Cruise ships get too much advantage
SHOULD we revert to the old status quo of what we allow open on the cruise ships whilst they are visiting as it seems what we have are too much advantage to the cruise companies?
Upset over Junkanoo in Canada
Junkanoo is a centuries-old part of our Bahamian tradition and a direct link to our African heritage that was brought here by enslaved Africans where it fell on fertile ground and has flourished.
Need for IMF reform for SIDS
During the dedication of an oil refinery in Freeport, grand Bahama, in 1969, the late Sir Lynden Pindling declared, “in this city where, regrettably, almost anything goes, where promisingly, some economic opportunities have come to Bahamians, and Bahamians are nevertheless still the victim of an unbending social order which, if it now refuses to bend, must be broken.”
Capital fast becoming a derelict town
GREETINGS Bahamas, and editor, with this one, I write with a heavy heart and being a fair-minded individual, I think that those like-minded readers of your premier paper, would agree that things, conditions, look very bleak, perhaps bleaker, than any other time in our dispensation and expressly under the good graces of our Lord, but why?
Can we trust our medical sector?
THERE is a web of collusion and corruption attached to the medical health-pharmaceutical sector where private corporations owned by many wealthy players in society are protected by various oversight bodies within and of our governments.
If there is nothing to hide Scotland Yard should lead
DID the Commissioner advise of the arrival of Scotland Yard or at the very least announce when they will arrive?
Take credit where it is earned
FINANCES - let’s take credit where credit is due...nothing the Bahamas government did except to agree like the rest of the world to the 15 percent corporate tax.
Olympic opening was anti-Christian
EVERY five years, the sporting world gathers in the true tradition of the Olympic Oath... significantly to unify the nations in peaceful games.
Scotland Yard should run probe
DID the Commissioner advise of the arrival of Scotland Yard or at the very least announce when they will arrive?
Doctor ‘progressing adequately’ after pump implant surgery
A NEWLY married doctor successfully had a pump implant yesterday, a critical step toward receiving a heart transplant.
Private cays hurting local income
IN stopping by to convey views that many Bahamians have, but for reasons unknown unable to make them in the print media.
Bahamas should boycott Olympics over blasphemy
WHEN I got home on Saturday afternoon I asked my wife why she wasn’t watching the Olympic Games, which is airing on Peacock TV app.
Free to have our opinions
IN our form of democracy all have the right to their personal opinion…opinions are made through due diligence - listening studying and coming to a rational decision and then your point of view…you have the Constitutional Right to state that and use your free secret ballot whenever an election is called.
Athol Island
THE current disaster being highlighted in The Tribune newspaper about the Athol Island development project needs immediate attention to make the STOP order permanent!
BISX securities
BISX...Central Bank being able to continue to sell government securities, which they issue, rather than thru a monopoly at BISX is to reduce the costs of transfer which are to the detriment of the saver.
