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ON Thursday, October 10, 2014, Prime Minister Perry Christie, speaking at the second annual National Data Protection Symposium, recognised the importance of data protection. It had, he said, become “an international issue of great concern.”
DATA Protection Commissioner Sharmie Farrington-Austin, cautioning against tabling private citizens’ correspondence in the House of Assembly, has warned that it is “a most dangerous trend that leaves society open to chaos”.
THE ANGRY words being exchanged in the House last week have been building up from the last Christie administration over a six-acre piece of property owned by fashion designer Peter Nygard.
“CANADIAN fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been accused of orchestrating a murderous plot against his billionaire neighbour Louis Bacon and lawyer Fred Smith, his chief opponents in an ongoing campaign against development at Nygard Cay, according to court documents filed yesterday.” This was the lead article in The Tribune on Thursday, March 10 . . .
IN GOING through some of our old files, we have come across a statement in the House of Assembly revealing that the then PLP government had allowed international fashion designer Peter Nygard thousands of dollars in tax exemptions on imported goods, presumably to build his Lyford Cay home.
“THE use of an untested affidavit to make allegations that smear my character is irresponsible,” declared Deputy Prime Minister Philip Davis in a statement on March 11 condemning The Tribune for printing documents filed on March 9 in a court case brought against Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard and his lawyer Keod Smith in which Mr Davis’ name was mentioned as having known two “hit men”, allegedly hired by Mr Nygard.
AT a time when The Bahamas needs a strong Opposition, it seems that the FNM is at its weakest.
DEPUTY Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis has taken grave exception to The Tribune conducting what he has called a “shameful” smear campaign against him by publishing from affidavits of covert recordings filed in the Supreme Court last week that suggest he had a close relationship with two criminals, who were delegated to protect Canadian fashion designer Peter Nygard’s interests in the Bahamas.
FINANCIALLY, The Bahamas is in trouble, unless it increases investments or drastically cuts back on spending – or can achieve a combination of both.
PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts is so anxious to blame the FNM for the failed attempt of the 2002 referendum to give Bahamian women the same gender rights as their male counterparts that he has no qualms about distorting history.
YESTERDAY, members of the public kept us busy by phone and e-mail asking how the two Cubans, being actively sought by Immigration because, according to Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell they were considered a “security risk”, could possibly be with their families in the US, each with a job and one with a driver’s licence. Hadn’t Mr Mitchell informed the public that the US had refused to accept them because of their questionable record?
LORD save us from politicians!
“AS the Foreign Minister of this country, I was bound to support who I thought would have provided for the best interests of The Bahamas. That in my view was Baroness Scotland. She in my view has the ability to increase the complement of Bahamian and Caribbean persons at the Commonwealth in London and to ensure that the ABCs – Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand — re-engage.”
THE SCENE in the House of Assembly yesterday was disgraceful.
“THEY respect neither tradition nor the law and should be exposed for the dictatorial tendencies they secretly harbour.” These were the prophetic words of the late Sir Lynden Pindling in 1990 as he roundly condemned his once admiring protégé Fred Mitchell, who had by then left the PLP and formed his own political party. Sir Lynden, dismissing the young lawyer as a “flag burner”, predicted that those “who burn the constitution one day, would bury the people another day”.
“You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!”
AS A general rule, we ignore Bradley Roberts as a remnant of the PLP’s dictatorial past and not worthy of our attention.
ON THIS page today is a letter from Mr Kevin Evans, a frequent letter writer to The Tribune, and from the beginning a loyal supporter of Dr Hubert Minnis as FNM leader.
TO us, Dr Hubert Minnis as leader of the FNM is a mystery “wrapped up in an enigma”.
WHILE Democrat Bernie Sanders, in answer to a question last night as to what, if he became president of the United States, he would do to help improve relations between urban communities and their police forces, replied that he would demilitarise the police force, and make it look less like an invading army.
WE HOPE that Prime Minister Perry Christie’s confidence that those who scoff at his optimism over the opening of Baha Mar will join him in celebrating its success when the $3.5 billion resort — now attracting unflattering world attention – opens.
ALTHOUGH Prime Minister Christie is satisfied that he is on the right track to introduce government’s national health insurance plan, he has decided to call in an outside group of consultants to satisfy the naysayers.
WE HAVE tried to stay out of the FNM’s leadership quarrel, but can’t resist dipping our pen in today when its chairman asks a question the answer to which seems so obvious that we wonder if indeed the FNM is slipping its moorings.
THE opinion of Foreign Affairs/Immigration Minister Fred Mitchell gets more worrying every day. No wonder government is dragging its feet on the Freedom of Information Act.
THIS COUNTRY is being suffocated by crime. When you open your Tribune today, you will be confronted by a front page that will make your blood run cold – “Pastor beaten and family terrorised”; “Missing policeman’s body found in Grand Bahama”; “Police officer accused of sex attacks on minors” and “Jet ski rape alert came after repeated complaint by US Embassy ignored”.