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STEVIE AND SHAUNAE THE OLYMPIC CHAMPIONS: The Golden Twins in Tokyo. It was Steven Gardiner's turn on 5 August 2021 to win gold in the 400 metres at the Olympics. The next day 6 August 2021 day belonged to Shaunae Miller Uibo. Gold again for The Bahamas in the 400 metres. We predict one day she will be our Minister of Sports. CONGRATULATIONS and well done. 6 August 2021. OUR PHOTO OF THE WEEK. They celebrated each other in the stands.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK

THE SITUATION GETS WORSE IN THE U S

02/09/25 9:08 AM

Donald Trump, convicted felon and Bibi Netanyahu, wanted for war crimes. They made a pact to build condos in Gaza last week in Washington.

Each week that goes by, the people of the United States are forced to  admit that when they elected Donald Trump to be their president again, they got a pig in a poke.  He is surrounded by rich ignorant men, not one of them black and he is moving apace to reconstruct the world as we know it and deconstruct the one that his predecessors spent so much time carefully putting together.

Mr. Trump lives with his rich friends in an alternative reality. His latest bit of foolishness is to turn the Gaza Strip into a place for condos for Israeli settlers.  The alleged war criminal Bibi Netanyahu pronounced it a good plan.  They both plan to drive the two million Palestinian people off their land and make them live in Jordan and Egypt.

Meanwhile the rest of the world looks on in studied horror as this tragedy unfolds.

Within America itself,  he has gone from one stupid decision to the next.  He has decided he is going to lock up and deport anyone who looks like an immigrant. That means black and brown people.  Some of the brown people did have the  nerve to be interviewed by the press to say that Mr. Trumps’s own hotels could not operate without their so called illegal labour.

But none of that has moved the U S population to outrage.

A few courageous judges have put in place stays to stop some of the worst excesses but one cannot count on any rescue ultimately from a Supreme Court which is in lock stock and barrel in their President’s back pocket.

This is what America has become.

Number of hits for the week ending Saturday 8 February 2025 up to midnight: 562,321;

Number of hits for the month of January up to Friday 31st January 2025 up to midnight: 672,059;

Number of hits for the year 2025 up to Saturday 8 February 2025 up to midnight: 3,454,704;

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EDITORIAL

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IN PASSING

Rev Sabrina Pinder Celebrates 70 Years

02/09/25 8:47 AM

Congratulations to Rev Sabrina Pinder who celebrated her 70th birthday at the Fox Hill Community Centre with her beloved husband Bishop Carrington Pinder on Friday 7 February 2025. Rev Pinder is the pastor of St Mark’s in Fox Hill. MP Fred Mitchell sent the following message:

BIRTHDAY GREETING FOR REV SABRINA PINDER

FOX HILL COMMUNITY CENTRE

7 FEBRUARY 2025

I am very sorry that I am unable to be there this evening to celebrate with you this God promised anniversary. You know the respect and admiration that I have for you and your entire family and their service to the Fox Hill Community and the larger Bahamas. I wish you all the best going forward.

I am sure that there will be a good turnout for the birthday celebration. And so it should be for the years of dedicated service that you have given. It is important that those who give service get a chance to hear the thanks that they deserve while they are hale and hearty and yet alive to hear it.

The people of Fox Hill depend on you for moral and spiritual support and guidance. We get two for the price of one for our supplications. You husband, the great Bishop who you succeeded, left a stellar record of service and you walk in those footsteps.

I cannot forget also your service to the children at Sandilands Primary School and your service on the board of the Fox Hill Community Centre.

You are also a great example for young women and girls.

So for all of those reasons and more I wish you the happiest of birthdays. I wish you many more. I wish you abundant blessings.

Fred Mitchell MP

Fox Hill

7 February 2025

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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NEWS

HOW DO MPS IN THE BAHAMAS MAKE IT?

02/09/25 9:02 AM

There is nothing it appears that constituents in The Bahamas think that MPs cannot do.  The situation has become so unbearable that many people who have been doing the jobs as MPS are throwing in the towel after one term.  The requests are simply too much: buying stoves, finding jobs, buying fridges, fixing roofs, buying food, paying for funerals, cutting down trees, paying for their children’s school fees.  None of these from this list are the responsibility of MPs but  constituents are constantly begging.  The question is where does this begging  come from.  No one seems to understand that they have the responsibility to  make their own sunshine.  If there is a tree branch in the road, call the MP.  Where in God’s name is the money to come from to do all these things?  If you don’t, the first thing they threaten is they will not vote for the MP.  Then when or if the MP gets in trouble, they are the first on the line to call the MP a thief. What a thankless job: poor salaries and ungrateful constituents.

