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Airport issues must be addressed

THIS TIME, next week a new Government of the Bahamas will have been elected.

Bahamas Hot Mix meets international standards

Bahamas Hot Mix meets international standards SEEMS that the Opposition hates Bahamas Hot Mix, but during its administration couldn't do without it for the construction of the Tonique Williams Darling Highway. In 2003 - under the PLP administration -- thr

This is no remedy

EDITOR, The Tribune. Dr Rodgers recently announced his remedy to save homes from foreclosure. In summary, he suggested: * "...reduce the Central Bank Prime Rate from 5.25 per cent to 2.25 per cent or lower..." * Banks "could reduce the principal on their tro

This is no remedy

EDITOR, The Tribune. Dr Rodgers recently announced his remedy to save homes from foreclosure. In summary, he suggested: * "...reduce the Central Bank Prime Rate from 5.25 per cent to 2.25 per cent or lower..." * Banks "could reduce the principal on their tro

Christie hypocrisy

EDITOR, The Tribune. There is the ordinary type of hypocrisy. Then there is the Perry Gladstone Christie brand of hypocrisy. The man who said he would swim through vomit to return to the PLP has, in my opinion, always been more interested in getting powe

Christie hypocrisy

EDITOR, The Tribune. There is the ordinary type of hypocrisy. Then there is the Perry Gladstone Christie brand of hypocrisy. The man who said he would swim through vomit to return to the PLP has, in my opinion, always been more interested in getting powe

Politics on the Cayman Islands

GEORGE TOWN, the Cayman Islands - At a dinner party on Seven Mile Beach here, I asked a long-time resident (who serves on two public boards) for a briefing on the island's political parties. Curiously, he could not even recall their names. So the next day

Politics on the Cayman Islands

GEORGE TOWN, the Cayman Islands - At a dinner party on Seven Mile Beach here, I asked a long-time resident (who serves on two public boards) for a briefing on the island's political parties. Curiously, he could not even recall their names. So the next day

Politics on the Cayman Islands

GEORGE TOWN, the Cayman Islands - At a dinner party on Seven Mile Beach here, I asked a long-time resident (who serves on two public boards) for a briefing on the island's political parties. Curiously, he could not even recall their names. So the next day

Politics on the Cayman Islands

GEORGE TOWN, the Cayman Islands - At a dinner party on Seven Mile Beach here, I asked a long-time resident (who serves on two public boards) for a briefing on the island's political parties. Curiously, he could not even recall their names. So the next day

Politics on the Cayman Islands

GEORGE TOWN, the Cayman Islands - At a dinner party on Seven Mile Beach here, I asked a long-time resident (who serves on two public boards) for a briefing on the island's political parties. Curiously, he could not even recall their names. So the next day

Politics on the Cayman Islands

GEORGE TOWN, the Cayman Islands - At a dinner party on Seven Mile Beach here, I asked a long-time resident (who serves on two public boards) for a briefing on the island's political parties. Curiously, he could not even recall their names. So the next day

Christie government was slow to act

Christie government was slow to act SPEAKING at the opening of Golden Gates constituency office, Prime Minister Ingraham said that the New Providence Road Improvement Project could have been completed "six or seven years ago" if it weren't for the incomp

Beware of election promises

ELECTION TIME is here again and so are the promises. Promises, we might add, without any reference to the Public Treasury. Bahamians should be aware of the times in which we live and don't depend on election promises -- even in

Greek austerity meeting postponed again

Greek austerity meeting postponed again Greece's prime minister negotiated late into the night Tuesday with the country's international creditors, finalizing a proposal for new austerity measures to avoid a disastrous bankruptcy. Prime Minister Lucas Pap

PM Ingraham and his biting sarcasm

PM Ingraham and his biting sarcasm THERE WAS excitement in Grand Bahama when in a jocular remark -- which translated meant that the PLP's election promises will happen "when chickens grow teeth!" - Prime Minister Ingraham remarked: "Down in West End Mr S

PM Ingraham and his biting sarcasm

PM Ingraham and his biting sarcasm THERE WAS excitement in Grand Bahama when in a jocular remark -- which translated meant that the PLP's election promises will happen "when chickens grow teeth!" - Prime Minister Ingraham remarked: "Down in West End Mr S

Afghanistan increasingly looks like Iraq

Afghanistan increasingly looks like Iraq Afghanistan is not Iraq, US officials have been fond of saying from the first days of Barack Obama's presidency. The difference, they said, was that one war Obama inherited, in Afghanistan, was worth fighting whil

A national lottery to be decided by referendum

A national lottery to be decided by referendum EARLIER THIS year there was much speculation that the "numbers racket" was going to be legalised and regulated. From comments made by Prime Minister Ingraham in the House of Assembly yesterday it is now cle

Double standards

EDITOR, The Tribune. According to the law, stealing by reason of employment is a crime. There should be no difference in profession, class or connection, whether it is political or professional. There are many who have been arrested, charged, tried and