LETTER: Thoughts on Bahamasair rate hike
BAHAMASAIR Customer Service announcement on their increase of fees for baggage... first surely Bahamasair could have waited til after Easter? The explanation and reasoning and consequence is hilarious... increasing the fees Will Improve The Quality Of Services! Press releases who checks them?
LETTER: Formalise rideshare industry
LET’S formalise the Rideshare industry. The Ministry of Energy and Transport has sent out a public notice to warn residents that Ride Share apps are illegal. It is not the first such notice.
LETTER: Only Bahamians should be national heroes
WHEN we make people sort of national heroes, shouldn’t they be Bahamians? Who is a Bahamian? Legally carries at minimum a Bahamas Passport which signifies the person has the Constitutional right to be called Bahamian.
LETTER: Applause for creative arts school
THE current administration is to be congratulated for its decision to create a National School for the Creative and Performing Arts. While it may be 50 years late, the school is a critical element for the development of cultural expression by the Bahamian community. The declaration of Independence in 1973 was not just an important public ceremony, it was the launch of a new nation, one to be defined more than anything else by a commitment to a shared identity. That identity demands a diet of cultural sharing. In recognition of this, early administrations created or recognised National cultural groups (Dance School and Company, Youth and Children’s Choirs, Youth Orchestra) but not the support needed to develop them.
LETTER: New era of politics is needed
Could social promotion in Bahamian politics be anything but a mirror reflection of our similar school system, where persons are passed up to the next level/grade/term in office, whether or not they deserve to be? Back in the good ol’ days, students had to pass certain tests in order to advance to the next class or grade level. Accordingly, there were classrooms with students separated by two or three years of age sitting next to each other. When students did not earn passing marks of, say, 70% (or perhaps 50%, in some cases) they had to “repeat” the course. Then, a newfangled notion of “social promotion” came along. In fact, and unfortunately, it is still in effect to this day.
LETTER: Patricia was a national treasure
It was in 2003, just shy of adulthood, that I had the great fortune of meeting the late Patricia Glinton-Meicholas. I was eighteen years old—an idealist tossed into the deep end—newly appointed to the Council of the then College of The Bahamas. I found myself seated among giants, including Sir Franklyn Wilson (as he now is) as Chair, alongside Dr. Earl Cash, the Reverend Angela Palacious, the late Audrey Ingraham-Roberts… and Patricia Glinton-Meicholas.
LETTER: Minnis is living in delusion
THERE’S no polite way to say this: Dr Hubert Minnis is not the leader of the Free National Movement, and hasn’t been for some time. But you wouldn’t know that from the way he carries on.
Minnis seeking sympathy
Today’s press release by former prime minister Dr Hubert Minnis is an effort to buy time and drum up public support and sympathy.
Rahming too good with spin
THERE’S no denying it: Latrae Rahming is one of the most effective political communicators this country has seen in recent years.
Disappointed in Minnis’ response
Dr Minnis, the Free National Movement has made its decision regarding the Killarney constituency—and that decision stands.
Why now is Lewis a no good MP?
I WAS dismayed after listening to former staunched Free National Movement supporter Natasha Darville list her reasons for the fall-out between Central Grand Bahama MP Iram Lewis and that area’s constituency association on Shenique Miller’s Beyond the Headlines program.
Raise wages for possible re-election
ON April 7th, Moody’s released its updated sovereign credit rating for The Bahamas, moving us from “stable” to “positive”.
Did Moody’s consider govt’s unpaid bills?
THE Moody’s announcement sweet music to PM Davis but how many of our financial commentators would agree?
Collective stupidity on the rise
Collective stupidity appears to be well on track to become the next great pandemic which will bring life as we knew it for most of our lives to a traumatically abrupt halt.
Minnis’ time is now over
It should not have come to this—its a crying shame that Dr Minnis’ lack of sportsmanship and statesmanship have forced the Pintard-led FNM to politely tell him, in front of the nation, that his time in frontline politics is over.
