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FRONT PORCH: Democracy threatened around the world
“IN every region of the world, democracy is under attack by populist leaders and groups that reject pluralism and demand unchecked power to advance the particular interests of their supporters, usually at the expense of minorities and other perceived foes.” – Freedom House.
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FRONT PORCH: The Lure and Exercise of Political Power
What Lord Acton actually said in a letter to an Anglican Bishop is: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Acton, an English Catholic, was a politician, historian and writer with extraordinary insight into political power.
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FRONT PORCH: US needs a better ‘whole world strategy’ as they show concern over China’s relationship with small and developing nations
ALONG with other Caribbean heads of government, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley bristles at patronising questions, including from journalists, querying the Caribbean’s relationship with China.
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FRONT PORCH: America the Violent
A concatenation of recent brutal events in America are knottily stitched together in a star-spangled and blood-soaked banner of racial and gun violence that stretches from the inception of America to the present day.
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Islanders adrift in the stream of history
THE cover image on the first volume of Dr Gail Saunders’s history of The Bahamas, Islanders in the Stream, is an 1859 oil painting by Winslow Homer, entitled, The Gulf Stream.
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A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: FNM seeks to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
At the rate that the Free National Movement (FNM) is going, it is on the fast track to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2017. The political chicanery on display within the FNM has reinforced the perception that the road to governance and victory at the polls next year is getting steeper.
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YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Nygard’s boorish disrespect demeans Bahamian authority
LAST week’s exposé in court documents and videos of conversations between Peter Nygard and two gangsters, and the references made to high-ranking politicians therein, is a sad indictment of our politics and shady political dealings. What’s more, it demonstrates to the electorate that heard the utterances of Mr Nygard that such a circus can go on in the Bahamas without immediate or significant repercussions.
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