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ART OF GRAPHIX: Contract to guard against revisions

How many design revisions are enough? Are you stuck dealing with clients who demand hundreds of changes? A common problem, one which I hear all the time.

The missing pieces

When Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian announced on Monday, June 29, that the resort had voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 in a Delaware Court, I think it’s safe to say that the prime minister was not the only one who was blindsided.

Urban Renewal heads urged to co-operate with Public Accounts Committee

HOUSE Speaker Kendal Major was not the only person shocked by the so-called “leaked” document from the Attorney General’s office that purports to question the manner in which the Public Accounts Committee is investigating how tax payers’ money is being spent on Urban Renewal’s small homes repair project.

Alexandra Kaufmann-Fox finds her calling in yoga

REFLECTING on her choice of profession, the popular Confucius quote “Find a job you love and you’ll never work a day in your life” comes to mind for yoga instructor Alexandra Kaufmann-Fox.

Hilton deal ‘conflicted’ Gov’t over Baha Mar

The Government’s “conflict of interest” over the $200 million British Colonial Hilton expansion meant it should never have attempted to act as an impartial mediator in the Baha Mar dispute.

How many Bahamians are willing to take the gamble?

IT WAS April Fool’s Day, but Sebas Bastian, Island Luck’s CEO, was not playing an April Fool’s joke, he was gambling big time – and he was dead serious.

FNM deputy: ‘No one satisfied’ with BTC

The Opposition’s deputy leader yesterday said the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) desire to shed another 150 jobs was “not a surprise”, especially given its relatively poor performance post-privatisation.

‘Ed Sky’ wins on Valentine’s

In memory of the late Edgar Moxey, who was buried last week, Ed Sky was the first of two boats to catch the Campari Lady Nathalie en route to winning her first major regatta.

We are all we have got

In 2014, there were, allegedly, some 112 homicides. The majority of these were perpetuated by relatively younger men on other younger men/women known to them or with whom they would have had a personal altercation or relationship. At the rate we have started off 2015 it is highly likely that the homicide level will exceed that of last year. The carnage, seemingly, goes on unabated.

Staff could face pay cuts, be fired - and also risk jail

THE Supreme Court yesterday issued an injunction on behalf of the government ordering members of the Bahamas Nurses Union, the Bahamas Customs and Immigration Allied Workers Union and the Bahamas Educators Managerial Union to abandon their national strike and return to work “forthwith” or risk being in contempt of court.

An unhealthy storm against the Bahamas is brewing

UNFORTUNATELY, as we wrote in August last year at the time of the beating of Cuban detainees at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre, our Foreign Affairs Minister is not a diplomat.

YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Time to stop automatic gratuities

THE Melia Resort on Cable Beach is absolutely right in its attempt to be rid of the automatic 15 per cent gratuity that accompanies most cheques at restaurants/hotel properties here in The Bahamas.

Briefly

I’M SURE there are many technical explanations for the recent breakdowns in Secret Service protection that allowed an armed intruder to run right through the front door of the White House and an armed felon to ride on an elevator with President Barack Obama. But I’d also put some blame on the nation’s political class.

Prime Minister admits mistake - but is he about to make another one?

AT LAST Prime Minister Christie has admitted that it might have been “unwise” of his party to have blamed the Free National Movement for the nation’s crime problem, the seeds of which, if Bahamians are honest with themselves, were sown and flourished during the drug years of the PLP’s first administration.

Must have humane solution to Haitian problem

YES, the Bahamas has a problem, a major problem that started slowly many years ago but has grown to such proportions today that sound decisions have to be made to contain it. Bahamians call it “the Haitian problem”.

Time to open the books - Bahamians want an accounting

A FRIEND of ours told us of an incident that occurred a few weeks ago to illustrate the depth of agitation in the community of government’s seemingly mindless spending of their taxes.

Moore warns of danger of Ingraham return

IF former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham nominates himself for the Free National Movement’s leadership race on the convention floor, it would be “one of the worst things that could happen”, Maurice Moore said yesterday.

The very odd political couple

Whether in desperation or naiveté Dr. Hubert Minnis keeps befriending political failures. His latest bromance (aka fondness amongst kindred spirits) is none other than the Prince of Blabber, Leslie Miller, the loud-mouth PLP recently chased from his job as chairman of the Bahamas Electricity Corporation.

FOURTH QUARTER PRESS: How basketball can make fools of us all

I HAVE been tasked with the job of putting a nice, neat, properly-tied bow on the 2015-2016 National Basketball Association (NBA) season.

Gardiner executes ‘solid race model’

Although he got off to a slow start, men’s national 400 metre record holder Steven Gardiner is slowly coming around to where coach George Cleare expects him to be - a legitimate threat at the August Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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