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Sunrise Villa: Eleuthera in 2009 Bonefish Pond: 2013 Harrold & Wilson Ponds: 2012? The Bahamas is no doubt one of the world's most beautiful wonders. Read more →

VAT Formula? Just pay up taxpayers...

Mr. Wayne Munroe on women's rights and the referendum

by Leandra Esfakis I heard the interview last night that Wayne Munro, Attorney at Law, gave to the media on the issue of women’s rights / the referendum. I understood him to say that women in this country did not need further protection because women in the Bahamas had the... Read more →

VAT Education

by Harry Strachan I see from the little “advertisements” carried on ZNS TV News that the VAT office is, in effect, lying by omission to the people. The young lady is telling us that because two or three products will be zero rated for VAT then the cost of living... Read more →

Fiscal Reform is an absolute necessity

I received the following text and attachments in an e-mail from Mr. Robert Myers president of The Bahamas Chamber and co-chair of the Coalition for Responsible Taxation. "The attached is our power point presentation converted to a PDF for your information and dissemination. We continue to press the leadership and... Read more →

Crime Plan for Mr. Christie

by H. Armbrister Is this the same PLP with its leader, the Rt. Hon. Perry Christie, that stated categorically, when elected in 2012, they would hit the ground running with a definitive crime prevention plan? Well almost two years and 4 months into this government, that same Perry Christie is... Read more →

Reduce the price of gas to help Bahamians

Back in 2005 the present Chairman of BEC, when he was Minister of Trade & Industry, was all about town trying to convince taxpayers that getting into hock to the late Hugo Chavez, the dictator of Venezuela, through a scheme of getting gas on credit, was a great idea. In... Read more →

Officials Must Cast Their Net Wide To Catch Poachers

Photo from Mission-Blue.org by Adrian Gibson First published in the The Tribune under the byline, Young Man's View, here… OVER the years, we have seen significant violation of our sovereign waters by Dominican, Cuban and American fishermen who exploit the hamstrung, diminished capacity of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF)... Read more →

On Digicel and URCA

Thoughts from Harry Strachan At the recent Canto meeting here a director of Digicel made a rather telling remark. He wants users of Skype to pay for the privilege …. ? He seems to think that Skype users have an unfair advantage! This coming from the company that decimated the... Read more →

Memphis Slim - Song of the week - August 25, 2014 - Rock and Rolling The House

Memphis Slim (John Len Chatman) (September 3, 1915 - February 24, 1988), was quite an accomplished singer/songwriter/pianist and his music was a mix of blues, vintage R & B and swinging jazz. I came across Rock and Rolling the House on his Paris Missippi Blues compilation, a two CD set... Read more →