Letters
An Open Letter to the Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas
October 22, 2019
Hurricane Dorian has been a wakeup call for our country. I was present at one of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA) situation report meetings immediately after Dorian, where I gained a true understanding of the scale and magnitude of this climate disaster...
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Front Porch Letter to young Bahamians after Hurricane Dorian
September 26, 2019
This is the 600th column by this writer. It is dedicated to young Bahamians (including the sons and daughters of family members and dear friends) in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, which has exposed the dire threat of the global climate emergency for The Bahamas...
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Power to the People NOW
August 19, 2019
Electrical power is a necessity and a priority! Any modern country in the 21st century cannot run effectively and efficiently without it – period!
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Letter to the Editor-THE GREATER GOOD
August 05, 2019
Navigating through life can be a very simple process, but we human beings, although positioned at the top of the evolution chain, are amazingly dumb animals when you think about it, especially if we haven’t been properly prepared and sufficiently anchored to a firm foundation...
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How to select a life-long partner
July 18, 2019
Question: I have been in many relationships with girls, and each time I think, this could be the one. But every time I start thinking that, the relationship goes sour. I'm in a relationship with this girl who's like no other girl that I have [...]
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Letter to The Editor: On Cannibis
June 17, 2019
No, wait. Cannabis isn't a drug. It is a genus of plants that collectively are a strategic resource for the entire planet. A resource that has been suppressed for far too long to the detriment of this planet's inhabitants...
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Former M.P. Pierre Dupuch comments the WTO
May 22, 2019
What is WTO? It is the World Trade Organization comprised of some very large countries and organizations controlling the economies of smaller countries. Is that not colonization...
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Challenges strengthen us
January 04, 2019
I had a pleasant visit from an old friend whom I hadn't seen for quite a while a couple of weeks ago. I knew that for quite a while this person had been working on a very ambitious project which was near and dear to ...
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Letter to the Editor-A Yuletide Cry for Mother Earth
December 14, 2018
A recent trip to Bimini, Cat Cay & Ocean Cay, by a team from Save The Bays, has us asking more questions of this Government than we can find answers to...
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28,000+ Signatures Cry Out for Preservation of Lighthouse Point, Asking to Give Island Jewel Away is Like Asking Me to Hand Over a Child
September 19, 2018
I am a man and I cry. There, I have said it...I cry for the inhumanity of human against human. I cry for all the parts and parcels of The Bahamas that Bahamians do not have access to...
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Letter to the Editor-BE WHO WE IS
September 03, 2018
As I sit here at the beginning of a new month and reflect on the newspaper articles of the past several weeks, I can but shake my head in frustration and ‘bogglement’ as our country appears to be settling into the same ol, same ol formula of leading us nowhere fast...
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Former M.P. Pierre Dupuch comments on Sir Roland Symonette's National Hero honour
August 14, 2018
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..
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Ailing teens dream of swimming with Eleuthera pigs comes true
August 14, 2018
SEVENTEEN-year-old Grayson Richardson is battling a rare type of brain cancer called anaplastic astrocytoma.About 1,200 children under 19 are diagnosed with glioma (brain tumour) per year in the United States with a fraction of those being astrocytom...
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Show Us The Money
July 23, 2018
Hello again my Bahamian citizens, another year has gone by, and it baffles me that there is still not one word being said in any quarters about our thirty million, plus, dollars ($30,000,000+) that was spent, wasted or pocketed on the so-called Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival...
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Former M.P. Pierre Dupuch comments on Majority Rule in The Bahamas
May 07, 2018
When Hitler came to power he used a secret weapon called Goebbels. Goebbels was Hitler's Minister of Propaganda who believed that if a lie was repeated often enough people would start believing it. And it did wonders for him. He destroyed Germany and killed six-million Jews...
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Former M.P. Pierre Dupuch comments on rumours of FNM Coup
April 09, 2018
A short while ago it was said that I was starting and spreading rumours about Hubert Ingraham being a part of a coup to challenge Dr. Hubert Minnis for leadership...
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Former M.P. Dupuch comments on taxes, WTO and outsourcing
November 21, 2017
Ah well, here we go again! The talk of the town is now saying things like: "Let's even the playing field ... tax them!"; "By 2019 we'll be full members of the WTO" and "Let's outsource it..."
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I'm not mad at the IMF
September 18, 2017
Dear Editor,
So the IMF has suggested an income tax to solve our fiscal woes.
Instead of looking at their proposed remedy, I suggest we look at the cause of the fiscal problems.
Simply put, it has been fiscal imprudence by successive governments that has caused this. Yep - spending more than they take in while singing the praises of yet another great budget expansion without taxation to pay for it.
Instead of raising taxes, governments, since independence, have borrowed until the country has hit a threshold that is bringing costs the taxpayer doesn't like.
But wait, the government can just blame the IMF for "forcing" it to implement harsh measures like more taxation; the government would never do anything to hurt Bahamians.
And to top it off, the new government is proposing bringing a so-...
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A job well done
September 18, 2017
Dear Editor,
I have many differences with the Minnis-led administration, but he and his crew are to be congratulated on a job well done with the recent Hurricane Irma. Never before in this era has the central government ever seen fit to actually evacuate many of the Family Islands that historically have borne the brunt of any hurricane. Thousands of grateful Bahamians were brought to New Providence for safety, at the expense of the public, as it should have been.
We are waiting to see the same sort of bold and preemptory leadership by the doctor with the economy, healthcare, education and, of course, unemployment. Minnis is able to do it if he has the political will power needed.
I am not a supporter of the FNM but I like Minnis as an individual and believe that he means all of us well. I...
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Police in our schools
September 18, 2017
Dear Editor,
Call 911! That's right, call the police. What's the matter? Well, I'll tell you - there's a fight going on in one of our schools.
Remember the good old days? A fight was just that - a fight with fists and legs flailing about. There were no guns or knives; it was just a good old rumble. Nowadays that is not the case. These children today are getting out of hand. These fights are so dangerous now that it is not enough to call a security guard to break up the fight. The school authorities have to call the police to deal with the matter. The previous PLP administration saw fit to station the police at our schools. There was no need to call Central. An officer should have already been there. I would pray to God that, that police officer was well armed, or else he/she would have...
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