications industry.
Security experts unite for Olympics
FIGHTER jets thunder above the English countryside. Missiles stand ready. And Big Brother is watching like never before.
Obama prepping thousands of lawyers
President Barack Obama’s campaign has recruited a legion of lawyers to be on standby for this year’s election as legal disputes surrounding the voting process escalate.
