WORLD VIEW: As migration closes, CARICOM must start to build jobs at home
ON JANUARY 14, 2026, the U.S. Department of State announced that, effective January 21, it would pause the issuance of all immigrant visas for nationals of 75 countries, including 11 in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), deemed to be at “high risk of public benefits usage.”
INSIGHT: The strong case for filming cops
ANOTHER fatal shooting by police officers took place in the US over the weekend, and amid all the outrage, one thing is certain: without the video footage captured by phones, the story as we understand it might be very different.
Op-Ed: A Policy Without Logic
In the world of international relations and cross-border law, data usually drives policy.
IAN FERGUSON: Companies revamp staff benefits for modern age
As the global workplace evolves, companies in The Bahamas are stepping boldly into 2026 with compensation packages that go far beyond salary alone.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Is Bahamas First or Second? (Or is it time to ditch the concept altogether?)
LIKE any Bahamian, I bristle when someone calls The Bahamas “a Third World country.”
ERIC WIBERG: Drug plane wrecks on western New Providence
EVERYONE in the Bahamas has – or has heard – a story about a drug plane.
DEIDRE BASTIAN: Signs of ‘favouritism’ affecting the workplace
Have you ever felt that some co-workers receive special treatment compared to others, and that this is often displayed in a manner that can easily be defined as favouritism?
ALICIA WALLACE: Lessons we could learn from MLK
Monday, 19 January, 2026 was Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
FACING REALITY: Regulatory bodies are not consistent: When the law bends for some and breaks for others
Laws are not poetry.
KDK REPORT: Innovation making modern times in The Bahamas most promising for medicine
THE START of a new year carries with it the promise of opportunity.
INSIGHT: Time to make your own list of issues, as the clock ticks down to elections
THE START of the year in The Bahamas is always a strange time. You barely get in your stride after New Year when suddenly there is another holiday – Majority Rule. It almost seems as if every year has a delayed start.
DEREK SMITH: Corporate resilience means risk more than compliance
In the 2025 Hiscox Cyber Readiness Report, 33 percent of companies faced fines that damaged their financial health, while 30 percent reported reduced business performance and 29 percent experienced higher costs due to customer notifications resulting from cyber-related risk exposures.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Are our greatest fears keeping us from becoming our greatest selves?
WE ARE all afraid.
ERIC WIBERG: The "other" history of wrecking in The Bahamas
HISTORIAN Jim Lawlor points out in his 2021 study “Wrecked Emigrant Ships in The Bahamas: The Wreck of the Barque William and Mary,” in the Bahamas Historical Society’s International Journal of Bahamian Studies, that Bahamian wreckers are often depicted as rapacious, greedy, and ruthless.
FRONT PORCH: The luminescence of Patricia Glinton Meicholas
IN LIFE and death Patti Glinton Meicholas was luminescent.
