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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.
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FRONT PORCH – Collective responsibility: The Bahamas Prime Minister is not Chief Executive
WITHOUT appropriate language we cannot conceive, understand and communicate ideas and values. It is important that we get our language right. We often get our language and our thinking muddled and just plain wrong in constitutional matters.
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Miller-Uibo, Gardiner lead World Athletics Championships team
RETURNING from a brief break to have a baby, Shaunae Miller-Uibo along with Steven Gardiner, back after an injured season, will lead an 11-member Bahamian team to the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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STATESIDE: The mixed legacy of Henry Kissinger
HENRY Kissinger died a week ago. He was 100 years old. Major newspapers such as the New York Times and the Washington Post devoted several full pages to accounts of his life and many accomplishments.
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STATESIDE: Hard to be hopeful with state and future of the Middle East
We will be reading and watching for days and weeks to come about the awful human misery unfolding in Gaza, one of the most politically sensitive enclaves anywhere on earth. The Tribune featured an in-depth look at the history of the region earlier this week. Here’s another brief take on the current tragedy.
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STATESIDE: Could Colorado Supreme Court ruling lead to the end of Trump’s campaign?
IT looks like history may be about to repeat itself in the US presidential election. A Colorado Supreme Court decision on Tuesday makes it quite likely that, as in 2000, the highest American court will be obliged to issue a decision that could determine the outcome of next year’s vote.
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Governor General announces Independence Honours
THE nation’s leading lights have been recognised in the Independence Honours, as announced by Governor General Cornelius Smith.
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STATESIDE: Is Russian conflict the real reason for hesitancy to admit Ukraine to NATO?
The just-concluded NATO summit meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania, was at the same time somewhat anticlimactic and newsworthy. Membership issues dominated on both sides of this. And these are really important as the West drifts ever closer to an open shooting war with Russia.
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STATESIDE: No Labels independent party could play role of spoiler to democratic presidential bid in 2024
A new political movement has ambitions for next year that scare Democrats right down to their shoes. It’s called No Labels, and its leaders aspire to offer a third-party candidate for president in 2024. Dems feel this will hand an election to Trump that he couldn’t otherwise win. History shows they might be correct.
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STATESIDE: Trump’s prognostication of a pro-choice pushback was right
TUESDAY was Election Day in the US. It might be easy to overlook that fact, because no regular Congressional elections were scheduled. Those come a year from now. But Tuesday’s elections did produce some interesting outcomes, and here are some of them.
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FACE TO FACE: From Long Island to leadership
FRANK Watson, former Deputy Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, was one of six honorees who were recently commended for outstanding loyalty and for putting service above self by the Long Islanders’.
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ERIC WIBERG: Stranded US aviators rescued by Bahamian fishermen and a dream
INAGUA has many aviation mysteries to parse; the East coast of this 650-square-mile-island has no roads or airstrip and is very rarely visited. Three American aviators who were without food for 17 days were rescued by fishermen in Little and taken to Great Inagua. Then there was a tragic engine fire and crash from which a US Mail pouch washed up, but not a plane or bodies. Then a mystery plane with parachute and body was found by park warden Henry Nixon. Remains of the plane still there, and were found over a decade ago by a Bahamian sleuth in a seaplane.
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Leadership is key to a better future
Recent articles in The Tribune have left me wondering about what the next 50 years has in store for The Bahamas.
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Judge: 'Now clear' Baha Mar sabotaged by CCA
Sarkis Izmirlian yesterday secured a major legal victory after a New York judge ruled "it is now clear" that China Construction America (CCA) sabotaged Baha Mar's completion and orchestrated the developer's removal.
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Long-time PE teacher Hattie Moxey retires on August 31
WHEN the new school year begins in September at Jordan Prince Williams High School, one of the familiar faces returning students won’t see is long-time Physical Education Department head Hattie Moxey.
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PETER YOUNG: Can new immigration law in Britain ‘stop the boats’?
HAVING written last March about the unveiling by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of new proposed legislation to deal with illegal immigration, it seems timely today to revert to the subject now that the Bill has become law.
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INSIGHT – Emancipation: A milestone in Bahamas history
Emancipation was a beginning; Independence will be a continuation of this process
The passing of Dr Gail North-Saunders has been keenly felt in The Bahamas. One of our nation’s foremost historians, the news comes at a time when The Bahamas is celebrating a historic moment. Hers is a voice that has helped us understand where we have come from and, in so doing, better navigate where we are going. Fifty years ago, as The Bahamas was being born anew, her voice was guiding us then too. In the Independence supplement to mark that occasion, she wrote about the path from emancipation to Independence.
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FACE TO FACE: From Snow Hill, to Capitol Hill, to Mount Fitzwilliam - CA Smith shares his journey
SNOW Hill is an inconspicuous little town in northern Long Island, not often heard of when more popular settlements are mentioned. Yet it was right in the heart of Snow Hill that Cornelius A Smith would be welcomed into the world, where he would be nurtured, and where he would be given the humble island foundation that would serve him well in life, as he rose to occupy the highest state post in the country.
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BAAA Age Group Trials, Kids’ Athletics combine hailed a success
THE Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations hosted a successful combined Age Group Trials and Kids Athletics Championships over the weekend at the original Thomas A Robinson national stadium.
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