INSIGHT: What’s the benefit of hosting rocket landing?
ON January 16 this year, just after sunset, the skies lit up in flames over parts of The Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
INSIGHT: Judge current actions, not promises for later
DESPITE frequent calls for legislation on the issue of marital rape from activists, Bahamian women – and even the prime minister’s wife – the attorney general has said it won’t be happening during this administration.
INSIGHT: Straight answers needed on anti-violence measures
FOR all the talk of needing to tackle crime collectively, from the outside looking in, it can be hard to discern what is the government strategy on the matter.
INSIGHT: A positive start to the new year
IT is often easy to take a position of always criticising the party in power, whatever the colour of their shirts.
WORLD VIEW: Forget begging rich nations - Caribbean countries should act to save themselves
It has long been evident that the world’s richest nations, especially those responsible for the lion’s share of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, care little about the existential threats faced by small states.
INSIGHT: What’s on the agenda for new commissioner?
AND so we have a new Commissioner of Police.
INSIGHT: Solution for Haiti’s distress helps us all
AS we look towards the start of the new year, we all might be looking for signs of hope and optimism for the year ahead – few such signs are visible as we look towards our neighbour, Haiti.
Freedom of information, and lack of accountability
IT has been a long year. Does it feel that way to you?
INSIGHT: Gifts The Bahamas needs to find under the Christmas tree
WE are well and truly into the festive season. Santa is checking his list, twice of course. Parliamentarians are out giving gifts and turkeys to constituents in the hope they will remember that come voting time. And every major store has the sound of bells outside from fundraisers.
THE KDK REPORT: ‘Tis the season
As a young child, every Christmas morning I walked as quickly as my little legs would allow, headed with all the speed I could muster toward our living room. I walked as if there were a treasure waiting just for me and I walked so quickly I might as well have been running. The last Christmas I ran, I tripped and scraped my knee on our tile floor. It was a lesson well-learned. In the front right corner of our living room stood a modest fir Christmas tree adorned with large red bows, hand-painted ornaments and a white-robed angel on top. The warm lights glistened and for a child, many times just sitting there in the dead of night, it felt like I was looking directly at the stars.
GAIN AN EDGE: Jeffrey Meris - a bright star for Bahamian arts
This year marks 20 years since Lyford Cay Foundations’ Harry C Moore Memorial Scholarship in the Arts has been shining a light for emerging Bahamian artists. Some of the country’s most renowned artists trace their formal training to their university experience made possible by the award.
SIR RONALD SANDERS: Let the asylum seekers go
The government of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has steadfast support from many friends in the Caribbean and other parts of the world, despite numerous allegations of violations of international law, aggressive acts toward its neighbour Guyana, and intolerance of political dissent.
INSIGHT: Not a time for hiding
THERE are too many questions and not enough answers after the stunning news of an alleged cocaine conspiracy involving corrupt Bahamian officials, police officers, a defence force officer, drug traffickers and even Marxist-Leninist guerillas in Colombia.
INSIGHT: A shocking crime - but violence against women is all too commonplace
It shocked the nation, so we were told – but given the level of violence in our nation towards women, are we really shocked by Adriel Moxey’s murder?
INSIGHT: Transparency begins at home, or at least it should
A British play gave us a new word.
