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Do we believe?

by Edward Hutcheson The local media has begun its spin on what the deal is about the decision of the government to allow the powers that be north of the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge to do as they feel in what is supposed to be sovereign territory; but even that... Read more →

John Watling's Distillery. Fabulous

We visited the John Watling's Distillery on Saturday with some friends, and we are glad we did. It was simply brilliant. A brief tour that provides a truncated history of the property, John Watling's and much more, and then enjoying their fabulous rum on the rocks overlooking the city of... Read more →

Dickey Betts & Great Southern - Song of the week - April 29, 2013 - Good Time Feeling

One of my favourite tunes from Dickey Betts is from his 1978 Atlanta's Burning Down album. Hope you enjoy it too. Please visit his web site here… and more importantly buy some of his music! Good Time Feeling Read more →

Photo of the week: Hope Town, Abaco Lighthouse

Taken a fews years back while visiting Abaco. Always a lovely site, even if the picture is not so great. Rick Lowe Images by Rick Lowe is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at www.weblogbahamas.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may... Read more →

The plot thickens with the immigration blunder

As the revelation comes to light that Baha Mar had a similar issue with immigration and a few foreign workers as Atlantis had recently with a sea lion trainer, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration, Mr. Fred Mitchell (PLP) seems to be ever more intransigent, Mr. Perry Christies... Read more →

Crime problem in Bahamas is America's fault?

Before the last general election there was hardly a day that went by that Mr. Keith Bell, the spokesman on crime for the PLP when in Opposition, was not blaming the FNM government of the day for our crime problems. Now that his party is the Government and he is... Read more →

Submission to The Bahamas Constitutional Review Commission

As Freiderick A. Hayek (pdf) noted; "Equality of the general rules of law and conduct, however, is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty and the only equality which we can secure without destroying liberty…" This is something that I'm hoping is at the forefront of the deliberations about... Read more →

Bahamas Department of Immigration embarrassing us again?

Here we go again. According to press reports; "without warning, two uniformed men and one plain-clothes officer marched into the water park (at Atlantis) through a back gate, found the American citizen in the middle of a guest interaction with sea lions, and demanded that she produce her passport." (The... Read more →

Lessons in Freedom: More Environmentalist Confusions

by Tibor R. Machan The New York Observer reported in its April 15, 2013, issue (B 1) that Leonardo DiCaprio is teaming up with Christie’s in New York City, to hold a “major philanthropic auction.” I am not interested in the details, which appear to me a kind of kiss... Read more →

Do we need a nice political leader?

by Edward Hutcheson Who are we comparing the Leader of the Opposition to when we make attempts to judge what a credible leader should look like? Perhaps that is the problem with the grid we are using. He is supposed to look or talk a particular way. The historical period... Read more →