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ELECTIONS IN THE TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS

02/09/25 9:00 AM

Fred Mitchell, the Foreign Minister of The Bahamas, visited the Turks and Caicos Islands from 5 to 8 February 2025, as part of the fact finding to support the report to the Heads of Government of Caricom at the next meeting of the heads in Barbados in mid-February.  What he found was a prosperous country that is developing nicely and emerging more confident following a period of direct rule of the British.  He visited with the incumbent Premier and spoke with Leader of the Opposition  and the Governor. He also spoke with ordinary people at various polling stations and around the island of Providenciales.  The incumbent PNP headed by Premier Washington Misick won the general election on Friday 8 February 205 hands down. The Bahamas has appointed Jenesta Messam as the first Honorary Consul in the Turks and Caicos Islands. She is shown being congratulated by the Premier.

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MARVIN DAMES COMES OUT OF THE WOOWORK

02/09/25 8:56 AM

There is a song by Patrick Rahming that carries the line:” they are coming out of the woodwork just like worm”. Here is what the PLP;s chairman Fred Mitchell had to say about Marvin Dames and his comments in the press last week by voice note to fellow PLPs on Friday 7 February 2025:

Pat Rahming, in a song about politics in the Bahamas, he sings “they coming out of the woodwork, just like worm… another 5 years has gone by.”  I couldn’t help but think of that analogy as Marvin Dames, the former FNM National Security Minister, who ought to be ashamed of himself, who ought to be hiding under a rock emerged back into the spotlight 

He now dares to raise his head, to pronounce on whether the conduct of a senior police officer and the rules governing, such offices is appropriate?. The same Marvin Dames, who was condemned by for his conduct as a minister by the courts in the Frank Smith case.  He thinks we forgot the purchase of the $17 million drones under his leadership that turned out to be a waste of money and  it did not pass the smell test. 

They’re all coming out of the woodwork, just like worm.

You now have two former ministers, both hiding out in Eleuthera, one in Hatchet Bay, the other drowning his sorrows in drink in the south.  What they all are gambling on is that the country has largely forgotten how they treated us for four and a half years. They borrowed $4 billion with nothing to show for it, They had us locked up in jail for  four and a half years, saying they were saving lives, but 500 people died. 

They want to dump their former leader and ask us to pretend we just don’t see. Marvin Dames must first, though, confess his political sins. There must be confession and repentance, and then there must be acts of contrition, but even so go back Marvin into the hole from which you’ve come.

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THE FAKE LISTS CIRULATED BY THE FNM

02/09/25 8:54 AM

During the past week, there has been one thing after the next in terms of disinformation.  The PLP needs a whole team, if they do not have one already, to combat this disinformation. Last week, the FNM circulated what was supposed to be a list of single source contractors or providers of government services since the PLP came to office in 2021.  The first thing is the list is inaccurate. This inaccuracy was pointed out by the PLP’s Chairman Fred Mitchell in a voice note on Friday 7 February 2025. Notwithstanding the inaccuracies though, it received wide circulation and the propaganda worked.  The next thing you knew was this PLP was accusing the next PLP of having more contracts than the other one and so on and so on.  No one seemed to question whether what was circulated was true. The Chairman pointed of that the FNM has a fascination with moral rectitude, even though they have proven by far to be the most morally corrupt and bankrupt political party in The Bahamas, except for the racist UBP who is their partner in politics. We join the Chairman and again warn PLPs not to accept uncritically the statements of FNM origin. The first question they should ask and demand is: is it true?  You should come to the table knowing that if it is an FNM sourced document, there is a presumption of falsehood.

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CYBER ATTACKS ON BAHAMAS SYSTEMS ARE FREQUENT

02/09/25 8:51 AM

The University of The Bahamas announced that they had a ransomware attack last week.  This caused the collapse of parts of their digital platforms for over three days and there may be further delays.  A source speaking to the press expanded on the problem, claiming that the term may have to be extended because of the attack.  This is reportedly the second or third attack on Bahamas Government systems in the last year.  Other attacks have caused monies to be paid where they should not have gone.  This becomes serious when you start talking those kinds of facts.  We cannot vouch for the authenticity of those latter claims.  However, what this begs is the criticism that we have always pushed in this county, the mad rush to becoming digital, while fine on one level is crazy on another precisely because of these vulnerabilities and the inability to fix them when they go so badly wrong. We state again the cashless society is foolishness.

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