The Tribune

EDITOR, The Tribune.

One can always count on your Monday edition to raise one’s blood pressure sufficient to manage the week ahead.

From Gowan Bowe on the front page, to Rick Lowe on the editorial page, to Dick Coulson’s excellent “Insight” article on the ongoing Baha Mar fiasco, and Robbie Myers headlining the business section, one can only wonder if our Government isn’t truly “deaf, dumb and blind” as they say. With sincere apologies to anyone with any one of these actual maladies.

Except for Dick Coulson’s Insight article, the other contributions centre on the Government’s stated intention to retaliate against Butch Stewart’s temporary closure of one of his hotels in the Bahamas. These other writers warning that such retaliation against Stewart, will be akin to the medieval idiom of “throwing the baby out with the bathwater”.

While the Government may feel that sealing the court documents on the Baha Mar purported sale, is critical to it actually happening, one can only wonder when it will decide that the voices and pens of people like Bowe, Lowe, Coulson, Myers et al, should also be sealed, lest the damage that they will do to any potential investor in The Bahamas, will be guaranteed.

Shoot the messenger, ignore the message!

BRUCE G. RAINE

Nassau,

September 5, 2016.