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28th Annual Antique Auto Show & Cook-Out - A great success

This 1963 Corvette Split Window Coupe owned by President Don Pinder was first in Class 2-A (Antique Original 1960-79) (Photo by Jim LaRoda) by T. Murray Forde There was something for everybody at the 28th Annual Antique Auto Show & Cook-Out at Arawak Cay on a beautiful Sunny Saturday at... Read more →

Things are getting better over the world in spite of set backs

Thanks to Capitalism… As a result of the home invasion of some friends I posted the following comment to my Facebook status over the weekend: "Words my parents did not have to express when they were young in The Bahamas? "Be safe"." Crime is on the minds of so many... Read more →

Doc Fingers - Song of the week - March 30, 2015 - Sid's Stomp

I first posted a song by Doc Fingers back in 2013, and with every listen to his CD, In The Pocket, I find more gems. This man can play! Hope you enjoy Sid's Stomp below. Visit his web site here... and buy some of his music. Sid's Stomp Read more →

Questions For Gray That Must Be Answered

Photo: Bahamas B2B by Adrian Gibson DAILY, I’m becoming more and more convinced that we live in a banana republic or are fast descending into becoming one. In recent days, the member of parliament for MICAL and Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Alfred Gray – who also had responsibility... Read more →

Brave New World Besmirched By BAMSI And BEC

by Adrian Gibson WHILE this column will address the unravelling of the Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI), I must certainly look at the undoing of the Christie administration and the fact that countless projects and initiatives have bitten the dust or been the subject of derision, scandal and... Read more →

Cashing in on Culture

by Richard Coulson First published in The Tribune March 25, 2015, and posted here with the kind permission of the author. Culture makes money. That sounds like a damnably crass and materialistic way to justify culture, by which I mean the visual arts in all their diversity—painting and sculpture plus... Read more →

Bahamas Association For The Physically Disabled (BAPD) dedicate their new bus

I was honoured to receive an invite from Sir Durward Knowles to attend the dedication of the BAPD's new bus that is specially equipped to handle wheelchairs for the transportation of the children there and to formally introduce their physiotherapist. The event was heart wrenching and uplifting at the same... Read more →

Gray Justice?

The Nassau Guardian editorial of March 24, 2015 suggests that Mr. V. Alfred Gray, Minister of Agriculture Marine Resources and Local Government should "resign or be fired" for allegedly interfering in a judicial matter as a minister and MP. These are serious allegations, to which Mr. Gray has made certain... Read more →

"It is a gratuitous pastime to belittle the material achievements of capitalism…"

In 1956, Ludwig von Mises delivered a speech to the Mont Pelerin Society that was published in book form in 2005 by the Mises Institute as Liberty And Property. Mises tells us on page 50 that: "It is not the fault of capitalism that the masses prefer a boxing match... Read more →

The Welfare State We're In by James Bartholomew

"The Welfare State We’re In has been hailed by guest speaker Martin Durkin as “the most important book on the welfare state” and “one of the most important political/social/historical works of the last half century." Find out more about The Welfare State We're In here… The following video at The... Read more →