Office of the Prime Minister https://opm.gov.bs/ The Commonwealth of the Bahamas Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:47:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7 https://opm.gov.bs/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Office of the Prime Minister https://opm.gov.bs/ 32 32 Office of The Prime Minister Statement on IDB’s The Bahamas: Staff Concluding Statement of the 2024 Article IV Mission https://opm.gov.bs/office-of-the-prime-minister-statement-onthe-bahamas-staff-concluding-statement-of-the-2024-article-iv-mission/ https://opm.gov.bs/office-of-the-prime-minister-statement-onthe-bahamas-staff-concluding-statement-of-the-2024-article-iv-mission/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2024 13:04:34 +0000 https://opm.gov.bs/?p=292399 IMF Points to Our Country’s “Remarkable Recovery” The Davis administration entered government at a time of profound crisis. The government moved immediately to end harmful policies, offer relief to Bahamian families, stabilize the nation’s finances, and boost economic growth. Today’s IMF report, which refers to our country’s “remarkable recovery”, acknowledges our country’s progress moving from […]

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]]> https://opm.gov.bs/office-of-the-prime-minister-statement-onthe-bahamas-staff-concluding-statement-of-the-2024-article-iv-mission/feed/ 0 Prime Minister Philip Davis’s Keynote at the SBDC EmpowerMEN Forum https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-davis-sbdc-empowermen-forum/ https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-davis-sbdc-empowermen-forum/#respond Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://opm.gov.bs/?p=292391 Friends, this past Sunday, as I stood in the stillness of the church, holding my grandson during his christening, a flood of memories overtook me.  In his tiny, fragile face, I saw a reflection of my own boyhood—a time when life was bare and unforgiving. Growing up barefoot on the rugged roads of Cat Island, […]

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]]> https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-davis-sbdc-empowermen-forum/feed/ 0 Prime Minister Davis’s Intervention at the Leaders’ Summit of the Small Island Developing States on Climate Change Initiated by the Republic of Azerbaijan as the COP29 Presidency https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-intervention-at-the-leaders-summit-of-the-small-island-developing-states-on-climate-change-initiated-by-the-republic-of-azerbaijan-as-the-cop29-presidency/ https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-intervention-at-the-leaders-summit-of-the-small-island-developing-states-on-climate-change-initiated-by-the-republic-of-azerbaijan-as-the-cop29-presidency/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 11:48:02 +0000 https://opm.gov.bs/?p=292388 Our people have a right to survival. They have a right to pass down to future generations a world better than the one they inherited. And yet, this most basic right—this right to life, to hope, to continuity—hangs by a thread. In this hour of crisis, it seems some would choose isolation over unity, self-interest […]

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]]> https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-intervention-at-the-leaders-summit-of-the-small-island-developing-states-on-climate-change-initiated-by-the-republic-of-azerbaijan-as-the-cop29-presidency/feed/ 0 Prime Minister Davis’s National Statement UNFCCC COP 29 https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-national-statement-unfccc-cop-29/ https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-national-statement-unfccc-cop-29/#respond Wed, 13 Nov 2024 08:13:06 +0000 https://opm.gov.bs/?p=292386 May I begin by expressing my thanks to the President and people of Azerbaijan for the warm welcome and gracious hospitality bestowed on us. We wish you peace and prosperity. Your Excellencies: This past year has been the hottest in recorded history. For the first time, for more than 12 months, global temperatures have exceeded […]

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]]> https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-national-statement-unfccc-cop-29/feed/ 0 Prime Minister Davis’s Intervention High-Level Roundtable on Enabling Climate Finance: The Make-or-Break Moment for Sustainable Future https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-intervention-high-level-roundtable-on-enabling-climate-finance-the-make-or-break-moment-for-sustainable-future/ https://opm.gov.bs/prime-minister-daviss-intervention-high-level-roundtable-on-enabling-climate-finance-the-make-or-break-moment-for-sustainable-future/#respond Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:45:24 +0000 https://opm.gov.bs/?p=292384 Colleagues, One thing I hope we don’t deny is the stark reality staring back at us: climate change is a profound injustice that our children and grandchildren will inherit if we fail to act.  In The Bahamas,  40% of our national debt is related to the consequences of climate change, a burden we did not […]

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