INSIGHT: Shall we be fair or feral?
“You know, the challenge in politics is that it’s become so feral.” Those were the words of Prime Minister Philip Davis at the end of last month – as he talked about how he would like to see more women in politics, but they would have to earn their place.
SIR RONALD SANDERS: A dangerous game: Venezuela’s election gambit over Guyana’s Essequibo region
On May 25, a day before Guyana commemorates its 59th year of independence, the government of Nicolás Maduro says it intends to stage elections in Guyana’s Essequibo region. This territory, comprising nearly two-thirds of Guyana, lies entirely within its internationally recognised borders.
INSIGHT: Worrying direction for US visa policy
IT was in 2019 that a Harvard student passing through Boston’s Logan International Airport was stopped by immigration authorities.
INSIGHT: How to see through the fake news shared online
My phone pinged the other night with a message – a Whatsapp note being circulated describing a scandal involving a senior figure in the government. Except, after even a few moments of reading the alleged scandal, it was clearly untrue.
THE KDK REPORT: The ties that bind
The often-discussed life-long sacrifices that mothers make for their children are globally well-documented. Mothers are the backbone of every society in every nation throughout the world and the bond between a mother and her child is arguably the strongest entity on planet Earth. But this tangible connection doesn’t only occur within the human race. Within the animal kingdom, similar examples of maternal altruism and devotion are evident.
SIR RONALD SANDERS: The continuing distress of the Haitian people
The situation in Haiti is worsening, and the ordinary people of Haiti — already among the most impoverished in the Western Hemisphere — are its most tragic victims. They continue to exist, barely, in conditions of extreme poverty, rampant violence, and diminishing hope for a better life.
INSIGHT: Enforcement on the last frontier: A blueprint for a Bahamian environmental police force
Across The Bahamas, in hidden communities, kiln flames devour underbrush for charcoal, apathetic to the choking smoke and vanishing habitat. Heavy equipment operators bulldoze topsoil into gullies, exposing water tables and tainting aquifers. On far-flung cays, excavators carve into mangroves and crush beach rock, reshaping pristine shores into ersatz paradises built on stolen ecology.
INSIGHT: How to stay safe during heat waves – and heat stroke warning signs to watch for
Summer is just getting started, and millions of people are under heat advisories as a major heat wave spreads across large parts of the central and eastern US in June 2025.
INSIGHT: Political season begins in earnest
THE unveiling of candidates for the upcoming election has inevitably got tongues wagging – but the list of MP hopefuls for the FNM can tell us as much about how the party intends to govern as the chances of them doing so.
INSIGHT: Suicide - can we make a difference?
WHEN I was a young man, I had my first personal experience with knowing someone who committed suicide. It was inexplicable.
