What now for the FNM?
HIS week Renardo Curry will take his seat in the House of Assembly as the newest Member of Parliament for North Abaco. His ascendency concludes an uninspiring campaign process that produced a voter turnout of 86 per cent, down from 91 per cent in May’s general election.
Forging a 'Caribbean connection'
LAST month the Bahamas National Youth Council, a non-profit organization representing youth voices in the country, commemorated Caribbean Youth Day with a youth march and forum.
Economic crisis in Freeport: a call to action
THE premise for this article is that given the economic crisis now affecting Freeport and Grand Bahama, an Action Task Force Committee be formed under the direction and auspices of Government, the GBPA and Licensees to determine and effect both a Short Term Solution and a Long Term Solution, which will include the formation, for the long term, of a professional marketing organization to be formed and paid for by the GBPA/GBDevco in accordance with their covenants made to Government and the people of The Bahamas in the Hawksbill Creek Agreements of 1955 and of 1960 and in the Freeport, Grand Bahama Act, 1993 to promote Freeport and Grand Bahama for the benefit of the Country.
Rehabilitating the Bahamian workforce
THE clock is ticking and the 2014 opening date for the 2.5 billion dollar Baha Mar project is fast approaching.
What you don't know can't hurt them
SO, trying to kill someone can be considered a big deal in the Bahamas after all.
Burying our heads in the sand: the case of Dion Smith
FIRST off, let me say I'm not about to join those calling for Dion Smith's head, or those defending the embattled Deputy Speaker.
Inventing reality
I FEEL quite sorry for the two young men from PLP families recently hired at ZNS News.
The Bahamas is becoming increasingly unequal
Nellie Day – remember her? She wrote an article claiming that the majority of Bahamians live in shacks made of straw and wood, while a wealthy elite can afford mansions made of concrete, strong enough to withstand a hurricane.
The mysterious disappearance of Urban Renewal
URBAN Renewal has vanished completely from Grand Bahama...
Victimisation claims: the silence is deafening
UP UNTIL the time of writing – early yesterday morning – both the government and the Broadcasting Corporation of the Bahamas had maintained their silence on the allegations of victimisation at ZNS TV.
Some things never change
ON May 7 the government changed; unfortunately certain attitudes didn’t follow suit.
Christie the reformer?
PRIME Minister Perry Christie made a commendable move last week in calling for an end to “criminal” election practices.
Why the PLP is still afraid of Hubert Ingraham
LOVE or hate him, honest people have to admit there is no one in Bahamian politics quite like Hubert Ingraham.
Playground politics
THE Progressive Liberal Party attacked the former government’s performance with great success in the run-up to the election. But now that they hold the reigns, Christie and Co find themselves reverting to schoolyard tactics in an attempt to justify adopting some of the very actions they condemned. Insight reports...
A chance to lead the way
AT an international summit in Trinidad last week, press freedom advocates said they intend to target the Caribbean in their quest to exterminate criminal defamation laws. In the Bahamas, where this repressive vestige of Colonialism still exists but is practically never applied, the announcement opens the door on a rare opportunity to reap global accolades with minimum effort.
