Govt doesn’t know what it’s doing
In a recent interview about the Baha Mar fiasco, business tycoon Phil Ruffin pointed to a lesson – you have to deal with people “who know what the hell they are doing.”
Mitchell's 'outrageous' statements
I found Fred Mitchell’s comments directed at Mr. Izmirlian to be absolutely outrageous. Mitchell’s statements were disgraceful. It seriously makes me worry about the direction this country is headed when a prominent politician, supposedly educated, could make threats such as these in public.
This is not the answer
The simple fact of the matter is that we need a solution to the Baha Mar blowout, and fast. But the way in which the Bahamian government is going about themselves is not the answer.
How many days to November 2015?
How many days to November 2015, when this Government insists Baha Mar can be opened by?
Closure of Butler's Food World
About two weeks ago Butler’s Food World on West Atlantic Drive, Freeport closed its doors.
What has another long time resident invested?
Nassau has earned the moniker “Dodge City”, with its daily shootouts and gun related violence.
Fred Mitchell's threat
I write to share my views on Minister Fred Mitchel’s recent threat about the possible revocation of Mr. Sarkis Izmirlian’s Bahamian permanent resident status because of personal opinions Mr Izmirlian shared about the leadership of Prime Minister Perry Christie.
Paying tribute to Errol Cartwright
It was in 1989 and I was just elected Secretary General of the Free National Movement when the MP for Inagua and Mayaguana, Vernon Symonette, asked me to conduct the election of Association officers in Inagua and Mayaguana.
I pray Izmirlian wins this contest
Seems to me the government with the pronouncements it is now making — including the latest by State Minister for Legal Affairs Damian Gomez in questioning the source of Mr Izmirlian’s $200,000 million – is acting as though its winding up petition, to be heard on July 31 by a Supreme Court justice, has already been decided in its favour
Immigration policy kills arbitration
AS LONG ago as 2006, imaginative lawyers like Bar leader Peter Maynard as well as financial executives began encouraging arbitration in the Bahamas.
The missing pieces
When Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian announced on Monday, June 29, that the resort had voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 in a Delaware Court, I think it’s safe to say that the prime minister was not the only one who was blindsided.
Leadership void
“The overarching purpose of access to information legislation … is to facilitate democracy. It does so in two related ways. It helps to ensure first, that citizens have the information required to participate meaningfully in the democratic process, and secondly, that politicians and bureaucrats remain accountable to the citizenry.” – Gerard LaForest, former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, in Dagg vs Canada (1997).
The Amateur
The seeming implosion of Baha Mar and the legal wrangling between the relevant parties, including the government, does not bode well for our economic and political viability.
Answers, Mr Sands
The letter published in both morning dailies yesterday, from Sandy Sands, VP, Baha Mar, was rather surprising and raises in my thinking some serious questions, probably on every single Bahamian’s lips.
Is national pride worth the price?
Recent events have caused me to focus more closely at the given circumstances and I can only conclude that decisions have been taken in the name of “National Pride” but nobody has questioned at what cost.
