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FOCUS creates summer learning opportunities
August 21, 2017
FOCUS creates summer learning opportunities
Completing its seventh Summer SLAM, FOCUS, a program of the Lyford Cay Foundations, engaged almost 180 students this summer in solving real world problems.
In the FOCUS Summer Slam, students took part in project-based learning activities.
Fifth through sixth grade students explored the world of Lego robotics. They worked together to build and program their own robots.
Seventh and eighth grade stud...
The PLP should just exhale
July 25, 2017
The PLP should just exhale
We have a healthy democracy. No government has won re-election in 20 years. By the next election it would be 25 years since.
When the people are angry they send you home. They were angry with Perry Christie's Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), so they sent nearly the whole party home on May 10.
It was a devastating loss. The PLP won four seats. The Free National Movement (FNM) won 35. Even Christie,...
Misfeasance, corruption and accountability
July 06, 2017
Misfeasance, corruption and accountability
Corruption among government officials, whether politicians or public officers, can become so widespread that it is seen as normative or simply how business is done. A friend who lived in Mexico in the 1980s recalls having to give a tip to clerks at the post office to ensure that her letters were mailed.
Corruption often becomes so normalized that many engaged in bribery, misfeasance and other habi...
Minister Dames addresses State of Crime
June 14, 2017
Minister Dames addresses State of Crime
During his Contribution on the 2017/2018 Budget Communication in the House of Assembly on June 12, 2017 Minister of State the Hon. Marvin Dames said that when his Government first came to office, just over a month earlier, it immediately got to work and assessed the state of Bahamian national security by analyzing several key indicators...
DNA: FNM budget for the rich, not the small man
June 06, 2017
DNA: FNM budget for the rich, not the small man
The 2017/2018 budget favors the rich and does very little for the small man, charged Democratic National Alliance (DNA) Deputy Leader Chris Mortimer yesterday.
"In their latest campaign promise bait and switch, the Free National Movement (FNM) has moved away from reducing duties on breadbasket items, and instead decided to reduce duties on 'much needed' goods and foods like salmon, cakes, x-ray ma...
Marred legacy
May 17, 2017
Marred legacy
Finally.
Perry Gladstone Christie is off the political scene.
We can now look to the future.
A new era.
A fresh start.
Like Sir Lynden Pindling and Hubert Ingraham before him, Christie did not know when to go.
But unlike Sir Lynden and Ingraham, he will go down in history as being the first prime minister of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas who became so unpopular, so unpalatable, so unwelcome, so ...
A blind eye
May 03, 2017
A blind eye
If public confidence in the
integrity of the political
directorate of The Bahamas is to become a hallmark of our
political culture, it is of the first importance that the prime minister and other ministers of
government observe -- and be seen to observe -- the highest standards of probity in
public life.
-- PERRY CHRISTIE, 2002
As prime minister of The Bahamas, Perry Gladstone Christie has proven...
Fitzgerald and Gibson: Business as usual in the PLP
April 27, 2017
Fitzgerald and Gibson: Business as usual in the PLP
The most recent scandals engulfing Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald and Labour and National Insurance Minister Shane Gibson are emblematic of the rot in the PLP, which has metastasized over nearly half a century of the party's existence.
The PLP is dominated by a greedy oligarchy that uses political power for the benefit of their economic interests. Over the decades the PLP elite have amassed ...
Bahamas' 'blue holes' hold wonders and weird science
July 21, 2010
Bahamas' 'blue holes' hold wonders and weird science
What lies below the water of The Bahamas? A veiled world of fossils, blind creatures and scientific riddles. In next month's issue of National Geographic magazine, an international team of cave divers led by anthropologist Kenny Broad of the University of Miami reveals the mysteries hidden from vacationers' view.
The two-month expedition, paid for by the National Geographic Foundation, was mere...
Property sales increase despite soft economy
April 11, 2017
Property sales increase despite soft economy
Bahamas Realty Ltd. has announced that it realized a gross sales increase of nearly 60 percent in real estate sales, and an almost 80 percent increase in gross commissions in 2016 over the same period in 2015, despite a soft economy.
"We are delighted to see that sales increased so significantly this past year," said CEO Larry Roberts. "While the economy has been slow to improve, this tells us tha...
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