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FNM mandarins should shut up
FNM mandarins should shut up
Dear Editor,
I so wish that the so-called mandarins of the FNM would just stop talking nonsense. Frank Watson started the silliness when the FNM passed up a great opportunity to elect Loretta Butler-Turner and get rid of Hubert Minnis who is dragging the party down.
Ms. Patricia Mortimer to be awarded 2015 ?Woman of Distinction? Award
Celebrating Woman International (CWI) a subsidiary of TKHGFI nonprofit organization, announced plans today to award Ms. Patricia Mortimer with the ?Woman of Distinction Award? 2015...
Vincy Entrepreneur Orchestrates Face-lift for SVG
Vincy Entrepreneur Orchestrates Face-lift for SVG
St. Vincent and the Grenadines could be on the verge of receiving an infrastructural and developmental face-lift as a son of the soil is poised to giving back...
PLP urges gov't to scale back on stadium opening ceremony
The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) yesterday urged the government to pull back on the $600,000 grand opening planned for the National Stadium and instead have a "soft opening".
"We urge them instead to spend that money on programs to heal, assist, empower our youth and the needy in our Bahamaland and provide a modern ambulance service in The Bahamas," the party said in a statement.
An open Cuba can only mean bad news for The Bahamas
An open Cuba can only mean bad news for The Bahamas
Dear Editor,
I can't imagine what Minister of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell could possibly have been thinking when he claimed that the shift in the U.S. government's policy towards Cuba will not harm The Bahamas.
According to Mitchell, the two countries offer different products, and for this reason there is no reason for alarm. Well, he is right about one thing: The tourism products in question ha...
13th edition of the little pink party will make spirits bright
It's usually the season that's all about the red and green, but sisters Kandice Hanna and Krista Hanna-Nairn, principals in the KhanAli Media Group are all about turning things all shades of pink.
The duo behind the hugely successful pink party affair that really isn't so little, will stage the 13th edition of the little pink party known as the Christmas Village on Saturday, December 6 on the hall...
Will Ingrahamites manipulate the election outcome in favor of Butler-Turner
Dear Editor,
The feuding among Free National Movement (FNM) supporters of Leader Dr. Hubert Minnis and Deputy Leader Loretta Butler-Turner is becoming more and more like the standoff between the Hatfields and McCoys. The group backing Minnis is adamant that Butler-Turner should not be entrusted with the reins of leadership, as she has given ample demonstration of being way too outspoken, erratic a...
Ten reasons Bahamian college graduates don't want to come home
While we have to, as individuals, take responsibility for creating our own opportunities where there may be none in sight, I do blame in larger part, and please excuse me, the "mo fros" who established the original protocols and norms of the educational system in conjunction with the Bahamian workplace, which together created so many disconnects between education and employment that The Bahamas wo...
Josette 'DJ Safire' is on fire
Josette 'DJ Safire' is on fire
Josette "DJ Safire" Christie has deejayed some of the biggest events Atlantis has offered, and now she's taking her show on the road, and deejaying at what will be her biggest gig to date -- the Food Network Magazine's Concert at Ravinia in Chicago.
Christie will play two gigs at one of the hottest events of the summer at which the likes of seven-time Grammy-winning recording artist John Mayer and...
Black Bahamian beauty
Black Bahamian beauty
If you've seen a photo of me, other than the one posted here every week on this column, you're thinking "where is this vanilla-skinned woman going talking about black Bahamian beauty?"
Hold that thought.
There was a time in history, not even so long ago, when I would have been considered too black to be white in some countries. And, yes, in some other countries, I would have been too white to be b...