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ALTHOUGH the FNM remains “committed to tax reform”, it is not “on board the VAT train”. So announced Opposition Leader Dr Hubert Minnis in the House yesterday.
AN INVITATION has arrived in Nassau announcing a special ceremony by the US Postal Service of the First-Day-of-Issue ceremony for the C Alfred “Chief” Anderson stamp. “Chief” Anderson is known to the world as the “Father of Black Aviation”.
IN HIS column on page 12 of today’s Tribune, Sir Ronald Sanders asks: “Petro Caribe: are Caribbean countries prepared for the worst?”
AS Deputy Prime Minister “Brave” Davis said in a press statement yesterday, it is important that the mysterious appearance of 13 Bahamian iguanas — one dead— discovered in luggage at Heathrow Airport, London, should be thoroughly investigated.
THE government would like Bahamians to believe that crime is on the decline.
IN THIS column yesterday, we reported conversations that we had over the weekend with various businessmen about their fears for the future of this country’s economy if VAT were introduced.
“VALUE added tax (VAT) is viable in the Bahamas,” according to Kendrick Christie, president of the Bahamas chapter of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.
THE UNFORTUNATE detention of Swiss banker Emmanuel Fiaux, executive director of UBS Bank on East Bay Street, reveals how many Bahamians are ignorant of what side their bread is buttered on. They want jobs, they want the luxury of living beyond their means, they want their country to survive its present economic crisis, and yet they nurse their innate prejudice against the white foreigner who is the banker, the investor, the financier – the creator of much of the wealth without which this country could not rise above a fishing village.
THE BAHAMAS has “all the ingredients to become a world class international financial centre”, but needs to get its message out.
THE DUPUCH brothers — Etienne and Eugene — had a different style of approach to a crisis, but when it came to basic principles, they were usually on the same page. However, capital punishment was one issue over which they did differ. Sir Etienne advocated capital punishment for the ruthless killer. Younger brother, Eugene Dupuch, QC, the eminent lawyer, was an abolitionist— no matter the circumstances of the crime, no one should hang. It was interesting to hear them toss their ideas back and forth. As a result, The Tribune stood for hanging for serious cases of murder.
IN TODAY’s Tribune, it is reported that the New Year’s Day Parade “could have been a real blast from the past” had its organisers been successful in borrowing the historic military muskets from the Antiquities, Monuments and Museum Corporation (AMMC).
IT’S SHORTLY after 8pm as we start to write this column — the second day of the New Year – and The Tribune has just been alerted to another murder. A reporter has dashed from the newsroom for Taylor Street off East Street. That is all that we know at present, but before the night is out and this column has been completed for this morning’s publication the details of the latest murder for two-day-old 2014 will be on today’s front page.
A YEAR and a half ago — a month after the PLP were elected to govern the Bahamas — we wrote the following in this column.
AT LEAST one of our readers did not appreciate our Christmas editorial in which we wished our nation a happy and blessed Christmas, but urged Bahamians — especially the young — to try to grasp the meaning of Christmas by understanding that the birth of the Christ-child was God’s greatest gift to mankind
HAVE ANY of our readers ever heard of the rare condition of “affluenza”? No? Nor had we until we read of the unfortunate condition of a 16-year-old Texan boy, who with his buddies stole beer from Walmarts, jumped into a pick up truck and smashed into a woman whose car had broken down.
ALTHOUGH Prime Minister Christie has admitted that his government cannot afford to purchase the two per cent needed to get controlling interest in Bahamas Telecommunications Company, he continues to waste everybody’s time chasing that elusive rainbow.
IN the letters column on this page today Garth Buckner, who was on the board that privatised BTC, has responded to the Prime Minister’s invitation for an alternative plan to VAT. What Mr Buckner writes makes a good deal of sense. We recommend that Mr Christie and his government give it the consideration that it deserves.
TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe seemed peeved that the United States does not appreciate the efforts of the Bahamas to get crime under control. It’s as though Big Brother has let him — and the Bahamas — down.
IT IS a tragedy that crime had to crash through the front door of the acting prime minister’s home as morning broke yesterday to make him and all of his political colleagues realise that crime is not a political problem, but a community problem. And that only a united community can solve that problem.
OBVIOUSLY, the PLP government is floating on a planet of its own making — so far removed that they are not getting the message being sent them by the Bahamian people. While the government is talking taxation, the people have made it clear they want government to cut spending before they will be lured into a debate that they neither understand nor are prepared to consider.
IT WAS not the best of times, but it was certainly the “worst of times” for a beaten Bahamas. The only bright light on the horizon was a belief that an “age of foolishness” was nearing an end.
ALTHOUGH Prime Minister Christie and National Security Minister Nottage have agreed to meet with the Police Staff Association to discuss compensation for the 12-hour shifts that police were assigned to combat escalating crime, comments made in October by Minister of State for National Security Keith Bell keep surfacing.
THE BEC union was jubilant. The country was angry – even staunch PLPs who, regardless of what nonsense their government did always remained loyal, had broken ranks.
OVER the weekend, Elcott Coleby, deputy director of Bahamas Information Services, sent a release to the press to announce the downgrade by Standard & Poor of Barbados’ financial rating – the second in four months. Barbados is listed in tenth place as one of the world’s most heavily indebted countries. From a rating of BB+ it has been dropped to BB-.
THE die is cast. Yesterday – November 21 – BEC chairman Leslie Miller gave instructions that from that day forward the electrical corporation will pay full salary for the first three days of a staff member’s sick leave.