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SPEAKING at the opening of the Legal Year for 2016 yesterday, Chief Justice Sir Hartman Longley made it clear that the death penalty for “The Bahamas is virtually dead”.
IT HAS taken 26 years for Bahamians to understand the consequences of not properly regulating their water sports industry.
ACCORDING to the government its much touted National Health Insurance scheme will be released to the public by the end of this month, its draft legislation having just been approved by Cabinet. This draft, which is currently undergoing “final revisions together with stakeholders” has yet to go through all the legislative process — and don’t let’s forget this time that it also has to be Gazetted before it becomes law.
THERE was much to talk about The Bahamas’ future this weekend as friends got together to bring in the New Year. As they anticipated an uncertain forecast they were obviously concerned for this little country, caught in the crossfire of the world’s conflicts, with not much hope of settling their own.
“THE Bahamas has come a long way in three and a half years!” boasts PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts in a release sent to the press on Tuesday ridiculing observations made by FNM Deputy Leader Peter Turnquest on government’s poor performance.
TAKING TO his Facebook on Friday lawyer Wayne Munroe, QC, recommended flogging of immigrants who enter the Bahamas illegally. In an interview with The Tribune he reasoned that “flogging” could be an effective physical and psychological barrier to people seeking to enter the Bahamas illegally. If illegal immigrants believed “we tortured and killed them, they might not come,” Mr Munroe argued.
IT NOW seems to be a case of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.
DAMIAN Gomez, State Minister for Legal Affairs, has admitted that draft legislation to control donations to fund election campaigns has been languishing – presumably on his desk – for the past three years despite Prime Minister Christie’s commitment to address the issue urgently. Because of this, said Mr Gomez, he could not guarantee that corruption does not occur in government.
ACCORDING to PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts the Bahamas’ private insurance companies want to form their own “monopolistic cartel with unfettered powers to raise premiums to ensure profits.” Mr Roberts claims that the private companies want no government involvement in universal health insurance, the implementation of which is only a month away.
FROM reports we are receiving from all sides, including once staunch PLPs, the general feeling is that this country has no chance of success under a PLP government.
IN THE House of Assembly on Monday former PLP Marco City MP Greg Moss announced that on Sunday, November 22, he had formed a new political party. He declared his intention of contesting every electoral constituency with his “Bahamian patriots.”
THERE has been tremendous praise for the leadership shown by FNM MP Loretta Butler-Turner in her prompt response to the needs of her fellow Bahamians after the recent passage over our southern islands of Hurricane Joaquin, a category four hurricane – the most destructive in our history.
PRIME MINISTER Christie is so focused on introducing National Health Insurance by January that he resurrected it on Friday — at a funeral of all places.
TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe, admitting that the PLP made crime a political issue, says his government now realises that they didn’t have the answers to the problem, but needed the whole community — not just PLP politicians with their secret potions— working together to combat what is now destroying the country.
ON Thursday, Prime Minister Perry Christie started tongues wagging in Nassau as to the identity of the major international investors interested in the restructuring of the seemingly jinxed $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort.
IN THIS column yesterday – with crime rising daily — we suggested that government follow the example of Jamaica and the Caymans by inviting a number of British detectives to The Bahamas to assist our Commissioner and his officers in getting crime under control.
“THE Cayman Islands has brought in British police to tackle a rise in gang-related crime that business leaders fear could hurt the territory’s image as a safe finance and tourism destination,” Reuters news agency reported in 2010.
DOWNTOWN Nassau has been a disaster zone for some years with efforts being made by various committees to transform Bay Street into an historic street of great beauty.
ON Saturday, former deputy prime minister Brent Symonette did not agree with his party (FNM) that the Christie government was totally at fault for the recent redundancies of more than 2,000 Bahamians from the Baha Mar payroll.
LEFT in a state of shock on learning that our southern islands were almost wiped from the map, government was further stunned when a second whirlwind blew past them as Bahamians gathered up as many supplies as they could, loaded them onto privately owned boats and planes and flew to the rescue.
KEITH Bell, State Minister for National Security, wasted much time in the Senate on Tuesday trying to blame escalating crime on the FNM government. What he should have been doing was explaining why his government’s solution to the crime problem was not working. He should also have been outlining his government’s proposals to get the guns out of the hands of criminals, and any other ideas his government might have devised to keep its election promise to reduce crime. Instead, he was finding excuses to wiggle out of his government’s election promise.
YESTERDAY, Mr Justice Ian Winder granted a three-week extension to government’s winding up petition to settle the future of Baha Mar, the much anticipated resort that closed before it could open.
BRADLEY Roberts, PLP chairman, is incensed that there should be any suggestion that “government interfered with the Baha Mar negotiations, a private contractual matter, and is therefore to blame for the recent lay-offs”.
WHAT an unmitigated disaster – the Baha Mar dream is over and 2,000 redundant Bahamian employees have been sent home to face a bleak Christmas.
AS PRIME Minister Christie scratches his head to find money to rebuild the southern islands, badly damaged by Hurricane Joaquin, he anticipates having to face what he has called a “confusing debate, between the government, the Medical Association of The Bahamas and the insurance industry”.