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IAN FERGUSON: Businesses perform better without egos
Some people think managing through ego, or forcing on others their self-important management style, makes them a leader. Sadly, this autocratic or authoritarian style is used ineffectively by so many leaders in our current corporate climate.
The King of Swaziland & the Bahamian Pastor
I was dismayed by a documentary on what felt like self-glorification, featuring a local pastor who recently travelled to the Kingdom of Swaziland where he was feted in royal style and hosted by that country’s political elite.
World is on fire and we are a disgrace
The world is on fire, raging around us. Corona virus. Economic dystopia. A dying biosphere. Threats of nuclear war. Global warming. Rising sea levels. Here at home, there is “Confusion in the Senate” a “Clash in the House”, and an inability to come to grips with reality and pressing issues which Bahamians are paying for dearly.
Who wants to be a petro-state?
Petro state: derogatory, “a small oil-rich country in which institutions are weak and wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of a few”. Collins English Dictionary.
A landslide win for PLP
The Bahamian people have spoken and have elected the PLP, led by the incoming Prime Minister, the Hon. Philip 'Brave' Davis, QC (PLP Cat Island), by a landslide. This is no time for gloating. The heavy lifting is now about to begin. Brave will be well advised to hit the ground running on behalf of a trusting populace. In the weeks and months ahead he and his administration will have two immediate tasks: get the pandemic under control as much as humanly possible and to build back our economy better than before.
Avoid tit-for-tat confrontations
I recently decided to log onto Facebook and was disheartened to see Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters gloating over Correctional Services Commissioner Charles Murphy being sent on administrative leave, as he is regarded as a political appointee.
‘Crime crackdown shouldn’t violate human rights’
HUMAN Rights Bahamas (HRB) said the country’s rising murder rate is no excuse for law enforcement to arbitrarily detain people, warning that the Davis administration’s plan to crack down on crime shouldn’t violate human rights.
Who is trying to intimidate The Punch?
EDITOR, The Tribune.
COB students 'alarmed' by subsidy cut
THE College of the Bahamas Union of Students said it is alarmed by the government’s decision to cut subsidies to the college by as much as 45 per cent over the next five years.
Calderon: Race to replace me still open
By E EDUARDO CASTILLO and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Mexican President Felipe Calderon has begun speaking out about the race to replace him, a potentially controversial move in a country where sitting presidents are barred
Madman across the room
EDITOR, The Tribune.
Mexican official flies with $1.9m in luggage
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ CASTILLO Associated Press VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) -- A Mexican state official was detained as he got off a government-owned plane with $1.9 million crammed into a briefcase and a backpack, prosecutors anno
Bahamas must share its climate science
The reason I am here as High Commissioner is because at the last Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, held in London in 2018, the then Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, was struck by how many member countries didn’t have a resident British office. This included The Bahamas. He was determined to correct this absence and ordered the reopening of the British High Commission Nassau. He believed passionately in “deepening relationships across the Commonwealth”.
STATESIDE: Difficult choices for undecided voters
ACCORDING to the venerable Gallup Poll, over the past two years, forty percent of surveyed voters have consistently identified their political affiliation as “independent.” Roughly thirty percent said they were Republicans and a similar percentage declared themselves to be Democrats.
STATESIDE: Biden’s bid for second term hinges on perception of his mental acuity
US president Joe Biden’s momentous State of the Union address last Thursday is stale news now in this age of the 24-hour news cycle and little if any popular memory of what happened even a week ago. Correct?
FRONT PORCH: The conceits and decline of US Republican Party
It still surprises the number of Bahamians who little understand American society or politics but who, hook, line and sinker, have been caught and netted by the country’s mythologies, which continue to be unmasked, demystified and demythologised by the march of facts and history.
FRONT PORCH: The hubris and delusions of autocrats and power
Operation Barbarossa, the code name for Adolf Hitler’s and Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, exposed the hubris, delusions of power, and psychological isolation of both Hitler and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin.
STATESIDE: Rebellion reveals potential weakness in Putin’s regime; alternative to his leadership may be worse
HOW do autocrats fall from power? One way is through death or physical incapacitation. Another is if they begin to believe the misapprehension that if they loosened their iron grip on their countries, their populations would respond with gratitude, relief and more dedicated support for their respective regimes.
CHAMBER VOICE: Don’t be dictated to by workplace culture
As you move from one company to another, there are some noticeable differences between organisations that are very formal versus those which are more casual and relaxed.
Breaking cycle of mediocrity
By Ian Ferguson Bahamian businesses all agree that our school system has failed over time to produce the quality of students required to meet the needs of industry. They further agree on the fact that it becomes quite expensive to hire and provide subseq
