Frustrating govt service needs fixing
Kindly permit me to express my views on the frustration one experiences in doing business at government agencies.
Voter against govt, not citizenship
For years we denied legitimate claims to citizenship now proven in the Wayne Munroe, KC, case and Appeal to the Privy Council and justifiably the higher Court judged in favour of his claims now any child of a Bahamian male from an outside relationship with a non-Bahamian mother born in the Bahamas is a citizen.
Why borrow money? PPP the right way
Family Island Airports - were we not told developments will be completed using PPP -Private-Public Partnership financing? Seems big announcement we borrowing from Saudi Arabia to develop Exuma Airport. A dollar is too much, Editor!
Abaco concerned over mining
Friends of the Environment (FRIENDS) is a Bahamian non-profit organisation that was established in 1988 with the mission to preserve the environment of Abaco, The Bahamas through education, conservation, and research facilitation. We are writing today to express our concern about a number of issues that have become compounded in Abaco since Hurricane Dorian.
Cable Beach construction nuisance
Cable Beach Post Office parking lot has that been transferred to Sandals Hotel or the contractor Worlesee Construction because I tried to collect my mail for two days impossible … no parking space and one exit blocked with a rope!
Bring FOIA enhanced with AI
September 28 marks the International Day for Universal Access to Information, a day proclaimed by UNESCO to emphasise the importance of legal and practical frameworks for the public to access information.
Blame NATO for the deaths
Witness the deafening silence with which western media and politicians fail to place into context the more than 10,000 probably avoidable deaths from flash floods in what was once the most developed country on the African continent: Libya.
Police not protecting taxi drivers
I am Dehavilland Moss and I am a professional taxi driver. I sometimes work on Paradise Island, but my true love is working on Bay Street.
A moment to mourn first, please
LAST Monday, as I listened to the commentators over ZNS emanating from the northern Bahamas, I heard comments like “who should replace him”, “having a deep bench”, “maintaining that seat”, and the like (review the tape). It appears obvious to me that they were referencing the vacancy in Bimini and western Grand Bahama created by the untimely death of Obie Wilchcombe.
Political implications for West GB
From the outset I would like to extend sincere condolences to the family of the late West End and Bimini MP Obie Wilchcombe. His death is a grim reminder of the uncertainty and brevity of life on this side of eternity and the importance of living each day as if it would be our last, with our focus on the Lord Jesus Christ
Condolences expressed for Wilchcombe
Women United (WU) expresses our profound sorrow and deepest condolences on the passing of Minister Obie Wilchcombe, the Minister of Social Services and Member of Parliament for West End and Bimini. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, the Progressive Liberal Party, his constituents, and the entire nation of The Bahamas during this difficult time.
One-term govt in the making
Has the question ever been asked about why we have not had at least a two term government in The Bahamas since the FNM administration of 1992-2002?
No case for climate crisis, reparations
The foreign policy of the Davis-Cooper Government is totally based around Climate change and Slave reparations - regret my grandson writing a paper at his High School blew both of these issues out of the deepest part of the Tongue of the Ocean off Andros. We, The Bahamas, don’t have a case in either to argue.
Brave new world
We are in a brave new world. Before March, 2020 most people in the western world believed they were part of the free world. The COVID crisis demonstrated once there is an emergency you have no rights; just privileges that the government give and take away. All constitutions of countries of the west have a mechanism where a government can declare a state of emergency. Belize and Jamaica have taken that to the other level where an increase in crime, mainly murder, is a state of emergency. I thought crime was a social ill. If it is and only the symptom is suppressed in the long term it will get worse as it has in both countries. This kind of state of emergency is palliative and not corrective. Poverty, breakdown of the family and moral decadence has to be fixed.
Blowing the whistle on PM Davis?
I took note of a September 20 article on the front page of The Nassau Guardian concerning allegations made by the Free National Movement party that the Davis administration is currently facing a cash crunch crisis. The Nassau Guardian was careful to add that the official opposition offered no proof to substantiate its explosive claims. Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis is the substantive minister of finance. Prominent Progressive Liberal Party supporter Simon Wilson is the financial secretary in the Ministry of Finance -- a post I believe is really a de facto state ministerial position without the said title. Wilson, for all intents and purposes, is a technocrat who, I believe, is running the show in Finance.
