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Despite promises problems persist at Magrove Cay

Greetings, I’m writing regarding a recent visit back home to Mangrove Cay, Andros.

We’re obligated to foreigners with fat wallets

If I might make a couple of observations on this ongoing saga. My understanding of agreements is limited but I do not think that the easiest way out is for Mr Smith to reapply.

Home rental regulation

Permit me space in your newspaper to comment on the proposed Tourism Development Corporation of the Bahamas Bill which I understand was pulled from the House today.

Harbour Bay parking

Annoyance is a mild description when trying to shop at Harbour Bay Shopping Centre – where do the potential shoppers park?

Should PLP sell GB to US?

A political operative on Facebook claimed that a Progressive Liberal Party Cabinet minister at the Grand Bahama Business Outlook blamed the island’s protracted economic depression on the COVID-19 pandemic, which is patently false. Grand Bahama has been in the economic doldrums since 2001, the year of the terrorist attacks on the US by Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda.

Tit-for-tat over FTX

Greetings. And thank you for the space in your daily publication to proffer up these several points Of view.

Cruise deal strikes nerve

The Minister of Education gave her opinion on the pending cruise deal and it seems to have struck a nerve, especially with the politically active. Is it what she said or how she said it? Some are saying that it is more about the time that she chose to say it, however, this is a view she has always held.

Ed Bethel

And then there were three. On Monday, March 13, the media profession in The Bahamas lost a giant of a journalist and broadcaster, Mr Ed Bethel.

Concerns over Royal Caribbean beach club

THE following is an open letter from Eric Carey, former executive director of The Bahamas National Trust (BNT), a non-profit, non-government, membership organisation focused on conserving and protecting the Bahamian environment. Mr Carey now leads ONE Consultants, an independent environmental consultancy that has been engaged by Atlantis to review the environmental impact of the proposed Royal Caribbean beach club project.

Promiscuity is to be lauded?

I was hoping not to get mired publicly in this issue, but the more I watch the revolution and revocation of forbidden sexual attraction and practices, the more I begin to question the philosophical, familial and societal implication of the alphabet agenda community.

Corporal punishment

The Tribune reported on March 15 that one of the students of the Bimini Primary School who was “violently” spanked by a police officer is too traumatised to go back to school.

Happy St Patrick’s Day

It’s Saint Patrick’s Day andIt’s Saint Patrick’s Day and Everyone is Irish today

Economist is wrong - again

FOR those of us who are accustomed to Caribbean economist Marla Dukharan’s frequently off-base and usually disproved observations about the nature and prospects of the Bahamian economy, her comments at Tuesday’s RF Economic Outlook were of little surprise.

‘Good morning, I’m Ed Bethel’

“Silence! Silence? In this house”,

Stop child sex abuse

Across generations in this country, children have carried the weight of sexual abuse often by themselves.