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Larry Smith remembered as champion of the truth
Larry Smith remembered as champion of the truth
Larry Smith, a respected columnist and media professional, died at his home on Sunday evening after experiencing chronic heart failure, his family said.
Smith, who began his journalism career as a reporter at The Nassau Guardian, was 67.
He wrote a weekly column titled 'Tough Call' for the Tribune newspaper.
Smith was a principal at Media Enterprises Limited.
His wife of 35 years, Joanne, said the...
Ocean Terraces by Sterling actively on the market
Ocean Terraces by Sterling actively on the market
Ocean Terraces by Sterling - the prime property, which sits between the Caves Heights development and Sapodilla Restaurant, and which was finally brought back to life after almost 10 years in and out of litigation - is now being sold in its entirety, and heralded as "an amazing property with great views".
Last week Guardian Business reported in error that the property might have gone dormant once ...
Ocean Terraces on hold again
Ocean Terraces on hold again
Eight months after a handful of invited guests beheld the potential of Ocean Terraces - the prime property, which sits between the Caves Heights development and Sapodilla Restaurant, and which has remained a shuttered shell for almost 10 years - development seems to have once again gone dormant, with the sign advertising its for-sale condominiums taken down and its gates perpetually closed.
In Jan...
The health of a nation, FNM style
The health of a nation, FNM style
Dear Editor,
The now defunct PLP and its shell-shocked cadre of leaders, especially Doctor Perry Gomez, led us straight down the garden path of great expectations, with, as it turned out, absolutely no results. The whole exercise played out by Christie & Company relative to the conceptualization, roll out and implementation of a sustainable and viable national healthcare service was just that - a...
Art Walk at Marina Village is the place to indulge your senses
The twice monthly Art Walk at Marina Village was the place to indulge your taste for art, crafts, Bahamian music and locally grown and made products.
Art walks are popular worldwide and in cities where culture is celebrated and welcomed, and Atlantis' art walk has provided the wonderful opportunity for people to interact personally with artists and artisans.
On Saturday, from Cheesecake Heaven's b...
Verification exercise could be telling
Verification exercise could be telling
The government has mandated that all of its employees take part in an employee verification process by August 31 or face an interruption in their salaries. The exercise began last week.
According to a notice from the Public Treasury Department, employees must bring a Bahamian passport, Bahamian driver's license, National Insurance smart card or voter's card. All monthly and weekly employed public ...
Atlantis' art walk on
Atlantis' art walk on
The twice monthly Art Walk at Marina Village continues to be the place to indulge your taste for art, crafts, Bahamian music, and locally grown and made products.
And on Saturday, from Cheesecake Heaven's baked goods to Bahama Island Farms' local produce, and from Constantine's jams, jellies and sauces to baked goods and breads from Eartha Hanna, your sense of taste will be satisfied.
On the craft...
Finding home
Finding home
A lonely husk of a seed floats across the oceans, from either India or Southeast Asia- we aren't quite sure which-and finds itself in various locales across that lateral band of the planet we call the tropics. This foreign species found itself here, rooted itself, and has become for us an integral part of the way we view our landscape as Bahamians, as a Caribbean nation, and as a "tropical paradis...
All eyes on Bahamas as conch stocks decline in Florida
The Bahamas is being looked at as the proverbial "final frontier" for conch, according to a Miami Herald article that says scientists are looking to these waters for the answers on the depletion of conch stocks, while looking for the answer to bring the large sea snail populations back to healthy levels.
According to the Miami Herald article, entitled "The conch is mostly gone from Florida. Can Th...
Report outlines millions made in seafood sector last year
A report showed that the value of seafood exports such as spiny lobsters and stone crabs totaled near $37 million last year, while the value of popular scale fish, such as grouper and snapper, came in at just under $270,000.
In the report compiled by the Department of Statistics entitled "Quality and value of domestic exports from The Bahamas by commodity and country of destination for year ending...
Paradise lost
Paradise lost
Dear Editor,
As a trained lawyer, albeit a defrocked one, I was sad and shocked to read remarks attributed to Bradley Roberts, the shell-shocked and delusional national chairman of the defunct PLP, urging supporters of that entity to 'take to the streets' and to 'resist' the supposed witch hunts of the FNM! The PLP, as a party with many individuals over the years who supported it, has long been k...
The PLP should just exhale
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,...
BTC To Launch New Bahamian App
BTC To Launch New Bahamian App
Company Continues to Invests in Bahamian Entrepreneurship... BTC continues to make meaningful investments in the community. The company is now working along with Bahamian app developer Stephen Brown to create a game just for BTC...
BTC to launch new Bahamian app
BTC to launch new Bahamian app
Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) continues to make meaningful investments in the community. The company is now working along with Bahamian app developer Stephen Brown to create a game just for BTC.
Vice President for Mobile, Alphanique Duncombe said, "We've used this opportunity to team up with local talent in the development of this app. We wanted to create a truly Bahamian experience whi...
A plea for the oppressed American people
A plea for the oppressed American people
Dear Editor,
For full eleven score and ten years now, since 1787, a deep encrustation has built up in the heart of Washington, United States of America. This encrustation, a coterie of senators, military industrialists, bankers, media and spies (CIA, NSA, FBI and 14 other agencies), is now taking the American people, and perhaps the people of the planet, to hell in a coconut shell. Pat Buchanan, ...
