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Radio Broadcast Hoaxes?

Dear Sir, The quality of radio broadcasting on this tiny island of New Providence is abysmal! We have how many hundred stations here? All they play is either horrendous noise laughingly referred to as “music” or positively ghastly “call-in shows,” please. Since Friday (October 7, 2016) I have been trying... Read more →

Britain and Hurricane Supplies

Dear Mr. Editor, I hope both Sebastian Campbell and Branville McCartney were able to see that big grey ship that came into Nassau Harbour this past weekend. For them and others who have been wondering what the monarchy does for us, now you know. HM the Q – you know... Read more →

BISX At $5 Billion? Behind The Figures

by Richard Coulson This column was written while Hurricane Matthew raged overhead. As reconstruction begins, now more than ever BISX needs to be reconstructed to help our economy grow. -------------------------------- First published in The Tribune, Monday, October 17, 2016, and is posted here with the kind permission of the author.... Read more →

Our apologies for our absence

It’s nice to know we’ve been missed since being off line as a result of Hurricane Matthew. We hope to start posting again in earnest tomorrow, October 19, 2016. Read more →

The Calm after Hurricane Matthew

Getting ready to hunker down for Matthew

Well it looks like we’re in for a rough ride as Hurricane Matthew sets its sights on The Bahamas chain of islands. There’s no choice but to be prepared as best we can to ride out what is predicted to be a Category 4 storm. The silent fear is palpable... Read more →

M5 Mexican Brass Quintet

On Sunday evening we were lucky to see M5, and what a treat it was. I couldn't wrap my head around two trumpets, a French horn, a trombone and a tuba would sound like, but with music from Johann Sebastian Bach to The Beatles it was a blast. I went... Read more →

Richard Epstein Enriches Us with His Ideas on Inequality, Taxes, Politics, and Health Care

“On Uncommon Knowledge, Richard A. Epstein, the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, discusses inequality, taxes, globalization, free markets, politics, health care, and gay marriage. Epstein states that the central theme of his book The Classical Liberal Constitution is to develop sufficiently stable government structures and... Read more →

The Story of Armando Valladares: Former Cuban Political Prisoner of Conscience

Hope you will take the time to watch the following video from The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. Back in October 1982, Castro released “the dissident poet Armando Valladares” after 22 years for refusing to put a communist slogan on his desk. The following video is Armando’s story. I guess... Read more →

The Myth of Middle-Class Stagnation in Canada

Donald Boudreaux, Joel Ernes, Hugh MacIntyre and Charles Lammam have an interesting new report out for Canada’s Fraser Institute that confirms “…the myth of middle-class stagnation is just that: a myth.” “If it is true that over the previous thirty or forty years the ma terial welfare of ordinary Canadians... Read more →