Fiscal Gyrations and Attempted Justifications?
Financial Secretary Simon Wilson, while speaking at Bahamas Chamber of Commerce State of the...
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Category: Opinion
Letter To The Editor: Kill The Spy Bill
Dear Sir: Please read and consider signing and sharing this petition against the Bahamas...
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The Forgotten Island: Freeport, Grand Bahama
For too long, we as Licensees have feared for our position in this Company Town: this must change and we must ALL agitate for good things to happen.
Read MoreLetter To The Editor: Bless The Pindlings Our Lord and Saviour
Dear Editor, Journalists from the three largest Bahamian newspapers committed sacrilege by publishing the story of Dame Marguerite Pindling owing more than $300,000 in real property taxes for her palatial $10 million mansion...
Read MoreOp-Ed: The Lack of Government Transparency in the Bahamas
by Lemarque Campbell “Indeed, if I may be permitted a brief burst of boastful pride, there is nothing in the whole of my more than 40 consecutive years in front line politics of which I am more proud than the fact that there has...
Read MoreCritical Need for Environmental Protection Legislation
by FREDERICK R. M. SMITH, Q.C. The Bahamas is in critical and dire need of an Environmental Protection Act. This legislation has been promised in the past by both the FNM and PLP governments. As the Bahamas broadens its...
Read MoreBahamas Agricultural Subsidies are a Waste of Taxpayer Dollars
The Bahamas has seen no end of ideas to protect Bahamian farmers yet, the consultants, bureaucrats and politicians continue to suggest that if they just get their hands on a few more tax dollars they can make it work.
Read MoreOn Future Of The Grand Bahama Port Authority
The Hawksbill Creek Agreement is essential to the future development of Grand Bahama and by extension The Bahamas. Resolution of the concerns of the Government and the people about the management/ownership of the GBPA Ltd is a priority. There is a viable option to restructure the GBPA Ltd. to make it financially independent and accountable to ALL its stakeholders.
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Let’s Remember Whitney for Her Ability
Remember when you first heard Whitney Houston sing? Was it “The Greatest Love of All” or “I Will...
Read MoreChristmas Should be More Commercial
Christmas in America is an exuberant display of human ingenuity, capitalist productivity, and the enjoyment of life. Yet all of these are castigated as “materialistic”; the real meaning of the holiday, we are told,...
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Columbus Day: A Time to Celebrate
Columbus day approaches, but to the “politically correct” this is no cause for...
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Columbus Day Celebrates Western Civilization
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, opening a sea route to...
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