Plenty of women in Bahamas have much to celebrate
International women’s day (March 8) is intended to highlight women all around the world. This is a day when accomplishments of women should be the focus of everyone’s attention.
We need an audit of public services
Ease of doing business in The Bahamas, for the most part, is an oxymoron or a contradiction in terms.
Maynard generates his own hot air
A fossil is a preserved prehistoric organism. There is no better word to describe the president of the Electrical Workers Union, the bellicose and always underwhelming Paul Maynard.
Too much brass, and no privates
The month of March was proclaimed Royal Bahamas Police month and a series of official and community events across the country have been organised.
Minnis right to avoid the media
Juan McCartney your March 6 National Review op-ed in The Nassau Guardian said that Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis “became hostile towards the media as he realised that he was subject to serious vetting”.
Ignore the cries of the selfish Nassauvians
Traditionally, successive governments have been known to be Nassau-centric.
Too many questions still unanswered
I can only sum up the current affairs of BEC/BPL, as a fiasco.
So just how serious is our PM about CARICOM?
Just how serious is the Prime Minister when it comes to CARICOM? Stayed one day and flew off to New York for a personal event, an award from UWI Alumni Association. Congrats on the award!
Time to wake up and speak out
I am writing this letter on behalf of us, the Bahamian people, in the spirit of constructive criticism and with suggestions for improving the woeful passport office experience. I am certainly thankful that this is but a “once-every-10 years” occurrence because my recent experience was a two-day/7 hour debacle.
The problem is the way we vote now
Enact ranked choice voting. Anyone who endorses democracy and understands our voting process can tell you our system is flawed. The two-party system is clearly dysfunctional: Party tribalism divides and distracts us, and who wouldn’t want more options in political representation? I doubt anyone is satisfied with what’s currently available at the voting booth.
Local taxes for local needs
Please let me know if the following analogy is incorrect.
We need caution on Venezuela policy
What we are seeing play out in Venezuela today would probably have horrified Dwight Eisenhower.
Are we getting the security we deserve? No . . .
The issues at National Security - are we getting the service and the security we should be receiving bearing in mind the enormous percentage of the National Budge expended?
We have to plan if we want equal pay
Is Article 26 of The Constitution concerning discrimination constantly being abused?
Press the button on chronic radio callers
Today on one of the radio stations around noon the listening public had to endure one chronic caller and an ex-politician in full flight talking total gibberish.
