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Time to reverse course

Thoughts from Tradewinds Thank you Bruce Raine for stepping forward and supporting the values of truth and honesty in your recent post.. So many of our fellow Bahamian countrymen have become outright compliant and have adopted a "what will be will be" attitude when it come to our national credibility... Read more →

The Ship Of State Needs Objectivity And Not Subjectivity!!!

by Dr. Donald M. McCartney, D.M. As I sit in contemplation of life and its joys and perplexities and as I reflect on an exchange that I had with a senior government official, I am beginning to see very clearly why The Bahamas is in the malaize in which it... Read more →

How Capitalism Tamed Medieval Europe

by Ed West This article was originally published on FEE.org. Read the original article. In 1278, the King of England came up with a new plan to raise money and land, as leaders are fond of doing. Certain that historic privileges had been usurped by uppity subjects, King Edward sent... Read more →

Open Letter to President and Chief Executive Officer, Royal Bank of Canada

Dear Sir: Barely three weeks since Tim Rider made his now infamous comments, at the Royal Fidelity BEO, for which we understand our former Deputy Prime Minister and now Leader of the Opposition, complained bitterly to you, you may be interested in the latest statistics on “Corruption in the Bahamas”... Read more →

Clifton Cleanup

Dear Editor, I drove by Clifton Heritage Park yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to find a cleanup of the Sacred Space underway. This was highlighted this morning by features in both dailies; kudos to the volunteers from SUEZ, General Electric and Water and Sewerage Corporation for their time and efforts... Read more →

The Foreigner Who Spoke Out Of Turn About us

by Dr. Donald M. McCartney, D.M. Let me say at the outset that, as a Bahamian, what Mr. Rider said was a "hard pill" to swallow. Despite having to swallow the "hard pill," I had to admit that what he said was true. What concerned Bahamians response should have been... Read more →

Cave Calamity In The Making?

Dear Editor, I read with some trepidation the Antiquities, Monuments & Museum Corporation and Ministry of Tourism’s plans to establish Preachers Cave in Eleuthera as a National Heritage Tourism Park. Having recently documented the decline and desecration of Clifton Heritage Park, due in no small part to littering and illegal... Read more →

“Under capitalism, who would regulate us?”

Over at The Nassau Institute site, Professor Jaana Woiceshyn provides an interesting answer. Here's a couple brief quotes: "As Peter Schwartz convincingly argues, modern intellectuals have distorted ‘selfishness’ by packaging together two disparate elements: the legitimate pursuit of one’s self-interest and the immoral exploitation of others by force or fraud.... Read more →

Why are we so worried? - the facts don't lie

Business Bites by Richard Coulson First published in The Tribune February 15, 2018 Immigration-i.e. Haitians The headlines about the round-trip of Jean Romy Jean-Charles, and his continuing uncertain certain legal status, tell us again how much we worry about ONE Haitian found in our country. Brits or Swedes or Poles... Read more →

Environment levy should pay for dump

Dear Mr. Editor, I note from a news clip I heard that the Inter-American Development Bank is lending us yet another $20million, apparently for, even more, remedial work at the Government Land-fill, aka, the City Dump. I have to ask, why? Surely the PLP’s first act almost within hours of... Read more →