Loud music is unfair
Montague Park has become a popular venue for all sorts of functions hosting religious and informal gatherings, many regattas, and most recently the annual Marathon Bahamas event.
Sour grapes?
THREE months after category four Hurricane Matthew passed through The Bahamas, Flamingo Gardens Park still has not been fully restored.
A case of racial hypocrisy
I’m writing this letter on January 15, 2017, a day that has been set aside around the world as Sanctity of Human Life Sunday.
Answers still needed on NHI
NHI.. Do the Civil Service - employees of all Government Agencies understand their external Health Insurance policy will be cancelled with the introduction of NHI with absolutely no compensation?
Time to pass baton has gone
It is with utter amusement that I listened to the Prime Minister speak of the passing of the baton during his Majority Rule Day remarks.
Spinning the news
BOY these Ministers love to spin news and pretend things are okay - Swift Justice... Editor isn’t it logic if you rush serious cases to the Supreme Court cases that are winnable you will see a considerable improvement in the processing of cases?
Launch of NHI
IF all the advertising and promotion is accurate we are supposed to be in the midst of the launching of the much heralded NHI but…
Response to Moss and UPM
GREG Moss and his UPM should be public ally called out for their cynical ploy of raising and inflaming anti-gay sentiments as a transparent attempt to score meagre political points on an unpopular administration.
Not feeling any safer
I don’t know about the rest of the population but I take cold comfort in the figures from the police commissioner and the Hon Attorney General which are apparently given to make us feel safer.
We have giants to slay
Forty-three years after Independence, our wonderful nation is still bedeviled and perplexed by racial and economic dislocations.
Paediatric care in The Bahamas
I read with interest the editorial written by Ms. Eileen Dupuch Carron, “Foundation started for paediatric health care”, on Monday January 9th, 2017.
Knighthoods and independence
IS it ironic how the majority of those who correctly led the social and political movement for correct political reform in The Bahamas accepted awards of the Colonial masters except for probably Hon Arthur D Hanna and Hon Hubert Ingraham?
Stop messing around
READING a recent edition of the Spectator magazine I came across an article about Pakistan entitled “How to beat Terrorism”. I know we do not have terrorism in The Bahamas but we have what can be described as local terrorism by way of murders.
Baha Mar and VAT exemption
I read in the press lately that China Construction America (CCA) informed their subcontractors by email that the work done at Baha Mar Ltd is Value-Added Tax (VAT) exempt, which has provoked comments from different politicians due to the secrecy of the Government’s agreements.
Securities Commission
Re: A Bahamian broker/dealer has admitted to using almost $4 million in client monies, without permission, to fund its own operating costs and business development initiatives, with regulators now moving to finally shut it down. Tribune Business January 3rd.
