Clean bill of health for Marathon?
I recently saw a copy of a “report to the nation” on the Rubis fuel spill in Marathon. According to this very pretty, nicely produced report, the ministries of Health and Environment have given the residents of Marathon a “clean bill of health”.
A shameful act
It seems we have hit a new low with the Ministry of Education blocking Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner from receiving relief supplies on behalf of her hurricane ravaged community.
Dancing while veteran abandoned
As reported in The Tribune November 10th “As Veterans Remembered, One Is Left In Rundown Home”.
Confounded by crime march call
I read your headline with astonishment this morning “Wilchcombe: Murder record is a Disgrace - Minister wants people to get angry and march”.
Neglecting our veterans
Seemingly until this year Remembrance Day was a must attend event on the calendar of our elected people and obviously the Veterans – not in 2015.
Senior citizen VAT
As A retired senior citizen of this country, I am really angered and disturbed over the decision that requires senior citizens to pay VAT on all medical services.
Is Tennyson Wells puppet master of Minnis?
What have we come to in the FNM? Tennyson Wells, who resigned from the party, who voted and campaigned against the FNM, and who is now in bed with the PLP, seems to be pulling the strings as the puppet master of Dr Hubert Minnis and the FNM.
Stop stories of corruption
It is past time that all of the chatter in the media and on street corners about political corruption, outright theft, and back-handers must stop.
Nice from a distance
Re: “The Bahamas is the most beautiful place from space (The Tribune, November 5).
Learning our lesson
In the past several months, we have heard much about “teachable moments”. We have been having these moments for years, but what concerns me is that we do not seem to have learned many lessons from them, particularly with reference to hurricanes.
VAT out of control
FROM a business perspective, the logistics of dealing with VAT has spiralled out of control. Not only is the reporting tedious, do not even think you will get a refund when due, but now payment of VAT is being further complicated.
Corporal punishment
Perhaps I’m wasting my time writing this letter, as some things are so deeply ingrained in the fabric of Bahamian society, that trying to change them often proves fruitless. Yet, there are things that are so wrong, they can no longer be ignored, and someone has to stand up and say something.
Permits at the Pointe
Public Works building control inspectors stops work at The Pointe project at The British Colonial Hilton ... Wow! I was wondering when they would.
Redundancy madness
The government’s plans to eliminate the Employment Acts twelve-year cap on redundancy pay is their latest act of lunacy, no doubt promoted by the more trade union steeped among them, and comes as a knife in the back of the private sector.
Too much time or misplaced priorities?
“Shut mout catch no fly” is a little ditty that most Bahamians know about. In addition to flies, a shut mout will also keep one’s foot from being put in it.
