The pariah of Grand Bahama
IN the late 1990ies, when Hutchinson Whampoa announced their development plans and partnership with the GBPA, an era of optimism swept through Grand Bahama – a new container port and an ambitious investment in resort properties.
BTC customer service needs to be improved
BTC and the serious lack of any sense of customer service - where has it gone?
TAXATION TO HIT VACATION HOME RENTAL SECTOR
I am sorry to be beating the Airbnb drum again but one has to wonder if our Minister of Tourism even understands this business, or why the Government would waste its very scarce legal resources, in order to legislate a tax to be levied on 1,200, mostly Bahamian people in a population of nearly 400,000. Maybe 3/10’s of one per cent of the population.
Minnis and the press
Fresh out of the Trump playbook, Minnis could not resist to condemn the same press that helped him gain power. Minnis, the whole Bahamas and the world, knew that the FNM won on “fake news!” He, in his naivety, literally castigated the press for doing their job. What a gaffe!!
Time to put the focus on men
WITH as a major crisis we have with our men especially young people how is it we have never had a Men’s Week like we have this week for women?
Bahamian decline
It’s easy to forget now, when we as a people, a Bahamian people, have come so far, but have forgotten from whence we’ve come, to where now, our people are more than ever, falling victims to great sufferings of poverty, imprisonment, victimisation, political hostages, oppression, neglect, and so much more. Bahamians, what has become of us?
Talk show experts
I never realised how many brilliant people we had in the country until the advent of the local radio talk shows.
The fourth estate and Dr Minnis
IN Constitutional Law, it is generally accepted that there are four estates in any civilised and democratic country. The church is often referred to as the “first” estate. The legislature as the second estate. The executive as the third estate and, of course, the media is known as the fourth estate. The demarcation between these “estates” often overlap and may be difficult to separate. It is no different here in our wonderful nation.
Commerce Bill plan
I imagine that Brent Symonette is a little self-conscious about tooting his own family’s horn, but perhaps the very best example that could be given to the Bahamian people, to demonstrate the positive side of what this bill is trying to do, is to simply look at the history of our own Commonwealth Bank.
Steps for future of our nation
AFTER reading The Tribune’s November 22, 2017, articles entitled “We have to open up the economy” and “New job bill will ensure ‘Bahamians are a priority’,” I was tempted to join the spirited and lengthy commentary that the articles engendered. However, after perusing the text of the Commercial Enterprises Bill, 2017, I realised that, because I was neither lawyer nor legislator and because I wasn’t willing to take the time to try to fully comprehend the Bill, I was insufficiently qualified to comment.
Looking back on the week’s news
COMMERCIAL Enterprise Act - progressive but was it really necessary? Surely a consolidation of all the existing Laws would have been easy. I must again state emphatically that the so-called NEC/National Economic Council is not supported by Law and again Agreements given by the NEC are not worth the paper they are typed on.
Minnis and the press
WHY did Prime Minister Minnis make the infamous comments on the press practice at the Press Association and why seemingly since then the press, member of, are very touchy?
Same sex marriage
THIS same sex issue is an ideology, a philosophy, a way of seeing relationships that deviate from common sense norms. At its heart is the way a person feels about who they are and how they feel toward others of the same sex. This world is a sea of ideas and has seen many philosophies come and go. Remember Marxism, imperialism, humanism, sexism for its own sake and other such ideas? The consequences of ideas may take many generations before they are seen. Ideas can change, but time tested values don’t have to.
New commissioner
PLEASE permit me to share my observations on the recent installation of the new Commissioner of Police and the manner in which the government dealt with the appointment.
Minnis and response by journalists
I have read much of the commentary by journalists on the Prime Minister’s recent speech to the Press Club. Much of the heated commentary validated much of what Dr Minnis had to say.
