Butler-Turner: PLP wants to hold convention at Baha Mar
LONG Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday accused Prime Minister Perry Christie of “misleading and deceiving” Bahamians over Baha Mar, as she castigated the governing Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) for having ulterior motives behind its push to open the resort’s convention centre by early 2016.
No more VAT on healthcare?
THE Ministry of Finance is considering removing Value Added Tax (VAT) from healthcare services and health insurance premiums, Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA) Chairman Emmanuel Komolafe said yesterday.
‘Govt has failed to bring laws that matter to Bahamians’
FREE National Movement (FNM) Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest told The Tribune yesterday that he was not impressed by the government’s legislative agenda this year because there was an overall failure to present bills that matter to Bahamians.
THE BIG QUESTION: What would you do as Prime Minister for a day?
With so many political issues in the headlines at the moment, including the fight against crime, National Health Insurance and the on-going Baha Mar debacle, The Tribune is asking readers this question:
Govt approved for $28m loan to improve water supply
THE Caribbean Development Bank has approved a $28m loan to assist the government in improving water supply systems in communities in New Providence and the Family Islands, CDB officials said yesterday.
PM named one of Jones Communications' persons of the year for VAT introduction
PRIME Minister Perry Christie has been selected as one of The Jones Communications Network’s (JCN) 2015 ‘Persons of the Year.’
Gomez would be interested in return to Cabinet
CENTRAL and South Eleuthera MP Damian Gomez said yesterday that he is interested in returning to Cabinet after resolving the issues that prompted him to tender his resignation as state minister of legal affairs earlier this month.
Christie again denies conflict of interest
PRIME Minister Perry Christie was forced to again defend himself against allegations of a conflict of interest connected to the country’s oil exploration industry over which he castigated the Free National Movement for using “smear politics” to “wantonly” assault his integrity.
PM should be concerned over Cabinet losses - Miller
TALL Pines MP Leslie Miller said Prime Minister Perry Christie should be “concerned” that the resignations of two “brilliant” men from Cabinet in the space of a year could create the wrong perception of his administration.
PM: Registration for NHI will go ahead in January
PRIME Minister Perry Christie has indicated that his government is going ahead with the implementation of registration and enrolment for National Health Insurance in January and plans to move to the next phase by March.
NHI 'could encourage doctors towards behaviour similar to civil servants'
A LEADING surgeon has warned that the current model of National Health Insurance will create a “huge problem” in soliciting productivity from private physicians and could foster behaviour “that resembles the typical civil servant”.
Norris Bain joins PLP to further the youth cause
THE Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) announced on Friday that a former Free National Movement (FNM) candidate in the Marco City constituency has joined the governing party.
Death threat to Loretta Butler-Turner: Resign or be stabbed with icepick
DURING a House of Assembly session yesterday, Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner read parts of a chilling death threat letter anonymously sent to her and suggested that previous reports to police about threats were not taken seriously.
Mitchell says judge's ruling is a challenge to authority
FOREIGN Affairs and Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell yesterday labelled a recent Supreme Court judge’s ruling that Canadian Bruno Rufa was unlawfully deported from The Bahamas as a “challenge to the authority of immigration”.
Fitzgerald cites news story as research on school policing
EDUCATION Minister Jerome Fitzgerald pushed back yesterday against this newspaper’s report that he mischaracterised conclusions researchers at The College of The Bahamas made about the effect police presence in public schools has on school violence.
