BUDGET DAY: Prime Minister Philip Davis and his colleagues stand in Rawson Square as they made their way over to Parliament for the annual budget statement by the Minister of Finance. The Prime Minister said that the budget will be balanced for the first time in an independent Bahamas and he expects a surplus at […] 3e166s
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Obie Ferguson, the TUC Labour leader, is in denial. That’s not a river in Egypt either. Mr. Ferguson sat down with the PLP just before the general election in 2021. First on his agenda before getting down to the finer points of public policy was the fact that he had been so successful as an […]
Prime Minister Philip Davis delivered his annual budget statement in two hours on Wednesday 28 May 2025. He was surrounded by a full house and most people were at rapt attention. The budget had a little something for everyone. Within the statement there was the promise of a balanced budget for the first time in […]
The US obviously does not want foreign students to come to their country to study any more. That is the clear message of a so called pause in interviews by Embassies of the US abroad to grant visas for students who want to study in the next term. This adds to the fight that the […]
Ambassador Wendall Jones, the Bahamas Ambassador to the United States, officially opened the Bahamas Business and Investment Forum in New York at the Metropolitan Club on Thursday 29 May 2025. The forum brought together people from all sectors of the economy to promote The Bahamas as a secure destination for investment. Prime Minister Philip Davis […]
John Pinder South Abaco MP Every day that the lord sends in the past month, some newspaper reporter or TV media personality is peppering the Chairman of the PLP with questions about who is running for office. The general election is 15 months away and the PLP has not started to choose candidates. It is […]
Prime Minister Philip Davis delivered a remarkable and unusually political address at the Men’s Branch of the PLP last Sunday this time. His ers had been calling for it for years. When are you going to punch this man Pintard in the face for all the nasty things he does and says about you? Up […]
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From Facebook: Congratulations to the newly reelected officers of the Fox Hill Branch of the PLP, led by Ida Symonette, Branch Chair. Thank you to the team for all your hard work and dedication Fred Mitchell MPFox Hill28 May 2025
From Facebook: A joy to Dr Michael Darville, MP for Tall Pines, at their branch meeting tonight along with colleague Vaughn Miller. Thank you branch chair Michelle Smith. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 27 May 2025
The photo by Peter Ramsay of the Bahamas Information Services of the final farewell from the state for the late former Senator Rodney Moncur. The flag was presented to his widow by Lashell AdderleyPresident of the Senate. 23 May 2025
From Facebook: The iconic image every time I visit the Mayo Clinic. My first visit was 1995. Some of the doctors at the facility today were just born that year. The records show that I was 79 kilos then and now 97 kilos.OMG. Time for some munjaro. Then there’s the boot after cracking my leg […]
Pat Rahming has a song that goes something like this: they are coming out of the woodwork just like worms…another five years gone by. So all the FNM deadweights are back in the public domain. The drunk drowning his sorrows in Eleuthera of the three birds and a goat fame. Then there is the one […]
These are photos taken by Ambassador Brian Seymour at the memorial service for the late Mario Donato, the Freeport businessman at Mary Star of The Sea Catholic Church in Freeport on Saturday 17 May 2025:
Minister for Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey Widow of Artis Neely MP for West Grand Bahama Kingsley Smith Senators James Turner, Kirk Russell and Randy Rolle Ambassadors Brian Seymour and Keith Russell He was a well-loved and well known figure in the West Grand Bahama community. His community of West End turned out in masses at […]
Duane Sands, the voluble FNM Chair, was in the press last week writing in chapter and verse all the things he says that the PLP has to accomplish. They are fixated on the issue of single source contracts. Let’s get this straight: the PLP and the FNM have a philosophical difference between us on this. […]