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THE mess to which Mr Bradley Roberts referred as the reason for the PLP’s introduction of VAT into The Bahamas began in earnest under the PLP’s watch between fiscal 2002/3 and 2006/7.
“FRUITLESS,” concluded Bahamas Electrical Workers Union president Stephano Greene as talks with government ended yesterday.
SINCE THIS government has come on the scene, it has stumbled from one sink hole into another. Nothing seems to be going right, because there is no planning, no co-ordination, and, as we have said before, each cabinet minister seems to have his own agenda and his own game plan.
TODAY, BEC chairman Leslie Miller is the Man of the Hour, and VAT is the vehicle that is going to send all of us — country included — to our economic graves.
WITH our Foreign Affairs Minister so interested in attracting investment to the Bahamas from the Middle East will this new money line eventually bring with it another problem — a clash of cultures?
GOVERNMENT IS making a big mistake by sanctioning a closed door hearing of the five marines in the Cuban detainees beating case.
LAWYERS, retained by CARICOM to make a case on behalf of the Caribbean community for compensation from Britain for the scars left on their islands by the 18th century transatlantic slave trade, have invited Bahamians to add their voices to the compensation fight.
IN his column on page 18 of today’s edition, Larry Smith writes about what is today called “counterfactual history”— as he explains, it is “an attempt to answer hypothetical questions by considering what would have happened if certain key historical events had not occurred”.
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell’s arrogantly dismissive, often rude manner is certainly a lesson in how not to behave if one wants to win friends and influence people.
MANY Bahamians awoke Saturday morning to have a quiet cup of coffee with The Tribune’s weekend publication — The Big T.
“WHAT stands out as a lesson to other governments is how reaction, if not thought through, can actually exacerbate a situation and, turning it into a matter unlikely to be forgotten and which in this case, may, in time, come to affect Bahamas-US relations.”
NATIONAL SECURITY Minister Bernard Nottage’s “500 per cent mis-speak”, as one local wit called it, certainly set the town on its head and burned up the airwaves this week as Bahamians went apoplectic to think that Prime Minister Christie’s “noble act” had cost them $5 million.
ABSOLUTE scandal! Obviously, National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage did not realise the Pandora’s box he opened this weekend with the announcement that the January 28 gambling referendum has cost the Bahamian tax payer about $5 million, especially as Prime Minister Christie — who is also Finance Minister — had some weeks earlier estimated a cost in the region of $1 million plus.
FRED Mitchell probably feels quite a hero having secured the support of the Caribbean community in his argument with the Miami-based Cuban exile group fighting for the rights of their countrymen to be treated humanely while in the Bahamas’ detention centre.
WE HAD hoped that Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell would have faded into the shadows when the Cuban abuse allegations were transferred to National Security Minister Dr Bernard Nottage.
WE COMMEND the Bahamas government that after three months of shadow boxing, sending up smokes screens and pretending that all’s well in paradise, they have at last admitted that something sufficiently serious must have gone wrong at the Carmichael Detention Centre in June to warrant an investigation.
AS WE understand it the recent meeting between the Prime Minister — who was accompanied by at least seven of his Cabinet ministers — and the owners of The Nassau Guardian was meant to be a discussion about Mr Christie’s vision for the Bahamas.
YESTERDAY, a member of the public sent us the following letter for publication. It was signed by a concerned Bahamian “with an independent mind”.
IT WAS April, 2012 — a month before a general election – when large billboards suddenly sprung up along the western highway in full view of visitors being driven from the airport to their uptown hotels. The billboards informed the world that the Bahamas was a crime-ridden destination, not the glorious get-away-from-it-all paradise that the Tourism Ministry was spending mega dollars advertising.
WHERE, oh where is that illusive Freedom of Information Act, 2012?
"THE blood of this good man shed in Memphis still cries out across the years, cries out to each and every one of us wherever we may be all across the world to stand up for freedom, to stand up for human dignity, to stand up for equality, to stand up for social justice, to stand up for right and not for wrong…”
IN AN article published in The Tribune on Wednesday, guest commentator Kirkland Turner repeated a humorous catch praise describing diplomacy as the “art of telling someone to go to hell and having them look forward to the journey”.
FISHING was once a lucrative business for our local fishermen. But no more.
OVER the weekend, we had an interesting, but troubling talk with two businessmen. One was particularly concerned by the confusion being caused in the business community, which had resulted in the sudden – and unexpected – drop in business.
DESPITE the government’s increased spending on education, public schools continue to release more students into the community without the required skills in reading, writing and arithmetic.