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Odd standards at the department of labour?

According to this article the department of labour are going to visit the British Colonial Hilton Hotel (BC) to assess the “unbearable humid conditions” the staff there are “being forced to endure” because the air conditioning system is broken. I stand to be corrected, but where is the department of... Read more →

NIB software challenges

Contradictions abound with the "challenges" NIB is facing as a result of installing new computer software. I dare say it's a little more serious than a challenge if you have not been able to pay benefits to 30 percent of your clients for two months. Imagine if this was going... Read more →

The EU. One big secret

As The Bahamas fights for a sensible Freedom of Information Act, if the government does not provide what is best, the citizens have the right to vote them out at the next election. Members of the European Union do not have the luxury to vote them out. This was one... Read more →

PM speaks up on prejudice

All of a sudden Prime Minister Christie is concerned about racism. The problem is it’s not the racism among Bahamians toward each other or even the least among us, (our Haitian brothers and sisters), it's about the Chinese. Had he stopped there and added that prejudice is wrong no matter... Read more →

On referenda and resignations

Dear Mr. Editor WeblogBahamas, One has to wonder if our Prime Minister, Mr. Perry Gladstone Christie, has been watching what has been happening across “the Pond:” A referendum in Scotland, proposed by Mr. Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister, to determine if the Scots wanted independence from the United Kingdom; the... Read more →

No with reasonable excuse

Dear Editor WeblogBahamas, A wise young man once told me that if you want to know the purpose of a thing, check the results. He further opined that whatever the result was, you checked it against what is or should have been the priority. As I look at the results... Read more →

Questions Flying Around Broke Bahamasair

by Adrian Gibson It is clear that something funky has been going down at Bahamasair, given the government’s rogue - almost dictatorial and sneaky - advancing of $30m to the airline to purchase its new fleet from the French company Avions de Transport Régional (ATR) at a price tag of... Read more →

Why pay BEC when you can get it for free?

The economy of The Bahamas can be considered to be in depression after two years of decline and there are many people hurting as a result. Talking to friends, family and associates everybody has a family member not working making life very hard compared to times past. These issues coupled... Read more →

Regardless of the lack of logic, price controls will be applied

The spectacle of the Price Control Commission (PCC) visiting and demonising businesses in the press has recommenced, but with a twist. This time the accusation is food stores have not reduced prices on items that the import taxes were dropped or reduced on as at June 1, 2016. So the... Read more →

To Encounter Hell on Earth, Read The Gulag Archipelago

Solzhenitsyn’s epic treatise has much to teach us by Art Carden No one has ever been forced at gunpoint to stay in the casino at the Bellagio.A few months ago I read Alexandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic The Gulag Archipelago, which is three volumes and about 2,000 pages of sordid memoir recounting... Read more →