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STATESIDE: Midterms, the president, and ducks: what does the future hold?

WE'RE soon going to become much more familiar with the term ‘lame duck.’

ALICIA WALLACE: When help is needed, understand the forms of bystander intervention

THERE is a video recording of what appears to be sexual assault that has been circulating over the past few days.

Op-Ed: Bahamian-born lawyer fighting scourge of human trafficking one victim at a time

The Month of January has been recognised as National Human Trafficking Prevention Month in the US

DIANE PHILLIPS: Saying goodbye was a beautiful thing

On Monday, the sea that had a slight chop only a little while earlier laid down flat, like a turquoise blanket as if to open its arms for what it was going to receive, the ashes of two family members.

200 years of wrecks across the north central Bahamas (especially the Devil's Backbone!)

INNUMERABLE wrecks have occured in the north-central Bahamas, from the Berry Islands to Eleuthera and the Exumas. Here are a sample across roughly 200 years.

Fraternity's Clean Slate 100 initiative unlocking economic reintegration

FOR the Delta Epsilon Sigma Chapter of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., the launch of Clean Slate 100 represents more than just a social justice initiative.

KEITH ROYE II: Clear eyes critical on business automation

Business automation has become the ‘buzzword’ of the day among Bahamian entrepreneurs, promised as a silver bullet for efficiency and profitability.

ALICIA WALLACE: The politics of power

IN A MILITARY operation, the United States abducted Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores from their home in Caracas.

DIANE PHILLIPS: The sad and shocking death of Dr Darius Unwala – and a plea to men of all ages

ON this second day of a new year, this column should be chockablock with self-deprecating humour, verbal frolicking with second day soliloquys – New Year’s resolutions I’ve already figured out how to break, laughable twists on goals it would take magic to make a reality, but, forgive me, I can’t go to those light-hearted places today.

INSIGHT: When the news headlines hit close to home

IT WAS a double murder that shocked the world. But for some families, including right here in The Bahamas, the deaths of Rob and Michelle Reiner had a more personal connection.

WORLD VIEW: Suspension of US Visas: a moment that calls for clarity, calm, and (hopefully) cooperation

THE RECENT proclamation issued by the Government of the United States, announcing its intention to suspend the entry of nationals of Antigua and Barbuda and the Commonwealth of Dominica, effective at 12:01 am on 1 January 2026, has understandably caused concern among citizens of the two Caribbean countries.

FRONT PORCH: Day and Nouwen - hospitality is a revolutionary act

IN THE initial decades of the 1900s in New York City, a young bohemian, Dorothy Day, worked as a journalist, deeply committed to social activism.

STATESIDE: Trump an emperor? High Court may well decide

THERE ARE MANY topics of interest in the current political revolution underway in Washington DC.

Op-Ed: New chapter in cooperation on the launch of the island-wide independent customs operation of China’s Hainan free trade port

In May 2025, the Honourable Alfred Sears, Minister of Immigration and National Insurance, made a special trip to Hainan, China’s southernmost province, after attending the China–Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) Forum.

ALICIA WALLACE: Tis the season . . . time to get your rest!

AS THE HOLIDAYS draw near, there is excitement as well as frustration in the air.