Like a used car lot
I was beginning to worry that I was the only one noticing how our city and island is becoming more unattractive every day – that is until I read some recent letters and columns in the press. One or two of them made mention of something that is particularly irritating to me and that is the proliferation of advertising signs all over the place.
Baha Mar made me proud
Picture a diver climbing high up the ladder. Hours, years of practice behind them as their moment gets closer.
Mitchell hasn’t the temperament to be PM
Foreign Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell is routinely mentioned as one of three possible successors of Prime Minister Perry Christie, once the latter finally demits office as PLP leader.
Who runs the streets?
Who runs our streets? Is it the police or the criminals? I think Third Street should be renamed Dodge City Street, because that is what it has been like for the past two months.
Persecuted in my own country
I am a Bahamian of Haitian descent currently residing in New Providence. I am the founder of a group called The Connection, which is a voluntary group comprised of young Bahamians of Haitian descent who seek to make a positive contribution and impact in The Bahamas through education and voluntary projects.
Authority of magistrates
Will you kindly allow space in your valuable paper for the following.
Difference between a leader and a politician
The average Bahamian citizen is viewed as nothing more than a pawn on a chessboard, often used simply to advance the political agenda of one side or the other with the majority becoming casualties or collateral damage.
Lining up for PLP convention
The PLP’s convention is fast approaching and party stalwarts are jockeying for positions.
Bowe and Baha Mar
The Chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, Gowon Bowe, should excuse himself from any further remarks regarding Baha Mar unless those remarks show that he “does not have a horse in the race”.
Prom date
Re: Man steals ambulance and crashes it into house (The Tribune, August 31).
The week in Nassau
Sort of aging myself, but I recall when visiting London back in the “60’s”, there was a Saturday evening TV programme - “That was the week that was”...Sir David Frost was one of the presenters as were a number of Cambridge and Oxford grads...A great laugh over the politics of the time and the current issues.
Parents and their children
So, single parents (mainly women), now we know that we must take responsibility for much of the increase in crime for bad parenting. Never mind that many of us (some with husbands) have worked hard to maintain the children and spent long hours teaching them the basics of right and wrong and good manners and ensured that they did their homework and studied to better themselves.
Garbage galore
This conflict issue and who owns what? Surely there is a simple remedy seeing that we signed-off on FACTA and we tell the Americans even our bed secrets. We amend the Company’s Act and require no more “nominee shareholders” and that all directors have to be shown on their corporate stationary.
Music to the ears
In regards to your headline “Mathematics E & English D+”. That must be music to the ears of the PLP party. An educated electorate plays into their hands.
Sir Albert was simply first class
I never would have known that a chance meeting some 63 years ago would have led to a friendship of a lifetime.
