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Problems persist at two primary schools
September 20, 2013
Problems persist at two primary schools
Stephen Dillet Primary School Parent Teacher Association (PTA) President Mandel Miller has asked parents to keep their children at home until the "unsanitary and hazardous" conditions at the school are addressed...
Emergency school repairs could cost 130K
September 17, 2013
Emergency school repairs could cost 130K
The government will spend in excess of $130,000 for repairs at Stephen Dillet and Uriah McPhee primary schools, according to officials.
Coleman Andrews, first assistant secretary of education, said repairs at Stephen Dillet will cost around $70,000, while repairs at Uriah McPhee will cost just over $60,000.
He previously estimated Stephen Dillet would cost around $50,000 to repair.
Problems with t...
Uriah McPhee, Stephen Dillet to reopen tomorrow
September 16, 2013
Uriah McPhee, Stephen Dillet to reopen tomorrow
Uriah McPhee and Stephen Dillet primary schools will not open until tomorrow as officials continue to work to address several health concerns, Director of Education Lionel Sands announced yesterday...
Two schools closed today after health concerns
September 13, 2013
Two schools closed today after health concerns
Following a sit-in by teachers at Uriah McPhee and Stephen Dillet primary schools over several health issues, the Ministry of Education announced yesterday that those two schools will be closed on Friday...
Union president and minister should get together
September 12, 2013
Union president and minister should get together
Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) President Belinda Wilson has led several high-profile actions over the past week intended to pressure the Ministry of Education and its minister, Jerome Fitzgerald, to capitulate to union demands. There have been confrontations between union executives and school security guards, protests and sit-ins...
Teachers stage sit-ins at rat-infested schools
September 12, 2013
Teachers stage sit-ins at rat-infested schools
Teachers at Uriah McPhee and Stephen Dillet Primary Schools staged sit-ins yesterday, much to the dismay of some parents who had to collect their children early...
Consider this: In our faces
September 09, 2013
Consider this: In our faces
We are truly a blessed people who live in what the millions of tourists who pay billions of dollars to visit The Bahamas consider to be a paradise blessed by an abundance of sun, sea and sand. Yet each day, we go about our activities, often oblivious to our surroundings, which we frequently take for granted...
In plain sight
May 13, 2013
In plain sight
Tucked in between legitimate thriving communities on New Providence and elsewhere in The Bahamas is a growing threat to the Bahamian way of life.
Over the last few decades they have developed in plain sight with many hundreds of occupants who reside illegally and for the most part without any sustained crackdown from authorities.
They have developed their own commercial operations, have little to ...
Garbage collection deplorable
June 08, 2012
Garbage collection deplorable
Dear Editor,
I am in full agreement with Tired of Waiting, the letter to the editor published June 5. Governments may change, but some things never change as in the inability of the Environmental Health Services to provide efficient garbage collection and disposal services.
For many weeks prior to the election, garbage collection was disgracefully sporadic, only once every two weeks if we were lu...
The distribution of income and property
June 12, 2012
The distribution of income and property
Dear Editor,
There is a nebulous myth here in The Bahamas that there is and has been a gradual equalization in income and property ownership amongst our people. I suggest that that is, in fact, far from reality. While in a utopian world we might all wish that each reasonable citizen should have the right to have a sustainable income and have unfettered access to property ownership, this scenar...
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