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Good riddance In 1992, after a tumultuous and scandalous year for the Royal family, Queen Elizabeth described that year as her “annus horribilis” — a Latin phrase that quite literally means horrible year. In many ways, that same Latin phrase can be used to describe 2020 — a year of unimaginable pain and suffering for many. A year of unprecedented disruptions and upheaval. A year of economic and financial turmoil. A year that destroyed many lives. In the opening weeks of the year, life was normal. We went to work. We dropped off our children to school. We walked in crowded shopping ce...

Former Deputy PM Peter Turnquest Kwasi Thompson NASSAU| Well the Free National Movement 2021 Election paraphernalia arrived today at the Port under the signage of a major Number House Boss in the country. Bahamas Press warns young Bahamians, the unemployed and the depressed who didn’t get a chance to vote in 2017 to REGISTER at your earliest connivence. PM Minnis will be campaigning in MICAL over the weekend as he plants his new candidate for the area. Miriam Emmanuel will be dropped as the FNM MP for the area! PM Minnis is also expected to dump his former Deputy PM Peter Turnquest from h...

Minister of Financial Services, Trade and Industry and Immigration and Yamacraw MP Elsworth Johnson. NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Minister of Immigration Elsworth Johnson said the government has “taken a stand” on access to the fishing sector and while there are those who have criticized amendments to fisheries and immigration regulations as discriminatory, the Constitution allows the government to “legally discriminate”. The Fisheries Act, 2020, which was passed in the Senate this week, prevents the foreign spouses of Bahamians from engaging in commercial fishing. “This is not a matt...

Bahamian spouses of Dominican fishermen have made their bed, now lie in it Dear Editor, The discriminatory element within the Free National Movement (FNM) government’s Fisheries Bill, 2020 has caused somewhat of a brouhaha within its ranks, with East Grand Bahama MP Peter Turnquest and former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham both expressing opposition to it. On the other end of the spectrum, I would imagine that the group, the Bahamas Commercial Fishers Alliance (BCFA), which lobbied the former Progressive Liberal Party administration under Mr. Perry Christie to repeal the policy of granting ...

tsmith-cartwright@tribunemedia.net A BAHAMIAN seafood businessman fears the government’s new Fisheries Bill will hamper his business and lead to a loss of critical staff. Meanwhile, Bahamian women married to foreign fishermen are also enraged at the bill, which they say disenfranchises their spouses and will put a financial strain on their households. The Fisheries Bill 2020, which will replace the Fisheries Resources (Jurisdiction and Conservation) Act, 1977, was passed in the Senate yesterday. A key provision of the bill says: “No person shall engage in fishing, or be employed on a comm...