The Gambier House bubble and syndrome
The Gambier House bubble and syndrome
Following its humiliating election defeat, shell-shocked PLP mandarins and officials gathered at the party's Gambier House headquarters to hear from Chairman Bradley Roberts and outgoing leader and deposed Prime Minister Perry Christie.
The wan expression chiseled on the face of former Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson captured the gloomy mood and evening.
Former Education Minister Jerome Fi...
From the Collection
From the Collection
Lavar Munroe's "The Migrant" is an illustrative portrayal of a spindle-legged, knock-kneed nomad carrying his home on his back. In many ways, the tale in this digital print tells of the ubiquitous image of the immigrant and is reminiscent of the Phil Stubbs classic song, "Cry of the Potcake". The xenophobia and self-hate we deal with as a nation is quite easily summated in the lyrics of the catchy...
Political deceit and plunder
Political deceit and plunder
Dear Editor,
As a life-long supporter of the now defunct and badly demoralized Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), I profusely apologize to the good people of our wonderful nation for being a 'co-conspirator' with that party and its then leadership in selling a patently bogus agenda back in 2012. The PLP as I used to know it is no more, and started to vanish in the last year of the gold rush administ...
Junkanoo groups prepare for summer festival
Junkanoo groups prepare for summer festival
It's officially summer and that means Junkanooers are making ready for Junkanoo Summer Festival (JSF).
A signature event of the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, JSF is an exhilarating street festival held at Arawak Cay. It is designed to capture the competitiveness and excitement of the largest expression of Bahamian culture four Saturdays in the month of July.
The cultural extravaganza takes place at...
Wednesday March 19, 2014 Gas Prices.
Wednesday March 19, 2014 Gas Prices.
For prices today on gas check out BPSU, AutoServ, Texaco, Esso and Shell service stations...
The right medication
The right medication
Dear Editor,
Our esteemed Governor General, Dame Marguerite Pindling, outdid herself when she read the Speech from the Throne a few weeks ago. Her attire, as always, was flamboyant and in good taste. She was, indeed, immaculate. Her pronouncement was great and her delivery was excellent. All in all, she acquitted herself well and did the nation proud.
The speech itself gave a broad outline of wha...
Excellence recognized
Excellence recognized
Greatness never happens by accident or coincidence -- but with conscious effort to work harder, be stronger, smarter, and more dedicated in an effort to manifest the highest and truest expression of oneself.
"It is a chosen life trajectory that is only undertaken when coupled with immense courage and a resolute ambition to succeed," says Addis Huyler, founder of the Bahamian Icon Awards.
And on Sa...
God's laws will never lose relevance
God's laws will never lose relevance
Fashion is cyclical -- what may be stylish today will be a faux pas in months, but give it a few years, it may just be back in style with a little twist -- and then there's technology, which is ever-evolving to the point where the desk top computers, brick cellphones, eight-track cassette tapes and VHS tapes of your parents and grandparents' generations have become obsolete in today's technologica...
Replay's $50 Million Investment Turning Ocean into Paradise Island's Cinderella Story with Happy Ending
Replay's $50 Million Investment Turning Ocean into Paradise Island's Cinderella Story with Happy Ending
Harbour view of One Ocean, Replay Resorts? $50 million investment on Paradise Island...A little over a year ago, Ocean Place, a 10-storey building on the eastern end of Paradise Island stood eerily nearly empty, an all-too-present testament to what could go wrong even if you have selected a perfect location for real estate...
Fuel concern after issues with vehicles
Fuel concern after issues with vehicles
CUSTOMERS of Shell in Montagu have raised concerns over the quality of fuel being provided by the service station after several of their vehicles allegedly had severe mechanical issues following fuel purchases from the station over the weekend. However, despite the difficulties, customers had high praise for the way in which the station's staff handled the problem...
On tap this weekend at the Art Walk at Marina Village
All manner of arts and crafts, as well as a farmer's market, what better way to spend a Saturday afternoon.
The Art Walk at Marina Village satisfies every vice -- with visual artists to ceramicists, and farmer's market purveyors with everything from jams and jellies to native teas and drink, food and chocolate, locally grown herbs and greens, cooling popsicles and vegan treats.
Strolling along the...
Remain open
Remain open
As we all know only too well we have some good times in life and, of course, ultimately we'll have some not so good times as that's the way the cookie crumbles, as that well-known saying puts it. Now the real test of anyone and how successful they will be in the end, is of course how they handle the occasional bad times, the down cycles, which we all have to deal with at times, across the board.
S...
Patty Roker's disastrous election night
Patty Roker's disastrous election night
Dear Editor,
When will our television broadcasters invest in the modern bells and whistles and state-of-the-art technology needed to give their viewers 21st century election night coverage?
As the nation retired to watch the election returns, we got the usual cacophony from talking heads parroting the sterile dribs and drabs from the bean counters at the parliamentary registrar's office.
There was...
Gas Prices - Friday November 25, 2016
Gas Prices - Friday November 25, 2016
For prices today on gas check out BPSU, AutoServ, Esso and Shell service stations.
New components added to the 2nd annual Grand Bahama Air Show
PLANTATION, Florida -- The 2nd annual Grand Bahama Air Show, taking place May 19 and 20, 2017, at Taino Beach, Freeport, Grand Bahama, promises to be bigger and better than its premier show. It is already attracting scores of visitors to the island as well as members of the international press.
The two-day event, which kicks off with an aviation seminar for students on May 19 and ends with a three...