A looming refugee crisis ahead
A potential crisis and grave political embarrassment for the new administration has collided with hundreds of Haitian refugees entering our waters. We are facing a refugee crisis of historic proportions and it does not involve the coronavirus.
An open letter on nation’s transport
Dear Prime Minister, Congratulations on your victory at the recent polls.
Dictatorial tendencies cost Minnis
Immediately after the 2017 elections, Hubert Minnis set on a collision course, angered the majority of Bahamians, which ended in the most astonishing defeat in Bahamian history.
Time to stand up
“IF Bahamians are not prepared to stand up and defend their own Bahamas, then ya don’t deserve to have it ...” -- Pindling. Those words are as true and meaningful today as they were all those many years ago. In a way, they may be even more meaningful today.
The Minnis era of the FNM
Shortly after becoming leader of the once respected and revered FNM, the Hon Hubert A Minnis (FNM-Killarney) publicly and politically stabbed the former Prime Minister, the Rt Hon Hubert A Ingraham frontally by declaring that the Ingraham Era was over. He thought, I am sure, that he was playing cute and dismissive.
Trade deal inclusivity
Our world is divided into various political and economic blocks, nations with their corporations allied to others in an attempt to create a free trade situation. Not that real free trade exists anywhere. Like selfish children nations and the economic trade blocks carry out illegal actions that go contrary to the agreements they joined. Trade barriers, preference to their corporations needs, create unnecessary conflict and uncertainty. Trade Organisations try to be democratic in nature, and where you find democracy you can also find national self interest.
The War Cabinet
All of you know that for decades I have been privileged to be the biggest media supporter of the new Prime Minister, the Hon Philip “Brave” Davis, QC. When he was a mere lawyer @ Messrs Christie; Ingraham; Davis & Company at Victoria Avenue, I was there. When he established his own practice @ West Hill Street north, I was with him and now that he has ascended the greasy pole, I have more work to be done.
Time to heal after the vote
During his campaign, Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis journeyed through each island of the Bahamas. His message was simple. It was a promise to help bridge our current divisions as he has always worked to do previously. He embraced the fact that what the country needed at this time was real leadership that seeks to de-escalate tensions, open lines of communication, and bring us together to heal.
Smaller parties in election
Now that the 2021 general election is over, many people have expressed the view that third parties generally, and the Coalition of Independents in particular, have demonstrated that there is a need for a third political force in the country.
The coming national crisis
There is a monumental crisis looming in The Bahamas.
What next after vote?
Post election analysis for the FNM has tone soul searching, but essentially unbiased as faults there were there which did not start now, but were long established almost to the beginning of the administration in 2017… like Christie seen two years out.
Please help, Mr Davis
For the attention of: Hon Phillip E Davis, Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and Hon Dr Michael Darville, Minister of Health and Wellness . . .
Assault accused granted bail
A MAN who denied assaulting another man was yesterday granted bail before his trial.
Five years to organise polling
Elections come and go usually every five-years so the organisers of them have the luxury of four plus plus years to get things together...all it takes is an eight-month jump forward and chaos.
Election nonsense
The usual PLP stalwarts have come out with the predictable drivel in your letters page reference the election.
