THE TROIKA: The Prime Minister Philip Davis, Deputy Prime Minister Chester Cooper and Fred Mitchell, Foreign Minister at work in the House of Assembly on Wednesday 19 March 2025. Our photo of the week by Peter Ramsay of the Bahamas Information Services.
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Lynden Oscar Pindling, the boy from Over The Hill, son of a Jamaican policeman and a woman from Acklins, who became the first Prime Minister of The Bahamas, would have been 95 on Saturday 22nd March 2025 had he been alive. We remember him and his inestimable contribution to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
Michael Pintard, the Leader of the Opposition, has become like a caricature of a politician these days. He is so cocksure and certain that he is the Prime Minister in waiting that he is even rubbing his own members by his hubris, the wrong way. A look at him as he worked the airport crowd, […]
Just as she was walking on to a U S naval ship docked at the Prince George Dock on Tuesday 18 March 2025, the U S Charge Kim Furnish spoke to the press in The Bahamas to say that contrary to popular opinion, the United Sates was not targeting The Bahamas with regard to its […]
Gowan Bowe is a good spokesman for a banking industry that is probably the lousiest in the Caribbean region and maybe even the Americas. He told the press that the banking surveys show that 99 per cent of the accounts that people try to open are done in quick time. That is what the Central […]
The family of Archbishop Drexel Gomez has asked for prayers as the prelate suffers in hospital from stomach cancer and a bout of pneumonia. The Archbishop is 88 years old. He is in Doctors Hospital.
The PLP in Grand Bahama marked the 95th birthday of Sir Lynden Pindling with a service at the PLP HQ in Grand Bahama. The service was led by Chairman of the PLP Fred Mitchell, Minister for Grand Bahama Ginger Moxey, Labour Minister Pia Glover Rolle, MP Kingsley Smith Jr, Senators Kirk Russell and James Tuner […]
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The Foreign Minister Fred Mitchell explained the response of The Bahamas government to the U S threat to deny visas to Bahamian officials because of hiring Cuban doctors in The Bahamas. It is an edited transcript of the interview with Howard Grant on Monday 17 March 2025 on Guardian Radio: Fred Mitchell: Well the general […]
From Facebook: I spent a delightful lunchtime at the University of The Bahamas cafeteria and in the university yard with the students of UB and their various clubs. This renews a tradition I started in the 1980s and 1990s with Zendal Forbes, Darron Cash and Raynard Rigby. Zendal joined me today. And Darron Cash’s son […]
From Facebook: At breakfast this morning I met Rev Blanche Mather of Mather Town celebrating with family her 78th birthday and she asked if we could take a picture and of course. Happy birthday ma’am. The same birth date as Sir Lynden Pindling. Congratulations. Fred Mitchell MPFox Hill22 March 2025
From Facebook: It was an honour to address the Seniors Association of Fox Hill today at the Fox Hill Community Centre. It was a pleasure to have been invited by Sonia Kemp of Fox Hill Urban Renewal and Warren Davis of the Fox Hill Community Centre and to join Beverly Bethel, President of the Seniors. […]
From Facebook: Thank you to the Principal Deborah Thompson and teacher Anita Wilmott of L W Young Junior High and the students of the Empowerment Programme at the school. Thank you for the gifts made by the children. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 17 March 2025
From Facebook: Happy to join Anthony Miller, former MP, with Prime Minister Philip Davis, Minister of State Zane Lightbourne and former Prime Minister Perry Christie at the 70th birthday celebration of Mr Miller at his home in the Yamacraw Constituency along with Mrs Miller. Fred Mitchell MP Fox Hill 17 March 2025
Each year on 15 March, the day that Julius Caesar, the emperor of Rome, was assassinated in 44 B C, Fred Mitchell MP exchanges phone calls with his friend and lecturer at the University of The Bahamas Zendal Forbes with the words of Shakespeare from the play Julius Caesar. Caesar passed the seer and joked, […]
The following was reported by the Nassau Guardian on 12 March 2025 at the RF Bahamas Economic Outlook Conference in Nassau at the Bahamar Convention Centre by Prime Minister Philip Davis of The Bahamas: “We have always understood that a country’s voice is not measured by its size, but by the clarity of its convictions, the […]
