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Coalition 'somewhat miffed' over Gov'ts payroll tax model

The Tax Coalition is “somewhat miffed” at the Government’ seemingly conducting ‘closed doors’ economic modelling to debunk its payroll tax proposal, its co-chair yesterday hitting back by arguing the was Jamaica’s “most efficient” form of taxation.

PLP missed chance to apologise

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Perry Newton: ‘So far it’s been a very good year’

Despite the fact there has been some turmoil in the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association over the past few years, Perry Newton is still determined to manoeuvre through the storm to carry out his mandate as president.

FNM leader: Christie administration 'paralysed' in the face of crime

FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis insisted yesterday that the escalating crime situation in the country has left the Christie administration “paralysed” as it treads a thin line before facing damaging affects on the Bahamas’ tourism product.

YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Ministers get their final grades in Cabinet Report

EVEN if a minister has received a pass grade during these three weeks of the Cabinet Report, note that I will be watching closely and therefore they could either improve or be on a downgrade watch.

Time for PLP to talk tough to law breakers

UNLIKE PLP leaders, we are not so unreasonable as to blame the continuing rise in crime on either political party. We have always maintained that if one follows the trail, today's crime is a natural progression

Fire death mother ‘was ill, not evil’

THE lawyer for Philippa Marshall, the woman accused of murdering her daughter by setting her on fire in December 2017, yesterday submitted that the accused was “not in her right frame of mind” when the offence took place and therefore called for the nine-woman jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.

Excuses, excuses by the PLP

NEW Year’s 2017 is coming up fast so we have to look back through 2016 or as 2017 is Election Year forward, even Christie can’t stop that or postpone it like he has the PLP Party Convention.....it’s coming! Imagine no Convention for nine years?

Cash: Unpaid land bills 'instructive' for VAT

The Free National Movement’s (FNM) chairman yesterday charged that the Government’s multi-million dollar unpaid bill for land it has compulsorily acquired was a good indication of how the Christie administration will treat Value-Added Tax (VAT) credits, warning that businesses should not expect to receive their payments on a timely basis.

Realtor has ‘never seen such high rental rates’

A Bahamian realtor says he has “never seen such high rental rates” as now exist in some of western New Providence’s most upscale communities with demand in this segment now suppressing available-for-sale inventory.

Has the Westminster system been compromised?

PRIME Minister Christie now has the longed for icing on his cake, but it will be a very bitter icing and a hard cake to bite into if he doesn’t formulate and enforce a strict code of ethics on his parliamentarians and instruct them in the age-old precedents of a parliamentary system within which they are expected to function.

$1m or $5m - that is the question

NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Bernard Nottage’s “500 per cent mis-speak”, as one local wit called it, certainly set the town on its head and burned up the airwaves this week as Bahamians went apoplectic to think that Prime Minister Christie’s “noble act” had cost them $5 million.

Hearing the hoofbeats of history

Most leaders never leave office unless there are mandated term limits; an act of God or due to debilitating illness.

Ebola ruled out in death of patient at hospital

THE US CENTERS for Disease Control has confirmed that the patient who died in hospital last month after visiting Africa did not have the Ebola virus, Health Minister Dr Perry Gomez said yesterday.

Former boxer Bertram ‘Bert Perry’ Perigord dead at 72

BERTRAM ‘Bert Perry’ Perigord, one of the country’s most prolific boxers, was found unresponsive in his apartment on Monday morning.

INSIGHT: The blame game

First Mr Izmirlian, now Dr Minnis. Malcolm J Strachan says the PLP must take responsibility for what is happening at Baha Mar, not pin it on others . . .

Have we slid back to the Pindling era?

ON September 13, 1992, former prime minister Hubert Ingraham, in announcing his first government boards, said he was breaking a 24-year PLP tradition of giving the chairmanship of public utilities to members of parliament.

Have business owners lost confidence?

LOCAL and foreign investors are probably having more board room sessions about whether this is the right time to invest in this country. So far, the Christie government has done nothing to assure the private sector that they know the direction in which their government’s sails are set.

'Headway' in 100 days pledge

WHEN the House of Assembly reconvenes, the Progressive Liberal Party will have made significant headway in fulfilling what it promised for the first 100 days following the election, PLP chairman Bradley Roberts said yesterday.

Summer target for mortgage relief

INITIAL comments from private sector lenders on the Christie administration's proposed mortgage relief plan have been "very positive", Minister of State for Finance, Michael Halkitis, said yesterday, telling Tribune Business the administration should be in a position to formally present the plan before Parliament's summer recess.

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