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Don’t call yourself a centrist if you’re a liberal.

by Sam Bowman Read full article here... "There’s nothing new about the observation that the socialist left and populist right have a lot in common with each other, even if like two feuding siblings they despise each other. "They’re both ideologies that see human affairs as zero-sum—if you’re doing well,... Read more →

Sir Roland's National Hero honour

by Pierre V.L. Dupuch The policy for the Award of National Hero is that all Prime Ministers are awarded it. So why not Sir Roland? If the truth were told, Sir Roland was the first Premier/Prime Minister of The Bahamas. It was in 1964 when The Bahamas got, for the... Read more →

John Issa’s Downtown Campaign; Where is Downown Nassau Partnership (DNP)?

John Issa, the astute Jamaican hotelier of the Breezes chain, has written his umpteenth column of acute criticism about downtown’s dilapidation. While fully accepting the Chinese renovation of the western segment with the completed parking structure and the Pointe in progress, he will not let us forget that the much... Read more →

Poison Conch or Poisonous Harbour

Dear Editor, Since the recent resurgence of conch poisoning I have been observing the government’s response, or lack thereof, to the possibility of sewerage pollution in the harbour. Aside from the Minister of Health’s assertion that washing conchs in fresh water will wash away the virus, the silence has been... Read more →

A Path To Progress For Abaco and The Bahamas

In this recent Letter to The Editor of The Tribune the writer, whomever, he or she might be, raised some interesting ideas from he 1970's. It also raised some introspection from Patricia Glinton-Meicholas here... Unfortunately neither article included a link to Forgotten Dreams: A people's desire to chart their own... Read more →

The Bahamian Hopes and Dreams

by Dr. Donald M. McCartney DM The Bahamas, at the dawning of 1967, was once the hope of and envy of the Caribbean. This raises the essential question: What kind of hope? This hope, more than the hope of material prosperity, although that was part of it; and more than... Read more →

Wisdom of Thomas Sowell: Wealth, Poverty and Politics

Every time I re-read a Thomas Sowell book I find more pearls of wisdom that are relative to our Bahamas. Here are a couple snippets from Chapter 5 on Culture and Economics: "For different nations around the world to all have even approximately similar incomes or wealth, despite their great... Read more →

Business Bites: The Postal Crisis

By Richard Coulson For government of any nation, delivering the mail is a prime duty, right up there with maintaining domestic public order and protecting national borders. But its function marked by tedium, requiring thousands of routine transactions that must be completed every day, by hand or computer, without glamour... Read more →

Politics: The art of attempting to make the irrational, rational

"Government prepared to buy Grand Lucayan Hotel" While the Grand Lucayan hotel is the heart of the Grand Bahama economy right now under no circumstances should the government purchase it. The long and sordid history of the Hotel Corporation loses in owning hotels should stand a lesson in abject failure... Read more →

AirBNB is not a tax free visit

EDITOR, Re: Vacation Rentals avoid VAT embrace – for now. Tribune Business 26th July. Just reading the headline took me quickly back to my early school days, where the system of reward, for a good homework assignment, might be a little sticky star, in one of the typical colours of... Read more →