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PM accuses PLP of being copycats

FREEPORT - Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham is accusing the PLP of "copycatting" and taking ideas from the FNM's manifesto, particularly as it relate

INSIGHT: The oppression of expression under Emperor Christie

The government continues to confuse its role as public servant with demigod status, evidence of a tyrannical style of leadership says Malcom J Strachan . . .

Incredible hypocrisy

Permit me the liberty of dispensing a bit of advice to the Leader of the Opposition.

HeadKnowles launches hurricane relief effort

THE devastation left behind by Hurricane Matthew has set in motion massive relief efforts by charity organisations, which yesterday appealed for emergency food items and essential toiletries for people most impacted by the monster storm.

FNM’s deputy slams storm tax ‘nonsense’

The Opposition’s finance spokesman yesterday slammed the Government’s ‘hurricane tax’ proposal as “nonsense”, warning that an “already devastated” society and economy would find it impossible to bear further cost increases.

'Stand up for right, not for wrong'

"THE blood of this good man shed in Memphis still cries out across the years, cries out to each and every one of us wherever we may be all across the world to stand up for freedom, to stand up for human dignity, to stand up for equality, to stand up for social justice, to stand up for right and not for wrong…”

CCA: WE SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BAHAMAS – Contractor reached out for help to son of top govt advisor

Baha Mar's main contractor asked the son of Perry Christie's top policy adviser to intervene when his father proposed changing The Pointe's Heads of Agreement over how many Bahamian construction workers would be employed.

Christie not royalty

IF THERE is anything Mr Christie should learn from this “referendum fiasco” is that he has been elected to serve and he is not some kind of royalty that is talking down to his subjects.

Urban Renewal symposium ‘a success’

A ONE-day symposium hosted this week by the Urban Renewal Foundation which addressed social issues in the Bahamas has been hailed a success for seeking to provide positive solutions rather than apportion blame for the ills.

Salvation Army stockpiling supplies until after initial rush

MAJOR Clarence Ingram, divisional commander for the Salvation Army, said his organisation has not yet distributed non-perishable items to the hurricane ravaged islands because they are waiting for the “initial rush to slow down.”

Greenslade happy with state of investigation into hitmen claim

POLICE Commissioner Ellison Greenslade was yesterday tightlipped regarding his investigation into an alleged murder for hire plot and would not reveal who, if anyone, has been questioned over the last few days.

'Toggie' and 'Bobo' in police custody

LIVINGSTON “Toggie” Bullard and Wisler “Bobo” Davilma have been arrested and are in police custody, Commissioner of Police Ellison Greenslade confirmed last night.

Miller expects move to WSC next week

OUTGOING BEC Executive Chairman Leslie Miller said yesterday he expects to receive an official letter this week transferring him from the Bahamas Electricity Corporation to the Water and Sewerage Corporation.

‘PLP just as fractured as the FNM’

WHILE the Free National Movement has struggled to keep its internal turmoil out of public view, FNM supporter Tennyson Wells says the Progressive Liberal Party is equally fractured.

Bishop rejects claim that NHI is too expensive

BISHOP Simeon Hall moved to discredit the notion that the government’s National Health Insurance scheme is “too expensive” to be introduced, contending that such a “narrow-minded position” would only translate to the deaths of the “poor and downtrodden”.

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