January 12, 2024
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DIANE PHILLIPS: The road to Olympics relays runs through The Bahamas
IN the days and weeks leading up to May 4-5, hundreds of athletes will descend upon The Bahamas for the World Athletics Relays Bahamas. As of this week, athletes from 54 countries had registered. One estimate projected the final number of competitors would exceed 1600. And that does not include coaches, trainers, medical staff, therapists, event support staff, family, friends and camp followers.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Profile of courage –The chopper pilot who flew into Port-au-Prince to rescue ten shares his story
IT was the dark of night Tuesday, March 12, as US Congressman Cory Mills, his Special Forces security aide, and two South Florida pilots laid their lives on the line to rescue ten Americans hiding in a safe house in Haiti.
Pilot tells of daring Haiti rescue mission
A HELICOPTER pilot who flew to Haiti to airlift 10 Americans from the country has told Tribune columnist Diane Phillips of the night-time rescue – which included stops in Long Island and Nassau on the way home.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Stop the insanity of boaters flushing effluent in our waters
SOMETHING sickening is happening before our eyes, endangering marine resources and water quality and we are acting like it is no big deal.
DIANE PHILLIPS: I stopped by a building while on Dowdeswell Street
SOME things you just have to set eyes on to appreciate. Like Beyonce. Or Taylor Swift. Or a building on Dowdeswell Street that was recently transformed.
DIANE PHILLIPS: It’s our problem. We’re the solution – Safe Bahamas made us all part of the picture, no one escaped responsibility
Crime is not someone else’s problem. It is ours. All of us.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Our historic and cultural treasures hidden in plain sight
Tanya Melich Crone was cataloging the work of her late father, architect Henry Melich, when she came across these hand-drawn works, masterpieces of buildings that helped frame the city of Nassau.
DIANE PHILLIPS – DOES THE ANTI-CRIME MOVEMENT LIE IN THE PEOPLE MOVEMENT? For each a parcel of land, for the nation a new way forward
The headlines screamed across front pages, disrupted business and split an already fractured nation into silos.
DIANE PHILLIPS: There’s power in our words
ALL my life I have been in love. It’s a love I can count on and even when it disappoints me or offends, I find a way to forgive because I know tomorrow is another day.
DIANE PHILLIPS – Where oh where has the Girl gone?
THE striking man saddled up to the bar, cool, confident, and in a calm voice said to the bartender, “Gimme a girl.”
DIANE PHILLIPS: Just how friendly are the skies of The Bahamas?
THEY are the lifeline to the Family Islands – those smaller planes that operate as scheduled charters, criss-crossing the skies day after day. Western Air, Pineapple Air, Southern Air, Titan, Flamingo, LeAir and more, as essential to local economies from Bimini in the north to Ragged and Crooked in the south, as air and water are to life itself.
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