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Freeport tax regime repeal must pressure ‘the two free riders’
A former Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) attorney yesterday expressed hope that the promised repeal of Freeport’s new investment regime will pressure “the two free riders” whose impact on Bahamians is “five times’ greater” than Baha Mar’s.
Govt’s Sandals directive takes workers ‘pre-1958’
The Government was yesterday accused of returning Bahamian workers to “pre-1958 General Strike” conditions, after the Attorney General directed the courts to “discontinue” criminal proceedings against Sandals Royal Bahamian and its top executives.
Govt to make $234m binge 'near impossible'
The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday pledged that the Government’s planned Fiscal Responsibility legislation will make it “near impossible” to repeat its predecessor’s $234 million pre-election deficit spending binge.K P Turnquest, sticking by his $50
The Cuban detainees and the long-awaited revolution
Rupert Missick Jr looks at the issues surrounding the Cuba detainees
VIDEO: Loretta's warning for cops
House suspended after FNM Leader is ordered to be removed but stays.
Michelle Reckley must explain why she wasn't on the job
IT WOULD appear that Urban Renewal 2.0 is a disaster under the direction of the PLP-appointed Michelle Reckley, former party assistant secretary-general on Grand Bahama and school caterer, whose self proclaimed claim to fame is that she is qualified for her present position because she “comes from urban”.
'Tax and social focus' of Gov't stunting growth
The Bahamas’ economic growth outlook is being slashed because the Government is “too focused on its social agenda and raising taxes”, a well-known businessman warned yesterday.
Devastated: Crooked Island residents describe battle against floods
IN THE aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin, residents of Crooked Island have been describing having to rip through sheetrock with their children in their hands, fighting to reach the ceiling of their home to escape chest high floods.
INSIGHT: Secrets and the dark ages
Three months shy of the third anniversary of Prime Minister Perry Christie’s August 2012 pledge to enforce the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act within his term, it was announced last week that the revised bill would be released for public consultation.
Lost in the wilderness
Will the Botanical Gardens ever regain their glory and purpose?
IN OCTOBER, while laying out a number of fantastic programmes planned for his department, Kenred Dorsett, the Minister of Environment and Housing, said boldly that “a revitalised Nassau Botanical Gardens can serve as the ‘Central Park’ of New Providence”.
Overcoming the party allegiance
I STARTED this campaign cycle annoyed by the fact that Perry Christie and Hubert Ingraham's faces were plastered all over my constituency, considering I live far from North Abaco and far from Centreville, where these men, both leaders of their respective political parties, are offering themselves as candidates in the May 7 general election.
HURRICANE DORIAN: Tropical storm warning for northwest Bahamas, Minnis hits back at former PMs
Thursday's news.
Former PM press aide seeks dismissal answers
FORMER press secretary for Prime Minister Perry Christie, Latrae Rahming said yesterday he has written to Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis seeking answers over his dismissal from the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation.Mr Rahming was among
Get your facts straight
The whistleblower has been taken to task by PLP supporter and former leader in the now defunct Abaco Independence Movement (AIM) Errington ‘‘Bumpy’’ Watkins for a recent letter-to-the-editor that was published in The Nassau Guardian.
Relays hailed as a success
THE inaugural IAAF World Relays has been hailed an impressive success that featured few flaws.
Heads of Agreement 'like an AIDS virus'
The lead attorney for opponents of Bimini’s cruise ship terminal yesterday likened Heads of Agreement deals with major developers to “an AIDS virus in the body politic” of the Bahamas.
TOUGH CALL: WTF Bahamas? (That's 'who's the fool', you know!)
THE Tribune’s recent editorial on Fred Mitchell’s use of the jingoistic slogan “my country, right or wrong”, to demand loyalty to the political directorate was intriguing.
Put brakes on Baha Mar until after 2017 election
IN Thursday’s Tribune, a letter writer tried to strip Prime Minister Christie of his legacy — Baha Mar.
PM out of tune
LAST month, the Prime Minister opened up and expressed his hurt and pain caused by the nasty, vile song that was written about him and his family. I join with him and all right thinking Bahamians in condemning the song and gutter politics.
Accountant backs VAT as 'viable'
CAPTION: Kendrick Christie, president of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners Bahamas Chapter, a Grant Thornton Bahamas partner and past president of the Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants, weighs in on the discussion over a proposed Value Added Tax, calling it ‘viable for The Bahamas’.