Letters to the Editor

Banks no longer want to serve us

Banks and their lack of any customer service or what is their job description. Haven’t you noticed how banks don’t want to serve you personally anymore?

We need full explanation of Exuma deaths

I hope very soon that your government and Sandals Resorts will be forthcoming with a proper explanation of the sad deaths in Exuma and what measures will be taken to prevent more deaths. It was pitiful to read yesterday’s Tribune online with your Tourism Minister really avoiding the issue and spouting out about how tourism is increasing and the forthcoming months will see increasing visitor numbers.

GBPA must accommodate Electra group

Grand Bahamians are both happy and cautiously optimistic about the pending sale of the state-owned Grand Lucayan Resort to Electra America Hospitality Group for $100m.

The Davis administration

In all things we give God thanks, look where we are nine months later after Minnis called an early election, isn’t God good? We learn to thank Him for all things, His divine intervention is like bringing the children out of Egypt to the promised land.

Honour thy father and mother

The fifth commandment is often referred to as the first commandment with a promise: “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” (Ex. 20:12.)

Tragedy in Exuma rings alarm bells

What a tumultuous past two days at my travel agencies in New Jersey with the sad news of the deaths at Sandals Resort in Exuma. It has been difficult enough to get bookings for your country in the past two years. Clients come into our agencies, many having alluring feelings about a trip to the Bahamas. In the past forty years until 2020 we could get instant bookings and travellers would be on their way.

What is latest on Governor General’s health?

On April 7, both The Nassau Guardian and The Tribune broke the story of Governor General C.A. Smith falling ill while on official duty in North Eleuthera at P.A. Gibson Primary School.

Family tree chopped down by the rules

This will come as a shock to all members of Ancestry DNA, who are involved in building family trees.

Watson on disclosures is ludicrous

The comment from none other than PM press secretary on the non-compliance of many MPs is totally ludicrous... we take that approach then not paying $1bn of taxes we can use the same excuse? Sorry, Mr Watson, out of order.

The right use of official titles

TITLES - right to use prefixes before ones name an issue as there is unfortunately many who abuse and are never corrected.

Sentencing on guns must be addressed

It is almost laughable to read the daily editorials, columnists and social commentators agonising about the need to address the root causes of crime in our country, when we are apparently incapable of treating even the surface symptoms – like the widespread availability of guns.

Blocking mangroves

Ten years ago, a foreign developer was allowed to destroy thousands of acres of mangrove forest in North Bimini without needing any special permit from the government to do so. Today, concerned Bahamians trying to regrow these rare and vital natural resources, are being blocked by the powers that be, and told they need a permit. It really is the height of irony.

The Tribune