Much ado about nothing. If Govt. never agrees with the results of the EIA, this deal never gets built. Besides, all the complaints about alternative energy miss the boat. No energy company in the Bahamas has to buy Oban's oil, especially if they are invested in other technologies. Provided all the right securities are in place and Oban is required to maintain proper insurance policies for environmental and other damage, then the jobs created is a big win.

The start of the long walk to the night of the long knives

What these people need to understand is that this is not their ceremony, it's the university's so UoB gets to decide what is official regalia and what is not. If the graduands want to wear anything then they can have their own ceremony wherever they want in whatever outfits they ws6 to wear but clearly it won't be at UoB.

Yeah like how Perry dem check on Phil Ruffin and the West End crew and the I-Group and the golf course we still waiting on in Cat Island and all Perry other anchor projects in the Family Islands

Good to see the equestrian federation find its legs and finally develop more programs than its had in the past. While we can only hope that the Bahamas ever has an entrant in the Summer Olympics, programs like this go a long way to eventually achieving that goal. Keep up the good work.

No management, no supervision, no responsibility, no caring, no nothing. I wonder how Rev CB Moss and Steve McKinney and all those who demonstrated against selling Clifton to Albany feel now? This cannot be what they demonstrated for and fought the government so bitterly. The persons that were in charge of the Authority should be asked to give their salaries or honoraria back to the Treasury. This is a sad disgrace and every Bahamian should be upset. But it's not much different from the garbage, bags, bottles, styrofoam containers, cans, and other debris that you see on the side of the road every day. Reminds me of East Street down by South Beach Pools; the government would clear the east side of the road of fridges, stoves, furniture, old clothes and other debris and within a month whatever had been carted away was replaced with fridges, stoves, furniture, clothes and other debris.

This columnist's position ties in nicely with the stories on delays in the Coroner's Court and the comments by the new Police Commissioner failing to respond to the question about people killed in police shootings. As I've said elsewhere on this site (and this was what I understood to be the substance of the column) a police uniform is not a licence to officers to unprovoked killings without any form of independent review or reporting. The comparisons of institutional and internal bias is apropos as we are killing off our own but because they possibly come from poor and uneducated or undereducated backgrounds and are alleged by the police to have used or possessed guns then we fall into the false comfort of responding "good riddance". But as the columnist points out, not every dread-locked, baggy pants, hoody wearing black Bahamian young man deserves to die at the hands of the police and then we have to wait 2 or 3 years before a Coroner's Court is convened to hold an inquest into the matter, many times without any or any adequate notification to the public as to the circumstances behind the death. This column is a call for the implementation of a better system than the one that exists today, one where the Police Commissioner and National Security Minister are actually concerned about the circumstances under which young Bahamian men are killed by police officers without going through a trial, whether they shot at the police or not. Not every police killing is justified but with the slow and tardy system that we have here we never know whether the guardians are telling us the truth. Someone other than the police have to investigate these police killings and report to the public and the courts on their findings then let the law takes its course much faster than it is currently doing.

Nice try. In the letter writer's mind he/she might think they're right but the position taken by them in their letter does not conform with what's actually in Article 7 of the Bahamas Constitution. There is no mention of whether the applicant for Bahamian citizenship under this Article or their parents are legally or illegally in the Bahamas at the time of the birth. There are 4 requirements under this Article: (1) the applicant, in order to be entitled to be registered as a Bahamian citizen, must be born in the Bahamas after 9th July 1973 to parents neither of whom are Bahamian citizens: (2) the applicant must make application for Bahamian citizenship commencing on their 18th birthday but not later than their 19th birthday in such manner as may be prescribed (by law, order, rules, regulations) to be registered as a Bahamian citizen; (3) if the applicant is a citizen of another country other than the Bahamas, they are not entitled to be registered as a Bahamian citizen unless (and until) they renounce their other citizenship, take the oath of allegiance (to the Bahamas) and make and register any declaration of the applicant's intentions concerning residence as nay be prescribed (by law, order, rules, regulations); (4) any application for registration as a Bahamian citizen under Article 7 is subject to such exceptions or qualifications as may be prescribed (by law, order, rules, regulations) in the interests of national security or public policy.

So although not specified in the Constiution, the only way that the "illegal" criminal analogies of not gaining any title in stolen property or losing one's assets if they are derived from the proceeds of crime apply is if they are prescribed exceptions or qualifications in the interests of national security or public policy in any law, order, rule or regulation affecting Bahamian citizenship. Similarly, the question of whether the applicant's parents or the applicant are illegally in the Bahamas would have to be an exception or qualification prescribed in the law, order, rule or regulation in the interests of national security or public policy as a basis for denying the applicant Bahamian citizenship.

I have never liked the wording of Article 7 as it is open to any number of abuses. The applicant should never have been "entitled ...... to be registered" as a Bahamian citizen, merely able to apply. Many persons who are registered as Bahamian citizens under this Article also retain their other citizenship and their other passport, maintain residences there, go "home" to vote, etc. The bottom line with this whole citizenship matter is that from 1973 the government should have had a written policy as to how they were going to approve or reject applications under this Article. Forty-plus years later I don't know that we have a solution and the letter writer's proposals do not seem to me to be the solution for either the parents or the children.

So let's see: she looking to issue a $25 million bond to build a government administrative complex in Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama? Meanwhile Cable Bahamas/Aliv looking to raise $19 million to complete their cellular build-out and Bahamas Power & Light looking to raise money to foot their new equipment needs and pension debt? Who you think people going to invest their money in? I thought when you get into these Public/Private Partnerships with government that you supposed to have your side of the money? But she wants to use other people's money to fund the private side of this deal. Going to have to do plenty explaining how I would get my money back out of those 10 years of lease payments. And you know government notoriously slow when it comes to paying their debts.

One more reason why we need our own national travel advisory system for travelling to the USA but particularly Florida. Have they stopped the bump and rob tactics where they bump your car from back or front and then rob you at gunpoint after you've left the rental car agency? Have they stopped teefing your purchases and other belongings out of your rental car or van while you are parked and eating or shopping or sleeping? Have they beefed up security in these low brand name hotels to stop them from breaking into your hotel room while you are out to teef your stuff, particularly if you're in a ground floor room? Have the car rental companies put real car alarms in their cars that go off when the vehicle is broken into or the door locks jimmied, or do their alarms only work when someone tries to steal the vehicle but doesn't have the ignition key? Yeah our people get robbed and raped in the USA too but we apparently don't make as big a deal about it as their embassy does for their citizens in this country. You can buy any weapon of death in the USA, obviously guns being the easiest to buy, then go on the Internet and watch videos on how to modify them and where to buy the parts. Then we have the mindless souls who bring guns here on their yachts and planes for sale or the others who import them hidden in personal goods and supplies. Time to put a stop these gaping holes in our borders whereby unlicensed guns find their way into our country and into the wrong hands. The same way the American Customs x-ray shipments from the Bahamas to the USA for contraband, maybe we need to get x-ray machines for shipments from the USA and elsewhere to the Bahamas.