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EDITORIAL: The government that doesn’t like questions

IT would seem the elected representatives of the people don’t want to answer to the people any more.

Police yet to make arrests in Leon Griffin murder

POLICE on Friday continued to investigate the murder of Leon Griffin, husband of former Cabinet Minister Melanie Griffin and former Bahamas Taxicab Union president.

A promise finally delivered

FOUR months after Olympic gold medalist Ramon Miller went public with his years-long struggle to attain infrastructure for utilities at his home on government gifted land, he was elated yesterday to see work crews start the ground work in the area.

Mitchell attacks Dames over Fox Hill claims

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell has denounced suggestions that staff and programme coordinators at the Fox Hill Community Centre were unqualified, political hires.

Govt bonds with interest for CLICO policyholders by mid-november

CLICO (Bahamas) policyholders will receive their compensatory government bonds by mid-November plus accrued interest, with the government primed to “earmark” over $40 million to facilitate the payout process.

EDITORIAL: Suddenly US Foreign Relations remembers the Bahamas

NOW that the Republicans are back in power they have suddenly awakened to the fact that their sphere of influence is quietly being infiltrated by Beijing and their control of their own Caribbean Basin is slowly slipping away. The US Embassy has been well represented by its Chargé d’Affaires, but the Bahamas has not had a resident US Ambassador since 2011. In June 2014 President Obama appointed Cassandra Butts, 50, to the post, but the short-sighted Republicans held up the appointment. In the meantime Ms Butts died – and that was the end of the matter.

Disciplinary letters sent to MPs after vote to remove leader

THE Free National Movement drafted and sent letters of charges yesterday to the seven parliamentarians who sought Dr Hubert Minnis’ removal as leader of the Official Opposition in the House of Assembly, formally beginning the process that could lead to their expulsion from the party.

UPDATED - Carnival U-turn: Festival back to its original dates after complaints

AFTER enraging festival stakeholders and participants with an impromptu date change, the Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival (BJC) is back on for its original date of May 4 to 6 in Nassau with an April kick off in Grand Bahama after an “intervention” by Minister of Tourism Obie Wilchcombe.

Proclamations to prorogue the House and return to Parliament read

COMMISSIONER of Police Ellison Greenslade, in his capacity as Provost Marshall, read two Proclamations on Friday - one to prorogue the House of Assembly immediately and another to advise of a return to Parliament on Monday.

Hall promises clean register

PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Sherlyn Hall yesterday pledged that his department “has the ability” to produce a clean voter’s register, but said that can only happen if Bahamians do not “contaminate” it by registering more than once.

Ingraham: Something does not smell right

PAYING $8m to a contractor engaged in hurricane clean-up does not pass the smell test, former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said.

Grand Lucayan sale still under way as govt aims to boost Grand Bahama

WHILE negotiations to sell the Grand Lucayan Resort in the nation’s second city continue, Deputy Prime Minister K Peter Turnquest suggested on Monday that the Minnis administration is in the process of implementing strategies to temporarily boost Gra

‘Every penny’ Caribbean Music festival received from govt can be accounted for

THE attorney for Caribbean Music Festival Ltd has said it is regrettable that the internal affairs of his client’s dealings with the Ministry of Tourism have “contentiously” made it into the public domain, adding that “every penny” received from the government and spent can be accounted for and verified.

'We will march without permission'

DESPITE being denied the use of Rawson and Parliament Squares for a protest on Majority Rule Day in January, We March Bahamas organiser John Bostwick II said yesterday the demonstration “will go on as planned, on the same route as planned” even without the government’s permission.

Turnquest wary of Urban Renewal role in storm rebuilding efforts

OPPOSITION Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest expressed concern yesterday that Urban Renewal is being used as a campaign tool for the Progressive Liberal Party during Hurricane Matthew recovery efforts.

Landmark speech entered into Parliamentary record

The emotion on the face of Janet Bostwick, the first woman to be elected to House of Assembly in the Bahamas, painted a fitting picture of the historic joint sitting of Parliament, held yesterday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement.

Landmark speech entered into parliamentary record

The emotion on the face of Janet Bostwick, the first woman to be elected to House of Assembly in the Bahamas, painted a fitting picture of the historic joint sitting of Parliament, held yesterday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement.

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