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Okay Mr. Christie it's time to take the lonely walk of ethical leadership

With calamity after calamity in recent months, the nation needs to hear from its political leader. The latest saga, the co-chairs of Urban Renewal refusing to meet with the Public Accounts Committee to discuss the recent Auditor General's Report confirms it is time for the prime minister to stand and... Read more →

Doomsters still wrong about Imminent Catastrophe for our world?

As Laura Huggins noted some time back: "Time has not been gentle with these prophecies (of doom and gloom). Four decades later, the world hasn't come to an end. Most measures of human welfare show the Earth's population is better off today than at any other time in human history.... Read more →

Urban Renewal Chooses To Shoot The Messenger

by Adrian Gibson THE suspension of all manner of reason at the altar of political correctness appears to be the order of the day these days, particularly when we see the Auditor General being thrown under a bus for a report that is not glowing about the political class. Fortunately,... Read more →

The Freeman: Spring 2015 issue is here...

Download the full issue (pdf) here… Subscribe here… FEATURES Fifty More Ways to Leave Leviathan Innovation and entrepreneurship can make you freer DECEMBER 09, 2014 by Jeffrey A. Tucker, Max Borders This "50 ways" phenomenon is the mechanism by which humanity evolves away from power and toward peaceful and voluntary... Read more →

That Letter From Long Island

by Adrian Gibson Last Thursday, The Tribune published a letter signed off as being written by “residents of Long Island”. The letter was in response to an earlier column of mine and made a number of deceptive statements. I had decided to laugh it off and not to respond, but... Read more →

Gamings negative impact

Dear Editor, I wish to refer to the Nassau Guardian Business Section of Wednesday, April 8 entitled, “Nine Companies Apply for Gaming Licenses”, and wish to share with your readers some statistics I researched from the article: 1. Nine companies together applied for 313 licenses. 2. One company applied for... Read more →

The Glory of Easter, Sunday, April 19, 2015, 4pm. Christ Church Cathedral, George Street

Problem of young beggars

by Adrian Gibson There has been a gradual but significant increase in the number of children, some as young as three and four, who will approach people in food stores, in parking lots and malls and on the streets with various stories for money. Often, they produce a sponsor sheet... Read more →

Those were the days!

Dear Editor Kindly allow me the space to share my reflections on a place near and dear to me....South Eleuthera, my home. Those were the days! When South Eleuthera welcomed visitors from lands near and far. When taxi drivers and shoeshine boys and luggage porters proudly served as ambassadors of... Read more →

In praise of police

by Adrian Gibson While I will speak further to policing in Long Island later, due to the fact that Long Islanders have written and called me about a number of matters that they would like to see addressed, I want to commend Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean for his... Read more →