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FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell, who has taken leave of absence this year to represent the Bahamas at various meetings around the world, made it clear last year that his ambition is to retire from the PLP government “with a comfortable life”. He would also like to “continue to prosper with respect while no longer actively involved in public policy”.
BAHAMAS Faith Ministries founder, Dr Myles Munroe – although gambling is against his religion – has drawn his breath in long enough to tolerate a more emasculated version of the devil in the form of a national lottery rather than a licensed webshop industry.
ALREADY Government’s plan to regulate and tax webshops is headed for the shoals.
A TRIBUNE reader has sent us a news flash from Holland that reports that the US government’s eavesdropping has resulted “in an attack on the Netherlands being averted”.
BIG BROTHER is watching and our local Sherlock Holmes is busy beating the local bushes to find out who invited him in.
“SO now people are happy for the Privy Council’s decision, yet when they say ‘No Hanging’ the response is ‘We independent! We don’t need no Privy Council!’”
“EVERY time I open my mouth I lose my civil liberties in this country,” commented a woman who has lived in the Bahamas for many years, but still has a distinct Jamaican accent.
ALTHOUGH in his world travels, Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell seems very attracted to the long-robbed leaders of the Arab world, he would do well to tread carefully about any talk of cultural exchange or investment with them.
SERVANT! This word writ large should be plastered on the bathroom mirror of each government minister. As he or she looks in that mirror during their morning ablutions, this is the one word that should remind them of who they are, in whose service they are employed, and to whom they have to report.
WE COMMEND National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage for reintroducing “tough love” into the schools to discipline unruly students.
IT HAS always been said that when America sneezes, the Bahamas catches a cold.
IN THE heat of the argument on the hiring of a “non-performing contractor” to build a replica of the same project from which he had been fired, it was claimed that former prime minister Hubert Ingraham had cancelled the first contract for “purely political expediency”.
ON THIS page today, a letter, signed only as “See the Danger”, questions not only the morality of selling Bahamas Telecommunications to a foreign company, but also the legality of such a sale.
TODAY, Mrs Alison Bethel McKenzie arrives in Nassau on her way to Jamaica to represent IPI at the two-day World Press Freedom Day conference, hosted by UNESCO. The conference opens in Jamaica on Saturday and is expected to attract wide media coverage.
SPEAKING at the opening of the Bahamas Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association’s post-election seminar three weeks ago, Prime Minister Christie announced that he thought this was the “appropriate time to consider” the construction of a new parliamentary building that would house both the House of Assembly and the Senate.
“THERE is no such thing as being inebriated from weed. You can smoke all day long and still work, still drive, still talk, basically you can still function perfectly. But drink straight for two hours. You won’t be able to stand, talk or function at all. Yet weed is illegal... How did this planet get so stupid?”
THE use of marijuana for medicinal purposes, says National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage, is a knotty issue that will soon have to be debated. Government is now feeling the pressure as the police discover more and more fields of marijuana growing in remote areas, not only on New Providence, but in the Family Islands, particularly Grand Bahama.
Major Nassau/Paradise Island hotels are reporting high occupancies for the Easter holiday period, one executive confirming to Tribune Business yesterday that it was seeing strong performance from its leisure business for the Spring Break/Easter period.
IN this column, we have already dealt with the two questions that Bahamians were asked to answer in the gambling referendum on January 28 last year, but in view of comments made by gambling chief Craig Flowers, in a radio interview last week, we return to the subject today.
AS if NEMA’s startling announcement of a tsunami surging towards these islands had not caused enough hysteria in the Bahamas on Wednesday, the news that a wealthy Texan had purchased the Elbow Cay Reef Lighthouse in Hope Town and was about to move it to his private island in the Exumas, promised a tumultuous rebellion as it started to circulate in Nassau last night.
AS WE watched in horror a Russian tank smash through the gates of a Ukrainian army base in Crimea’s Balbek city on Saturday, it was as though a sledge hammer had forced open the memory box of a small child sitting in her father’s editorial office many years ago listening to him discussing another European land grab by a mad tyrant.
THE Bahamas has lost its moral fibre, a Bahamian recently remarked. He wanted to know whether we agreed, and, if so, when did we first notice it.
ON January 30 last year — two days after less than half the voting public said “no” to the legalisation of webshops— The Tribune’s headline read: “PM: Webshops must close now.”
EARLY yesterday morning, we received a telephone call from a member of the public who has close friends in both political camps – PLP and FNM. He was concerned. In fact he was very concerned.
SIR RONALD Sanders, who demands accuracy, made a statement in his weekly column in The Tribune on February 24 listing the Bahamas as one of the 18 signatories to the Hugo Chavez cheap oil deal, better known as PetroCaribe.