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OH CAT ISLAND! Can You hear me? Part One

Orange Creek by John Hedden Francoise (My wife and sweetheart), and myself visited Cat Island over the Labour day holiday weekend, for two reasons: I wanted to return after a 35 year hiatus, and she wanted to visit an island she had heard so much about. We flew into the... Read more →

The Importance of Small Government

Donald Boudreaux From Professor Don Boudreaux's "Quotation of the Day" over at Cafe Hayek... … is from pages 222-223 of my teacher Randy Holcombe’s superb 1985 book, An Economic Analysis of Democracy: When a government is small, it can provide very limited benefits to special interest groups, so there is... Read more →

Blow the lid on issues that riled the electorate

by Candia Dames Managing Editor The Nassau Guardian The following article was published in The Nassau Guardian June 7, 2017 and is posted here with the kind permission of the author. Focus on transparency should begin with FOIA enactment After hearing last week’s cringe-worthy budget revelations by Finance Minister Peter... Read more →

Pirate Republic Brewing Company Wednesday Jam Nights with The Core

In case you haven’t heard yet, Wednesday nights are Jam Nights at Pirate Republic Brewing Company on Prince George Wharf. The Core, a local Alt-Rock band hosts and each week it’s getting better and better. An evening of live music, great beer and food awaits you. Hope to see you... Read more →

Mythmaking master should take the free advice

Bradley Roberts, Chairman of the PLP, is a great mythmaker and he is at again over a supposed conflict of interest at Baha Mar between the Prime Minister and his Minister of Tourism. He is linking Mr. D'Aguilar's service on the board of directors of the original Baha Mar developers... Read more →

Bahamas Government Budget 2017 - 2018

Congratulations again to the FNM for winning the government. The country badly needed a reset and now the rubber meets the road. I keep telling myself I should not be disappointed with the new Government’s budget, after all they were only elected May 10, and had all of two weeks... Read more →

The Dangerous Idea of the Greater Good

by Sean Malone Sean Malone is the Director of Media at FEE. His films have been featured in the mainstream media and throughout the free-market educational community. This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. [Note: This article contains major spoilers for the motion picture Hot Fuzz.]... Read more →

Enjoy your long weekend. I will.

Book Review: Preferential Policies: An International Perspective by Thomas Sowell

by David M. Brown William Morrow & Co., P.O. Box 1219, 39 Plymouth Street, Fairfield, NJ 07007 • 1990 • 221 pages • Advocates of preferential policies can’t afford to ignore this book—at least, not if they care about how their policies are working in practice. With the diligence and... Read more →